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Biographical  Sketches  of  Prominent  and  Representative  Citizens, 

TOGETHER  WITH  BIOGRAPHIES  AND  PORTRAITS  OF  ALL  THE 

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greatest  of  English  historians,  Macaulay,  and  one  of  the  most  brilliant  writers  of 
the  present  century,  has  said:  "The  history  of  a  country'  is  best  told  in  a  record  of  the 
lives  of  its  pei^jle."  In  cunforniity  v  ith  this  idea  the  Poutiimt  and  Bio(;itAi'iii<  ai. 
Rkcord  f,f  n^^g  county  has  bi-un  propan-d.  InsU'ad  of  going  to  musty  reeords,  and 
taking  therefrom  dry  slatislical  matter  that  can  be  appreciated  by  but  few,  oui 
corps  of  writers  have  gone  to  the  people,  the  men  and  women  who  have,  by  their 
enterprise  and  industry,  brought  the  county  to  rank  second  to  none  among  those 
comprising  this  great  and  noble  State,  and  from  their  lips  have  the  story  of  their  life 
struggles.  No  more  interesting  or  instructive  matter  could  be  presented  to  an  intelli- 
gent public.  In  this  volume  will  be  found  a  record  of  many  whose  lives  are  worthy  the 
imitation  of  coming  generations.  It  tells  how  some,  commencing  life  in  poverty,  by 
industry  and  economy  have  accumulated  wealth.  It  tells  how  others,  with  limited 
advantages  for  securing  an  education,  have  become  learned  men  and  women,  with  an 
V  inlluence  extending  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land.  It  tells  of  men  who 
have  risen  from  the  lower  walks  of  life  to  eminence  as  statesmen,  and  whose  names  have 
l>ecoHie  famous.  It  tells  of  those  in  every  walk  in  life  who  have  striven  to  succeed, and 
records  how  that  success  has  usually  crowned  their  efforts.  It  tells  also  of  many,  ver^- 
nian^-,  who,  not  seeking  the  applau.«e  of  the  world,  have  pui-sued  "the  even  tenor  of  their  way,"  content 
to  have  it  said  of  them  as  Christ  said  of  the  woman  performing  a  deed  of  mercy — '•the\-  have  done  what 
they  could."  It  tells  how  that  many  in  the  pride  and  strength  of  young  manhood  left  the  plow  and  the 
anvil,  the  lawyer's  office  and  the  counting-room,  left  every  trade  and  profession,  and  at  their  country's 
call  went  forth  valiantly  ''to  do  or  die,"  and  how  through  their  efforts  the  I'nion  Wiis  restored  and  peace 
once  more  reigned  in  the  land.  In  the  life  of  every  man  and  of  every  woman  is  a  lesson  that  should  not 
l>e  lost  upon  those  who  follow  after. 

Coming  generations  will  ap()reciate  this  volume  and  preserve  it  as  a  sacred  treasure,  from  the  fact 
that  it  contains  so  much  that  would  never  find  its  w.ay  into  public  records,  and  which  would  otherwise  be 
inacces.sible.  Great  care  has  been  taken  in  the  compilation  of  the  work  and  every  opportunity  possible 
given  to  those  represented  to  insure  correctness  in  what  has  been  written,  and  the  publishers  Hatter  them- 
selves that  they  give  to  their  readers  a  work  with  few  errors  of  consequence.  In  addition  to  the  biograph 
ical  sketches,  portraits  of  a  number  of  representative  citizens  are  given. 

The  faces  of  some,  and  biograiiliical  sketches  of  many,  will  be  missed  in  this  volume.  I-'or  this  the 
publishers  are  not  to  blame.  Not  having  a  projjer  concejHion  of  the  work,  some  refused  to  give  the 
information  necessary  to  compile  a  .sketch,  while  othei-s  were  indifferent.  Occasionally  some  member  of 
the  family  would  opi)0.se  the  enteriirise,  aTid  on  account  of  such  ojjposition  the  sui)port  of  the  interested 
one  would  l>e  withheld.  In  a  few  instances  men  could  never  be  found,  though  repeated  calls  were  made 
at  their  residence  or  place  of  business. 

Novemlier,    1X'.»2.  CHAPMAN    I'.UOS. 


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J    HE  P'atlier  of  our  Country  was 

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'«)  liorn  in  Westmorland  Co.,  Va., 
-"^  Fel).    22,    1732.     His   parents 
were     Augustine    and     Mary 
(Ball)  Washington.  The  family 
to  which  he  belonged  has   not 
been    satisfactorily  traced    in 
England.      His    great-grand- 
father, John  Washington,  em- 
igrated to  Virginia  about  1657, 
and    became     a     prosperous 
planter.      He  had    two   sons, 
Lawrence    and     John.      The 
former   married    Mildred    Warner 
and    had    three    children,    John, 
Augustine  and   Mildred.      Augus- 
tine,  the   father  of   George,  first 
married    Jane   Butler,    who    bore 
him  four  children,  two  of  whom, 
Lawrence  and  Augustine,  reached 

f^i       maturity.     Of  six  children  by  his 
^A^       second  marriage,  George  was  the 
(|j3        eldest,   the    others    being    Betty, 
i  Samuel,  John   Augustine,  Charles 

and  Mildred. 
Augustine  Washington,  the  father  of  George,  died 
in  1743,  leaving  a  large  landed  |)roperty.  To  his 
eldest  son,  Lawrence,  he  bequeathed  an  estate  on 
the  Patomac,  afterwards  known  as  Mount  Vernon, 
and  to  George  he  left  the  i)arental  residence.  George 
received  only  such  education  as  the  neiglilxsrhood 
schools  afforded,  save  for  a  short  time  after  he  left 
school,  when  he  received  private  instruction  in 
niath;;mat'cs.      Hi?    spellinsi   v.'as   rather   defectiv*. 


Remarkable  stories  are  told  of  his  great  ))hysica; 
strength  and  development  at  an  early  age.  He  wa.s 
an  acknowledged  leader  among  his  companions,  and 
was  early  noted  for  that  nobleness  of  character,  fair- 
ness and  veracity  which  characterized  his  whole  life. 

When  George  was  1 4  years  old  he  had  a  desire  to  go  to 
sea,  and  a  midshipman's  warrant  was  secured  for  him, 
but  through  the  opposition  of  his  mother  the  idea  was 
abandoned.  Two  years  later  he  was  ap|X)inted 
surveyor  to  the  immense  estate  of  Lord  Fairfax.  In 
this  business  he  spent  three  years  in  a  rough  frontier 
life,  gaining  experience  which  afterwards  proved  very 
essential  t<i  him.  In  175  r,  though  only  19  years  of 
age,  he  was  apjwinted  adjutant  with  the  rank  of 
major  in  the  Virginia  militia,  then  being  trained  for 
active  service  against  the  French  and  Indians.  Soon 
after  this  he  sailed  to  the  West  Indies  with  his  brother 
Lawrence,  who  went  there  to  restore  his  health.  They 
soon  returned,  and  in  the  summer  of  1752  Lawrence 
died,  leaving  a  large  fortune  to  an  infant  daughter 
who  did  not  long  survive  him.  On  her  demise  the 
estate  of  Mount  Vernon  was  given  to  George. 

Upon  the  arrival  of  Robert  Dinwiddie,  as  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor of  Virginia,  in  1752,  the  militia  wat 
reorganized,  and  the  province  divided  into  four  mili- 
tary districts,  of  which  the  northern  was  assigned  to 
Washington  as  adjutant  general.  Shortly  after  this 
a  very  perilous  mission  was  assigned  him  and  ac- 
cepted, which  others  had  refused.  This  was  to  pro- 
ceed to  the  French  post  near  Lake  Erie  in  North- 
western Pennsylvania.  The  distance  to  he  traversed 
was  between  500  and  600  miles.  Winter  was  at  hand, 
and  the  journey  was  to  be  made  without  military 
escort,  through  a  territory  occupied  by  Indians.     Th« 


GEORGE   WASHINGTON. 


inp  was  a  perilous  one,  and  several  times  he  came  near 
losing  his  life,  yet  he  returned  in  safety  and  furnished 
a  full  and  useful  report  of  his  expedition.  A  regiment 
of  300  men  was  raised  in  Vnginia  and  put  in  com- 
mand of  Col.  Joshua  Fry,  and  Major  \Vashington  was 
commissioned  lieutenant-colonel.  Active  war  was 
then  begun  against  the  French  and  Indians,  in  which 
Washington  took  a  most  important  part.  In  the 
memorable  event  of  July  9,  1755,  known  as  Brad- 
dock's  defeat,  Washington  was  almost  the  only  officer 
of  distinction  who  escaped  from  the  calamities  of  the 
day  with  life  and  honor.  The  other  aids  of  Braddock 
were  disabled  early  in  the  action,  and  Washington 
alone  was  left  in  that  capacity  on  the  field.  In  a  letter 
to  his  brother  he  says :  "I  had  four  bullets  through 
my  coat,  and  two  horses  shot  under  me,  yet  I  escaped 
unhurt,  though  death  was  levelin  "  my  companions 
on  every  side."  An  Indian  sharpshooter  said  he  was 
not  born  to  be  killed  by  a  bullet,  for  he  had  taken 
direct  aim  at  him  seventeen  times,  and  failed  to  hit 
him. 

After  having  been  five  years  in  the  military  service, 
and  vainly  sought  promotion  in  the  royal  army,  he 
look  advantage  of  the  fall  of  Fort  Duquesne  and  the 
expulsion  of  the  French  from  the  valley  of  the  Ohio, 
to  resign  his  conmiission.  .Soon  after  he  entered  the 
Legislature,  where,  although  not  a  leader,  he  took  an 
active  and  imisortant  part.  January  17,  1759,  he 
married  Mrs.  Martha  (I3andridge)  Custis,  the  wealthy 
widow  of  John  Parke  Custis. 

When  the  British  Parliament  had  closed  the  port 
if  Boston,  the  cry  went  up  throughout  the  provinces 
that  "The  cause  of  Boston  is  the  cause  of  us  all." 
It  was  then,  at  the  suggestion  of  Virginia,  that  a  Con- 
gress of  all  the  colonies  was  called  to  meet  at  Phila- 
delphia.Sept.  5,  1774,  to  secure  their  common  liberties, 
peaceably  if  possible.  To  this  Congress  Col.  Wash- 
ington was  sent  as  a  delegate.  On  May  10,  1775,  the 
Congress  re-assembled,  when  the  hostile  intentions  of 
England  were  plainly  apparent.  The  battles  of  Con- 
cord and  Lexington  had  been  fought.  Among  the 
first  acts  of  this  Congress  was  the  election  of  a  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  colonial  forces.  This  high  and 
responsible  office  was  conferred  upon  Washington, 
who  was  still  a  memberof  the  Congress.  He  accepted 
it  on  June  19,  but  u|3on  the  express  condition  that  he 
receive  no  salary.  He  would  keep  an  exact  account 
of  expenses  and  expect  Congress  10  pay  them  and 
nothing  more.  It  is  not  the  object  of  this  sketch  to 
trace  the  military  acts  of  Washington,  to  whom  the 
fortunes  and  liberties  of  the  people  of  this  country 
were  so  long  confided.  The  war  was  conducted  by 
him  under  every  possible  disadvantage,  and  while  his 
forces  often  met  with  reverses,  yet  he  overcame  every 
obstacle,  and  after  seven  years  of  heroic  devotion 
and  matchless  skill  he  gained  liberty  for  the  greatest 
nation  of  earth.  On  Dec.  23,  1783,  Washington,  in 
a  parting  address  of  surpassing  beauty,  lesigned  his 


commission  as  commander-in-chief  of  the  army  lu 
to  the  Continental  Congress  sitting  at  Annapolis.  H^ 
retired  immediately  to  Mount  Vernon  and  resumed 
his  occupation  as  a  farmer  and  planter,  shunning  all 
connection  with  public  lite. 

In  February, 1789,  Washington  was  unanimously 
elected  President.  In  his  presidential  career  he  was 
subject  to  the  peculiar  trials  incidental  to  a  new 
government ;  trials  from  lack  of  confidence  on  the  part 
of  other  governments;  trials  from  want  of  harmony 
between  the  different  sections  of  our  own  country; 
trials  from  the  impoverished  condition  of  the  country, 
owmg  to  the  war  and  want  of  credit;  trials  from  the 
beginnings  of  party  strife.  He  was  no  partisan.  His 
clear  judg.nent  could  discern  the  golden  mean;  and 
while  perhaps  this  alone  kept  our  government  from 
sinking  at  the  very  outset,  it  left  him  exposed  to 
attacks  from  both  sides,  which  were  often  bitter  and 
very  annoying. 

At  the  expiration  of  his  first  term  he  was  unani- 
mously re-elected.  At  the  end  of  this  term  many 
were  anxious  that  he  be  re-elected,  but  he  absolutely 
refused  a  third  nomination.  On  the  fourth  of  March, 
1797,  at  the  exjjiraton  of  his  second  term  as  Presi- 
dent, he  returned  to  his  home,  lioping  to  pass  there 
his  few  remaining  yeais  free  from  the  annoyances  of 
public  life.  Later  in  the  year,  however,  his  repose 
seemed  likely  to  be  interrupted  by  war  with  France 
At  the  prospect  of  such  a  war  he  was  again  urged  to 
take  command  of  the  armies.  He  chose  his  sub- 
ordinate officers  and  left  to  them  the  charge  of  mat- 
ters in  the  field,  which  he  superinter.ded  from  his 
home.  In  accepting  the  command  he  made  the 
reservation  that  he  was  not  to  be  in  the  field  until 
it  was  necessary.  In  the  midst  of  these  preparations 
his  life  was  suddenly  cut  off.  December  12,  he  took 
a  seveie  cold  from  a  ride  in  the  rain,  which,  settling 
in  Its  throat,  produced  inflammation,  and  terminated 
fatally  on  the  night  of  the  fourteenth.  On  the  eigh- 
teenth his  body  was  borne  wi'h  military  honors  to  its 
final  resting  place,  and  interred  in  the  family  vault  at 
Mount  Vernon. 

Of  the  character  of  Washington  it  is  impossible  to 
speak  but  in  terms  of  the  highest  respect  and  ad- 
miration. The  more  we  see  of  the  operations  of 
our  government,  and  the  more  deeply  we  feel  the 
difficulty  of  uniting  all  opinions  in  a  common  interest, 
the  more  highly  we  must  estimate  the  force  of  his  tal- 
ent and  character,  which  have  lie^ n  able  to  challenge 
the  reverence  of  all  parties,  and  principles,  and  na- 
tions, and  to  win  a  fame  as  extended  as  the  limits 
of  the  globe,  and  which  we  cannot  but  believe  will 
be  as  lasting  as  the  existence  of  man. 

The  person  of  Washington  was  unusally  tan,  erect 
and  well  proportioned.  His  muscular  strength  was 
great.  His  features  were  of  a  beautiful  symmetry. 
He  commanded  respect  without  any  appearance  of 
haughtiness,  and  ever  serious  without  hvfinc  dull. 


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JDllIV  ADAMS. 


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|(  OHN    ADAMS,    the     second 
P.,  I'resideut  and  the    first    Vice- 

f""'  President  of  the  United  States, 
was  born  in  Braintree  ( now 
-  Quincy  ),Mass.,  and  alxjut  ten 
miles  from  Boston,  Oct.  19, 
,i  I73S-  Hiigreat-grandfather,  Henry 
Adams,  emigrated  from  England 
about  1640,  with  a  family  of  eight 
sons,  and  settled  at  Braintree.  The 
parents  of  John  were  John  and 
Susannah  (Boylston)  Adams.  His 
father  was  a  farmer  of  limited 
means,  to  which  he  added  the  bus- 
iness of  shoemaking.  He  gave  his 
eldest  son,  John,  a  classical  educa- 
tion at  Harvard  College.  John 
graduated  in  1755,  and  at  once  took  charge  of  the 
school  in  Worcester,  Mass.  This  he  found  but  a 
'sci.ool  of  affliction,"  from  whiih  li^  endeavored  to 
gain  relief  by  devoting  himself,  in  addition,  to  the 
study  of  law.  For  this  purfjose  Ijf  placed  himself 
under  the  tuition  of  the  only  lawyer  in  the  town.  He 
had  thought  seriously  of  the  clerical  profession 
but  seems  to  have  been  turned  from  this  by  what  he 
termed  "  the  frightful  engines  of  ecclesiastical  coun- 
jils,  cf  dialxslical  malice,  and  Calvanistic  good  nature,'" 
of  the  operations  of  which  he  had  been  a  witness  in 
his  native  town.  He  was  well  fitted  for  the  legal 
jirofession,  jxissessing  a  clear,  sonorous  voice,  being 
ready  and  fluent  of  speech,  and  having  quick  percep- 
tive jxjwers.  He  gradually  gained  practice,  and  in 
1764  married  .\b:gail  Smith,  a  daughter  of  a  minister, 
and  a  lady  of  superior  intelligence.  Shortly  after  his 
marriage,  {i7''>s),  the  attempt  of  Parliamentary  taxa- 
tion turned  hnn  from  law  to  [Kilitics.  He  tcxak  initial 
steps  toward  holdir.^  a  town  meeting,  aTiil  ihe   resolu- 


tions he  offered  on  the  subject  became  very  ]K>pulai 
throughout  the  Provnice,  and  were  adopted  word  for 
word  l)y  over  forty  different  towns.  He  moved  to  Bos- 
ton  in  1768,  and  became  one  of  the  most  courageous 
and  prominent  advocatesof  the  popular  cause,  and 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  General  Court  (the  Leg- 
lislature)  in  1770. 

Mr.  Adams  was  chosen  one  of  the  first  delegates 
from  Massachusetts  to  the  first  Continental  Congress, 
which  met  in  1774.  Here  he  distinguislied  himselt 
by  his  capacity  for  business  and  for  debate,  and  ad- 
vocated the  movement  for  independence  against  the 
majority  of  the  members.  In  May,  1776,  he  mcved 
and  carried  a  resolution  in  Congress  that  the  Colonies 
should  assume  the  duties  of  self-government.  He 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  committee  of  five 
appointed  June  11,  to  prepare  a  declaration  of  inde- 
pendence. This  article  was  drawn  by  Jefferson,  but 
on  ."^dams  devolved  the  task  of  battling  it  through 
Congress  in  a  three  days  debate. 

On  the  day  after  the  Declaration  of  Independence 
was  passed,  while  his  soul  was  yet  warm  with  th° 
glow  of  e.xcited  feeling,  he  wrote  a  letter  to  his  wife 
which,  as  we  read  it  now,  seems  to  have  been  dictated 
by  the  spirit  of  prophecy.  "Yesterday,"  he  says,  "the 
greatest  question  was  decided  that  ever  was  debated 
in  America;  and  greater,  perhaps,  never  was  or  wil 
be  decided  among  men.  .\  resolution  was  passed 
without  one  dissenting  colony,  '  that  these  United 
States  are,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  free  and  inde- 
l)endent  states'  The  day  is  passed.  The  fourth  of 
July,  1776.  will  be  a  memorable  epoch  in  the  history 
of  America.  I  am  apt  to  believe  it  will  be  celelirated 
by  succeeding  generations,  as  the  great  anniversaryi 
festival.  It  ought  to  be  commemorated  as  the  day  ort 
deliverance  by  solemn  acts  of  devotion  to  Almighty 
Ciod.     It  ought  to  be  solemnized  with   i>omp,  shows- 


JOHN  ADAMS. 


games,  sports,  guns,  bells,  bonfires,  and  illuminations 
troin  one  end  of  the  continent  to  the  other,  from  this 
lime  forward  for  ever.  You  will  think  me  transix)rted 
with  enthusiasm,  but  I  am  not.  I  am  well  aware  of 
the  toil,  and  blood  and  treasure,  that  it  will  cost  to 
maintain  this  declaration,  and  support  and  defend 
these  States;  yet,  through  all  the  gloom,  I  can  see  the 
rays  of  Hght  and  glory.  I  can  see  that  the  end  is 
w^rth  more  than  all  the  means;  and  that  posterity 
will  triumph,  although  you  and  I  may  rue,  which  I 
hope  we  shall  not." 

In  November,  1777,  Mr.  Adams  was  appointed  a 
delegate  to  France  and  to  co-operate  with  Bemjamin 
Franklin  and  Arthur  Lee,  who  were  then  in  Paris,  in 
the  endeavor  to  obtain  assistance  in  arms  gind  money 
from  the  French  Government.  This  was  a  severe  trial 
to  his  patriotism,  as  it  separated  him  from  his  home, 
compelled  him  to  cross  the  ocean  in  winter,  and  ex- 
posed him  to  great  peril  of  capture  by  the  British  cruis- 
ers, who  were  seeking  him.  He  left  France  June  17, 
1779.  In  September  of  the  same  year  he  was  again 
chosen  to  go  to  Paris,  and  there  hold  himself  in  readi- 
ness to  negotiate  a  treaty  of  peace  and  of  commerce 
with  Great  Britian,  as  soon  as  the  British  Cabinet 
might  be  found  willing  to  listen  to  such  proiX)sels.  He 
sailed  for  France  in  November,  from  there  he  went  to 
Holland,  where  he  negotiated  imixirtant  loans  and 
formed  important  commercial  treaties 

Finally  a  treaty  of  peace  with  England  was  signed 
Jan.  21,  1783.  The  re-action  from  the  excitement, 
toil  and  anxiety  through  which  Mr.  Adams  had  passed 
threw  him  into  a  fever.  After  suffering  from  a  con- 
tinued fever  and  becoming  feeble  and  emaciated  he 
was  advised  to  go  to  England  to  drink  the  waters  of 
Bath.  While  in  England,  stilldroopinganddes[X)nd- 
ing,  he  received  dispatches  from  his  own  government 
urging  the  necessity  of  his  going  to  Amsterdam  to 
negotiate  another  loan.  It  was  winter,  his  health  was 
delicate,  yet  he  immediately  set  9ut,  and  through 
storm,  on  sea,  on  horseback  and  foot,he  made  the  trip. 

February  24,  1785,  Congress  appointed  Mr.  Adams 
envoy  to  the  Court  of  St.  James.  Here  he  met  face 
to  face  the  King  of  England,  who  had  so  long  re- 
garded him  as  a  traitor.  As  England  did  not 
condescend  to  apix)int  a  minister  to  the  United 
States,  and  as  Mr.  Adams  felt  that  he  was  accom- 
plishing but  little,  he  sought  permission  to  return  to 
nis  own  country,  where  he  arrived  in  June,  1788. 

When  Washington  was  first  chosen  President,  John 
Adams,  rendered  illustiious  by  his  signal  services  at 
liome  and  abroad,  was  chosen  Vice  President.  Again 
at  the  second  election  of  Washington  as  President, 
Adams  was  chosen  Vice  President.  In  1796,  Wash- 
ington retired  from  public  life,  and  Mr.  Adams  was 
elected  President,though  not  vidthout  much  opposition. 
Serving  in  this  office  four  years, he  was  succeeded  by 
Mr.  Jefferson,  his  opponent  in  politics. 

"iVhile   Mr.  Adams  was  Vice  President  the   great 


French  Revolution  shook  the  continent  of  Europe, 
and  it  was  upon  this  point  which  he  was  atissujwiih 
the  majority  of  his  countrymen  led  by  Mr.  Jefferson. 
Mr.  Adams  felt  no  sympathy  with  the  French  people 
in  their  struggle,  for  he  had  no  confidence  in  their 
power  of  self-government,  and  he  utterly  abhored  the 
classof  atheist  philosophers  wlio  he  claimed  caused  it. 
On  the  other  hand  Jefferson's  sympathies  were  strongly 
enlisted  in  behalf  of  the  French  people.  Hence  or- 
iginated the  alienation  between  these  distinguished 
men,  and  two  powerful  parties  were  thus  soon  organ- 
ized, Adams  at  the  head  of  the  one  whose  sympathies 
were  with  England  and  Jefferson  led  the  other  in 
sympathy  with  France. 

The  world  has  seldom  seen  a  spectacle  of  more 
moral  beauty  and  grandeur,  than  was  presented  by  the 
old  age  of  Mr.  Adams.  The  violence  of  party  feeling 
had  died  away,  and  he  had  begun  to  receive  that  just 
ajjpreciation  which,  to  most  men,  is  not  accorded  till 
after  death.  No  one  could  look  upon  his  venerable 
form,  and  think  of  what  he  had  done  and  suffered, 
and  how  he  had  given  up  all  the  prime  and  strength 
of  his  life  to  the  public  good,  without  the  deepest 
emotion  of  gratitude  and  respect.  It  was  his  peculiar 
good  fortune  to  witness  the  complete  success  of  the 
institution  which  he  had  been  so  active  in  creating  and 
supporting.  In  1824,  his  cup  of  happiness  was  filled 
to  the  brim,  by  seeing  his  son  elevated  to  the  highest 
station  in  the  gift  of  the  people. 

The  fourth  of  July,  1826,  which  completed  the  half 
century  since  the  signing  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, arrived,  and  there  were  but  three  of  the 
signers  of  that  immortal  instrument  left  upon  the 
earth  to  hail  its  morning  light.  And,  as  it  is 
well  known,  on  that  day  two  of  these  finished  their 
earthly  pilgrimage,  a  coincidence  so  remarkable  as 
to  seem  miraculous.  For  a  few  days  before  Mr. 
Adams  had  been  rapidly  failing,  and  on  the  morning 
of  the  fourth  he  found  himself  too  weak  to  rise  from 
his  l)ed.  On  being  requested  to  name  a  toast  for  the 
customary  celebration  of  the  day,  he  exclaimed  "  In- 
dependence FOREVER."  When  the  day  was  ushered 
in,  by  the  ringing  of  bells  and  the  firing  of  cannons, 
he  was  asked  by  one  of  his  attendants  if  he  knew 
what  day  it  was?  He  replied,  "O  yes;  it  is  the  glor- 
ious fourth  of  July — God  bless  it — God  bless  you  all." 
In  the  course  of  the  day  he  said,  "  It  is  a  great  and 
glorious  day."  The  last  words  he  uttered  were, 
"Jefferson  survives."  But  he  had,  at  one  o'clock,  re- 
signed his  spirit  into  the  hands  of  his  God. 

The  personal  appearance  and  manners  of  Mr. 
Adams  were  not  particularly  prepossessing.  His  face, 
as  his  portrait  manifests.was  intellecUial  ard  expres- 
sive, but  his  figure  was  low  and  ungraceful,  and  h'S 
manners  were  frequently  abrupt  and  unrourteous. 
He  had  neither  the  lofty  dignity  of  \Vashington,  nor 
the  engaging  elegance  and  gracefulness  which  marked 
the  manners  and  address  of  Tefferson. 


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HOMAS  JEFFERSON  was 
:i  A|iril  J,  1743,  at  Shad- 
ucll,  Albermarle  county,  Va. 
His  parents  were  I'eter  and 
Jane  (  Randolph)  Jefferson, 
the  former  a  native  of  Wales, 
and  tlie  latter  born  in  Lon- 
don. To  them  were  born  six 
daughters  and  two  sons,  of 
whom  Tliomas  was  the  elder. 
When  14  years  of  age  his 
father  died.  He  received  a 
most  liberal  education,  hav- 
ing been  kept  diligently  at  school 
from  the  time  he  was  five  years  of 
age.  In  1760  he  entered  William 
end  Mary  College.  Williamsburg  was  then  the  seat 
of  the  Colonial  Court,  and  it  was  the  obode  of  fashion 
and  splendor.  Young  Jefferson,  who  was  then  17 
years  old,  lived  somewhat  expensively,  keeping  fine 
horses,  and  much  caressed  by  gay  society,  yet  he 
was  earnestly  devoted  lo  his  studies,  and  irrejjroacha- 
able  in  his  morals.  It  is  strange,  however,  under 
such  influences, that  he  was  not  ruined.  In  the  sec- 
ond year  of  his  college  course,  moved  by  some  un- 
explained inward  impulse,  he  discarded  his  iiorses, 
society,  and  even  his  favorite  violin,  to  which  he  had 
previously  given  much  time.  He  often  devoted  fifteen 
hours  a  day  to  haid  study,  allowing  himself  for  ex- 
ercise only  a  run  in  the  evening  twilight  of  a  mile  out 
of  the  city  and  back  again.  He  thus  attained  very 
high  intellectual  culture,  alike  excellence  in  philoso- 
l)hy  and  the  languages.  The  most  difficult  Latin  and 
(ireek  authors  he  read  with  facility.  A  more  finished 
scholar  has  seldom  gone  forth  from  college  halls;  and 


there  was  not  to  be  found,  perhaps,  in  all  Virginia,  a 
more  pureminded,  upright,  gentlemanly  young  man. 

Immediately  uiwn  leaving  college  he  began  the 
study  of  law.  For  the  short  time  he  continued  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  he  rose  rapidly  and  distin- 
guished himself  by  his  energy  and  accuteness  as  a 
lawyer.  But  the  times  called  for  greater  action. 
The  jxjlicy  of  England  had  awakened  the  spirit  of 
resistance  of  the  American  Colonies,  and  the  enlarged 
views  which  Jefferson  had  ever  entertained,  soon  led 
him  into  active  political  life.  In  1769  he  was  choset 
a  member  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses  In 
1772  he  married  Mrs.  .Martha  .Skelton,  a  very  oeauti- 
ful,  wealthy  and  highly  accomplished  young  widow 

Uiwn  Mr.  Jefferson's  large  estate  at  .Shadwell,  thjre 
was  a  majestic  swell  of  land,  called  Monticello,  which 
commanded  a  prosi)ect  of  wonderful  extent  and 
beauty.  This  s[x>t  Mr.  Jefferson  selected  for  his  new 
home;  and  here  he  reared  a  mansion  of  modest  ye? 
elegant  architecture,  which,  next  to  Mount  Vernon 
became  the  most  distinguished  resort  in  our  land. 

In  1775  he  was  sent  to  the  Ctlonial  Congress, 
where,  though  a  silent  member,  his  abilities  as  a 
writer  and  a  reasoner  soon  become  known,  and  he 
was  placed  u|X3n  a  number  of  important  committees, 
and  was  chairman  of  the  one  ajjixiinted  for  the  draw- 
ing up  of  a  declaration  of  independence.  This  com- 
mittee consisted  of  Thoiuas  Jefferson,  John  Adams, 
Benjamin  Franklin,  Roger  .Sherman  and  Robert  R. 
Livingston.  Jefferson,  as  chairman,  was  apiwiiited 
to  draw  up  the  paper.  Franklin  and  Adams  suggested 
a  few  verbal  changes  before  it  was  submitted  to  Con- 
gress. On  June  28,  a  few  slight  changes  were  made 
in  it  by  Congress,  and  it  was  passed  and  signed  July 
4,  1776.     What  must  have  been  the  feelings  of  that 


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THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 


man — what  the  emotions  that  swelled  his  breast — 
who  was  charged  with  the  preparation  of  that  Dec- 
laration, which,  while  it  made  known  the  wrongs  of 
America,  was  also  to  publish  her  to  the  world,  free, 
Koverign  and  independent.  It  is  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable papers  ever  written  ;  and  did  no  other  effort 
of  the  mind  of  its  author  exist,  that  alone  would  be 
sufficient  to  stamp  his  name  with  immortality. 

In  1779  Mr.  Jefferson  was  elected  successor  to 
Patrick  Henry,  £.s  Governor  of  Virginia.  At  one  time 
the  British  officer,  Tarleton,  sent  a  secret  expedition  to 
Moniicello,  to  capture  the  Governor.  Scarcely  five 
minutes  elapsed  after  the  harried  escape  of  Mr.  Jef- 
ferson and  his  family,  ere  his  mansion  was  in  posses- 
sion of  the  British  troops.  His  wife's  health,  never 
very  good,  was  much  injured  by  this  excitement,  and 
in  the  summer  of  1782  she  died. 

Mr.  Jefferson  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1783. 
Two  years  later  he  was  appointed  Minister  Plenipo- 
tentiary to  France.  Returning  to  the  United  States 
in  September,  1789,  he  became  Secretary  of  State 
in  Washington's  cabinet.  This  position  he  resigned 
Jan.  T,  1794.  In  1797,  he  was  chosen  Vice  Presi- 
dent, and  four  years  later  was  elected  President  over 
Mr.  Adams,  with  Aaron  Burr  as  Vice  President.  In 
1804  he  was  re-elected  with  wonderful  unanimity, 
and  George  Clinton,  Vice  President. 

The  early  part  of  Mr.  Jefferson's  second  adminstra- 
tion  was  disturbed  by  an  event  which  threatened  the 
tranquility  and  peace  of  the  Union;  this  was  tiie  con- 
spiracy of  Aaron  Burr.  Defeated  in  the  late  election 
to  the  Vice  Presidency,  and  led  on  by  an  unprincipled 
ambition,  this  extraordinary  man  formed  the  plan  of  a 
military  expedition  intc  the  Spanish  territories  on  our 
iouthwestern  frontier,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  tliere 
a  new  republic.  This  has  been  generally  supposed 
was  a  mere  pretext ;  and  although  it  has  not  been 
generally  known  what  his  real  plans  were,  there  is  no 
doubt  that  they  were  of  a  f;ir  more  dangerous 
character. 

In  1809,  at  the  expiration  of  the  second  term  for 
which  Mr.  Jefferson  had  been  elected,  he  determined 
to  retire  from  ix)litical  life.  For  a  period  of  nearly 
forty  years,  he  had  been  continually  before  the  pub- 
•ic,  and  all  that  time  had  been  employed  in  offices  of 
the  greatest  trust  and  responsibility.  Having  thus  de- 
voted the  best  part  of  his  life  to  the  service  of  his 
country,  he  now  felt  desirous  of  that  rest  which  his 
declining  years  required,  and  uiwn  the  organization  of 
the  new  administration,  in  March,  1809,  he  bid  fare- 
well forever  to  public  life,  and  retired  to  Monticello. 

Mr.  Jefferson  was  profuse  in  his  hospitality.  Whole 
families  came  in  their  coaches  with  their  horses, — 
fathers  and  mothers,  boys  and  girls,  babies  and 
nurses, — and  remained  three  and  even  six  months. 
Uife  at  Monticello,  for  years,  resembled  that  at  a 
fashionable  watering-place. 

The  fourth  of  July,  1826,  being  the  fiftieth  anniver- 


sary  of  the  Declaration  of  American  Independence, 
great  preparations  were  made  in  every  part  of  the 
Union  for  its  celebration,  as  llie  nation's  jubilee,  and 
the  citizens  of  Washington,  to  add  to  the  solemnity 
of  the  occasion,  invited  Mr.  Jefferson,  as  the  framer. 
and  one  of  the  few  surviving  signers  of  the  Declara- 
tion, to  participate  in  their  festivities.  But  an  ill- 
ness, wjiich  had  been  of  several  weeks  duration,  and 
had  been  continually  increasing,  compelled  him  to 
decline  the  invitation. 

On  the  second  of  July,  the  disease  under  which 
he  was  laboring  left  him,  but  in  such  a  reduced 
state  that  his  medical  attendants,  entertained  nc 
hope  of  his  recovery.  From  this  time  he  was  perfectly 
sensible  that  his  last  hour  was  at  hand.  On  the  nex' 
d;iy,  which  was  Monday,  he  asked  of  those  around 
him,  the  day  of  the  month,  and  on  being  told  it  was 
the  third  of  July,  he  expressed  the  earnest  wish  tha'; 
he  might  be  permitted  to  breathe  the  airof  the  fiftieth 
anniversary.  His  prayer  was  heard — that  day,  whose 
dawn  was  hailed  with  such  rapture  through  our  land, 
burst  upon  his  eyes,  and  then  they  were  closed  for- 
ever. And  what  a  noble  consummation  of  a  noble 
life !  To  die  on  that  day, — the  birthday  of  a  nation,-  - 
the  day  v.'hich  his  own  name  and  his  own  act  had 
rendered  glorious;  to  die  amidst  the  rejoicings  and 
festivities  of  a  whole  nation,  who  looked  up  to  him, 
as  the  author,  under  God,  of  their  greatest  blessings, 
was  all  that  was  wanting  to  fill  ui)  the  record  his  life. 

Almost  at  the  same  hour  of  his  death,  the  kin- 
dred spirit  of  the  venerable  Adams,  as  if  to  bear 
him  company,  left  the  scene  of  his  earthly  honors. 
Hand  in  hand  they  had  stood  forth,  tiie  champions  of 
freedom;  hand  in  hand,  during  the  dark  and  desper- 
ate struggle  of  the  Revolution,  they  had  cheered  and 
animated  their  desponding  countrymen;  for  half  a 
century  they  had  labored  together  for  tiie  good  of 
the  country;  and  now  hand  in  hand  they  depart. 
In  their  lives  they  had  been  united  in  the  same  great 
cause  of  liberty,  and  in  their  deaths  they  were  not 
divided. 

In  person  Mr.  Jefferson  was  tall  and  thin,  rather 
above  six  feet  in  height,  but  well  formed;  his  eyes 
were  light,  his  hair  originally  red,  in  after  life  became 
white  and  silvery;  his  complexion  was  fair,  his  fore- 
head broad,  and  his  whole  coui^tenance  intelligent  and 
thoughtful.  He  possessed  great  fortitude  of  mind  as 
well  as  personal  courage;  and  ;.':s  command  of  tem- 
per was  such  that  his  oldest  and  most  intimate  friends 
never  recollected  to  have  seen  him  in  a  passion. 
His  manners,  though  dignified,  were  simple  and  un- 
affected, and  his  hospitality  was  so  unbounded  that 
all  found  at  his  house  a  ready  welcome.  In  conver- 
sation he  was  fluent,  eloquent  and  enthusiastic;  and 
his  language  was  remarkably  pure  and  correct.  He 
was  a  finished  classical  scholar,  and  in  his  writings  is 
discernable  the  care  with  which  he  formed  his  style 
upon  the  best  models  of  antiquity. 


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T^^p\J   AMES    MADISON,    "Father 

^    of  the  Constitution,"  and  fourth 

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orn  March  i6,  1757,  and 
5    died  at  his   home  in  Virginia, 
•^  June  28,  1836.     The  name  of 
lames  Madison  is  inseparabl)  con- 
nected with  most  of  the  im|)ortant 
events  in  that  heroic  period  of  our 
country  during  which  the  founda- 
tions of  this  great    repubhc  were 
laid.  He  was  the  last  of  the  founders 
of  the   Constitution   of  the    United 
States  to   be   called    to    his   eternal 
reward. 

The  Madison  family  were  among 
the  early  emigrants  to  the  New  World, 
landing  upon  the  shores  of  the  Chesa- 
|)eake  but  15  years  after  the  settle- 
ment of  Jamestown.  The  father  of 
James  Madison  was  an  opulent 
planter,  residing  ujwn  a  very  fine  es- 
tate called  "  Montpelier,"  Orange  Co., 
Va.  The  mansion  was  situated  in 
the  midst  of  scenery  highly  pictur- 
esque and  romantic,  on  the  west  side 
of  South-west  Mountain,  at  the  foot  of 
Blue  Ridge.  It  was  but  25  miles  from  the  home  of 
Jefferson  at  Monticello.  The  closest  |)ersonal  and 
political  attachment  existed  between  these  illustrious 
men,  from  their  early  youth  until  death. 

The  early  education  of  Mr.  Madison  was  conducted 
mostly  at  home  under  a  private  tutor.  At  the  age  of 
18  he  was  sent  to  Princeton  College,  in  New  Jersey. 
Here  he  applied  himself  to  study  with  the  most  im- 


jjrudent  zeal;  allowing  himself,  for  months,  but  three 
hours' sleep  out  of  tlie  24.  His  health  thus  became  so 
seriously  impaired  that  he  never  recovered  any  vigor 
of  constitution.  He  ijraduated  in  1771.  with  a  feeble 
botiy,  with  a  character  of  utmost  purity,  and  with  a 
mind  highly  disciplined  and  richly  stored  with  learning 
which  embellished  and  gave  proficiency  to  his  subsf 
tpient  career. 

Returning  to  Virginia,  he  commenced  the  study  of 
law  and  a  course  of  extensive  and  systematic  reading. 
This  educational  course,  the  spirit  of  the  times  in 
which  he  lived,  and  the  society  with  wliich  he  asso- 
ciated, all  combined  to  inspire  him  with  a  strong 
love  of  liberty,  and  to  train  him  for  his  life-work  ol 
a  statesman.  Being  naturally  of  a  religious  turn  of 
mind,  and  his  frail  health  leading  him  to  think  that 
his  life  was  not  to  be  long,  he  diiected  esjiecial  atten- 
tion to  theological  studies.  Endowed  with  a  n^md 
singularly  free  from  passion  and  |)rejudice,  and  with 
almost  unecpialled  powers  of  reasoning,  he  weighed 
all  the  arguments  for  and  against  revealed  religion, 
until  his  faith  became  so  established  as  never  to 
be  shaken. 

In  the  spring  of  1776,  when  26  years  of  age,  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  V^irginia  Convention,  to 
frame  the  constitution  of  the  State.  The  next  year 
('777).  'le  was  a  candidate  for  the  General  .Assembly. 
He  refused  to  treat  the  wiiisky-lovir.g  voters,  and 
consequently  lost  his  election ;  but  those  who  had 
witnessed  the  talent,  energy  and  jjublic  spirit  of  the 
modest  young  man,  enlisted  themselves  in  his  behalf, 
and  he  was  ap|xiinted  to  the    Executive  Council. 

Both  Patrick  Henry  and  Thomas  Jefferson  were 
Governors  of  Virginia  while  Mr.  Madison  remained 
member  of  the  Council ;    and  their  appreciation  of  hi» 


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JAMES  MADISON. 


intellectual,  social  and  moral  worth,  contributed  not 
a  little  to  his  subsequent  eminence.  In  the  year 
1780,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress.  Here  he  met  the  most  illustrious  men  in 
our  land,  and  he  was  immediately  assigned  to  one  of 
the  most  conspicuous  positions  among  them. 

For  three  years  Mr.  Madison  continued  in  Con- 
gress, one  of  its  most  active  and  influential  members. 
In  the  year  1784,  his  term  having  expired,  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Legislature. 

No  man  felt  more  deeply  than  Mr.  Madison  the 
utter  inefficiency  of  the  old  confederacy,  with  no  na- 
tional government,  with  no  power  to  form  treaties 
which  would  be  binding,  or  to  enforce  law.  There 
was  not  any  State  more  prominent  than  Virginia  in 
the  declaration,  that  an  efficient  national  government 
must  be  formed.  In  January,  1786,  Mr.  Madison 
carried  a  resolution  through  the  General  Assembly  of 
Virginia,  inviting  the  other  States  to  appoint  commis- 
sioners to  meet  in  convention  at  Annapolis  to  discuss 
this  subject.  Five  States  only  were  represented.  The 
convention,  however,  issued  another  call,  drawn  up 
by  Mr.  Madison,  urging  all  the  States  to  send  their 
delegates  to  Philadelphia,  in  May,  1787,  to  draft 
a  Constitution  for  the  United  States,  to  take  the  place 
of  that  Confederate  League.  The  delegates  met  at 
'he  time  appointed.  Every  State  but  Rhode  Island 
"•vas  represented.  George  Washington  was  chosen 
president  of  the  convention;  and  the  present  Consti- 
tution of  the  United  States  was  then  and  there  formed. 
There  was,  perhaps,  no  mind  and  no  pen  more  ac- 
tive in  framing  this  immortal  document  than  the  mind 
and  the  pen  of  James  Madison. 

The  Constitution,  adopted  by  a  vote  81  to  79,  was 
to  be  presented  to  the  several  States  for  acceptance. 
But  grave  solicitude  was  felt.  Should  it  be  rejected 
we  should  be  left  but  a  conglomeration  of  independent 
States,  with  but  little  [xiwer  at  home  and  little  vespect 
abroad.  Mr.  Madison  was  selected  by  the  conven- 
tion to  draw  up  an  address  to  the  people  of  the  United 
States,  expounding  the  principles  of  the  Constitution, 
and  urging  its  adoption.  There  was  great  opposition 
to  it  at  first,  but  it  at  length  triumphed  over  all,  and 
went  into  effect  in  1789. 

Mr.  Madison  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  the  first  Congress,  and  soon  became  the 
avowed  leader  of  the  Republican  party.  While  in 
New  York  attending  Congress,  he  met  Mrs.  Todd,  a 
young  widow  of  remarkable  [wwer  of  fascination, 
whom  he  married.  She  was  in  person  and  character 
queenly,  and  probably  no  lady  hag  thus  far  occupied 
so  prominent  a  position  in  the  verj'  peculiar  society 
which  has  constituted  our  republican  court  as  Mrs. 
Madison. 

Mr.  Madison  served  as  Secretarj'of  State  under 
Jefferson,  and  at  the  close  of  his  administiation 
was  chosen  President.  At  this  time  the  encroach- 
ments of  England  had  brought  us  to  the  verge  of  war. 


British  orders  in  council  destioyed  our  commerce,  and 
our  flag  was  exposed  to  constant  insult.  Mr.  Madison 
was  a  man  of  peace.  Scholarly  in  his  taste,  retiring 
in  his  disposition,  war  had  no  charms  for  him.  But  the 
meekest  spirit  can  be  roused.  It  makes  one's  blood 
boil,  even  now,  to  think  of  an  American  ship  brought 
to,  upon  the  ocean,  by  the  guns  of  an  English  cruiser. 
A  young  lieutenant  steps  on  board  and  orders  the 
crew  to  be  paraded  before  him.  With  great  nonchal- 
ance he  selects  any  number  whom  he  may  please  to 
designate  as  British  subjects;  orders  them  down  the 
ship's  side  into  his  boat;  and  places  them  on  the  gun- 
deck  of  his  man-of-war,  to  fight,  by  compulsion,  the 
battles  of  England.  This  right  of  search  and  im- 
pressment, no  efforts  of  our  Government  could  induce 
the  British  cabinet  to  relinquish. 

On  the  i8th  of  June,  1812,  President  Madison  gave 
his  approval  to  an  act  of  Congress  declaring  war 
against  Great  Britain.  Notwithstanding  the  bitter 
hostility  of  the  Federal  party  to  the  war,  the  country 
in  general  approved;  and  Mr.  Madison,  on  the  4th 
of  March,  1 8 13,  was  re-elected  by  a  large  majority, 
and  entered  upon  his  second  term  of  office.  This  is 
not  the  place  to  describe  the  various  adventures  of 
this  war  on  the  land  and  on  the  water.  Our  infan- 
navy  then  laid  the  foundations  of  its  renown  in  grap- 
pling v.'iih  the  most  formidable  power  which  ever 
swept  the  seas.  The  contest  commenced  in  earnest 
by  the  appearance  of  a  British  fleet,  early  in  February, 
1813,  in  Chesapeake  Bay,  declaring  nearly  the  whole 
coast  of  the  United  States  under  blockade. 

The  Emperor  of  Russia  offered  his  services  as  me 
dilator.  America  accepted ;  England  refused.  A  Brit- 
ish force  of  five  thousand  men  landed  on  the  banks 
of  the  Patuxet  River,  near  its  entrance  into  Chesa- 
peake Bay,  and  marched  rapidly,  by  way  of  Bladens- 
Ijurg,  upon  Washington. 

The  straggling  little  city  of  Washington  was  thrown 
into  consternation.  The  cannon  of  the  brief  conflict 
at  Bladensburg  echoed  through  the  streets  of  the 
metropolis.  The  whole  population  fled  from  the  city. 
The  President,  leaving  Mrs.  Madison  in  the  White 
House,  with  her  carriage  drawn  up  at  the  doer  to 
await  his  speedy  return,  hurried  to  meet  the  officers 
in  a  council  of  war  He  met  our  troops  utterly  routed, 
and  he  could  not  go  back  without  danger  of,  being 
captured.  But  few  hours  elapsed  ere  the  Presidential 
Mansion,  the  Capitol,  and  all  the  public  buildings  in 
Washington  were  in  flames. 

The  war  closed  after  two  years  of  fighting,  and  on 
Feb.  13,  1815,  the  treaty  of  peace  was  signed  at  Ghent. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1817,  his  second  term  of 
office  expired,  and  he  resigned  the  Presidential  chair 
to  his  friend,  James  Monroe.  He  retired  to  his  beau- 
tiful home  at  Montpelier,  and  there  passed  the  re- 
mainder of  his  days.  On  June  28,  1836,  then  at  the 
age  of  85  years,  he  fell  asleep  in  death.  Mrs.  Madi- 
son died  July  12,  1849. 


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AMES    M(1NROK.    the   fifth 
President  of  The  United  Stales, 
was  born  in  Westmoreland  Co., 
Va.,  April  2S,  1758.    His  early 
life  was  passed  at  the  place  of 
nativity.  His  ancestors  had  for 
^   many  years    resided  in  the  prov- 
ince in  which  he  was  l)orn.    When, 
.It  17  years  of  age,  in  the   process 
of  completing   his   education    at 


y.--h  •{  William  and  Mary  College,  the  Co- 
^JUf  lonial  Congress  assembled  at  Phila- 
^^^  delphia  to  deliberate  iii«n  the  un- 
just and  manifold  oppressions  of 
Creat  Hritian,  declared  the  separa- 
tion of  the  Colonies,  and  promul- 
gated the  Declaration  of  Indepen- 
dence. Had  he  been  born  ten  years  before  it  is  highly 
probable  that  he  would  have  been  one  of  the  signers 
of  that  celebrated  instrument.  At  this  time  he  left 
school  and  enlisted  among  the   patriots. 

He  joined  the  army  when  everything  looked  hope- 
less and  gloo:ny.  'I'he  number  of  deserters  increased 
from  day  to  day.  The  invading  armies  came  i)oiiring 
in ;  and  the  lories  not  only  favored  the  cause  of  the 
mother  country,  but  disheartened  the  new  recruits, 
who  were  sufficiently  terrified  at  the  prospect  of  con- 
i;nding  with  an  enemy  whom  they  had  been  taught 
to  deem  invincible.  To  such  brave  spirits  as  James 
Monroe,  who  went  right  onward,  undismayed  through 
difficulty  and  danger,  the  United  States  owe  their 
IKjlitical  eniancii)ation.  The  young  cadet  joined  the 
ranks,  and  esi«used  the  cause  of  his  injured  country, 
•  with  a  firm  determination  to  live  or  die  with  her  strife 


for  liberty.  Firmly  yet  sadly  he  shared  in  the  mel- 
ancholy retreat  from  Harlcain  Heights  and  White 
Plains,  and  accompanied  the  dispirited  army  as  it  fled 
before  its  foes  through  New  Jersey.  In  four  months 
after  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  the  patriots 
had  been  beaten  in  seven  battles.  At  the  battle  of 
'I'renton  he  led  the  vanguard,  and,  in  the  act  of  charg- 
ing uix)n  tlie  enemy  he  received  a  wound  in  the  left 
shoulder. 

As  a  reward  for  his  bravery,  Mr.  Monroe  was  ])ro- 
moled  a  captain  of  infantry;  and,  having  recovered 
from  his  wound,  he  rejoined  the  army.  He,  however, 
receded  from  the  line  of  promotio.n,  by  becoming  an 
officer  in  the  staff  of  Ix)rd  Sterling.  During  the  cam- 
paigns of  1777  and  177S,  in  the  actions  of  Brandy 
wine,  Cermanlown  and  -Monmouth,  he  continued 
aid-de-canip;  but  becoming  desirous  to  regain  his 
position  in  the  army,  he  exerted  himself  to  collect  a 
regiment  for  the  Virginia  line.  This  scheme  failed 
owing  to  the  exhausted  condition  of  the  State.  L'lxjn 
this  failure  he  entered  the  office  of  Mr.  Jefferson,  at 
that  period  Clovernor,  and  pursued,  with  considerable 
ardor,  the  study  of  common  law.  He  did  not,  however, 
entirely  lay  aside  the  knapsack  for  the  green  bag; 
but  on  the  invasions  of  the  enemy,  served  as  a-volun 
teer,  during  the  two  years  of  his  legal  pursuits. 

In  1782,  he  was  elected  from  King  Ceorge  county, 
a  member  of  tlie  I.eglislature  of  Virginia,  and  by  thai 
IxkIv  he  was  elevated  to  a  seat  in  the  Executive 
Council.  He  was  thus  honored  with  the  confidence 
of  his  fellow  citizens  at  23  years  of  age  ;  and  having 
at  this  early  period  dis|)laycd  some  of  that  ability 
and  aptitude  for  legisl.ition,  whic  h  were  afterward-; 
employed  with  unremitting  energy  forilu-  public  good, 


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JAMES  MONROE. 


he  was  in  the  succeeding  year  chosen  a  member  of 
the  Congress  of  the  United  States. 
Deeply  as  Mr.  Monroe  felt  the  imperfections  of  the  old 
Confederacy,  he  was  opposed  to  the  new  Constitution, 
-.hinking,  with  many  others  of  the  Republican  party, 
shat  it  gave  too  much  power  to  the  Central  Government, 
and  not  enough  to  the  individual  States.  Still  he  re- 
tained the  esteem  of  his  friends  who  were  its  wami 
supporters,  and  who,  notwithstanding  his  opposition 
secured  its  adoption.  In  1789,  he  became  a  member 
of  the  United  States  Senate ;  which  office  he  held  for 
four  years.  Every  month  the  line  of  distinction  be- 
tween the  two  great  parties  which  divided  the  nation, 
the  Federal  and  the  Republican,  was  growing  more 
distinct.  The  two  prominent  iaeas  which  now  sep- 
arated them  were,  that  the  Republican  party  was  in 
sympathy  with  France,  and  also  in  favor  of  such  a 
strict  construction  of  tlie  Constitution  as  to  give  the 
Central  Government  as  little  jxswer,  and  the  State 
Governments  as  much  [x)wer,  as  the  Constitution  would 
warrant.  The  Federalists  sympathized  with  England, 
and  were  in  favor  of  a  liberal  construction  of  the  Con- 
stitution, which  would  give  as  much  jxiwer  to  the 
Central  Government  as  tiiat  document  could  possibly 
authorize. 

The  leading  Federalists  and  Republicans  were 
alike  noble  men,  consecrating  all  their  energies  to  the 
good  of  the  nation.  Two  more  honest  men  or  more 
pure  patriots  than  John  Adams  the  Federalist,  and 
James  Monroe  the  Republican,  never  breathed.  In 
tbuilding  up  this  majestic  nation,  which  is  destined 
to  eclipse  all  Grecian  and  Assyrian  greatness,  the  com- 
'bination  of  their  antagonism  was  needed  to  create  the 
light  equilibrium.  And  yet  each  in  his  day  was  de- 
nounced as  almost  a  demon. 

Washington  was  tlien  President.  England  had  es- 
poused the  cause  of  the  Bourl)ons  against  the  princi- 
ples of  the  French  Revolution.  All  Europe  was  drawn 
into  the  conflict.  We  were  feeble  and  far  away. 
Washington  issued  a  proclamation  of  neutrality  be- 
tween these  contending  powers.  France  had  helped 
us  in  the  struggle  for  our  liberties.  All  the  despotisms 
of  Europe  were  now  combined  to  prevent  the  French 
from  escaping  from  a  tyranny  a  thousand-fold  worse 
than  that  which  we  had  endured  Col.  Monroe,  more 
magnanimous  than  prudent,  was  anxious  that,  at 
whatever  hazard,  we  should  help  our  old  allies  in 
their  extremity.  It  was  the  impulse  of  a  generous 
and  noble  nature.  He  violently  opposed  the  Pres- 
ident's proclamation  as  ungrateful  and  wanting  in 
magnanimity. 

Washington,  who  could  appreciate  such  a  character, 
developed  his  calm,  serene,  almost  divine  greatness, 
by  appointing  that  very  James  Monroe,  who  was  de- 
nouncing the  policy  of  the  Government,  as  the  minister 
of  that  Government  to  the  Republic  of  France.  Mr. 
Monroe  was  welcomed  by  the  National  Convention 
in  France  wita  the  most  enthusiastic  demonstiMions. 


Shortly  after  his  return  to  this  countrv,  Mr.  Mon- 
roe was  elected  Governor  of  Virginia,  and  held  the 
office  for  three  yeais.  He  was  again  sent  to  France  to 
co-operate  with  Chancellor  Livingston  in  obtaining 
the  vast  territory  then  known  as  the  Province  of 
Louisiana,  which  France  had  but  shortly  before  ob- 
tained from  Spain.  Tneir  united  efforts  were  suc- 
cessful. For  the  comparatively  small  sum  of  fifteen 
millions  of  dollars,  the  entire  territory  of  Orleans  and 
district  of  Louisiana  were  added  to  the  United  States. 
This  was  probably  the  largest  transfer  of  real  estate 
which  was  ever  made  in  all  the  history  of  the  world 

From  France  Mr.  Monroe  went  to  England  to  ob- 
tain from  that  country  some  recognition  of  ou 
rights  as  neutrals,  and  to  remonstrate  against  those 
odious  impressments  of  our  seamen.  But  Eng- 
land was  unrelenting.  He  agam  returned  to  Eng- 
land on  the  same  mission,  but  could  receive  no 
redress.  He  returned  to  his  home  and  was  again 
chosen  Governor  of  Virginia.  This  he  soon  resigned 
to  accept  the  position  of  Secretary  of  State  under 
Madison.  White  in  this  ofifice  war  with  England  was 
declared,  the  Secretary  of  War  resigned,  and  during 
these  trying  times,  the  duties  of  the  War  Departmen 
were  also  put  upon  him.  He  was  truly  the  armor- 
bearer  of  President  Madison,  and  the  most  efficient 
business  man  in  his  cabinet.  Upon  the  return  of 
peace  he  resigned  the  Department  of  War,  but  con- 
tinued in  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State  until  the  ex- 
piration of  Mr.  Madison's  adminstration.  At  the  elec- 
tion held  the  previous  autumn  Mr.  Monroe  himself  had 
been  chosen  President  with  but  little  opposition,  and 
upon  March  4,  1817,  was  inaugurated.  Four  years 
later  he  was  elected  for  a  second  term. 

Among  the  important  measures  of  his  Presidency 
were  the  cession  of  Florida  to  the  United  States;  the 
Missouri  Compromise,  and  the    "  Monroe  doctrine.' 

This  famous  doctrine,  since  known  as  the  "  Monroe 
doctrine,"  was  enunciated  by  him  in  1823.  .At  tha^ 
time  the  United  Stales  had  recognized  the  independ- 
ence of  tlie  .South  American  states,  and  did  not  wish 
to  have  Eurojiean  ]X)wers  longer  attempting  to  sub 
due  iwrtions  of  the  American  Continent.  The  doctrine 
is  as  follows:  "That  we  should  consider  any  attempt 
on  the  part  of  European  powers  to  extend  their  sys- 
tem to  any  portion  of  this  hemisphere  as  dangerous 
to  our  peace  and  safety,"  and  "that  we  could  not 
view  any  interposition  for  the  purpose  of  oppressing 
or  controlling  American  governments  or  provinces  in 
any  other  light  than  as  a  manifestation  by  European 
]»wers  of  an  unfriendly  disposition  toward  the  United 
States."'  This  doctrine  immediately  afTected  the  course 
of  foreign  governments,  and  has  become  the  approved 
sendment  of  the  United  States. 

At  the  end  of  his  fecond  term  Mr  Monroe  retired 
to  his  home  in  Virginia,  where  he  lived  until  1830 
when  he  went  to  New  York  to  live  with  his  son-in- 
law.     In  that  city  he  died, on  the  4th  of  July.  -831. 


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\  OHN  QUINCY  ADAMS,  the 
m)  sixih  President  of  the   United 
|<9St,Ttes,  was   Iwrn  in  the   rural 
y    home   of  his    honored    father, 
. /'    John  Adams, in  Quincy,  Mass., 
on  the  I  itli  cf  July,  1767.  His 
mother,  a  woman  of  exahed 
worth,  watclieii  over  liis  childhood 
during    the   almost    constant    alj- 
sence  of   his  father.      When    hut 
eight  years  of  ?ge,  he   stood  with 
his  mother  on  an  eminence,  listen- 
ing to  the  hooiniug  of  the  great  bat- 
tle on  Bunker's  Hill,  and  gazing  on 
iiljon  the  smoke  and  flames  hillow- 
ing  up  from    the   conflagration   of 
C'harlestown. 

When  but  eleven  years  old  he 
took  ,1  tearful  adieu  of  his  mother, 
to  sail  with  his  fattier  for  Eurojie, 
through  a  fleet  ol  hostile  British  cruisers.  The  bright, 
..nim.iied  boy  spent  a  year  and  a  half  in  I'aiis,  where 
liis  father  was  associated  wjth  Franklin  and  Lee  as 
minister  pleniix)tentiary.  His  intelligence  attracted 
the  notice  of  these  distinguished  men,  and  he  received 
fmm  them  flattering  m;irks  of  attention. 

Mr.  John  Adams  liad  scarcely  returned  to  this 
cou.".try,  in  1779,  ere  he  was  again  sent  abroad  .Again 
t'ol.ii  Quincy  a(  companied  his  father.  At  Paris  he 
applied  himself  with  great  diligence,  for  six  months, 
toj'udy;  then  accompained  his  father  to  Holland, 
vrhere  he  entered,  first  a  school  in  .Amsterdam,  then 
the  University  at  I.eyden.  .About  a  year  from  this 
time,  in  1781,  when  the  manly  boy  was  but  fourteen 
yea-s  of  age,  he  was  selected  i>y  Mr.  Dana,  our  min- 
ister to  the  Russian  <ourt,  as  his  private  secretary. 

In  this  school  of  incessant  lal)or  and  of  enobling 
rulture  he  spent  fourteen  months,  and  then  returned 
10  Holland  Ihiough  Sweden,  Denmark,  Hamburg  and 
Bremen.  This  U  ng  journey  he  took  alone,  in  the 
winter,  when  in  his  sixteenth  year.  Ayain  he  resimied 
ais  studies,  under  a  pri"ate  tutor,  at  Hague.    Thenre 


in  the  spring  of  1782,  he  accompanied  his  father  i: 
Paris,  traveling  leisurely,  and  forming  acquaintanct 
with  tile  most  distinguisiied  men  on  the  C'onlinei.t 
examining  architectural  remains,  galleries  of  paintmgs 
and  all  renowned  works  of  art.  At  Paris  he  agaii. 
became  associated  with  the  most  illustrious  men  o( 
all  lands  in  the  contemplations  of  the  loftiest  temjxjral 
themes  which  <  an  engross  the  human  mind.  Afte 
a  short  visit  to  Kngland  he  returned  to  Paiis,  ana 
consecrated  all  his  energies  to  study  until  May,  1785, 
when  he  returned  to  .America.  To  a  brilliant  young 
man  of  eighteen,  who  had  seen  much  of  the  world, 
and  who  was  familiar  with  the  eticiuette  of  courts,  a 
residence  with  his  father  in  London,  under  such  cir- 
cumstances, must  have  been  extremely  attractive 
but  with  judgment  very  rare  in  one  of  his  age,  he  pre- 
ferred to  return  to  America  to  complete  his  education 
in  an  .American  college.  He  wished  then  to  study 
law,  thai  with  an  honorable  profession,  he  might  lie 
able  to  obtain  an  independent  sup[X)rt. 

U[xjn  leaving  Harvard  College,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
he  studied  law  for  three  years.  In  June,  1794,  be- 
ing then  but  twenty-seven  years  of  "age,  he  was  ap- 
IKjinted  by  Washington,  resident  minister  at  the 
Netherlands.  Sailing  from  Boston  in  July,  he  reachea 
Ixindon  in  October,  where  he  was  immediately  admit- 
ted to  the  deliberations  of  Messrs.  Jay  and  Pinckney 
assisting  them  in  negotiating  a  commercial  treaty  with 
(lieat  Hriiian.  After  thus  si)ending  a  fortnight  i. 
Ix)ndon,  he  proceeded  to  the  Hague. 

In  July,  1797,  he  left  the  Hague  to  go  to  Portugal  a- 
minister  plenipotentiary.  On  his  way  to  Portugal. 
up)n  arriving  in  Ixjndon.  lie  met  with  despatches 
directing  him  to  the  court  of  Betiin,  but  re(piestin(; 
him  to  remain  in  London  until  he  should  receive  his 
instructions.  While  waiting  he  was  matried  to  a: 
American  lady  to  whom  he  had  been  previously  en- 
gaged,— Miss  Louisa  Catherine  Johnson,  daughte' 
of  Mr.  Joshua  Johnson,  American  consul  in  I  ondon 
a  lady  endownd  with  that  beauty  and  liiose  iccom- 
l>lishment  which  eminently  fitted  her  to  irovc-  in  tut 
elevated  sphere  for  which  she  w»»  v'xs'icerf 


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JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS. 


He  reached  Berlin  with  his  wife  in  November,  1797  ; 
where  he  remained  until  July,  1799,  when,  havingful- 
filled  all  the  purjxises  of  his  mission,  he  solicited  his 
recall. 

Soon  after  his  return,  in  1802,  he  was  chosen  to 
the  Senate  of  Massachusetts,  from  Boston,  and  then 
was  elected  Senator  of  the  United  States  for  six  years, 
from  the  4th  of  March,  1804.  His  reputation,  his 
ability  and  his  experience,  placed  him  immediately 
among  the  most  prominent  and  influential  members 
of  that  body.  Especially  did  he  sustain  the  Govern- 
ment in  its  measures  of  resistance  to  the  encroach- 
ments of  England,  destroying  our  commerce  and  in- 
sulting our  flag.  There  was  no  man  in  America  more 
familiar  with  the  arrogance  of  the  British  court  upon 
these  points,  and  no  one  more  resolved  to  present 
a  firm  resistance. 

In  1809,  Madison  succeeded  Jefferson  in  the  Pres- 
idential chair,  and  he  innnediately  nominated  John 
Quincy  Adams  minister  to  St.  Petersburg.  Resign- 
ing his  professorship  in  Harvard  College,  he  embarked 
at  Boston,  in  August,  1809. 

While  in  Russia,  Mr.  Adams  was  an  intense  stu- 
dent. He  devoted  his  attention  to  the  language  and 
history  of  Russia;  to  the  Chinese  trade;  to  the 
European  system  of  weights,  measures,  and  coins  ;  to 
the  climate  and  astronomical  observations  ;  while  he 
Kept  up  a  familiar  acquaintance  with  the  Greek  and 
Latin  classics.  In  all  the  universities  of  Europe,  a 
more  accomplished  scholar  could  scarcely  be  found. 
All  through  life  the  Bible  constituted  an  imixirtant 
ipart  of  his  studies.  It  was  his  rule  to  read  five 
■chapters  every  day. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  18 17,  Mr.  Monroe  took  the 
Presidential  chair,  and  immediately  api)ointed  Mr. 
Adams  Secretary  of  State.  Taking  leave  of  his  num- 
erous friends  in  public  and  private  life  iu  Europe,  he 
sailed  in  June,  1819,  for  the  United  States.  On  the 
1 8th  of  August,  he  again  crossed  the  threshold  of  his 
home  in  Quincy.  During  the  eight  years  of  Mr.  Mon- 
roe's administration,  Mr,  Adams  continued  Secretary 
of  State. 

Some  time  before  '.he  close  of  Mr.  Monroe's  second 
term  of  office,  new  candidates  began  to  be  presented 
for  the  Presidency.  The  friends  of  Mr.  Adams  brought 
forward  his  name.  It  was  an  exciting  campaign. 
Party  spirit  was  never  more  bitter.  Two  hundred  and 
sixty  electoral  votes  were  cast.  Andrew  Jackson  re- 
ceived ninety-nine;  John  Quincy  Adams,  eighty-four; 
William  H.Crawford,  forty-one;  Henry  Clay,  thirty- 
seven.  As  there  was  no  choice  by  the  people,  the 
question  went  to  the  House  of  Representatives.  Mr. 
Clay  gave  the  vote  of  Kentucky  to  Mr.  Adams,  and 
he  was  elected. 

The  friends  of  all  the  disappointed  candidates  now 
;ombined  in  a  venomous  and  persistent  assault  upon 
Mr.  Adams.  There  is  nothing  more  disgraceful  in 
*-b«  past  history  of  our  country  than  the  abuse  which 


was  poured  in  one  uninterrupted  stream,  upon  this 
high-minded,  upright,  patriotic  man.  There  never  was 
an  administration  more  pure  in  principles,  more  con- 
scientiously devoted  to  the  best  interests  of  the  coun- 
try, than  that  of  John  Quincy  Adams ;  and  never,  per- 
haps, was  there  an  administration  more  unscrupu- 
lously  and  outrageously  assailed. 

Mr.  Adams  was,  to  a  very  remarkable  degree,  ab- 
stemious and  temperate  in  his  habits;  always  rising 
early,  and  taking  much  exercise.  When  at  his  home  in 
Quincy,  he  has  been  known  to  walk,  before  breakfast, 
seven  miles  to  Boston.  In  Washington,  it  was  t;aid 
that  he  was  the  first  man  up  in  the  city,  lighting  his 
own  fire  and  applying  himself  to  work  in  his  library 
often  long  before  dawn. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1829,  Mr.  Adams  retired 
from  the  Presidency,  and  was  succeeded  by  Andrew 
Jackson.  John  C.  Calhoun  was  elected  Vice  Presi- 
dent. The  slavery  question  now  began  to  assume 
lx)rtentous  magnitude.  Mr.  Adams  returned  to 
Quincy  and  to  his  studies,  which  he  pursued  with  un- 
abated zeal.  But  he  was  not  long  permitted  to  re- 
main in  retirement.  In  November,  1830,  he  wa? 
elected  representative  to  Congress.  For  seventeen 
years,  until  his  death,  he  occupied  the  post  as  repre- 
sentative, towering  above  all  his  peers,  ever  ready  to 
do  brave  battle' for  freedom,  and  winning  the  title  of 
"the  old  man  eloquent."  Upon  taking  his  seat  in 
the  House,  he  announced  that  he  should  hold  him- 
self bound  to  no  party.  Probably  there  never  was  a 
member  more  devoted  to  his  duties.  He  was  usually 
the  first  in  his  place  in  the  morning,  and  the  last  to 
leave  his  seat  in  the  evening.  Not  a  measure  could 
be  brought  forward  and  escape  his  scrutiny.  'I  he 
battle  which  Mr.  Adams  fought,  almost  singly,  against 
the  proslavery  party  in  the  Government,  was  sublime 
in  Its  moral  daring  and  heroism.  For  persisting  in 
presenting  petitions  for  the  abolition  of  slavery,  he 
was  threatened  with  indictment  by  the  grand  jury 
with  expulsion  from  the  House,  with  assassination 
but  no  threats  could  intimidate  him,  and  his  final 
triumph  was  complete. 

It  has  been  said  of  President  Adams,  that  when  his 

body  was  bent  and  his  hair  silvered  by  the  lapse   of 

I    fourscore  years,  yielding  to  the  simple  faith  of  a  little 

]    child,  he  was  accustomed  to  repeat  every  night,  before 

he  slept,  the  prajer  which  his  mother  taught  him  in 

his  infant  years. 

On  the  2  ist  of  February,  1848,  he  rose  on  the  floor 
of  Congress,  with  a  paper  in  his  hand,  to  address  the 
speaker.  Suddenly  he  fell,  again  stricken  by  paraly 
sis,  and  was  caught  in  the  arms  of  those  around  him. 
For  a  time  he  was  senseless,  as  he  was  conveyed  to 
the  sofa  in  the  rotunda.  With  reviving  conscious- 
ness, he  opened  his  eyes,  looked  calmly  around  ai.d 
said  "  This  is  the  endof  earfh  ;"\.\\tn  after  a  moment's 
pause  he  add-jd,  "/  a?)i  amtent"  These  were  the 
last    words  of    the    grand    "Old    Man     Eloquent." 


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NDRKW  JACKSON,  the 
itli  rrcsidenl  of  tlie 
L'nited  States,  was  born  in 
Waxhaw  settlement,  N.  (;., 
March  15,  1767,  a  few  days 
after  liis  father's  death.  His 
parents  were  ixwr  emigrants 
from  Ireland,  and  took  up 
their  abode  in  Waxhaw  set- 
tlemeqt,  where  they  lived  in 
deepest  ixjverty. 
Andrew,  or  Andy,  as  lie  was 
universally  calleil,  grew  up  a  very 
rough,  rude,  turbulent  boy.  His 
features  were  coarse,  his  form  un- 
gainly, and  there  was  but  very 
little  in  his  character,  made  visible,  which  was  at- 
tractive. 

When  only  thirteen  years  old  he  joined  the  volun- 
teers of  Carolina  against  the  British  invasion.  In 
1781,  he  and  his  brother  Robert  were  captured  and 
imprisoned  for  a  time  at  Camden.  A  British  officer 
ordered  him  to  brush  his  mud-spattered  boots.  "  I  am 
a  prisoner  of  war,  not  your  servant,"  was  the  reply  of 
the  dauntless  boy. 

The  brute  drew  his  sword,  and  aimed  a  desperate 
Dlow  at  the  head  of  the  helpless  young  prisoner. 
Andrew  raised  his  hand,  and  thus  received  two  fear- 
ful gashes, — one  on  the  hand  and  the  other  u|X)n  the 
head.  The  officer  then  turned  to  his  brother  Robert 
with  the  same  demand.  He  also  refused,  and  re- 
ceived a  Wow  from  the  keen-edged  sabre,  which  quite 
disabled  him,  and  which  probably  soon  after  caused 
hisdeath.  They  suffered  much  other  ill-treatment,  and 
were  finally  stricken  with  the  small-i)ox.  Their 
mother  was  successf"!  'c.    •I'.itaining   their  exchange. 


and  took  her  sick  boys  home.  .After  a  long  illn.;s!. 
.Andrew  recovered,  and  the  de^th  of  his  mother  soon 
left  him  entirely  friendless. 

.\ndrew  supiMrted  himself  in  various  ways.sjchaa 
working  at  the  saddler's  trade,  teaching  school  and 
clerking  in  a  general  store,  until  1784,  when  he 
entered  a  law  office  at  Salisbury,  N.  C.  He,  however, 
gave  more  attention  to  the  wild  amusements  of  the 
times  than  to  his  studies.  In  1788,  he  was  apiwinted 
solicitcr  for  the  western  district  of  North  Carolina,  01 
which  Tennessee  was  then  a  part.  This  involved 
many  long  and  tedious  journeys  amid  dangers  of 
every  kind,  but  .\ndrew  Jackson  never  knew  fear, 
and  the  Indians  had  no  desire  to  repeat  a  skinnisb, 
witti  the  Sharp  Knife. 

In  1791,  Mr.  Jackson  was  married  to  a  woman  who 
supposed  herself  divorced  from  her  former  husband. 
Great  was  the  surprise  of  both  parties,  two  years  later, 
to  find  that  the  conditionsof  the  divorce  had  just  been 
definitely  settled  by  the  first  husband.  The  marriage 
ceremony  was  performed  a  second  time,  but  the  occur- 
rence was  often  used  by  his  enemies  to  bring  Mr. 
Jack%on  into  disfavor. 

During  these  years  he  worked  hard  at  his   profes 
sion,  and  frequently  had  one  or  more  duels  on  hand, 
one  of  which,  when  he   killed  Dickenson,  was  espec- 
ially disgraceful. 

In  January,  1796,  the  Territory  of  Tennessee  then 
containing  nearly  eighty  thousand  inhabitants,  the 
people  met  in  convention  at  Knoxville  to  frame  a  con- 
stitution. Five  were  sent  from  each  of  the  elev2n 
counties,  .\ndre\v  Jackson  was  i.<ne  of  the  delega'es. 
The  new  State  was  entitled  to  i)ut  one  member  iu 
the  National  House  of  Rei)resentatives.  .Xndreiv  Jaclc- 
son  was<  hosen  that  member.  Mounting  his  horse  he 
rode  to  Philedelphia,  where  Congress   then    held  its 


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sessions, — z.  distance  of  about  eight  hundred    miles. 

Jackson  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  Jefferson  was  his  idol.  He  admired 
Bonaparte,  loved  France  and  liated  England.  As  Mr. 
Jackson  took  his  seat.  Gen.  Washington,  whose 
second  term  of  otifice  was  then  e.xpiring,  dehvered  his 
last  speech  to  Congress.  A  committee  drew  up  a 
complimentary  address  in  reply.  Andrew  Jackson 
did  not  approve  of  the  address,  and  was  one  of  the 
twelve  who  voted  against  it.  He  was  not  willing  to 
say  that  Gen.  Washington's  adminstration  had  been 
"  wise,  firm  and  patriotic." 

Mr.  Jackson  was  elected  to  the  United  States 
Senate  in  1797,  but  soon  resigned  and  returned  home. 
Soon  after  he  was  chosen  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  his  State,  which  position  he  held  for  si.\  years. 

When  the  war  of  181 2  with  Great  Britian  com- 
menced, Madison  occupied  the  Presidential  chair. 
Aaron  Burr  sent  word  to  the  President  that  there  was 
an  unknown  man  in  the  West,  Andrew  Jackson,  who 
would  do  credit  to  a  commission  if  one  were  con- 
ferred uix)n  him.  Just  at  that  time  Gen.  Jackson 
jffeied  his  services  and  those  of  twenty-five  hundred 
volunteers.  His  offer  was  accepted,  and  the  troops 
were  assembled  at  Nashville. 

As  the  British  were  hourly  expected  to  make  an  at- 
tack upon  New  Orleans,  where  Gen.  Wilkinson  was 
in  command,  he  was  ordered  to  descend  the  river 
■with  fifteen  hundred  troops  to  aid  Wilkinson.  The 
expedition  reached  Natchez;  and  after  a  delay  of  sev- 
eral weeks  there,  without  accomplishing  anything, 
the  men  were  ordered  l)ack  to  their  homes.  But  the 
energy  Gen.  Jackson  had  displayed,  and  his  entire 
devotion  to  the  comrfort  of  his  soldiers,  won  him 
golden  opinions ;  and  he  became  the  most  popular 
man  in  the  State.  It  was  in  this  expedition  that  his 
toughness  gave  him  the  nickname  of  "  Old  Hickory." 

Soon  after  this,  while  attempting  to  horsewhip  Col. 
Thomas  H.  Benton,  for  a  remark  that  gentleman 
made  about  his  taking  a  part  as  second  in  a  duel,  in 
which  a  younger  brother  of  Benton's  was  engaged, 
he  received  two  severe  pistol  wounds.  While  he  was 
lingering  upon  a  bed  of  suffering  news  came  that  the 
Indians,  who  had  combined  under  Tecumseh  from 
Florida  to  the  Lakes,  to  exterminate  the  white  set- 
tlers, were  committing  the  most  awful  ravages.  De- 
cisive action  became  necessary.  Gen.  Jackson,  with 
his  fractured  bone  just  beginning  to  heal,  his  arm  in 
a  sling,  and  unable  to  mount  his  horse  without  assis- 
tance, gave  his  amazing  energies  to  the  raising  of  an 
army  to  rendezvous  at  Fayettesville,  .\labama. 

The  Creek  Indians  had  established  a  strong  fort  on 
one  of  the  bendsof  the  Tallapoosa  River,  near  the  cen- 
ter of  Alabama,  about  fifty  miles  below  Fort  Strother. 
With  an  army  of  two  thousand  men.  Gen.  Jackson 
traversed  the  pathless  wilderness  in  a  march  of  eleven 
days.  He  reached  their  fort,  called  Tohopeka  or 
Horse-shoe,  on  the  27th  of  March.  1814.     The  bend 


of  the  river  enclosed  nearly  one  hauared  acres  o; 
tangled  forest  and  wild  ravine.  Across  the  narrow 
neck  the  Indians'had  constructed  a  formidable  breast- 
work of  logs  and  brush.  .Here  nine  hundred  warriors, 
with  an  ample  suplyof  arms  were  assembled. 

The  fort  was  stormed.  The  fight  was  utterly  des- 
perate. Not  an  Indian  would  accept  of  quarter.  When 
bleeding  and  dying,  they  would  fight  those  who  en- 
deavored to  spare  their  lives.  From  ten  in  the  morn- 
ing until  dark,  the  battle  raged.  The  carnage  was 
awful  and  revolting.  Some  threw  themselves  into  the 
river;  but  the  unerring  bullet  struck  their  heads  as 
they  swam.  Nearly  everyone  of  the  nine  hundred  war- 
rios  were  killed  K  few  probably,  in  the  night,  swam 
the  river  and  escaped.  This  ended  the  war.  The 
ixjwer  of  the  Creeks  was  broken  forever.  This  bold 
plunge  into  the  wilderness,  with  itsterriffic  slaughter, 
so  appalled  the  savages,  that  the  haggard  remnants 
of  the  bands  came  to  the  camp,  begging  for  peace. 

This  closing  of  the  Creek  war  enabled  us  to  con- 
centrate all  our  militia  ujxin  the  British,  who  were  the 
allies  of  the  Indians  No  man  of  less  resolute  will 
than  (jen.  Jackson  could  have  conducted  this  Indian 
campaign  to  so  successful  an  issue  Immediately  he 
was  appointed  major-general. 

Late  in  .August,  with  an  army  of  two  thousand 
men,  on  a  rushing  march,  Gen.  Jackson  came  to 
Mobile.  A  British  fleet  came  from  Pensacola,  landed 
a  force  ujxjn  the  beach,  anchored  near  the  little  fort, 
and  from  both  ship  and  shore  commenced  a  furious 
assault  The  battle  was  long  and  doubtful.  At  length 
one  of  the  ships  was  blown  up    and   the  rest  retired. 

Garrisoning  Mobile,  where  he  had  taken  his  little 
army,  he  moved  his  troops  to  New  Orleans, 
.\nd  the  battle  of  New  Orleans  which  soon  ensued, 
was  in  reality  a  very  arduous  campaign.  This  won 
for  Gen.  Jackson  an  imperishable  name.  Here  his 
troops,  which  numbered  about  four  thousand  men, 
won  a  signal  victory  over  the  British  army  of  about 
nine  thousand.  His  loss  was  but  thirteen,  while  the 
loss  of  the  British  was  two  thousand  six  hundred. 

The  name  of  Gen.  Jackson  soon  began  to  be  men- 
tioned in  connection  with  the  Presidency,  but, in  1824, 
he  was  defeated  by  Mr.  Adams.  He  was,  however, 
successful  in  the  election  of  1828,  and  was  re-elected 
for  a  second  term  in  1832.  In  1829,  just  before  he 
assumed  the  reins  of  the  government,  he  met  with 
the  most  terrible  affliction  of  his  life  in  the  death  of 
his  wife,  whom  he  had  loved  with  a  devotion  which  has 
perhaps  never  been  surpassed.  From  the  shock  of 
her  death  he  never  recovered. 

His  administration  was  one  of  the  most  r.;cniorabie 
in  the  annals  of  our  country;  applaude/^  oy  one  party, 
condemned  by  the  other.  No  man  had  more  bitter 
enemies  or  warmer  friends.  At  the  expiration  of  his 
two  terms  of  office  he  retired  to  the  Hermitage,  where 
he  died  June  8,  1845.  The  last  years  of  Mr.  Jack- 
son's  life   were   that   of  a    devoted  ("liristian    man. 


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EIGHTH  PRESIDENT 


ARTIS  VAN  BU REN,  the 
cightli      President     of     the 
United  States,  was  Ixjrn  at 
Kindcrhook,  N.  Y.,  Dec.   5, 
1782.     He  died  at  tlie  same 
place,  July    24,    1862.      His 
body  rests  in   the  cemetery 
^^         at  Kiiiderhook.     Alxjve  it  is 
a  plain  granite   shaft  fifteen  feet 
high,  bearing  a  simple  inscription 
about  hall  way  up  on   one    face. 
The  lot  is  unfenced,  unbordered 
or  unbounded  by  slirub  or  flower. 

There  is  but  little  in  the  life  of  Martin  Van  lUiren 
of  romantic  interest.  He  fought  no  battles,  engaged 
in  no  wild  adventures.  Though  his  life  was  stormy  in 
political  and  intellectual  conflicts,  and  he  gained  many 
signal  victories,  his  days  passed  uneventful  in  those 
incidents  which  give  zest  to  biography.  His  an- 
cestors, as  his  name  indicates,  were  of  Dutcli  origin, 
and  were  among  the  earliest  emigrants  from  Holland 
to  the  banks  of  the  Hudson.  His  father  was  a  farmer, 
residing  in  the  old  town  of  Kinderhook.  His  mother, 
also  of  Dutch  lineage,  was  a  woman  of  superior  intel- 
ligence and  exemplary  piety. 

Ac  was  decidedly  a  precocious  boy,  developing  un- 
usual activity,  vigor  and  strength  of  mind.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen,  he  had  finished  his  academic  studies 
'.n  his  native  village,  and  commenced  the  study  of 
aw.  As  he  bad  not  a  collegiate  education,  seven 
years  of  study  in  a  law-oflfice  were  re  I'lired  of  iiini 
«)efore  he  could  be  admitted  to  the  bar.  Insjiired  with 
u  lofty  ambition,  and  conscious  of  his  |)Owers,  he  pur- 
sued his  studies  with  indefatig.ible  industry.  After 
spending  six  yeir<  in  an  office  in  ""ij    native  village. 


he  went  to  the  city  of  New  York,  and  prosecuted  his 
studies  for  the  seventh  year. 

In  1803,  Mr.  Van  Buren,  then  twenty-one  years  ol 
age,  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in  his  native  vil- 
lage. The  great  conflict  between  the  Federal  .niid 
Rci)ublican  party  was  then  at  its  height.  Mr.  \an 
Buren  was  from  the  beginning  a  [lolitician.  He  had, 
perhaps,  imbibed  that  spirit  while  listening  to  the 
many  discussions  which  had  been  carried  on  in  his 
father's  hotel.  He  was  in  cordial  sympathy  with 
Jefferson,  and  earnestly  and  eloquently  esixjused  the 
cause  of  State  Rights;  though  at  that  time  the  Fed- 
eral party  held  the  supremacy  both  in  his  towt\ 
and  State. 

His  success  and  increasing  ruputation  led  him 
after  six  years  of  practice,  to  remove  to  Hudson,  th. 
county  seat  of  his  county.  Here  he  si)ent  seven  years, 
constantly  gaining  strength  by  contending  in  th* 
courts  with  some  of  the  ablest  men  who  have  adorned 
the  bar  of  his  State. 

Just  before  leaving  Kinderhook  for  Hudson,  Mr. 
Van  Buren  married  a  lady  alike  distinguished  for 
beauty  and  accomplishments.  .After  twelve  sliort 
years  she  sank  into  the  grave,  the  victim  of  consump. 
tion,  leaving  her  husband  and  four  sons  to  weep  over 
her  loss.  For  twenty-five  years,  Mr.  Van  Buren  was- 
an  earnest,  successful,  assiduous  lawyer.  The  recora 
of  those  years  is  barren  in  items  of  public  interest. 
In  rSr  2,  when  thirty  years  of  age,  he  was  chosen  to 
the  State  Senate,  and  nave  his  strenuous  supixjrt  to 
Mr.  Madison's  adminstration.  In  r8r5,  he  was  ap- 
ixjinted  .Attorney-Cieneral,  and  the  next  year  moved 
to  Albany,  the  capit.il  of  the  State. 

'.Vhile  he  was  acknovv'ledged  as  one  of  the  most 
p. eminent  leaders  of  the   Democratic    party,   he   had 


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MARTIN  VAN  BUREN. 


the  moral  courage  to  avow  that  true  democracy  did 
not  require  that '' universal  suffrage"  which  admits 
the  vile,  the  degraded,  the  ignorant,  to  the  right  of 
governing  the  State.  In  true  consistency  with  his 
democratic  principles,  he  contended  that,  while  the 
path  leading  to  the  privilege  of  voting  should  be  open 
to  every  man  without  distinction,  no  one  should  be 
invested  with  that  sacred  prerogative,  unless  he  were 
in  some  degree  qualified  for  it  by  intelligence,  virtue 
and  some  property  interests  in  the  welfare  of  the 
State. 

].n  1821  he  was  elected  ;.  member  of  the  United 
States  Senate;  and  in  the  same  year,  he  took  a  seat 
in  the  convention  to  revise  the  constitution  of  his 
native  State.  His  course  in  thii  convention  secured 
the  approval  of  men  of  all  parties.  No  one  could 
doubt  the  singleness  of  his  endeavors  to  promote  the 
interests  of  all  classes  in  the  community.  In  the 
Senate  of  the  United  States,  he  rose  at  once  to  a 
-.onspicuous  position  as  anactive  and  useful  legislator. 

In  1827,  John  Quincy  Adams  being  then  in  the 
Vresidential  chair,  Mr.  Van  Buren  was  re-elected  to 
ihe  Senate.  He  had  been  from  the  beginning  a  de- 
termined opposer  of  the  Administration,  adopting  the 
"State  Rights "  view  in  opposition  to  what  was 
leemed  the  Federal  proclivities  of  Mr.  Adams. 

Soon  after  this,  in  1828,  he  was  chosen  Governorof 
the  State  of  New  York,  and  accordingly  resigned  his 
leat  in  the  Senate.  Probably  no  one  in  the  United 
States  contributed  so  much  towards  ejecting  John  Q. 
\dams  from  the  Presidential  chair,  and  placing  in  it 
Andrew  Jackson,  as  did  Martin  Van  Buren.  Whether 
entitled  to  the  reputation  or  not,  he  certainly  was  re- 
garded throughout  the  United  States  as  one  of  the 
most  skillful,  sagacious  and  cunning  of  politicians. 
It  was  supposed  that  no  one  knew  so  well  as  he  how 
to  touch  the  secret  spiings  of  action;  how  to  pull  all 
ihe  wires  to  put  his  machinery  in  motion;  and  how  to 
organize  a  political  army  which  would,  secretly  and 
stealthily  accomplish  the  most  gigantic  results.  By 
these  powers  it  is  said  tliat  he  outv/itted  Mr.  Adams, 
Mr.  Clay,  Mr.  Webster,  and  secured  results  which 
few  thought  then  could  be  accomplished. 

When  Andrew  Jackson  was  elected  President  he 
apix>inted  Mr.  Van  Buren  Secretary  of  State.  This 
position  he  resigned  in  1831,  and  was  immediately 
appointed  Minister  to  England,  where  he  went  the 
same  autumn.  The  Senate,  however,  when  it  met, 
refused    to   ratify  the  nomination^    and  he  returned 


home,  apparently  untroubled;  was  nominated  Vice 
President  in  the  place  of  Calhoun,  at  the  re-election 
of  President  Jackson ;  and  with  smiles  for  all  and 
fiowns  for  none,  he  took  his  place  at  the  head  of  tliat 
Senate  wliich  lud  refused  to  confirm  his  nomination 
as  ambassador. 

His  rejection  by  the  Senate  roused  all  the  zeal  of 
President  Jackson  in  behalf  of  his  repudiated  favor- 
ite ;  and  this,  probably  more  than  any  other  cause, 
secured  his  elevation  to  the  chair  of  the  Chief  Execu 
tive.  On  the  20th  of  May,  1836,  Mr.  Van  Buren  re- 
ceived the  Democratic  nomination  to  succeed  Gen. 
Jackson  as  President  of  the  United  States.  He  was 
elected  by  a  handsome  majority,  to  the  delight  of  the 
retiring  President.  "  Leaving  New  York  out  of  the 
canvass,"  says  Mr.  Parton,  "the  election  of  Mr.  Van 
Buren  to  the  Presidency  was  as  much  the  act  of  Gen. 
Jackson  as  though  the  Constitution  had  conferred 
upon  him  the  power  to  appoint  a  successor." 

His  administration  was  filled  with  exciting  events. 
The  insurrection  in  Canada,  which  threatened  to  in- 
volve this  country  in  war  witli  England,  the  agitation 
of  the  slavery  question,  and  finally  the  great  commer- 
cial panic  wliich  spread  over  the  country,  all  were 
trials  to  his  wisdom.  The  financial  distress  was  at- 
tributed to  the  management  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  brought  the  President  into  such  disfavor  that  he 
failed  of  re  election. 

^Vith  the  exception  of  being  nominated  for  the 
Presidency  by  the  "Free  Soil"  Democrats,  in  1848, 
Mr.  Van  Buren  lived  quietly  upon  his  estate  until 
his  death. 

He  had  ever  been  a  prudent  man,  of  frugal  habits, 
and  living  within  his  income,  had  now  fortunately  a 
competence  for  his  declining  years.  His  unblemished 
character,  his  commanding  abilities,  his  unquestioned 
patriotism,  ard  the  distinguished  positions  which  he 
had  occu[)ied  in  the  government  of  our  country,  se- 
cured to  him  not  only  the  homage  of  his  party,  but 
the  respect  ot  the  whole  community.  It  was  on  the 
4th  of  March,  1841,  that  Mr.  Van  Buren  retired  from 
the  presidency.  From  his  fine  estate  at  Lindenwald, 
he  still  exerted  a  powerful  influence  upon  the  politics 
of  the  country.  From  this  time  until  his  death,  on 
the  24th  of  July,  1862,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years,  he 
resided  at  Lindenwald,  a  gentleman  of  leisure,  of 
culture  and  of  wealth;  enjoying  in  a  healthy  old 
age,  probably  far  more  liappiness  than  he  had  before 
experienced  amid  the  stormv  scenes  of  his  active  life. 


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NINTH  PRESIDENT. 


5' 


ILLIAM   HENRY  HARRI- 
SON, the  iiinlli    President  ot 
tlie    L'nited  States,  was  Iwrn 
at  Berkeley,  Va.,  Feb.  9,  1773. 
His  father,    Beiijainiii    Harri- 
son, was  in  connjaratively  op- 
'        ulent  circumstances,  and  was 
one  of  the  most  distinguished 
men  of  his  day.      He  was  an 
iniimate    friend    of     George 
AN'ashington,  was  early  elected 
a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress,    and  was    conspicuous 
among  the  patriots  of  Virginia  in 
resisting  the  encroachmentsof  the 
British  crown.     In  the  celebrated 
Congress  of  1775,  Benjamin  Har- 
rison   and    John    Hancock   were 
both  candidates  for  the  office  of 
speaker. 

Mr  Harrison  was  subsequently 
chosen  Governor  of  Virginia,  and 
was  twice    re-elected.       His  son, 
i  William  Henry,  of  course  enjoyed 

in  childhood  all  the  advantages  which  wealth  and 
intellectual  and  cultivated  society  could  give.  Hav- 
ing received  a  thorough  comuion-school  education,  he 
entered  Ham|)den  Sidney  College,  where  he  graduated 
with  honor  soor.  ifter  the  death  of  his  father.  He 
ihen  repaired  to  Philadelphia  tostudy  medicine  under 
the  instructions  of  Dr.  Rush  and  the  guardianship  of 
Robert  Morris,  Ijoth  of  whom  were,  with  his  father, 
Mgners  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

\j\yo\\  the  outbreak  of  the  Indian  troubles,  and  not- 
withstanding the  'emonstrances  of  his  friends,  he 
abandoned  his  medical  studies  and  entered  the  army, 
.laving  obtained  a  comiiiission  of  Ensign  from  Presi- 


dent Washington.  He  was  then  but  19  years  old 
From  that  time  he  i)assed  gradually  upward  in  rank 
until  he  became  aid  to  General  Wayne,  after  whose 
death  he  resigned  hi«  commission.  He  was  then  a|>- 
pointed  .Secretary  of  the  North-western  Territory.  This 
Territory  was  then  entitled  to  but  one  member  in 
Congress  and  Capt.  Harrison  was  chosen  to  fill  that 
(osition. 

In  the  spring  of  1800  the  North-western  Territory 
was  divided  by  Congress  into  two  portions.  The 
eastern  [xjrtion,  comprising  the  region  now  embraced 
in  the  State  of  Ohio,  was  called  '"  The  Territory 
north-west  of  the  Ohio."  The  western  jwriion,  which 
included  what  is  now  called  Indiana,  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin,  was  called  the  "Indiana  Territory."  Wil 
liani  Henry  Harrison,  then  27  years  of  age,  was  ap 
pointed  by  John  Adams,  Governor  of  the  Indiana 
Territory,  and  immediately  after,  also  Governor  of 
Upper  Ix>uisiana.  He  was  thus  ruler  over  almost  as 
extensive  a  realm  as  any  sovereign  ujwn  the  globe.  He 
was  Superintenilent  of  Indian  Affairs,  and  was  in- 
vested with  jwwers  nearly  dictatorial  over  the  new 
rapidly  increasing  white  [xjpulation.  The  ability  and 
fidelity  with  which  he  discharged  these  resiwnsiUe 
duties  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that  he  was  four 
times  apixjiilted  to  tiiis  office — first  by  John  .Adams, 
twice  by  Thomas  Jefferson  and  afterwards  by  Presi- 
dent Madison. 

When  he  began  his  adminstration  there  were  but 
three  white  settlements  in  that  almost  lioundless  region, 
now  crowded  with  cities  and  resounding  with  all  the 
tumult  of  wealth  and  traffic.  Oncof  these  settlements 
was  on  the  Ohio,  nearly  opposite  Ix)uisvillc;  one  at 
Vincennes,  on  the  Wabash,  and  the  third  a  French 
settlement. 

The  vast  wilderness  over  which  Gov.  Harrisou 
reigned  was  filled  with  many  tribes  of  Indians.  Abou' 


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the  year  1806,  two  extraordinary  men,  twin  brothers, 
of  the  Shawnese  tribe,  rose  among  them.  One  of 
these  was  called  Tecumseh,  or  "  The  Crouching 
Panther;"  the  other,  OUiwacheca,  or  "The  Prophet." 
Tecumseh  was  not  only  an  Indian  warrior,  but  a  man 
of  great  sagacity,  far-reaching  foresight  and  indomit- 
able perseverance  in  any  enterprise  in  which  he  might 
engage.  He  was  inspired  with  the  highest  enthusiasm, 
anil  had  long  regarded  with  dread  and  with  hatred 
the  encroachment  of  the  whites  upon  the  hunting- 
grounds  of  his  fathers.  His  brother,  the  Prophet,  was 
an  orator,  who  could  sway  the  feelings  of  the  untutored 
Indian  as  the  gale  tossed  the  tree-tops  beneath  which 
they  dwelt. 

But  the  Prophet  was  not  merely  an  orator:  he  was, 
in  the  superstitious  minds  of  the  Indians,  invested 
with  the  superhuman  dignity  of  a  medicine-man  or  a 
magician.  With  an  enthusiasm  unsurpassed  by  Peter 
the  Hermit  rousing  Europe  to  the  crusades,  he  went 
from  tribe  to  tribe,  assuming  that  he  was  specially  sent 
by  the  Great  Spirit. 

Gov.  Harrison  made  many  attempts  to  conciliate 
the  Indians,  but  at  last  the  war  came,  and  at  Tippe- 
canoe the  Indians  were  routed  with  great  slaughter. 
October  28,  r8i2,  his  army  began  its  inarch.  When 
near  the  Prophet's  town  three  Indians  of  rank  made 
their  appearance  and  inquired  why  Gov.  Harrison  was 
aporoaching  them  in  so  hostile  an  attitude.  After  a 
short  conference,  arrangements  were  made  for  a  meet- 
ing the  next  day,  to  agree  upon  terms  of  peace. 

But  Gov.  Harrison  was  too  well  acquainted  with 
the  Indian  character  to  be  deceived  by  such  protes- 
tations Selecting  a  favorable  spot  for  his  night's  en- 
campment, he  took  every  precaution  against  surprise 
His  troops  were  posted  in  a  hollow  square,  and  slept 
ipon  their  arms. 

The  troops  threw  themselves  upon  the  ground  for 
rest;  but  every  man  had  his  accourtrements  on,  his 
loaded  musket  by  his  side,  and  his  bayonet  fixed.  The 
wakeful  Governor,  between  three  and  four  o'clock  in 
the  morning,  had  risen,  and  was  sitting  in  conversa- 
tion with  his  aids  by  the  embers  of  a  waning  fire.  It 
ivas  a  chill,  cloudy  morning  with  a  drizzling  rain.  In 
the  darkness,  the  Indians  had  crept  as  near  as  possi- 
ble, and  j'lst  then,  with  a  savage  yell,  rushed,  with  all 
the  desperation  which  superstition  and  passion  most 
highly  inflamed  could  give,  upon  the  left  flank  of  the 
little  army.  The  savages  had  been  amply  provided 
with  guns  and  ammunition  by  the  English.  Their 
war-whoop  was  accom  pained  by  a  shower  of  bullets. 

The  camp-fires  were  instantly  extinguished,  as  the 
light  aided  the  Indians  in  their  aim.  With  hide- 
pus  yells,  the  Indian  bands  rushed  on,  not  doubting  a 
speedy  and  an  entire  victory.  But  Gen.  Harrison's 
troops  stood  as  immovable  as  the  rocks  around  them 
until  day  dawned  :  they  then  made  a  simultaneous 
charge  with  the  bayonet,  and  swept  every  thing  be- 
fore   them,    and    completely    routing    thf"    foe. 


Gov.  Harrison  now  had  all  his  energies  tasked 
to  the  utmost.  The  British  desceiiding  from  the  Can  ■ 
adas,  were  of  themselves  a  very  formidable  force  ;  but 
with  their  savage  allies,  rushing  like  wolves  I'rom  the 
forest,  searching  out  every  remote  farm-house,  burn- 
ing, plundering,  scalping,  torturing,  the  wide  frontier 
was  plunged  into  a  state  of  consternation  which  even 
the  most  vivid  imagination  can  but  faintly  conceive. 
The  war-whoop  was  resounding  everywhere  in  the 
forest.  The  horizon  was  illuminated  with  the  conflagra- 
tion of  the  cabins  of  the  settlers.  Gen  Hull  had  made 
the  ignominious  surrender  of  his  forces  at  Detroit. 
Under  these  despairing  circumstances.  Gov.  Harrison 
was  appointed  by  President  Madison  commander-in- 
chief  of  the  North-western  army',  with  orders  to  retake 
Detroit,  and  to  protect  the  frontiers. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  place  a  man  in  a   situation 
demanding  more  energy,  sagacity  and  courage;  but 
General  Harrison  was  found  equal  to   the    position, 
and  nobly  and  triumphantly  did  he  meet  all  the   re 
sponsibilities. 

He  won  the  love  of  his  soldiers  by  always  sharinji 
with  them  their  fatigue.  His  whole  baggage,  whik 
pursuing  the  foe  up  the  Thames,  was  carried  in  a 
valise;  and  his  bedding  consisted  of  a  single  blanket 
lashed  over  his  saddle  Thirty-five  British  officers, 
his  prisoners  of  war,  supped  with  him  after  the  battle. 
The  only  fare  he  could  give  them  was  beef  roasted 
before  the  fire,  without  bread  or  salt. 

In  1816,  Gen.  Harrison  was  chosen  a  member  of 
the  National  House  of  Representatives,  to  represent 
the  District  of  Ohio.  In  Congress  he  proved  an 
active  member;  and  whenever  he  spoke,  it  was  with 
force  of  reason  and  power  of  eloquence,  which  arrested 
the  attention  of  all  the  members. 

In  1 819.  Harrison  was  elected  to  the  Senate  of 
Ohio;  and  in  1824,  as  one  of  the  presidential  electors 
of  that  State,  he  gave  his  vote  for  Henry  Clay.  The 
same  year  he  was  chosen  to  the  United  States  Senate. 

In  1836,  the  friends  of  Gen.  Harrison  brought  hini 
forward  as  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency  against 
Van  Biiren,  but  he  was  defeated.  At  the  close  of 
Mr.  Van  Buren's  term,  he  was  re-nomirated  by  his 
party,  and  Mr.  Harrison  was  unanimously  nominated 
by  the  Whigs,  with  John  Tyler  forthe  Vice  Presidency. 
The  contest  was  very  animated.  Gen  Jackson  gave 
all  his  influence  to  prevent  Harrison's  election  ;  but 
his  triumph  was  signal. 

The  cabinet  which  he  formed,  with  Daniel  Webstei 
at  its  head  as  Secretary  of  State,  was  one  of  the  most 
brilliant  with  which  anv  President  had  ever  befii 
surrounded.  Never  were  the  prospects  of  an  admin- 
istration more  flattering,  or  the  hopes  of  the  country 
more  sanguine.  In  the  midst  of  these  briglit  and 
joyous  prospects.  Gen.  Harrison  was  seized  by  a 
pleurisv-fever  and  after  a  few  days  of  violent  sick- 
ness, died  on  the  4tli  of  .April ;  just  one  month  after 
his  inauguration  as  President  of  the  United  States, 


"vn 


TENTH  PRESIDENT. 


^  J01[^Tyi.l^ii 


^j    OHN    TYLER,     the    tenth 
'l,i.  I'residentoflhe  United  States. 
y^i    He  was  born  in  Charles-city 
/5    Co.,  Va.,  March  29, 1790.  He 
F7?;SvB     was  the   favored  child   of  af- 
^i  '       fluence  and  high    social    po- 
sition.    At  the   early  age   of 
twelve,  John  entered  William 
and   Mary  College  and  grad- 
uated with  much  honor  when 
but  seventeen  years  old.  After 
graduating,   he  devoted   him- 
self with    great   assiduity  to   the 
study    of    law,    partly   with    his 
father   and   partly  with    Edmund 
Randolph,  one  of  the  most  distin- 
guished lawyers  of  ^'irginia. 

At  nineteen  years  of  age,  ne 
commenced  the  practice  of  law. 
His  success  was  rapid  and  aston- 
ishing. It  is  said  that  three 
months  had  not  elapsed  ere  there 
was  scarcely  a  case  on  the  dock- 
I  et  of  the  court  in  which   he  was 

I. «  retained.  When  but  twenty -one  years  of  age,  he 
was  almost  unanimously  elected  to  a  seat  in  the  State 
Legislature.  He  connected  himself  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  warmly  advocated  the  measures  of 
Jefferson  and  Madison.  For  five  successive  years  he 
was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  receiving  nearly  the 
imanimous  vote  or  his  county. 

When  but  twenty-six  years  of  age,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  Congress.  Here  he  acted  earnestly  and 
ably  wiih  tjic  democratic  party,  o['|X)sing  a  national 
bank,  inte'"--!  improvements  by  the  General  <<>vsrn- 


ment,  a  jirotective  tariff,  and  advocating  a  strict  con- 
struction of  the  Constitution,  and  the    most  careful 

I  vigilance  over  State  rights.  His  labors  in  Congress 
were  so  arduous  that  before  the  close  of  his  second 
term  he  foinid  it  necessary  to  resign  and  retire    to  his 

I   estate  in  Charles-city  Co.,  to  recruit  his  health.     He, 

I  however,  soon  after  consented  to  take  his  seat  in  the 
State  Legislature,  where  his  influence    was   jxjwerful 

i  in  promoting  ]>ublic  works  of  great  utility.  With  a 
reputation  thus  canstantly  increasing,  he  was  chosen 
by  a  very  large  majority  of  votes.  Governor  of  his 
native  State.  His  administration  was  signally  a  suc- 
cessful one.  His  [wpularity  secured  his  re-election. 
John  Randolph,  a  brilliant,  erratic,  half-crazed 
man,  thtn  represented  Virginia  in  the  Senate  of  the 
United  States.  \  ixirtion  of  the  Democratic  party 
was  displeased  with  Mr.  Randolph's  wayward  course, 
and  brought  forward  John  Tyler  as  his  op|K)nent, 
considering  him  the  only  man  in  Virginia  of  sufficient 
[wpularity  to  succeed  against  the  renowned  orator  of 
Roanoke.     Mr.  Tjler  was  the  victor. 

In  accordance  with  his  professions,  upon  taking  his 
seat  in  the  Senate,  he  joined  the  ranks  of  the  opposi- 
tion. He  op|X)sed  the  tariff;  he  sjwke  against  and 
voted  against  the  bank  as  unconstitutional ;  he  stren- 
uously opposed  all  restrictions  uiwn  slavery,  resist- 
ing all  projects  of  internal  improvements  by  the  Gen- 
eral Government,  and  avowed  his  sympathy  with  Mr. 
Calhoun's  view  of  nullification  ;  he  declared  that  tlen. 
Jackson,  by  his  oi>i<)sition  to  the  nullifiers,  had 
abandoned  the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party. 
Such  was  Mr.  Tyler's  record  in  Congress, — a  record 
in  i)erfect  accordance  with  tlie  principles  which  he 
had  always  avowed. 

Returning  to  \'irginia,  he  resumed  tlu'  practice  of 
his  profession.     There  was  a  ri)l:t  in  the   Democr;iti«- 


JOHN  TYLER. 


/.arty.  His  friends  still  regarded  him  as  a  true  Jef- 
fersonian,  gave  him  a  dinner,  and  showered  compli- 
_nieats  upon  him.  He  had  now  attained  the  age  of 
forty-six.  His  career  had  been  very  brilliant.  In  con- 
sequence of  his  devotion  to  public  business,  his  pri- 
vate affairs  had  fallen  into  some  disorder;  and  it  was 
not  without  satisfaction  that  he  resumed  the  practice 
of  law,  and  devoted  himself  to  the  culture  of  his  plan- 
tation. Soon  after  this  he  removed  to  Williamsburg, 
for  the  better  education  of  his  children  ;  and  he  again 
took  his  seat  in  the  Legi^^lature  of  Virginia. 

By  the  Southern  Whigs,  he  was  sent  to  the  national 
convention  at  Harrisburg  to  nominate  a  President  in 
7,839.  rhe  majority  of  votes  were  given  to  Gen.  Har- 
rison, a  genuine  Whig,  much  to  the  disappointment  of 
ttie  South,  who  wished  for  Henry  Clay.  To  concili- 
ate the  Southern  Whigs  and  to  secure  their  vote,  the 
convention  then  nominated  John  Tyler  for  Vice  Pres- 
ident. It  was  well  known  that  he  was  not  in  syiiipa- 
thy  with  the  Whig  party  in  the  NoUh:  but  the  Vice 
President  has  but  very  little  power  in  the  Govern- 
ment, his  main  and  almost  only  duty  being  to  pre- 
side over  the  meetings  of  the  Senate.  Thus  it  hap- 
pened that  a  Whig  President,  and,  in  reality,  a 
Democratic  Vice  President  were  chosen. 

In  1 84 1,  Mr.  Tyler  was  inaugurated  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States.  In  one  short  month  from 
that  time.  President  Harrison  died,  and  Mr.  Tyler 
thus  .cund  himself,  to  his  own  surprise  and  that  of 
the  whole  Nation,  an  occupant  of  the  Presidential 
chair.  This  was  a  new  test  of  the  stability  of  our 
institutions,  as  it  was  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  our 
country  that  such  an  event  had  occured.  Mr.  Tyler 
was  at  home  in  Williamsburg  when  he  received  the 
unexpected  tidings  of  the  death  of  President  Harri- 
son. He  hastened  to  Washington,  and  on  the  6th  of 
A7ril  was  inaugurated  to  the  high  and  responsible 
office.  He  was  placed  in  a  position  of  exceeding 
delicacy  and  difficulty.  All  his  longlife  he  had  been 
opposed  tc  the  main  principles  of  the  party  which  had 
brought  him  into  power.  He  had  ever  been  a  con- 
■iistent,  honest  man,  with  an  unblemished  record. 
Gen.  Harrison  had  selected  a  Whig  cabinet.  Should 
he  retain  them,  and  thus  surround  himself  with  coun- 
sellors whose  views  were  antagonistic  to  his  own.'  or, 
on  the  other  hand,  should  he  turn  against  the  party 
which  had  elected  him  and  select  a  cabinet  in  har- 
mony with  himself,  and  which  would  oppose  all  those 
views  which  the  Whigs  deemed  essential  to  the  pub- 
lic welfare?  This  was  his  fearful  dilemma.  He  in- 
vited the  cabinet  which  President  Haiaison  had 
selected  to  retain  their  seats.  He  reccomm^nded  a 
day  of  fasting  and  prayer,  that  God  would  guide  and 
bless  us. 

The  Whigs  carried  through  Congress  a  bill  for  the 
incorporation  of  a  fiscal  bank  of  the  United  States. 
The  President,  after  ten  days'  delay,  returned  it  with 
his  veto.      He   suggested,   however,  that  he  would 


approve  of  a  bill  drawn  up  upon  such  a  plan  as  he 
proposed.  Such  a  bill  was  accordingly  prepared,  and 
privately  submitted  to  him.  He  ga\e  it  his  approval 
It  was  passed  without  alteration,  and  he  sent  it  back 
with  his  veto.  Here  commenced  the  open  rupture. 
It  is  said  that  Mr.  Tyler  was  provoked  to  this  meas- 
ure by  a  published  letter  from  the  Hon.  John  M. 
Botts,  a  distinguished  Virginia  Whig,  who  severely 
touched  the  pride  of  the  President. 

The  opposition  now  exultingly  received  the  Presi- 
dent into  their  arms.  The  party  which  elected  him 
denounced  him  bitterly.  AH  the  members  of  his 
cabinet,  e.Kcepting  Mr.  Webster,  resigned.  The  Whigs 
of  Congress,  both  the  Senate  and  the  House,  held  a 
meeting  and  issued  an  address  to  the  people  of  the 
United  States,  proclaiming  that  all  political  alliance 
between  the  \V  higs  and  President  Tyler  were  at 
an  end. 

Still  the  President  attempted  to  conciliate.  He 
appointed  a  new  cabinet  of  distinguished  Whigs  and 
Conservatives,  carefully  leaving  out  all  strong  party 
men.  Mr.  Webster  soon  found  it  necessary  to  resign, 
forced  out  by  the  pressure  of  his  Whig  friends.  Thus 
the  four  years  of  Mr.  Tyler's  unfortunate  administra- 
tion passed  sadly  away.  No  one  was  satisfied.  The 
land  was  filled  with  murmurs  and  vituperation.  \Miigs 
and  Democrats  alike  assailed  him.  More  and  more, 
however,  he  brought  himself  into  sympathy  with  his 
old  friends,  the  Democrats,  until  at  the  close  of  his  term, 
he  gave  his  whole  influence  to  the  support  of  Mr. 
Polk,  the  Democratie  candidate  for  his  successor. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1845,  he  retired  from  the 
harassments  of  office,  to  the  regret  of  neither  party,  and 
probably  to  his  own  unspeakable  lelief  His  first  wife, 
Miss  Letitia  Christian,  died  in  Washington,  in  1842; 
and  in  June,  1844,  President  Tyler  wasagain  married, 
at  New  York,  to  Miss  Julia  Gardiner,  a  young  lady  of 
many  personal  and  intellectual  accomplishments. 

The  remainder  of  his  days  Mr.  Tyler  passed  mainly 
in  retirement  at  his  beautiful  home, — Sherwood  For- 
est, Charles  city  Co.,  Va.  A  polished  gentleman  in 
his  manners,  richly  furnished  with  information  from 
books  and  experience  in  the  world,  and  possessing 
brilliant  powers  of  conversation,  his  family  circle  was 
the  scene  of  unusual  attractions.  Witli  sufficient 
moans  for  the  exercise  of  a  generous  hospitality,  he 
might  have  enjoyed  a  serene  old  age  with  the  few 
friends  who  gathered  around  him,  were  it  not  for  the 
storms  of  civil  war  which  his  own  principles  and 
policy  had  helped  to  introduce. 

When  the  great  Rebellion  rose,  which  the  State- 
rights  and  nullifying  doctrines  of  Mr.  John  C.  Cal- 
houn had  inaugurated.  President  Tyler  renounced  his 
allegiance  to  the  United  States,  and  joined  the  Confed- 
erates He  was  chosen  a  member  of  their  Congress; 
and  while  engaged  in  active  measures  to  destroy,  by 
force  of  arms,  'he  Government  over  which  he  had 
once  presided,   he   was  takeri   sick   and  soon  died. 


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ELEVE^llh  PRESIDENT. 


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^^  AMES  K.POLK,  the  eleventh 

h..:i,  I 'resident  of  tlie  L'nited  States, 

IS  Ixirn  in  Mecklenburg  Co., 

J    N.  C.N'ov.  2,  1795.     His  par- 

;_>,  ents  were   Samuel   and    Jane 

(Knox)  Polk,  the  former  a  son 

of  Col.  Thomas  Polk,  who  located 

I       at  the  above  i)lace,  as  one  of  the 

I       first  pioneers,  in  1735. 

In  the  year  1S06,  with  his  wife 
and  children,  and  soon  after  fol- 
lowed by  most  of  the   members  of 
the   Polk  famly,  Samuel    Polk   emi- 
grated some   two   or  three  hundred 
miles  farther  west,  to  the  rich  valley 
of  the  Duck   River.       Here    in    the 
midst  of  the  wilderness,  in  a  region 
which  was  subsequently  called  Mau- 
ry Co.,  they  reared   their  loi;   huls, 
and  established  their  homes.    In  the 
hard  toil  of  a  new  farm  in  the  wil- 
derness, James  K.   Polk    spent    the 
early  years  of  his   childhood   and 
youth.     His  father,  adding  the  pur- 
suit of  a  surveyor  to  that  of  a  farmer, 
'         gradually  increased  in  wealth  until 
he  became  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  region.   His 
mother  was  a  sui>erior  woman,  of  strong   common 
sense  and  earnest  piety. 

Very  early  in  life,  James  develoiied  a  taste  for 
reading  and  e.xpressed  the  strongest  desire  to  obtain 
a  liberal  education.  His  mother's  training  had  made 
him  methodical  in  his  habits,  had  taught  him  punct- 
uality and  industry,  and  had  inspired  him  with  lofty 
principles  of  morality.  His  health  was  frail ;  and  his 
tather,  fearing  that  he  mightnot  be  able  to  endure  a 


sedentar)'  life,  got  a   situation   for   him   behind   the 
counter,  hojiing  to  fit  him  for  commercial  pursuits. 

This  was  to  James  a  bitter  disappointment.  H« 
had  no  taste  for  these  duties,  and  his  daily  tasks 
were  irksome  in  the  extreme.  He  remained  in  this 
uncongenial  occupation  but  a  few  weeks,  when  at  his 
earnest  solicitation  his  father  removed  hiai,  and  made 
arrangements  for  him  to  prosecute  his  studies.  Soon 
after  he  sent  him  to  Murfreesboro  Academy.  With 
ardor  which  could  scarcely  be  surpassed,  he  pressed 
forward  in  his  studies,  and  in  less  than  two  and  a  half 
years,  in  tiie  autumn  of  1815,  entered  the  sophomore 
class  in  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  at  Chapel 
Hill.  Here  he  was  one  of  the  most  exemplary  of 
scholars,  punctual  in  every  exercise,  never  allowing 
himself  to  be  absent  from  a  recitation  or  a  religious 
service. 

He  graduated  in  1818,  with  the  highest  honors, be- 
ing deemed  the  best  scholar  of  his  class,  Iwlh  in 
mathematics  and  the  classics.  He  was  then  twenty- 
three  years  of  age.  Mr.  Polk's  health  was  at  this 
time  much  imi)aired  by  the  assiduity  with  which  he 
had  prosecuted  his  studies.  After  a  short  season  of 
relaxation  he  went  to  Xashville,  and  entered  the 
office  of  Felix  Cirundy,  to  study  law.  Here  Mr.  Polk 
renewed  his  acquaintance  with  Andrew  Jackson,  who 
resided  on  his  plantation,  the  Hermitage,  but  a  few 
miles  from  Nashville.  They  had  probably  been 
slightly  acquainted  before. 

Mr.  Polk's  father  was  a  JefTersonian  Republican, 
and  James  K.  Polk  ever  adhered  to  the  same  |X)Iiti- 
cal  faith.  He  was  a  popular  public  speaker,  and  was 
constantly  called  u])on  to  address  the  ineetings  of  his 
party  friends.  His  skill  as  a  speaker  was  such  that 
he  was  jwiiulatly  called  the  Nai>oleon  of  the  stumi>. 
He  was  a  man  of  unblemished    morals,   genial   and 


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JAMBS  K.  POLK. 


courterus  in  his  bearing,  and  with  that  sympathetic 
natui-e  in  the  jo)  s  and  griefs  of  others  which  ever  gave 
him  troops  of  friends.  In  1823,  Mr.  Polk  was  elected 
to  the  Legislature  of  Tennessee.  Here  he  gave  his 
strong  influence  towards  the  election  of  his  friend, 
Mr.  Jackson,  to  the  Presidency  of  the  United  States. 

In  January,  1824,  Mr.  Polk  married  Miss  Sarah 
Childress,  of  Rutherford  Co.,  Tenn.  His  bride  was 
altogether  worthy  of  him, — a  lady  of  beauty  and  cul- 
ture. In  the  fall  of  1825,  Mr.  Polk  was  chosen  a 
member  of  Congress.  The  satisfaction  which  he  gave 
to  his  constituents  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact,  that 
for  fourteen  successive  years,  until  1839,  he  was  con- 
tinueC  in  that  office.  He  then  voluntarily  withdrew, 
only  that  he  might  accept  the  Gubernatorial  chair 
of  T<^nnessee.  In  Congress  he  was  a  laborious 
meniSer,  a  frequent  and  a  popular  speaker.  He  was 
alwDys  in  his  seat,  always  courteous ;  and  whenever 
he  spoke  it  was  always  to  the  point,  and  without  any 
ambitious  rhetorical  display. 

During  five  sessions  of  Congress,  Mr.  Polk  was 
Speaker  of  the  House  Strong  passions  were  roused, 
and  stormy  scenes  were  witnessed  ;  but  Mr  Polk  per- 
formed his  arduous  duties  to  a  very  general  satisfac- 
tion, and  a  unanimous  vote  of  thanks  to  him  was 
passed  by  the  House  as  he  withdrew  on  the  4th  of 
March,  1839. 

In  accordance  with  Southern  usage,  Mr.  Polk,  as  a 
candidate  for  Governor,  canvassed  the  State.  He  was 
elected  by  a  large  majority,  and  on  the  14th  of  Octo- 
ber, 1839,100k  the  oath  of  office  at  Nashville.  In  1841, 
his  term  of  office  expired,  and  he  was  again  the  can- 
didate of  the  Democratic  party,  but  was  defeated. 

On  the  4thof  Marcii,  1845,  Mr.  Polk  was  inaugur- 
ated President  of  the  United  States.  The  verdict  of 
the  countryin  favor  of  the  annexation  of  Texas,  exerted 
its  influence  upon  Congress  ;  and  tlie  last  act  of  the 
administration  of  President  Tyler  was  to  affix  his  sig- 
nature to  a  joint  resolution  of  Congress,  passed  on  the 
3d  of  March,  approving  of  the  annexation  of  Texas  to 
the  American  Union.  As  Mexico  still  claimed  Texas 
as  one  of  her  provinces,  tlie  Mexican  minister, 
Almonte,  immediately  demanded  his  passports  and 
left  the  country,  declaring  the  act  of  the  annexation 
to  be  an  act  hostile  to  Mexico. 

In  his  first  message.  President  Polk  urged  that 
Texas  should  immediately,  by  act  of  Congress,  be  re- 
ceived into  the  Union  on  the  same  footing  with  the 
Other  States.  In  the  meantime,  Gen.  Taylor  was  sent 


with  an  army  into  Texas  to  hold  the  country.  He  was 
sent  first  to  Nueces,  which  the  Mexicans  said  was  the 
western  boundary  of  Texas.  Then  he  was  sent  pearly 
two  hundred  miles  further  west,  to  the  Rio  Grande, 
where  he  erected  batteries  which  commanded  the 
Mexican  city  of  Matamoras,  which  was  situated  on 
the  western  banks. 

The  anticipated  collision  soon  took  place,  and  wai 
was  declared  against  Mexico  by  President  Polk.  The 
war  was  pushed  forward  by  Mr.  Polk's  administration 
with  great  vigor.  Gen.  Taylor,  whose  army  was  first 
called  one  of  "  observation,"  then  of  "  occupation,' 
then  of  "  invasion,"  was  sent  forward  to  Monterey.  The 
feeble  Mexicans,  in  every  encounter,  were  hopelessly 
and  awfully  slaughtered.  The  day  of  judgement 
alone  can  reveal  the  misery  which  this  war  caused. 
It  v/as  by  the  ingenuity  of  Mr.  Polk's  administration 
that  the  war  was  brought  on. 

'To  the  victors  belong  the  spoils."  Mexico  was 
prostrate  before  us.  Her  capital  was  in  our  hands. 
We  now  consented  to  peace  upon  the  condition  that 
Mexico  should  surrender  to  us,  in  addition  to  Texas, 
all  of  New  Mexico,  and  all  of  Upper  and  Lower  Cal- 
ifornia. This  new  demand  embraced,  exclusive  of 
Texas,  eight  hundred  thousand  square  miles.  This 
was  an  extent  of  territory  equal  to  nine  States  of  the 
size  of  New  York.  Thus  slavery  was  securing  eighteen 
majestic  States  to  be  added  to  the  Union.  There  were 
some  Americans  who  thought  it  all  right :  there  were 
others  who  thought  it  all  wrong.  In  the  prosecution 
of  this  war,  we  expended  twenty  thousand  lives  and 
more  than  a  hundred  million  of  dollars.  Of  this 
money  fifteen  millions  were  paid  to  Mexico. 

On  the  3d  of  March,  1849,  Mr.  Polk  retired  from 
office,  having  served  one  term.  The  next  day  was 
Sunday.  On  the  5th,  Gen.  Taylor  was  inaugurated 
as  his  successor.  Mr  Polk  rode  to  the  Capitol  in  the 
same  carriage  with  Gen.  Taylor;  and  the  same  even- 
ing, with  Mrs.  Polk,  he  commenced  his  return  to 
Tennessee.  He  was  then  but  fifty-four  years  of  age. 
He  had  ever  been  strictly  temperate  in  all  his  habits, 
and  his  health  was  good  With  an  ample  fortune, 
a  choice  library,  a  cultivated  mind,  and  domestic  ties 
of  tlie  dearest  nature,  it  seemed  as  though  long  years 
of  tranquility  and  happiness  were  before  him.  But  the 
cholera — that  fearful  scourge — was  then  sweeping  up 
tlie  Valley  of  the  Mississippi.  This  he  contracted, 
and  died  on  the  15th  of  June,  1849,  in  the  fiftv-fourth 
year  of  his  age,  greatly  mourned  by  his  countrymen. 


^(:^^::^yC^.^^/y^y^ , 


TIVELFTH  J'RESIDENT. 


•^3 


)   ACHARV    TAYLOR,  iwcllili 

i^.   i'residenl  of  the  United  Stales, 

4'JS 
.,S|  was  l)orii  oil  the  24th  of  Nov., 

M  1784,  ill  Orange  Co.,  Va.  His 
o  f.illier,  Colonel  Taylor,  was 
a  Virginian  of  note,  and  a  dis- 
tinguished i>atriot  and  soldier  of 
the  Revolution.  When  Zacliary 
was  an  infant,  his  father  with  his 
wife  and  two  children,  emigrated 
to  Kentucky,  where  he  settled  in 
the  pathless  wilderness,  a  few 
miles  from  Ixsuisville.  In  this  front- 
?iiiCf  ier  home,  away  from  civilization  and 
I  all  its  refinements,  yjung  Zacliary 
could  enjoy  but  few  social  and  educational  advan- 
tages. When  six  years  of  age  he  attended  a  common 
school,  and  was  then  regarded  ;is  a  bright,  active  hoy, 
father  remarkable  for  bluntness  and  decision  of  char- 
acter He  was  strong,  feailess  and  self-reliant,  and 
flianifested  a  strong  desire  to  enter  the  army  to  fight 
•die  Indians  who  were  ravaging  the  frontiers.  There 
is  little  to  be  recorded  of  the  uneventful  years  of  his 
childhood  0:1  h^s  father's  large  but  lonely  plantation. 
In  1808,  his  father  succeeded  in  obtaining  for  him 
the  commission  of  lieutenant  in  the  United  States 
army  ;  and  he  joined  the  troops  which  were  stationed 
at  New  Orleans  under  Gen.  Wilkinson.  Soon  after 
this  he  married  Miss  Margaret  Smith,  a  young  lady 
from  one  of  the  first  families  of  Maryland. 

Immediately  after  the  declaration  of  war  with  Eng- 
land, in  18 12,  Capt.  Taylor  (for  he  had  then  been 
promoted  to  that  rank)  was  put  in  command  of  Fort 
Harrison,  on  the  Wabash,  alx)ut  fifty  miles  above 
Vincennes.  This  fort  had  been  built  in  the  wilder- 
ness by  Gen.  Harrison. on  his  march  to  Tipi)ecanoe. 
It  was  one  of  the  first  jwints  of  attack  by  the  Indians, 
kd  by  Tecumseh.     Its  garrison  consisted  of  a  broken 


company  of  infantry  numbering   fifty  men,    many  of 
whom  were  sick. 

Early  in  the  autumn  of  1812,  the  Indians,  stealthily, 
and  in  large  mmibers,  moved  uixjn  the  fort.  Their 
approach  was  first  indicated  by  the  murder  of  two 
soldiers  just  outside  of  the  stockade.  Capt.  Taylor 
made  every  jxjssible  i)reparaiion  to  meet  the  antici- 
pated assault.  On  the  4th  of  September,  a  band  of 
forty  painted  and  plumed  savages  came  to  the  fort, 
waving  a  white  flag,  and  informed  Capt.  Taylor  that 
in  the  morning  their  chief  woidd  come  to  have  a  talk 
with  him.  It  was  evident  that  their  object  was  merely 
to  ascertain  the  state  of  things  at  the  fort,  and  Capt. 
Taylor,  well  versed  in  the  wiles  of  the  savages,  kept 
them  at  a  distance. 

The  sun  went  down  ;  the  savages  disap|)eared .  the 
garrison  slept  u|X)n  their  arms.  One  hour  before 
midnight  the  war  whoop  burst  from  a  thousand  lips 
in  the  forest  around,  followed  by  the  discharge  of 
musketry,  and  the  rush  of  the  foe.  Every  man,  sick 
and  well,  sprang  to  his  ixjst.  Every  man  knew  that 
defeat  was  not  merely  death,  but  in  the  case  of  cai> 
ture,  death  by  the  most  agonizing  and  |)rolonged  tor- 
ture. No  pen  can  describe,  r.o  imniagination  can 
conceive  the  scenes  which  ensued.  The  savages  suc- 
ceeded in  setting  fire  to  one  of  the  blockhouses- 
Until  si.x  o'clock  in  the  morning,  this  awful  conflict 
continued.  The  savages  then,  baffled  at  every  jwint, 
and  gnashing  their  teeth  with  rage,  retired.  Capt. 
Taylor,  for  this  gallant  defence,  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  major  by  brevet. 

Until  the  close  of  the  war,  MajorTaylor  was  placed 
in  such  situations  that  he  saw  but  little  more  of  active 
service.  He  was  sent  far  away  into  the  depths  of  the 
wilderness,  to  Fort  Crawford,  on  F"ox  River,  which 
empties  into  Green  Bay.  Here  there  was  but  little 
to  be  done  but  to  wear  away  the  tedious  hours  as  one 
best  could.     There  were  no  books,  no  society,  no  in- 


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ZACHARY  TAYLOR 


tellectual  stimulus.  Thus  with  him  the  uneventful 
years  rolled  on  Gradually  he  rose  to  the  rank  of 
colonel.  In  the  Black-Hawk  war,  which  resulted  in 
the  capture  of  that  renowned  chieftain,  Col  Taylor 
took  a  subordinate  but  a  brave  and  efficient  part. 

For  twenty  four  years  Col.  Taylor  was  engaged  in 
the  defence  of  the  frontiers,  in  scenes  so  remote,  and  in 
iemployments  so  obscure,  that  his  name  was  unknown 
"beyond  the  limits  of  his  own  immediate  acquaintance. 
In  the  year  1836,  he  was  sent  to  Florida  to  compel 
the  Seminole  Indians  to  vacate  that  region  and  re- 
tire beyond  the  Mississippi,  as  their  chiefs  by  treaty, 
iiac'  promised  they  should  do.  The  services  rendered 
ae.e  secured  for  Col.  Taylor  the  high  appreciation  of 
:he  Government;  and  as  a  reward,  he  was  elevated 
!C  ;he  rank  of  brigadier-general  by  brevet ;  and  soon 
ifter,  in  May,  1838,  was  appointed  to  the  chief  com- 
nand  of  the  United  States  troops  in  Florida. 

After  two  years  of  such  wearisome  employment 
traidst  the  everglades  of  the  jieninsula.  Gen.  Taylor 
Voiained,  at  his  own  req-.iest,  a  change  of  command, 
>nd  was  stationed  over  the  Department  of  the  South- 
■Aest,  This  field  embraced  Louisiana,  Mississippi, 
Alabama  and  Georgia.  Establishing  his  headquarters 
vS.  Fort  Jessup,  in  Louisiana,  he  removed  his  family 
"■;;  a  plantation  which  he  purchased,  near  Baton  Rogue. 
n.:re  he  remained  for  five  years,  buried,  as  it  were, 
fu'.m  the  world,  but  faithfully  discharging  everj-  duty 
jii.posed  upon  him. 

In  1846,  Gen.  Taylor  was  sent  to  guard  the  land 
between  the  Nueces  and  Rio  Grande,  the  latter  river 
being  the  boundary  of  Texas,  which  was  then  claimed 
by  the  United  States.  Soon  the  war  with  Mexico 
w£.;  brought  on,  and  at  Palo  .\lto  and  Resaca  de  la 
Pa 'ma.  Gen.  Taylor  won  brilliant  victories  over  the 
A(i;xicans.  The  rank  of  major-general  by  brevet 
was  then  conferred  uixjn  Gen.  Taylor,  and  his  name 
wss  received  with  enthusiasm  almost  ever)- where  in 
tiie  Nation.  Then  came  the  battles  of  Monterey  and 
F  uena  Vista  in  which  he  won  signal  \'ictories  over 
ftfces  much  larger  than  he  commanded. 

His  careless  habits  of  d-ess  and  his  unaffected 
simplicity,  secured  for  Gen.  Taylor  among  his  troops, 
\\  It  sobriquet  of  "Old  Rough  and  Ready.* 

The  tidings  of  the  brilliant  victory  of  Buena  Vista 
;i<read  the  wildest  enthusiasm  over  the  country.  The 
n.ime  of  Gen.  Taylor  was  on  every  one's  lips.  The 
^\  hig  party  decided  to  take  advantage  of  this  wonder- 
ful popularity  in  bringing  forward  the  unpolished,  un- 

•■?red,  honest  soldier  as  their  candidate  for  the 
Piasidency.  Gen.  Taylor  was  astonished  at  the  an- 
nouncement, and  for  a  time  would  not  listen  to  it;  de- 
claring that  he  was  notatal!  qualified  for  such  an 
oftice.  So  little  interest  had  he  taken  in  politics  that, 
foi  forty  years,  he  had  not  cast  a  vote.  It  was  not 
wiihout  chagrin  that  several  distinguished  statesmen 
Tfl:o  had  been  long  years  in  the  public  service  found 
fi.:<ir  claims  set  aside  in  behalf  of  one  whose   name 


had  never  been  heard  of,  save  in  connection  with  Palo 
Alto,  Resaca  de  la  Palma,  Monterey  and  Buena 
Vista.  It  is  said  that  Daniel  Webster,  in  his  haste  re- 
marked, "  It  is  a  nomination  not  fit  to  be  made." 

Gen.  Taylor  was  not  an  eloquent  speaker  nor  a  fine 
writer  His  friends  took  possession  of  him,  and  pre- 
pared such  few  communications  as  it  was  needful 
should  be  presented  to  the  public.  The  popularity  of 
the  successful  warrior  swept  the  land.  He  was  tri- 
umphantly elected  over  two  opposing  candidates, — 
Gen.  Cass  and  E.v-President  Marrin  Van  Buren. 
Though  he  selected  an  e.xcellent  cabinet,  the  good 
old  man  found  himself  in  a  very  uncongenial  position, 
and  was,  at  times,  sorely  perplexed  and  harassed. 
His  mental  sufferings  were  verj'  severe,  and  probably 
tended  to  hasten  his  death.  The  pro-slaverj'  party 
was  pushing  its  claims  with  tireless  energy- ,  expedi- 
tions were  fitting  out  to  capture  Cuba;  California  was 
pleading  for  admission  to  the  Union,  while  slavery 
stood  at  the  door  to  bar  her  out.  Gen.  Taylor  found 
the  ix)litical  conflicts  in  Washington  to  be  far  more 
trying  to  the  nerves  than  battles  with  Mexicans  or 
Indians 

In  the  midst  of  all  these  troubles,  Gen.  Taylor, 
after  he  had  occupied  the  Presidential  chair  but  little 
over  a  year,  took  cold,  and  after  a  brief  sickness  of 
but  little  over  five  days,  died  on  the  gih  of  July,  1850. 
His  last  woids  were,  "I  am  not  afraid  to  die.  I  am 
ready.  I  have  endeavored  to  do  my  duty."  He  died 
universally  respected  and  beloved.  An  honest,  un- 
pretending man,  he  had  been  steadily  growing  in  the 
affections  of  the  people;  and  the  Nation  bitterly  la- 
mented his  death. 

Gen.  Scott,  who  was  thoroughly  acquainted  with 
Gen.  Taylor,  gave  the  following  graphic  and  truthful 
description  of  his  character: — "  With  a  good  store  of 
common  sense,  Gen.  Taylor's  mind  had  not  been  en- 
larged and  refreshed  by  reading,  or  much  converse 
with  the  world.  Rigidity  of  ideas  was  the  conse- 
quence. The  frontiers  and  small  military  j)ost3  had 
been  his  home.  Hence  he  was  quite  ignorant  for  his 
.  rank,  and  quite  bigoted  in  his  ignorance.  His  sim- 
plicitj-  was  child-like,  and  with  innumeral)le  preju- 
dices, amusing  and  incorrigible,  well  suited  to  the 
tender  age.  Thus,  if  a  man,  however  respectable, 
chanced  to  wear  a  coat  of  an  unusual  color,  or  his  hat 
a  little  on  one  side  of  his  head;  or  an  officer  to  leave 
a  corner  of  his  handkerchief  dangling  from  an  out- 
side pocket, — in  any  such  case,  this  critic  held  the 
off.-nder  to  be  a  co.xcomb  (perhaps  something  worse), 
whom  he  would  not,  to  use  his  oft  repeated  phrase, 
'  touch  with  a  pair  of  tongs.' 

"Any  allusion  to  literature  beyond  good  old  Dil- 
worth's  spelling-book,  on  the  par^t  of  one  wearing  a 
sword,  was  evidence,  with  the  same  judge,  of  utter 
unfitness  for  heavy  marchings  and  combats.  In  short 
few  men  have  ever  had  a  more  comfortab^.'",  '•3>vit. 
saving  contempt   for  learning  of  every  kind." 


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TJllRTEENTH  PRESIDENT. 


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ILLARD  FILLMORE,  thir- 
tceiitli  I'resideiitof  the  Uniied 
Slates,  was  iHjrn  at  Summer 
Hill,  Cayiigii  Co.,  N.  Y  .,  on 
the  7th  uf  January,  1800.  His 
father  was  a  farmer,  and  ow- 
ig  to  misfortune,  in  humble  cir- 
'  unisiancea.  Of  his  mother,  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  Abiathar  Millard, 
of  I'ittsficlii,  Mass.,  it  has  been 
said  that  she  |»ossessed  an  intellect 
of  very  high  order,  imited  with  much 
personal  loveliness,  sweetness  of  dis- 
[XDsit'on,  graceful  manners  and  ex- 
<|uisite  sensibilities.  She  died  in 
1831 ;  having  lived  to  see  her  son  a 
young  man  of  distinguished  prom- 
li-e,  ihough  she  was  not  permitted  to  witness  the  high 
dignity  which  he  finally  attained. 

In  consequence  of  the  secluded  home  and  limited 
Cleans  of  )us  father,  Millard  enjoyed  but  slei-der  ad- 
vantages for  educjtioi  in  his  early  years.  The  com- 
mon schools,  ivliii  h  he  occasiona'ly  attended  were 
ver\'  imperfect  institutions;  and  books  were  scarce 
nnd  ex|)ensive.  There  was  nothing  then  in  his  char- 
acter to  indicate  the  brilliant  career  upon  which  he 
was  aliout  to  enter.  He  was  a  plain  farmer's  Iwy ; 
intelligent,  goo»l-looking,  kind-liearted.  The  sacred 
influences  of  home  had  taught  him  to  revere  the  Bible, 
and  had  laid  the  foundations  of  an  upright  character. 
When  fourteen  years  of  age,  his  father  sent  him 
some  hundred  miles  fiDui  home,  to  the  then  wilds  of 
Livingston  County,  to  learn  the  trade  of  a  ilothier, 
Neai  the  mi!l  there  was  a  small  villiage,  wherr-  some 


enterprising  man  had  commenced  the  collection  of  a 
village  libr.nry.  This  proved  an  inestimable  blessing 
10  young  Fillmore.  His  evenings  were  si)ent  in  read- 
ing. Soon  every  leisure  moment  was  occupied  «ith 
l)ooks.  His  thirst  for  knowledge  became  insatiate 
and  the  selections  which  he  made  were  continually 
more  elevating  and  instructive.  He  read  history, 
biography,  oratory,  and  thus  gradually  there  was  en- 
kindled in  his  heart  a  desire  to  be  something  more 
than  a  mere  worker  with  his  hands;  and  he  was  be- 
coming, almost  unknown  lo  himself,  a  well-informed, 
educated  man. 

The  young  clothier  had  now  attained  the  age  of 
nineteen  years,  and  was  of  fine  i>ersonal  ai>i)earance 
and  of  gentlemanly  demeanor.  It  so  hap|)ened  tha'. 
there  was  a  gentleman  in  the  neighliorhood  of  ample 
pecuniary  means  and  of  benevolence, — Judge  Walter 
Wood, — who  was  struck  with  the  i)repossessing  a!>- 
))earance  of  young  Fillmore.  He  made  his  acquaint- 
ance, antl  was  so  much  impressed  with  his  ability  and 
attainments  that  he  advised  him  to  abandon  his 
trade  and  devote  himself  to  the  study  of  the  law.  The 
young  man  replied,  that  he  had  no  means  of  his  own, 
|-.o  friends  to  help  him  and  that  his  previous  educa- 
tion had  been  very  im|)erfect.  But  Judge  Wood  had 
so  much  confidence  in  him  that  he  kindly  offered  to 
t.ike  him  into  his  own  oPfic:e,  and  to  loan  him  such 
money  as  he  needed.  .Most  gratefully  the  cenerous 
offer  was  accepted. 

There  is  in  many  minds  a  strange  delusion  alx)Ut< 
a  collegiate  education.  ,\  )oung  man  is  sup;x)sed  to 
be  liberally  educated  if  he  has  graduated  at  some  col- 
lege. But  many  a  lioy  loiters  through  university  hal'  ■ 
•ind  then  enters  a  law  office,  who  is  by  no  means  as 


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MILLARD  FILLMORE. 


well  prepared  to  prosecute  his  legal  studies  as  was 
Millard  Fillmore  when  he  graduated  at  the  clothing- 
mill  at  the  end  of  four  years  of  manual  labor,  during 
which  every  leisure  moment  had  been  devoted  to  in- 
tense mental  culture. 

In  1823,  when  twenty-three  years  of  age,  he  v/as 
admitted  to  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas.  He  then 
went  to  the  village  of  Aurora,  and  commenced  the 
practice  of  law,  In  this  secluded,  peaceful  region, 
his  practice  of  course  was  limited,  and  there  was  no 
opportunity  for  a  sudden  rise  in  fortune  or  in  fame. 
Here,  in  the  year  icS26,  he  married  a  lady  of  great 
moral  worth,  and  one  capable  of  adorning  any  station 
she  might  be  called  to  fill, — Miss  Abigail  Powers. 

His  elevation  of  character,  his  untiring  industry, 
his  legal  acquirements,  and  his  skill  as  an  advocate, 
gradually  attracted  attention  ;  and  he  was  invited  to 
enter  into  partnership  under  highly  advantageous 
circumstances,  with  an  elder  member  of  the  bar  in 
Buffalo.  Just  before  removing  to  Buffalo,  in  1829, 
he  took  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Assembly,  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  as  a  representative  from  Erie 
County.  Though  he  had  never  taken  a  very  active 
part  in  politics,  his  vote  and  his  sympathies  were  with 
the  Whig  party.  The  State  was  then  Democratic, 
and  he  found  himself  in  a  helpless  minority  in  the 
Legislature  ,  still  the  testimony  comes  from  all  parties, 
Ihat  his  courtesy,  ability  and  integrity,  won,  to  a  very 
unusual  degrt  e  the  respect  of  his  associates. 

In  the  autumn  of  1832,  he  was  elected  to  a  seat  in 
the  United  States  Congress  He  entered  that  troubled 
irena  in  some  of  the  most  tumultuous  hours  of  our 
national  history.  The  great  conflict  respecting  the 
national  bank  and  the  removal  of  the  deposits,  was 
then  raging. 

His  term  of  two  years  closed  ;  and  he  returned  to 
his  profession,  which  he  pursued  with  increasing  rep- 
utation and  success.  After  a  lapse  of  two  years 
he  again  became  a  candidate  for  Congress ;  was  re- 
elected, and  took  his  seat  in  1837.  His  past  expe- 
rience as  a  representative  gave  hmi  stiength  and 
confidence.  The  first  term  of  service  in  Congress  to 
any  man  can  be  but  little  more  than  an  introduction. 
He  was  now  prepared  for  active  duty.  All  his  ener- 
gies were  brought  to  bear  upon  the  public  good.  Every 
measure  received  his  impress. 

Mr.  Fillmore  was  now  a  man  of  wide  repute,  and 
his  popularity  filled  the  State,  and  in  the  year  1847, 
he   was   elected  Comptroller  of    the   State. 


Mr.  Fillmore  had  attained  the  age  of  forty-seve; 
years.  His  labors  at  the  bar,  in  the  Legislature,  ii 
Congress  and  as  Comptroller,  had  given  him  very  con 
siderable  fame.  The  Whigs  were  casting  about  t< 
find  suitable  candidates  for  President  and  Vice-Presi 
dent  at  the  approaching  election.  Far  away,  on  tli 
waters  of  the  Rio  Grande,  there  was  a  rough  ol< 
soldier,  who  had  fought  one  or  two  successful  battle 
with  the  Mexicans,  which  had  caused  his  name  to  I.) 
proclaimed  in  tiumpet-tones  all  over  the  land.  Bu 
it  was  necessary  to  associate  with  him  on  the  san: 
ticket  some  man  of  reputation  as  a  statesman. 

Under  the  influence  of  these  considerations,  tli 
namesofZachary  Taylor  and  Millard  Fillmore  becam 
the  rallying-cry  of  the  Whigs,  as  their  candidates  fu 
President  and  Vice-Peesident.  The  Whig  ticket  \va 
signally  triumphant.  On  the  4th  of  March,  1845 
Gen.  Taylor  was  inaugurated  President,  and  Millar 
Fillmore  Vice-President,  of  the  United  States. 

On  the  9th  of  July,  1850,  President  Taylor,  bi 
about  one  year  and  four  months  after  his  inaugurj 
tion,  was  suddenly  taken  sick  and  died.  By  the  Cor 
stitution,  Vice-President  Fillmore  thus  became  Pres 
dent.  He  appointed  a  very  able  cabinet,  of  whic 
the  illustrious  Daniel  Webster  was  Secretary  of  Stati 

Mr.  Fillniore  had  very  serious  difficulties  to  conten 
with,  since  the  opposition  had  a  majority  in  bot 
Houses.  He  did  everything  in  his  power  tocondliat 
the  South  ;  but  the  pro-slavery  party  in  the  South  fc 
theinadequacyof  all  measuresof  transient  conciliatioi 
The  population  of  the  free  States  was  so  rapidly  ir 
creasing  over  that  of  the  slave  States  that  it  was  ir 
evitable  that  the  power  of  the  Government  shoul 
soon  pass  into  the  hands  of  the  free  States.  Tli 
famous  compromise  measures  were  adopted  under  M 
Fillmore's  adminstration,  and  the  Japan  Ex[ieditio 
was  sent  out.  On  the  4th  of  March,  1853,  Mr.  Fil 
more,  having  served  one  term,  retired. 

In  1856,  Mr.  Fillmore  was  nominated  for  the  Pre; 
idency  by  the  "  Know  Nothing  "  party,  but  was  beate 
by  Mr.  Buchanan.  After  that  Mr.  Fillmore  lived  i 
retirement.  During  the  terrible  conflict  of  civil  wa 
he  was  mostly  silent.  It  was  generally  supposed  the 
his  sympathies  were  rather  with  those  who  were  er 
deavoring  to  overthrow  our  institutions.  Presider 
Fillmore  kept  aloof  from  the  conflict,  without  an 
cordial  words  of  cheer  to  the  one  party  or  the  othei 
He  was  thus  forgotten  by  both.  He  lived  to  a  rip 
old  age,  and  died  in  Buffalo.  N.  Y.,  March  8,    1874 


CL. 


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FOURTEENTH  PRESIDENT. 


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^k^p— |raj\j   RANKLIN     PIERCE,  the 
•  •  VI     I  ■/?(?))  f/iiAa  louricenth    President  of  the 
L'nited  States,  was  born  in 
Hillslioroiigh,    N.    H.,    Nov. 
23,  1804.     His  father  was  a 
Revohiiionary   soldier,,  who, 
wiih    his   own    strong    arm, 
hewed   out  a    home   in    the 
wilderness.     He  was  a  man 
of    inflexible    integrity;     of 
strong,  though    uncultivated 
mind,  and  an  uncompromis- 
ing Democrat.      The    mother  of 
Franklin  Pierce  was  all  that  a  son 
could  desire, — an  intelligent,  pru- 
dent, affectionate,  Christian  wom- 
an.    Franklin  was  the  sixth  of  eight  children. 

Franklin  was  a  very  bright  and  handsome  boy,  gen- 
erous, warm-hearted  and  brave.  He  won  alike  the 
love  of  old  and  young.  The  boys  on  the  play  ground 
loved  him.  His  teachers  loved  him.  The  neighbors 
looked  uix)n  liini  with  pride  and  affection.  He  was 
by  instinct  a  gentleman  ;  always  speaking  kind  words, 
doing  kind  deeds,  with  a  (peculiar  unstudied  tact 
which  taught  him  what  was  agreeable.  Without  de- 
veloping any  precocity  of  genius,  or  any  unnatural 
devotion  to  books,  he  was  a  good  scholar;  in  body, 
in  mind,  in  affections,  a  finely-developed  boy. 

When  sixteen  years  of  age,  in  the  year  1820,  he 
entered  Bowdoin  College,  at  Brunswick,  Me  He  was 
one  of  the  most  jwpular  young  men  in  the  college. 
The  purity  of  his  moral  character,  the  unvarying 
courtesy  of  his  demeanor,  his  rank  as  a  schol.ir.  and 


genial  nature,  rendered  him  a  universal  favorite. 
There  was  something  very  i>eculiarly  winning  in  his 
address,  and  it  was  evidently  not  in  tiie  slightest  de- 
gree studied:  it  was  the  simple  outgushing  of  his 
own  magnanimous  and  loving  nature. 

Uixjji  graduating,  in  the  year  1824,  Franklin  Pierce 
commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Judge 
Woodbury,  one  of  the  most  distinguished  lawyers  of 
the  State,  and  a  man  of  great  private  worth.  The 
eminent  social  qualities  of  the  young  lawyer,  his 
father's  prominence  as  a  public  man,  and  the  brilliant 
political  career  into  which  Judge  Woodbury  was  en- 
tering, all  tended  to  entice  Mr.  Pierce  into  the  faci- 
nating  yet  perilous  path  of  [wlitical  life.  With  all 
the  ardor  of  his  nature  he  esix>used  the  cause  of  Gen. 
Jackson  for  the  Presidency.  He  commenced  the 
practice  of  law  in  Hillsl)orough,  and  was  soon  elected 
to  represent  the  town  in  the  State  Legislature.  Here 
he  served  for  four  yeais.  The  last  two  years  he  was 
chosen  si^eaker  of  the  house  by  a  very  large  vote. 

In  18.33,  ^*  the  age  of  twenty-nine,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  Congress.  ^Vitho^lt  taking  an  active 
part  in  debates,  he  was  faithful  and  lalwrious  in  duty 
and  ever  rising  in  the  estimation  of  those  with  whom 
he  was  associatad. 

In  1837,  being  then  iiut  thirty-three  years  of  age, 
he  was  elected  to  the  Senate  of  the  United  States; 
taking  his  seat  just  as  Mr.  Van  Buren  commenced 
his  administration.  He  was  the  youngest  member  in 
the  Senate.  In  the  year  1834,  he  married  Miss  Jane 
Means  .Appleton,  a  lady  of  rare  beauty  and  accom- 
plishments, and  one  admirably  fitted  to  adorn  every 
station  with  which  her  husband  was  honoicd    Of  the 


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three  sons  who  were  born  to  them,  all  now  sleep  with 
their  parents  in  the  grave. 

In  the  year  1838,  Mr.  Pierce,  with  growing  fame 
and  increasing  business  as  a  lawyer,  took  up  his 
residence  in  Concord,  the  capital  of  New  Hampshire. 
President  Polk,  upon  his  accession  to  office,  appointed 
Mr.  Pierce  attorney-general  of  the  United  States;  but 
the  offer  was  declined,  in  consequence  of  numerous 
professional  engagements  at  home,  and  the  precariuos 
state  of  Mrs.  Pierce's  health.  He  also,  about  the 
same  time  declined  the  nomination  for  governor  by  the 
Democratic  party.  The  war  with  Mexico  called  Mr. 
Pierce  in  the  army.  Receiving  the  appointment  of 
brigadier-general,  he  embarked,  with  a  portion  of  his 
troops,  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  on  the  27th  of  May,  1847. 
He  took  an  important  part  in  this  war,  proving  him- 
self a  brave  and  true  soldier. 

When  Gen.  Pierce  reached  his  home  in  his  native 
State,  he  was  received  enthusiastically  by  the  advo- 
cates of  the  Mexican  war,  and  coldly  by  his  oppo- 
nents. He  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
very  frequently  taking  an  active  part  in  political  ques- 
tions, giving  his  cordial  support  to  the  pro-slavery 
wing  of  the  Democratic  party.  The  compromise 
measures  met  cordially  with  his  approval ;  and  he 
strenuously  advocated  the  enforcement  of  the  infa- 
mous fugitive-slave  law,  which  so  shocked  the  religious 
sensibilities  of  the  North.  He  thus  became  distin- 
guished as  a  "  Northern  man  with  Southern  principles.'' 
The  strong  partisans  of  slavery  in  the  South  conse- 
quently regarded  him  as  a  man  whom  they  could 
safely  trust  in  office  to  carry  out  their  plans. 

On  the  i2th  of  June,  1852,  the  Democratic  conven- 
tion met  in  Baltimore  to  nominate  a  candidate  for  the 
Presidency.  For  four  days  they  continued  in  session, 
snd  in  thirty-five  ballotings  no  one  had  obtained  a 
two-thirds  vote.  Not  a  vote  tluis  far  had  been  thrown 
for  Gen.  Pierce.  Then  the  Virginia  delegation 
brought  forward  his  name.  There  were  fourteen 
more  ballotings,  during  which  Gen.  Pierce  constantly 
gained  strength,  until,  at  the  forty-ninth  ballot,  he 
received  two  hundred  and  eighty-two  votes,  and  all 
other  candidates  eleven.  Gen.  Winfield  Scott  was 
the  Whig  candidate.  Gen.  Pierce  was  chosen  with 
great  unanimity.  Only  four  States — Vermont,  Mas- 
sachusetts, Kent\icky  and  Tennessee  —  cast  their 
electoral  votes  against  him  Gen.  Franklin  Pierce 
was  therefore  inaugurated  President  of  the  United 
States   on    the  4th  of  March,    1853. 


His  administration  proved  one  of  the  most  stormy  our 
country  had  ever  experienced.  The  controversy  be 
tween  slavery  and  freedom  was  then  approaching  its 
culminating  point.  It  became  evident  that  there  was 
an  "irrepressible  conflict"  between  them,  and  that 
this  Nation  could  not  long  exist  "  half  slave  and  half 
free."  President  Pierce,  during  the  whole  of  his  ad- 
ministration, did  every  thing  he  could  to  conciliate 
the  South  ;  but  it  was  all  in  vain.  The  conflict  every 
year  grew  more  violent,  and  threats  of  the  dissolution 
of  tlie  Union  were  borne  to  the  North  on  every  South 
em  breeze. 

Such  was  the  condition  of  affairs  when  President 
Pierce  approached  the  close  of  his  four-years'  term 
of  office.  The  North  had  become  thoroughly  alien- 
ated from  him.  The  anti-slavery  sentiment,  goaded 
by  great  outrages,  had  been  rapidly  increasing;  ;,li 
the  intellectual  ability  and  social  worth  of  President 
Piercewere  forgotten  in  deep  reprehension  of  his  ad- 
ministrative acts.  The  slaveholders  of  the  South,  also, 
unmindful  of  the  fidelity  with  which  he  had  advo- 
cated those  measures  of  Government  which  they  ap- 
proved, and  perhaps,  also,  feeling  that  he  had 
rendered  himself  so  unjxjpular  as  no  longer  to  be 
able  acceptably  to  serve  them,  ungratefully  dropped 
him,  and  nominated  James  Buchanan  to  succeed  him. 

On  the  4th  of  March,  1857,  President  Pierce  re- 
tired to  his  home  in  Concord.  Of  three  children,  two 
had  died,  and  his  only  surviving  child  had  been 
killed  before  his  eyes  by  a  railroad  accident ,  and  his 
wife,  one  of  the  most  estimable  and  accomplished  of 
ladies,  was  rapidly  sinking  in  consumption.  The 
hour  of  dreadful  gloom  soon  came,  and  he  was  left 
alone  in  the  world,  without  wife  or  child. 

When  the  terrible  Rebellion  burst  forth,  which  di- 
vided our  country  into  two  parties,  and  two  only,  Mr. 
Pierce  remained  steadfast  in  the  principles  wliich  he 
had  always  cherished,  and  gave  his  sympathies  to 
that  pro-slavery  party  with  which  he  had  ever  been 
allied.  He  declined  to  do  anything,  either  by  voice 
or  pen,  to  strengthen  the  hand  of  the  National  Gov- 
ernment. Hecontinued  to  reside  in  Concord  until 
the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  October, 
1869.  He  was  one  of  the  most  genial  and  social  ol 
men,  an  honored  communicant  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  and  one  of  the  kindest  of  neighbors.  Gen- 
erous to  a  fault,  he  contributed  liberally  for  the  al- 
leviation of  suffering  and  want,  and  many  of  his  towns- 
people were  often  gladened  by  his   material    bounty. 


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AMES  BUCHANAN,  the  fif- 
.leenth  President  of  the  United 
States,   was  Ixjrn    in    a    small 
frontier  town,  at  the  foot  of  the 
eastern  ridye  of  the    AUegha- 
nies,  in  Franklin  Co.,  I'enn.,on 
\l    iJOil     ^'^'^  23d  of  A(>ril,  1791.  The  ;.'lace 
lUi^wl     '"^^'^^^   'h«  lunnlile   cabin   of  his 
&^jH^^     father    sti  od    was     tailed     Stony 
•  JSJaT w   Batter.     It   was    a    wild    and   ro- 
mantic s]K)t  in  a  gorjreof  the  moun- 
tains, with  towering  summits  rising 
grandly    all     around.       His    father 
was  a  native  of  the  north  of  Ireland; 
a  [xxjr  man,  who  had   emigrated  in 
1783,  with  little    property   save    his 
own  strong  arms.      Five  years  afterwards  he    married 
Clizabeih  Spear,  the  daughter  of  a  respectable  farmer, 
and,  with  his  young  bride,    plunged  into  the  wilder- 
ness, staked  his  claim,  reared  his   log-hut,   o|>ened   a 
clearing  with  his  axe,  and  settled  down  there  to    per- 
fomi  his  obscure  part  in  the  ckama  of  life.    In  this  se- 
eluded  home,  where   James   was  born,  he    remained 
for  eight  years,  enjoying  but  few  social  or  intellectual 
advantagi  s.     When  James  was  eight  yeaisof  age,  hts 
father  removed  to  the  village  of  Mercersburg,  where 
Lis  son  was    placed    at   school,  and   commenced    a 
course  of  study  in  English,  Latin  and   Greek.       His 
progress  was  rapid,  and  at   the  age  of  fourteen,    he 
entered  Dickinson  College,  al  Carlisle.      Here  he  de 
velojied  remarkable  talent,  and  took  his  stand  among 
the  first  scholars  in  the  institution.     His  application 
to  study  was  intense,  and  yet  his  native  powers    en- 


abled him  to  master  the  most  abstruse  subjects  ■*i\  '■ 
facility. 

In  the  year  1809,  he  graduated  with  the  highesi 
honors  of  his  clas^.  He  was  then  eighteen  years  ol 
age;  tall  and  graceful,  vigorous  in  health,  fond  of 
athletic  siHjrt,  an  unerring  shot,  and  enlivened  with 
an  exuberant  flow  of  animal  spirits.  He  immediately 
commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  city  of  Lancaster, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1812,  when  he  was 
but  twenty-one  years  ■>{  age.  Very  rapidly  he  rose 
in  his  i)rofes?ion,  and  at  once  took  undisputed  stand 
with  the  ablest  law\ers  of  the  State.  When  but 
twenty-si.\  years  of  age,  unaided  by  counsel,  he  suc- 
cessfully defended  before  the  State  Senate  01  e  of  tht 
judges  of  the  State,  who  was  tried  upon  articles  01 
impeachment.  .At  the  age  of  thirty  it  was  generally 
admitted  that  he  stood  at  the  head  of  the  bar;  and 
there  was  no  lawyer  in  the  State  who  had  a  more  In 
crative  practice. 

In  1820,  he  reluctantly  consented  to  run  as  i 
candidate  for  Congress.  He  was  elected,  and  foi 
ten  years  he  remained  a  member  of  the  Lower  House 
During  the  vacations  of  Congress,  he  occasionally 
tried  some  im|)ortant  case.  In  1831,  he  retired 
altogether  from  the  toils  of  his  profession,  having  ac- 
<iuired  an  ample  fortune. 

(Jen.  Jackson,  ujwn  his  elevation  to  the  Presidency, 
ap|X)inted  Mr.  Buchanan  minister  to  Russia.  The 
duties  of  his  mission  he  performed  with  ability,  which 
gave  satisfaction  to  all  parties.  Upon  his  return,  ii, 
1833,  he  was  elected  to  a  seat  in  the  United  States 
Senate.  He  there  met,  as  his  associates,  Welsier. 
Clay,  Wright  ai-.d  Calhoun.  He  advocated  tl-.e  meas- 
ures pn.'j.iosed  by  President  Jackson,  of  iv.  .king  repn- 


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sals  against  France,  to  enforce  the  payment  of  our 
claims  against  that  country;  and  defended  the  course 
of  the  President  in  his  unprecedented  and  wholesale 
removal  from  office  of  those  who  were  not  the  sup- 
porters of  his  adininistration.  Upon  this  question  he 
was  brought  into  direct  collision  with  Heary  Clay. 
He  also,  with  voice  and  vote,  advocated  expunging 
from  the  journal  of  the  Senate  the  vote  of  censure 
against  (ren.  Jackson  fur  removing  the  deposits. 
Earnestly  he  opposed  the  abolition  of  slavery  in  the 
District  of  Columbia,  and  urged  the  prohibition  of  the 
circulation  of  anti-slavery  documents  by  the  United 
States  mails. 

As  to  petitions  on  the  subject  of  slavery,  he  advo- 
cated that  they  should  be  respectfully  received ;  and 
that  the  reply  should  be  returned,  that  Congress  had 
no  power  to  legislate  upon  the  subject.  "  Congress," 
said  he,  "  might  as  well  undertake  to  interfere  with 
slavery  under  a  foreign  government  as  in  any  of  the 
States  where  it  now  exists." 

Upon  Mr.  Polk's  accession  to  the  Presidency,  Mr. 
Buchanan  became  Secretary  of  State,  and  as  such, 
took  his  share  of  the  resix)nsibility  in  the  conduct  of 
the  Mexican  War.  Mr.  Polk  assumed  that  crossing 
the  Nueces  by  the  American  troops  into  the  disputed 
territory  was  not  wrong,  but  for  the  Mexicans  to  cross 
the  Rio  Grande  into  that  territory  was  a  declaration 
of  war.  No  candid  man  can  read  with  pleasure  the 
account  of  the  course  our  Government  pursued  in  that 
movement 

Mr.  Buchanan  identified  himself  thoroughly  with 
the  party  devoted  to  the  pi^rpetuation  and  e.xtension 
of  slavery,  and  brought  all  the  energies  of  his  mind 
to  bear  agjinst  the  Wilmot  Proviso.  He  gave  his 
cordial  ajiproval  to  the  compromise  measures  of  rS5o, 
which  included  the  fugitive-slave  law.  Mr.  Pierce, 
upon  his  election  to  the  Presidency,  honored  Mr. 
Buchanan  with  the  mission  to  England. 

In  the  year  1856,  a  national  Democratic  conven- 
tion nominated  Mr.  Buchanan  for  the  Presidency.  The 
political  conflict  vvas  one  of  the  most  severe  in  which 
our  country  has  ever  engaged.  All  the  friends  of 
slavery  were  on  one  side ;  all  the  advocates  of  its  re- 
striction and  final  abolition,  on  the  other.  Mr.  Fre- 
mont, the  candidate  of  the  enemies  of  slavery,  re- 
reived  H4  electoral  votes.  Mr.  Buchanan  received 
r74,  and  was  elected.  The  popular  vote  .stood 
r, 340, 618,  for  Fremont,  1,224,750  for  Buchanan.  On 
March   4th.    1857,  Mr.  Buchanan  was  inaugurated. 

Mr.  Buchanan  was  far  advanced  in  life.  Only  four 
vears  were  wanting  to  fill  up  his  threescore  years  and 
ten.  His  own  friends,  those  with  whom  he  had  been 
allied  in  political  principles  and  action  for  years,  were 
stseking  the  destruction  of  the  Government,  that  they 
might  rear  upon  the  ruins  of  our  free  institutions  a 
nation  whose  corner-stone  should  be  liuman  slavery. 
In  this  emergency,  Mr.  Buchanan  was  hopelessly  be- 
wildered     He  could  not,  with  his  long-avowed  prin- 


ciples, consistently  oppose  the  State-rights  party  in 
their  assumptions.  As  President  of  the  United  States, 
bound  by  his  oath  faithfully  to  administer  the  laws, 
he  could  not,  without  perjury  of  the  grossest  kind, 
unite  with  those  endeavoring  to  overthrow  the  repub- 
lic.    He  therefore  did  nothing. 

The  opponents  of  Mr.  Buchanan's  administration 
nominated  .Abraham  Lincoln  as  their  standard  bearer 
in  the  next  Presidential  canvass.  The  pro-slavery 
party  declared,  that  if  he  were  elected,  and  the  con- 
trol of  the  Government  were  thus  taken  from  their 
hands,  they  would  secede  from  the  Union,  taking 
with  them,  as  they  retired,  the  National  Capitol  at 
Washington,  and  the  lion's  share  of  the  territory  of 
the  United  States. 

Mr.  Buchanan's  sympathy  with  the  pro-slaver^' 
party  was  such,  that  he  had  been  willing  to  offerthem 
far  more  than  they  had  ventured  to  claim.  All  the 
South  had  professed  to  ask  of  the  North  was  non- 
intervention upon  the  subject  of  slavery.  Mr.  Bu- 
chanan had  been  ready  to  offer  them  the  active  co- 
operation of  the  Government  to  defend  and  extend 
the  institution. 

As  the  storm  increased  in  violence,  the  slaveholders 
claiming  the  right  to  secede,  and  Mr.  Buchanan  avow- 
ing that  Congress  had  no  power  to  prevent  it,  one  of 
the  most  pitiable  exhibitions  of  governmental  im- 
becility was  exhibited  the  world  has  ever  seen.  He 
declared  that  Congress  had  no  power  to  enforce  its 
laws  in  any  State  which  had  withdrawn,  or  which 
was  attempting  to  withdraw  from  the  Union.  This 
was  not  the  doctrine  of  Andrew  Jackson,  when,  with 
his  hand  upon  his  sword-hilt,  he  exclaimed,  "  The 
Union  must  and  shall  be  preserved!" 

South  Carolina  seceded  in  December,  i860;  nearly 
three  months  before  the  inauguration  of  President 
Lincoln.  Mr.  Buchanan  looked  on  in  listless  despair. 
The  rebel  flag  was  raised  in  Charleston:  Fort  Sumpter 
was  besieged;  our  forts,  navy-yards  and  arsenals 
were  seized;  our  depots  of  military  stores  were  plun- 
dered ;  and  our  custom-houses  and  post-offices  were 
appropriated  by  the  rebels. 

The  energy  of  the  rebels,  and  the  imbecility  of  our 
Executive,  were  alike  marvelous.  The  Nation  looked 
on  in  agony,  waiting  for  the  slow  weeks  to  glide  away, 
and  close  the  administration,  so  terrible  in  its  weak- 
ness At  length  the  long-looked-for  hour  of  deliver- 
ance came,  when  Abraham  Lincoln  was  to  receive  the 
scepter. 

The  administration  of  President  Buchanan  was 
certainly  the  most  calamitous  our  country  has  ex- 
perienced. His  best  friends  cannot  recall  it  with 
pleasure.  .\nd  still  more  de|)loiable  it  is  for  his  fame, 
that  in  that  dreadful  conflict  which  rolled  its  billows 
of  flame  and  blood  over  our  whole  land,  no  word  came 
from  his  lips  to  indicate  his  wish  that  our  country's 
banner  should  trium|  h  over  the  flag  of  the  rebellioi^. 
He  died  at  his  Wheatland    retreat,    June    i,    1868. 


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BRAHAM  LINCOLN,  the 
sixteenth  President  of  the 
►  United  States,  was  liorn  in 
Hardin  Co.,  Ky.,  Feb.  12, 
1809.  About  tlie  year  1780,  a 
man  by  the  name  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  left  Virginia  with  his 
jMiily  and  moved  into  the  then 
vildsof  Kentucky.  Only  two  years 
itter  this  emigration,  still  a  young 
man,  while  working  one  day  in  a 
field,  was  stealthily  a|)i)ro;:ched  by 
an  Indian  and  shot  dead.  His  widow 
was  left  in  extreme  [Kjvcrty  with  five 
little  children,  three  Iwys  and  two 
girls.  Thomas,  the  youngest  of  the 
boys,  was  four  years  of  age  at  his 
father's  death.  This  Thomas  was 
the  father  of  .\braham  Lincoln,  the 
President  of  the  United  States 
whose  name  must  henceforth  fo'ever  be  enrolled 
with  the  niDSt  prominent  in  the  annals  of  our  world. 
Of  course  no  record  has  been  kept  of  the  life 
of  one  so  lowly  as  I'homas  Lincoln.  He  was  among 
the  |KX>rest  of  the  ixwr.  His  home  was  a  wretched 
li)g<abin;  his  food  the  coarsest  and  the  meanest. 
Education  he  had  none;  he  could  never  either  read 
or  write.  As  soon  as  he  was  able  to  do  anvthing  for 
himself,  he  was  compelled  to  leave  the  cabin  of  his 
starving  mother,  and  push  out  into  the  world,  a  friend- 
.ess,  wandering  boy,  seeking  work.  He  hired  him- 
self onl,  and  thussi>ent  the  whole  of  his  youth  as  a 
?ilHirer  in  the  fields  of  others. 

When  twenty-eight  years  of  age  he  buill  a  log- 
•  ibin  of  his  own,  and  married  Nancy  Hanks,  the 
daughter  of  anoiiier  family  of  poor  Kentucky  emi- 
grants, who  had  also  come  from  Virginia.  Their 
second  child  was  .Abraham  Lincoln,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  The  mother  of  Abraham  was  a  noi)le 
woman,  gentle,  loving,  |)ensive,  created  to  adorn 
a  palace,  doomed  to  toil  and  pine,  and  die  in  a  hovel. 
".AH  that  I  am,  or  hope  to  be,"  exclaims  the  grate- 
ful son  "  I  owe  to  my  an^el-moiher. 

When  he  was  eight  years  of  age,  his  father  sold  his 


cabin  and  small  farm,  and  moved  to  Indiar.a    Whero 
two  years  later  his  mother  died. 

Abrahun  soon  became  the  scribe  of  the  uneducated 
community  around  him.  He  could  not  have  had  a 
better  school  than  this  to  leach  him  to  put  thoughts 
into  words.  He  also  became  an  eager  reader.  The 
books  he  could  ol)tain  were  few ;  but  these  he  ead 
and  re-read  until  they  were  almost  committf<  tc 
memory. 

As  the  years  rolled  on,  the  lot  of  this  lowly  fan>il) 
was  the  usual  lot  of  humanity.  Thi-re  were  joys  ar.o 
griefs,  weddings  and  funerals.  Abraham's  sistt » 
Sarah,  to  whom  he  was  tenderly  attached,  was  niai 
ried  when  a  child  of  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  anc 
soon  died.  The  family  was  gradually  scattered.  Mr 
Thomas  Lincoln  sold  out  his  squatter's  claim  in  1830 
and  emigrated  to  .Macon  Co.,  III. 

Abraham  Lincoln  was  then  twenty-one  years  of  age. 
With  vigorous  hands  he  aided  his  father  in  rearing 
another  log-cabin.  Abraham  worked  diligently  at  this 
until  he  saw  the  I'amily  comfortably  settled,  and  theii 
small  lot  of  enclosed  prairie  planted  with  com,  when 
he  announced  to  his  father  his  intention  to  leave 
home,  and  to  go  out  into  the  world  and  seek  his  for- 
tune. Little  did  he  or  his  friends  imagine  how  bril- 
liant that  fortune  was  to  be.  He  saw  the  value  o( 
education  and  was  intensely  earnest  to  improve  his 
mind  10  the  utmost  of  his  |x)wer  He  saw  the  ruin 
which  ardent  spirits  were  cau>ing,  and  I  ei  ame 
strictly  temi>erate;  refusing  to  allow  a  drop  of  intoxi- 
cating liquor  to  pass  his  lips.  .And  lie  had  read  in 
Ood's  word,  "Thou  shalt  not  take  the  name  of  th(>. 
Ixjrd  tin-  God  in  •'  .m ;"  and  a  profane  expression  ht 
was  never  heard  to  \itter.  Religion  he  revered.  His 
morals  were  pure,  and  he  was  uncontaminated  by  a 
single  vice. 

N'uung  Abraham  woiked  for  a  time  as  a  hired  lal>orft 
among  the  farmers.  Then  he  went  to  Springfield 
where  he  was  employed  in  building  a  large  flat-l>oal 
In  this  he  took  a  herd  of  swine,  floated  them  dow> 
the  Sangamon  to  the  Illinois,  and  thence  by  the  Mis 
sissippi  to  New  Orleans.  Whati'ver  Abraham  Lir 
<oln  undertook,  he  ])erformed  so  faithfully  as  to  givv 
great  satisfacticn  to  his  employers.      In  this   adven 


8o 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 


cure  his  employers  were  so  well  pleased,  that  upon 
his  return  tiiey  placed  a  store  and  uiill  under  his  care. 

In  1832,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Black  Hawk  war,  he 
enlisted  and.  was  chosen  captain  of  a  company.  He 
returned  to  Sangamon  County,  and  although  only  23 
years  of  age,  was  a  candidate  for  the  Legislature,  but 
was  defeated.  He  soon  after  received  from  Andrew 
Jackson  the  appointmentof  Postmaster  of  New  Salem, 
His  only  post-office  was  his  hat.  .\11  the  letters  he 
received  he  carried  there  ready  to  deliver  to  those 
he  chanced  to  meet.  He  studied  surveying,  and  soon 
made  this  his  business.  In  1834  he  again  became  a 
candidate  for  the  Legislature,  and  was  elected  Mr. 
Stuart,  of  Springfield,  advised  him  to  study  law.  He 
walked  from  New  Salem  to  Springfield,  borrowed  of 
Mr.  Stuart  a  load  of  books,  carried  them  back  and 
began  his  legal  studies.  When  the  Legislature  as- 
sembled he  trudged  on  foot  with  his  pack  on  his  back 
one  hundred  miles  to  Vandalia,  then  the  capital.  In 
1836  he  was  re-elected  to  the  Legislature.  Here  it 
was  he  first  met  Stephen  A.  Douglas.  In  1839  he  re- 
moved to  Springfield  and  began  the  practice  of  law. 
His  success  with  the  jury  was  so  great  that  he  was 
soon  engaged  in  almost  every  noted  case  in  the  circuit. 

In  1854  the  great  discussion  began  between  Mr. 
Lincoln  and  Mr.  Douglas,  on  the  slavery  question. 
In  the  organization  of  the  Republican  party  in  Illinois, 
in  1856,  he  took  an  active  part,  and  at  once  became 
one  of  tb.e  leaders  in  that  party.  Mr.  Lincoln's 
speeches  in  opposition  to  Senator  Douglas  in  the  con- 
test in  1858  for  a  seat  in  the  Senate,  form  a  most 
notable  part  of  his  history.  The  issue  was  on  the 
slavery  question,  and  he  took  the  broad  ground  of 
;he  Declaration  of  Independence,  that  all  men  are 
created  equal.  Mr.  Lincoln  was  defeated  in  this  con- 
test, but  won  a  far  higher  prize. 

The  great  Republican  Convention  met  at  Chicago 
on  the  t6th  of  June,  i860.  The  delegates  and 
strangers  who  crowded  the  city  amounted  to  twenty- 
five  thousand.  .An  immense  building  called  "The 
Wigwam,"  was  reared  to  accommodate  the  Conven- 
tion. There  were  eleven  candidates  for  whom  votes 
were  thrown.  William  H.  Seward,  a  man  whose  fame 
as  a  statesman  had  long  filled  the  land,  was  the  most 
prominent.  It  was  generally  supposed  he  would  be 
the  nominee.  Abraham  Lincoln,  however,  received 
the  nomination  on  the  third  ballot.  Little  did  he  then 
dream  of  the  weary  years  of  toil  and  care,  and  the 
bloody  death,  to  which  that  nomination  doomed  him: 
and  as  little  did  he  dream  that  he  was  to  render  services 
to  his  country,  which  would  fi.x  upon  him  the  eyes  of 
the  whole  civilized  world,  and  which  would  give  him 
a  place  in  the  affections  of  his  countrymen,  second 
.  only,  if  second,  to  that  of  Washington. 

Election  day  came  and  Mr.  Lincoln  received  180 
electoral  votes  out  of  203  cast,  and  was,  therefore, 
constitutionally  elected  President  of  the  United  States. 
The  tirade  of  abuse  that  was  poured  ufxin   this    good 


and  merciful  man,  especially  by  the  slaveholders,  was 
greater  than  upon  any  other  man  ever  elected  to  this 
higli  position.  In  February,  1861,  Mr.  Lincoln  started 
for  Washington,  stopping  in  all  the  large  cities  on  his 
way  making  speeches.  Tlie  wiiole  journey  wasfrought 
with  much  danger.  Many  ot  the  Southern  States  had 
already  seceded,  and  several  attempts  at  assassination 
were  afierwards  brought  to  light.  A  gang  in  Balti- 
more had  arranged,  upon  his  arrival  to  "get  up  a  row," 
and  in  the  confusion  to  make  sure  of  his  death  with 
revolvers  and  har.d-grenades.  A  detective  unravelled 
the  plol.  A  secret  and  special  train  was  provided  to 
take  him  from  HarrisL'urg,  through  Baltimore,  at  ai' 
unexpected  hour  of  the  night.  The  train  started  al 
half-past  ten  ;  and  to  prevent  any  possible  communi- 
cation on  the  part  ol  the  Secessionists  with  their  Con- 
federate gang  in  Baltimore,  as  soon  as  the  train  haa 
started  the  telegraph-wires  were  cut.  Mr.  Lincoln 
reached  Washingion  in  safety  and  was  inaugurated, 
altiiough  great   anxiety  was  felt  by  all  loyal  people 

lu  the  selection  of  his  cabinet  Mr.  Lincoln  gave 
to  Mr  Seward  the  Department  of  State,  and  to  other 
prominent  opponents  before  the  convention  he  gave 
important  [wsitions. 

During  no  other  administration  have  the  duties 
devolving  upon  the  President  been  so  manifold,  and 
tiie  responsibilities  so  great,  as  those  which  fell  to 
the  lot  of  President  Lincoln.  Knowing  this,  and 
feeling'his  own  weakness  and  inability  to  meet,  and  in 
his  own  strengtii  to  cope  with,  the  difficulties,  he 
learned  early  to  seek  Divine  wisdom  and  guidance  in 
determining  his  plans,  and  Divine  comfort  in  all  his 
trials,  bo*h  personal  and  national.  Contrary  to  his 
own  estimate  of  himself,  Mr.  Lincoln  was  one  of  the 
most  courageous  of  men.  He  went  directly  into  the 
rebel  capital  just  as  the  retreating  foe  was  leaving, 
with  no  guard  but  a  few  sailors.  From  the  time  he 
had  left  Springfield,  in  1861,  however,  plans  liad  Ijeen 
made  for  his  assassination, and  he  at  last  fell  a  victim 
to  one  of  them.  April  14,  1865,  he,  with  Gen.  Grant, 
was  urgently  invited  to  attend  Fords'  Theater.  It 
was  announced  that  they  would  be  present.  Gen. 
Grant,  however,  left  the  city.  President  Lincoln,  feel- 
ing, witli  his  characteristic  kindliness  of  heart,  that 
it  would  be  a  disappointment  if  he  should  fail  them, 
very  reluctantly  consented  to  go.  While  listening  to 
the  play  an  actor  by  the  name  of  John  Wilkes  Booth 
entered  the  box  where  the  President  and  family  were 
seated,  and  fired  a  bullet  into  his  brains.  He  died  the 
next  morning  at  seven  o'clock. 

Never  before,  in  the  history  of  the  world  was  a  nation 
plunged  into  such  deep  gnefby  the  death  of  its  ruler. 
Strong  men  met  in  the  streets  and  wept  in  speechless 
anguish.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  tliat  a  nation  was 
in  tears.  His  was  a  life  which  will  filly  become  a 
model.  His  name  as  tlie  savior  of  his  country  w-iU 
live  with  that  of  Washington's,  its  father;  his  co-,ntry- 
mer.  being  unable   to  decide    whi<  K  <s    ti-e   areatet. 


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\DREW  JOHNSON,  seven- 
teeiUh  President  of  the  United 
States.  The  early  life  of 
Andrew  Johnson  contains  but 
the  record  of  poverty,  destitu- 
tion and  friendlessness.  He 
was  horn  December  29,  (80S, 
in  Raleigh,  X.  C.  His  parents, 
belonging  to  the  class  of  the 
"poor  whites  "  of  the  South,  were 
\  in  such  circumstances,  that  tliey 
could  not  onf :r  ;  /en  the  slight- 
est advantages  of  education  u[X)n 
their  child.  When  Andrew  was  five 
years  of  age,  his  father  accidentally 
lost  iiis  life  while  herorically  endeavoring  to  save  a 
friend  from  drowning,  ''niil  teri  years  of  age,  .\ndrew 
was  a  ragged  boy  abouf  the  streets,  supjwrted  by  the 
labor  of  his  mother,  who  obtained  her  living  with 
her  own  hands. 

He  then,  having  never  attended  a  school  one  day, 
and  being  unable  either  to  read  or  write,  was  ap- 
prenticed to  a  tailor  in  his  native  town.  A  gentleman 
was  in  the  habit  of  going  to  the  tailor's  shop  occasion- 
ally, and  reading  to  the  boys  at  work  there.  He  often 
read  from  the  speeches  of  distinguished  British  slates- 
men.  .\ndrew,  who  was  endowed  with  a  mind  of  more 
than  ordinary  native  ability,  became  much  interested 
in  these  speeches ;  his  ambition  was  roused,  and  he 
was  inspired  with  a  strong  desire  to  learn  to  read. 

He  accordingly  applied  himself  to  the  alphabet,  and 
with  the  assistance  of  some  of  his  fellow-workmen, 
learned  his  letters.  He  then  called  ujxin  the  gentle- 
man to  borrow  the  book  of  speeches.      The  owner. 


pleased  with  his  zeal,  not  only  gave  him  the  book 
but  assisted  him  in  learning  to  combine  the  letters 
into  words.  Under  such  difficulties  he  pressed  3!. 
ward  laboriously,  spending  usually  ten  or  twelve  houi-s 
at  work  in  the  shop,  and  then  robbing  himself  of  rest 
and  recreation  to  devote  such  time  as  he  could  to 
reading. 

He  went  to  Tennessee  \\\  1826,  and  located  a* 
Greenville,  where  he  manied  a  young  lady  who  pos 
sessed  some  education.  Under  her  instructions  he 
learned  to  write  and  cipher.  He  became  prominent 
in  the  village  debating  society,  and  a  favorite  with 
the  students  of  Greenville  College.  In  1828,  he  or- 
ganized a  working  man's  party,  which  elected  him 
alderman,  and  in  1830  elected  him  mayor,  which 
position  he  held  three  years. 

He  now  began  to  take  a  lively  interest  in  political 
affairs  ;  identifying  himself  with  the  working-classes, 
to  which  he  belonged.  In  1835,  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  Tennes- 
see. He  was  then  just  twenty-seven  years  of  age. 
He  became  a  ver>'  active  member  of  the  legislature 
gave  his  adhesion  to  the  Democratic  party,  and  in 
1840  "stumijed  the  State,"  advocating  Martin  Van 
Buren's  claims  to  the  Presidency,  in  opposition  to  thos^ 
of  Gen.  Harrison.  In  this  camjjaign  he  acquired  much 
readiness  as  a  speaker,  and  extended  and  increased 
his  reputation. 

In  1841,  he  was  elected  Stale  Senator;  in  1843,  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  Congress,  and  by  successive 
elections,  held  that  imixjrtant  ]X)st  for  ten  years.  In 
1853,  he  was  elected  Governor  of  Tennessee,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1855.  In  all  these  resjionsible  |X)si- 
lions,  he  discharged  his  duties  with  distinguished  abi. 


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ANDREW  JOHNSON. 


ity,  and  proved  himself  the  warm  friend  of  the  work- 
ing classes.  In  1857,  Mr.  Johnson  was  elected 
United  States  Senator. 

Years  before,  in  1S45,  ^^  had  warmly  advocated 
the  annexation  of  Texas,  stating  however,  as  his 
reason,  that  he  thought  this  annexation  would  prob- 
ably prove  "  to  be  the  gateway  out  of  which  the  sable 
sons  of  Africa  are  to  pass  from  bondage  to  freedom, 
and  become  merged  in  a  population  congenial  to 
themselves."  In  1850,  he  also  supported  the  com- 
promise measures,  the  two  essential  features  of  which 
were,  that  the  white  people  oT  the  Territories  should 
be  permitted  to  decide  for  themselves  whether  they 
would  enslave  the  colored  people  or  not,  and  that 
the  *'ree  States  of  the  North  should  return  to  the 
South  persons  who  attempted  to  escape  from  slavery. 

Mr.  Johnson  was  neverashamedofhis  lowly  origin: 
on  the  contrary,  he  often  took  pride  in  avowing  that 
he  owed  his  distinction  to  his  own  exertions.  "Sir," 
said  he  on  the  floor  of  the  Senate,  "  I  do  not  forget 
that  I  am  a  mechanic ;  neither  do  I  forget  that  Adam 
was  a  tailor  and  sewed  fig-leaves,  and  that  our  Sav- 
ior was  the  son  of  a  carpenter." 

In  the  Charleston- Baltimore  convention  of  i8uj,  ne 
jwas  the  choice  of  the  Tennessee  Democrats  for  the 
presidency.  In  1861,  when  the  purpose  of  the  South- 
im  Democracy  became  apparent,  he  took  a  decided 
stand  in  favor  of  the  Union,  and  held  that  "  slavery 
must  be  held  subordinate  to  the  Union  at  whatever 
cost."  He  returned  to  Tennessee,  and  repeatedly 
imperiled  his  own  life  to  protect  the  Unionists  of 
Tennesee.  Tennessee  having  seceded  from  the 
Union,  President  Lincoln,  on  March  4th,  1862,  ap- 
pointed him  Military  Governor  of  the  State,  and  he 
established  the  most  stringent  military  rule.  His 
numerous  proclamations  attracted  wide  attention.    In 

1864,  he  was  elected  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States,  and  upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  April   15, 

1865,  became  President.  In  a  speech  two  days  later 
he  said,  "  The  American  people  must  be  taught,  if 
they  do  not  already  feel,  that  treason  is  a  crime  and 
must  be  punished ;  that  the  Government  will  not 
always  bear  with  its  enemies ;  that  it  is  strong  not 
only  to  protect,  but  to  punish.  *  *  The  people 
must  understand  that  it  (treason)  is  the  blackest  of 
crimes,  and  will  surely  be  punished."  Yet  his  whole 
administration,  the  history  of  which  is  so  well  known, 
was  in  utter  imjonsistency  with,  and  the  most  violent 


opposition  to,  the  principles  laid  down  in  that  speech. 

In  his  loose  policy  of  reconstruction  and  general 
amnesty,  he  was  opposed  by  Congress ;  and  he  char- 
acterized Congress  as  a  new  rebellion,  and  lawlessly 
defied  it,  in  everything  possible,  to  the  utmost.  In 
the  beginnirig  of  1868,  on  account  of  "high  crimes 
and  misdemeanors,"  the  principal  of  which  was  the 
removal  of  Secretary  Stanton,  in  violation  of  the  Ten- 
ure of  Office  Act,  articles  of  impeachment  were  pre- 
ferred against  him,  and  the    trial   began    March   23. 

It  was  very  tedious,  continuing  for  nearly  three 
months.  A  test  article  of  the  impeachment  was  at 
length  submitted  to  the  court  for  its  action.  It  was 
certain  that  as  the  court  voted  upon  that  article  so 
would  it  vote  upon  all.  Thirty-four  voices  pronounced 
the  President  guilty.  As  a  two-thirds  vote  was  neces- 
sary to  his  condemnation,  he  was  pronounced  ac- 
quitted, notwithstanding  the  great  majority  against 
him.  The  change  of  one  vote  from  the  not  guilty 
side  would  have  sustained  the  impeachment. 

The  President,  for  the  remainder  of  his  term,  was 
but  little  regarded.  He  continued,  though  impotently, 
his  conflict  with  Congress.  His  own  party  did  not 
think  it  expedient  to  renominate  him  for  the  Presi- 
dency. The  Nation  rallied,  with  enthusiasm  unpar- 
alleled since  the  days  of  Washington,  around  the  name 
of  Gen.  Grant.  Andrew  Johnson  was  forgotten. 
The  bullet  of  the  assassin  introduced  him  to  the 
President's  chair.  Notwithstanding  this,  never  was 
there  presented  to  a  man  a  better  opportunity  to  im- 
mortalize his  name,  and  to  win  the  gratitude  of  a 
nation.  He  failed  utterly.  He  retired  to  his  home 
in  Greenville,  Tenn.,  taking  no  very  active  part  in 
politics  until  1875.  On  Jan.  26,  after  an  exciting 
struggle,  he  was  chosen  by  the  Legislature  of  Ten- 
nessee, United  States  Senator  in  the  forty-fourth  Con- 
gress, and  took  his  seat  in  that  body,  at  the  special 
session  convened  by  President  Grant,  on  the  5th  of 
March.  On  the  27th  of  July,  1875,  the  e.x-President 
made  a  visit  to  his  daughter's  home,  near  Carter 
Station,  Tenn.  When  he  started  on  his  journey,  he  was 
apparently  in  his  usual  vigorous  health,  but  on  reach- 
ing the  residence  of  his  child  the  following  day,  was 
stricken  with  paralysis,  rendering  him  unconscious. 
He  rallied  occasionally,  but  finally  passed  away  at 
2  A.M.,  July  31,  aged  sixty-seven  years.  His  fun- 
eral was  attended  at  Geenville,  on  the  3d  of  August, 
with  every  demonstration  of  respect. 


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EIGHTEENTH  PRESIDENT. 


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LYSSES  S.  GRANT,  the 
eightcentli  President  of  the 
|j"  United  States,  was  born  on 
the  29th  of  April,  1822,  of 
Christian  parents,  in  a  humble 
'  home,  at  Point  Pleasant,  on  the 
banks  of  the  Ohio.  Shortly  after 
his  father  moved  to  George- 
town, Brown  Co.,  O.  In  this  re- 
mote frontier  hamlet,  Ulysses 
received  a  common-school  edu- 
cation. At  the  age  of  seven- 
teen, in  the  year  1S39,  he  entered 
the  Military  Academy  at  West 
Point.  Here  he  was  regarded  as  a 
solid,  sensible  young  man  of  fair  abilities,  and  of 
sturdy,  honest  character.  He  took  respectable  rank 
as  a  scholar.  In  June,  1843,  he  graduated,  about  the 
middle  in  his  class,  and  was  sent  as  lieutenant  of  in- 
fantr)'  to  one  of  the  distant  military  posts  in  the  Mis- 
souri Territory.  Two  years  he  past  in  these  dreary 
solitudes,  watching  the  vagabond  and  exasperating 
Indians. 

The  war  with  Mexico  came.  Lieut.  Grant  was 
sent  with  his  regiment  to  Corpus  Christi.  His  first 
battle  was  at  Palo  Alto.  There  was  no  chance  here 
for  the  exhibition  of  either  skill  or  heroism,  nor  at 
Resaca  de  la  Palma,  his  second  battle.  .At  the  battle 
of  Monterey,  his  third  engagement,  it  is  said  that 
he  [jerformed  a  signal  service  of  daring  and  skillful 
horsemanship.  His  brigade  had  exhausted  its  am- 
munition. K  messenger  must  be  sent  for  more,  along 
a  route  ex|X)sed  to  the  bullets  of  the  foe.  Lieut. 
Grant,  adopting  an  exjiedicnt  learned  of  the  Indians, 
grasped  the  mane  of  his  horse,  and  hanging  upon  one 
side  of  the  anir=w-il,  ran  the  gauntlet  in  entire  safety. 


From  Monterey  he  was  sent, with  the  fourth  infantry, 
to  aid  Gen.  Scott,  at  the  siege  of  Vera  Cruz.  In 
prei)aration  for  the  march  to  the  city  of  Mexico,  he 
was  apjx)inted  quartemiaster  of  his  regiment.  At  the 
battle  of  Molino  del  Rcy,  he  was  promoted  to  a 
first  lieutenancy,  and  was  brevetted  captain  at  Cha- 
pultei^ec. 

\\  the  close  of  the  Mexican  War,  Capt.  Grant  re- 
turned with  his  regiment  to  New  York,  and  was  again 
sent  to  one  of  the  military  posts  on  the  frontier.  The 
discovery  of  gold  in  California  causing  an  immense 
tide  of  einigration  to  flow  to  the  Pacific  shores,  Capt. 
Grant  was  sent  with  a  battalion  to  Fort  Dallas,  in 
Oregon,  for  the  protection  of  the  interests  of  the  im- 
migrants. Life  was  wearisome  in  those  wilds.  Capt. 
Grant  resigned  his  commission  and  returned  to  the 
States;  and  having  married,  entered  upon  the  cultiva- 
tion of  a  small  farm  near  St.  I..ouis,  Mo.  He  had  but 
little  skill  as  a  farmer."  Finding  his  toil  not  re- 
munerative, he  turned  to  mercantile  life,  entering  into 
the  leather  business,  with  a  younger  brother,  at  Ga- 
lena, III.  This  was  in  the  year  i860.  .As  the  tidings 
of  the  rebels  firing  on  Fort  Sumpter  reached  the  ears 
of  Capt.  Grant  in  his  counting-room,  he  said, — 
"Uncle  Sam  has  educated  me  for  the  anny:  though 
I  have  served  him  through  one  war,  I  do  not  feel  that 
I  have  yet  repaid  the  debt.  I  am  still  ready  to  discharge 
my  obligations.  I  shall  therefore  buckle  on  my  iword 
and  see  Uncle  Sam  through  this  war  too." 

He  went  into  the  streets,  raised  a  (ompany  of  vol- 
unteers, and  led  them  as  their  captain  to  Springfield, 
the  capital  of  the  State,  where  their  services  were 
offered  to  Gov.  Yates.  The  Governor,  impressed  by 
the  zeal  and  straightforward  executive  ability  of  Capt. 
Grant,  gave  hini  a  desk  in  his  office,  to  assist  in  the 
volunteer  organization  that  was  being  foniied  in  the 
State  in  behalf  of  the  Government.     On  the  i?*''  of 


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June,  1 86 1,  Capt.  Grant  received  a  commission  as 
Colonel  of  the  Twenty-first  Regiment  of  Illinois  Vol- 
unteers. His  merits  as  a  West  Point  graduate,  who 
had  served  for  15  years  in  the  regular  army,  were  such 
that  he  was  soon  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Brigadier- 
General  and  was  placed  in  command  at  Cairo.  The 
rebels  raised  their  banner  at  Paducah,  near  the  mouth 
of  the  Tennessee  River.  Scarcely  had  its  folds  ap- 
peared in  the  breeze  ere  Gen.  Grant  was  there.  The 
rebels  fled.  Their  banner  fell,  and  the  star  and 
stripes  were  unfurled  in  its  stead. 

He  entered  the  service  with  great  determination 
and  immediately  began  active  duty.  This  was  the  be- 
ginning, and  until  the  surrender  of  Lee  at  Richmond 
he  was  ever  pushing  the  enemy  with  great  vigor  and 
effectiveness.  At  Belmont,  a  few  days  later,  he  sur- 
prised and  routed  the  rebels,  then  at  Fort  Henrj' 
won  another  victory.  Then  came  the  brilliant  fight 
at  Fort  Donelson.  The  nation  was  electrified  by  the 
victory,  and  the  brave  leader  of  the  boys  in  blue  was 
immediately  made  a  Major-General,  and  the  military 
district  of  Tennessee  was  assigned  to  him. 

Like  all  great  captains,  Gen.  Grant  knew  well  how 
to  secure  the  results  of  victory.  He  immediately 
pushed  on  to  the  enemies'  lines.  Then  came  the 
terrible  battles  of  Pittsburg  Landing,  Corinth,  and  the 
siege  of  Vicksburg,  where  Gen.  Pemberton  made  an 
unconditional  surrender  of  the  city  with  over  thirty 
thousand  men  and  one-hundred  and  seventy-two  can- 
non. The  fall  of  Vicksburg  was  by  far  the  most 
severe  blow  which  the  rebels  had  thus  far  encountered, 
and  opened  up  the  Mississippi  from  Cairo  to  the  Gulf. 

Gen.  Grant  was  next  ordered  to  co-operate  with 
Gen.  Banks  in  a  movement  upon  Texas,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  New  Orleans,  where  he  was  thrown  from 
his  horse,  and  received  severe  injuries,  from  which  he 
was  laid  up  for  months.  He  then  rushed  to  the  aid 
of  Gens.  Rosecrans  and  Thomas  at  Chattanooga,  and 
by  a  v/onderful  series  of  strategic  and  technical  meas- 
ures put  the  Union  Army  in  fighting  condition.  Then 
followed  the  bloody  battles  at  Chattanooga,  Lookout 
Mountain  and  Missionary  Ridge,  in  which  the  rebels 
were  routed  with  great  loss.  This  won  for  him  un- 
bounded praise  in  the  North.  On  the  4th  of  Febru- 
ary, 1864,  Congress  revived  the  grade  of  lieutenant- 
general,  and  the  rank  was  conferred  on  Gen.  Grant. 
He  repaired  to  Washington  to  receive  his  credentials 
and  enter  upon  'bf  duties  of  his  new  office 


Gen.  Grant  decided  as  soon  as  he  took  charge  of 
the  army  to  concentrate  the  widely-dispersed  National 
troops  for  an  attack  upon  Richmond,  the  nominal 
capital  of  the  Rebellion,  and  endeavor  there  to  de- 
stroy the  rebel  armies  which  would  be  promptly  as- 
sembled from  all  quarters  for  its  defence.  The  whole 
continent  seemed  to  tremble  under  the  tramp  of  these 
majestic  armies,  rushing  to  the  decisive  battle  field. 
Steamers  were  crowded  with  troops.  Railway  trains 
were  burdened  vith  closely  packed  thousands.  His 
plans  were  comprehensive  and  involved  a  series  of 
campaigns,  which  were  executed  with  remarkable  en- 
ergy and  ability,  and  were  consummated  at  the  sur- 
render of  Lee,  April  9,  1865. 

The  war  was  ended.  The  Union  was  saved.  The 
almost  unanimous  voice  of  the  Nation  declared  Gen. 
Grant  to  be  the  most  prominent  instrument  in  its  sal- 
vation. The  eminent  services  he  had  thus  rendered 
the  country  brought  him  conspicuously  forward  as  the 
Republican  candidate  for  the  Presidential  chair. 

At  the  Republican  Convention  held  at  Chicago. 
May  21,  1868,  he  was  unanimously  nominated  for  the 
Presidency,  and  at  the  autumn  election  received  a 
majority  of  the  popular  vote,  and  214  out  of  294 
electoral  votes. 

The  National  Convention  of  the  Republican  party 
which  met  at  Philadelphia  on  the  5th  of  June,  1872, 
placed  Gen.  Grant  in  nomination  for  a  second  temi 
by  a  unanimous  vote.  The  selection  was  emphati- 
cally indorsed  by  the  people  five  months  later,  292 
electoral  votes  being   cast    for  him. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  his  second  term.  Gen.  Grant 
started  upon  his  famous  trip  around  the  world.  He 
visited  almost  every  country  of  the  civilized  world, 
and  was  everywhere  received  with  such  ovations 
and  demonstrations  of  respect  and  honor,  private 
as  well  as  public  and  official,  as  were  never  before 
bestowed  upon  any  citizen  of  the  United   States. 

He  was  the  most  prominent  candidate  before  the 
Republican  National  Convention  in  1880  for  a  re- 
nomination  for  President.  He  went  to  New  York  and 
embarked  in  the  brokerage  business  under  the  firm 
nameof  Grant  &  Ward.  The  latter  proved  a  villain, 
wrecked  Grant's  fortune,  and  for  larceny  was  sent  to 
the  penitentiary.  The  General  was  attacked  with 
cancer  in  the  throat,  but  suffered  in  his  stoic-like 
manner,  never  complaining.  He  was  re-instated  as 
General  of  the  Army  and  retired  by  Congress.  The 
cancer  soon  finished  its  deadly  work,  and  July  23, 
1885,  the  nation  went  in  mourning  over  the  death  of 
the  illustrious  General, 


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UTHERFORD  B.  HAYES, 
the  nineteenth  President  of 
tlie  United  States,  was  born  in 
Delaware,  O.,  Oct.  4,  1822,  al- 
most three  months  after  the 
death  of  his  father,  Rutherford 
,4  Hayes.  His  ancestry  on  both 
'  the  paternal  and  maternal  sides, 
I  was  of  the  most  honorable  char- 
^  acter.  It  can  be  traced,  it  is  said, 
as  far  back  as  r28o,  when  Hayes  and 
Rutherford  were  two  Scottish  chief- 
tains, fighting  side  by  side  with 
Baliol,  William  Wallace  and  Robert 
Bruce.  Both  families  belonged  to  the 
nobility,  owned  extensive  estates, 
and  had  a  large  following.  Misfor- 
rane  cv»-r<iking  the  family,  George  Hayes  left  Scot- 
land in  16S0,  and  settled  in  Windsor,  Conn.  His  son 
George  wai  bom  in  Windsor,  and  remained  there 
during  his  li/e.  Daniel  Hayes,  son  of  the  latter,  mar- 
ried Sarah  L;e,  and  lived  from  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage until  his  death  in  Simsbury,  Conn.  Ezckiel, 
son  of  Daniel,  was  born  in  1724,  and  was  a  manufac- 
turer of  scythes  at  Bradford,  Conn.  Rutherford  Hayes, 
son  of  E7.ekiel  aiid  grandfather  of  President  Hayes,  was 
bom  in  NewHavcn,  in  .\ugust,  1756.  He  was  a  famier, 
blacksmith  and  tavern-keeper.  He  emigrated  to 
Vermont  at  an  uiiknown  date,  settling  in  Braitlelwro, 
where  he  established  a  hotel.  Here  his  son  Ruth- 
erford Hayes    the  father  of  President  Hayes,  was 


born.  He  was  married,  in  September,  1813,  to  Sophia 
Birchard,  of  Wilmington,  Vt.,  whose  ancestors  emi- 
grated thither  from  Connecticut,  tliey  having  been 
among  the  wealthiest  and  best  famlies  of  Norwich. 
Her  ancestry  on  the  male  side  are  traced  back  to 
t635,  to  John  Birchard,  one  of  the  principal  founders 
of  Norwich.  Both  of  her  grandfathers  were  soldiers 
in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

The  father  of  President  Hayes  was  an  industrious 
frugal  and  opened-hearted  man.  He  was  of  a  me- 
chanical turn,  and  could  mend  a  plow,  knit  a  stock, 
ing,  or  do  almost  anything  else  that  he  choose  to 
undertake.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church,  active 
in  all  the  benevolent  enterprises  of  the  town,  and  con- 
ducted his  business  on  Christian  principles.  After 
the  close  of  the  war  of  1S12,  for  reasons  inexplicable 
to  his  neighbors,  he  resolved  to  emigrate  to   Ohio. 

The  journey  from  Vermont  to  Ohio  in  that  day 
when  there  were  no  canals,  steamers,  not  railways, 
was  a  very  serious  affair.  A  tour  of  inspection  was 
first  made,  occupying  four  months.  Mr.  Hayes  deter 
mined  to  iflove  to  Delaware,  where  the  family  arrived 
in  1817.  He  died  July  22,  1822,  a  victim  of  malarial 
fever,  less  than  three  months  before  the  birth  of  the 
son, of  whom  we  now  write.  Mrs.  Hayes,  in  her  sore  be- 
reavement, found  the  su])port  she  so  nnich  needed  in 
her  brother  Sardis,  who  had  been  a  member  of  the 
household  from  the  day  of  its  departure  from  Ver- 
mont, and  in  an  orphan  girl  whom  she  had  adopted 
some  time  before  as  an  act  of  charity. 

Mrs.  Hayes  at  this  period  was  very  weak,  and  the 


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subject  of  this  sketch  was  so  feeble  at  birth  that  he 
was  not  expected  to  live  beyond  a  month  or  two  at 
most.  As  the  months  went  by  he  grew  weaker  and 
weaker,  so  that  the  neighbors  were  in  the  habit  of  in- 
quiring from  time  to  time  "  if  Mrs.  Hayes'  baby  died 
last  night."  On  one  occasion  a  neighbor,  who  was  on 
familiar  terms  with  the  family,  after  alluding  to  the 
l)oy's  big  head,  and  the  mother's  assiduous  care  of 
nim,  said  in  a  bantering  way,  "  That's  right !  Stick  to 
him.  You  have  got  him  along  so  far,  and  I  shouldn't 
wonder  if  he  would  really  come  to  something  yet." 

"  You  need  not  laugh,"  said  Mrs.  Hayes.  "  You 
ivait  and  see.  You  can't  tell  but  I  shall  make  him 
President  of  the  United  States  yet."  The  boy  lived, 
in  spite  of  the  universal  predictions  of  his  speedy 
death;  and  when,  in  1825,  his  older  brother  was 
drowned,  he  became,  if  possible,  still  dearer  to  hii; 
mother. 

The  boy  was  seven  years  old  before  he  wc;nt  to 
school.  His  education,  however,  was  not  neglected. 
He  probably  learned  as  much  from  his  mother  and 
fister  as  he  would  have  done  at  school.  His  sports 
were  almost  wholly  within  doors,  his  playmates  being 
his  sister  and  her  associates.  These  circumstances 
tended,  no  doubt,  to  foster  that  gentleness  of  dispo- 
sition, and  that  delicate  consideration  for  the  feelings 
of  others,  which  are  marked  traits  of  his  character. 

His  uncle  Sardis  Birchard  took  the  deepest  interest 
,in  his  education;  and  as  the  boy's  health  had  im- 
proved, and  he  was  making  good  progress  in  his 
studies,  he  proposed  to  send  him  to  college.  His  pre- 
paration commenced  with  a  tutor  at  home;  bit  he 
was  afterwards  sent  for  one  year  to  a  professor  in  the 
Wesleyan  University,  in  Middletown,  Conn.  He  en- 
tered Kenyon  College  in  1838,  at  the  age  of  sixteen, 
and  was  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  in   1842. 

Immediately  after  his  graduation  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Tiiomas  Sparrow,  Esq., 
in  Columbus.  Finding  his  opportunities  for  study  in 
Columbus  somewhat  limited,  he  determined  to  enter 
the  Law  School  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years. 

In  1845,  after  graduating  at  the  Law  School,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  shortly 
afterward  went  into  practice  as  an  attorney-at-law 
with  Ralph  P.  Buckland,  of  Fremont.  Here  he  re- 
mained three  years,  acquiring  but  a  limited  practice, 
and  apparently  unambitious  of  distinction  in  his  pro- 
Cession. 

Vi  1849  he  niOved  to  Cincmnati,  where  his  ambi- 
tion found  a  new  stimulus.  For  several  years,  how- 
ever, his  progress  was  slow.  Two  events,  occurring  at 
this  period,  had  a  powerful  influence  u[)on  his  sulise- 
quent '.ife.  One  of  these  was  his  marrage  with  Miss 
Lucy  Ware  Webb,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Webb,  of 
Chilicothe;  the  othei'  was  his  introduction  to  the  Cin- 
cinnati Literary  Club,  a  body  embracing  among  its 
members  such  men  as'^hief  Justice  Salmon  P.Chase, 


Gen.  John  Pope,  Gov.  Edward  F.  Noyes,  and  many 
others  hardly  less  distinguished  in  after  life.  The 
marriage  was  a  fortunate  one  in  every  respect,  as 
everybody  knows.  Not  one  of  all  the  wives  of  our 
Presidents  was  more  universally  admired,  reverenced 
and  beloved  than  was  Mrs.  Hayes,  and  no  one  did 
more  than  she  to  reflect  honor  upon  American  woman 
hood.  The  Literary  Cluu  brought  Mr.  Hayes  into 
constant  association  with  young  men  of  high  char- 
acter and  noble  aims,  and  lured  him  to  display  the 
qualities  so  long  hidden  by  his  bashfulne;s  and 
modesty. 

In  1856  he  was  nominated  to  the  office  of  Judge  di 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas ;  but  he  declined  to  ac. 
cept  the  nomination.  Two  years  later,  the  office  of 
city  solicitor  becoming  vacant,  the  City  Co'incil 
elected  him  for  the  unexpired  term. 

In  1 86 1,  when  the  Rebellion  broke  out,  he  was  at 
the  zenith  of  his  professional  lif,.  His  rank  at  the 
bar  was  among  the  the  first.  But  the  news  of  the 
attack  on  Fort  Sumpter  found  him  eager  to  take  -id 
arms  for  the  defense  of  his  country. 

His  military  record  was  bright  and  illustrious.  In 
October,  186 1,  he  was  made  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and 
in  August,  1862,  promoted  Colonel  of  the  79th  Ohio 
regiment,  but  he  refused  to  leave  his  old  comrades 
and  go  among  strangers.  Subsequently,  however,  he 
was  made  Colonel  of  his  old  regiment.  At  the  battle 
of  South  Mountain  he  received  a  wound,  and  while 
faint  and  bleeding  displayed  courage  and  fortitude 
that  won  admiration  from  all. 

Col.  Hayes  was  detached  from  his  regiment,  after 
his  recovery,  to  act  as  Brigadier-General,  and  placed 
in  command  of  the  celebrated  Kanawha  division, 
and  for  gallant  and  meritorious  services  in  the  battles 
of  Winchester,  Fisher's  Hill  and  Cedar  Creek,  he  was 
promoted  Brigadier-General.  He  was  also  brevetted 
Major-General,  "forgallant  and  distinguished  f  ervices 
during  the  campaigns  of  1864,  in  West  Virginia."  In 
the  course  of  his  arduous  services,  four  horses  were 
shot  from  under  him,  and  he  was  wounded  four  times 

In  1864,  Gen.  Hayes  was  elected  to  Congress,  from 
the  Second  Ohio  District,  which  had  long  been  Dem- 
ocratic. He  was  not  present  during  the  campaign, 
and  after  his  election  was  importuned  to  resign  his 
commission  in  the  army  ;  but  he  finally  declared,  "  I 
shall  never  come  to  Washington  until  I  can  come  by 
the  way  of  Richmond."  He  was  re-elected  in  1866. 

In  1867,  Gen  Hayes  was  elected  Governor  of  Ohio, 
over  Hon.  Allen  G.  Thumian,  a  popular  Democrat. 
In  1869  was  re-eiected  over  George  H.  Pendleton. 
He  was  elected  Governor  for  the  third  term  in   1875. 

In  1876  he  was  the  standard  bearer  of  the  Repub- 
lican Party  in  the  Presidential  contest,  and  after  a 
hard  long  contest  was  chosen  President,  and  was  in 
augurated  Monday,  March  5,  1875.  He  served  his 
full  term,  not,  hcwever,  with  satisfaction  to  his  party, 
but  his  administration  was  an  average  o?^^ 


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AMES  A.  GARFIELD,  twcn- 
:cth  President  of  the  United 
II      ,.|     "uites,    was    l)orn    Nov.    19, 
^■.  )j      1S31,  in  the  woods  of  Orange, 
^'  ■'     Cuyahoga  Co.,  O      His    par- 
eius  were  Abram  and    Eliza 
I'.allou)   Garfield,   both   of  New 
I  England  ancestr)-  and  from  fami- 
I     lies  well  known  in  the  early  his- 
[fi  lory  of  that  section  of  our  coun- 
try, but  had  moved  to  the  Western 
Reserve,  in  Ohio,  early  in  its  settle- 
ment. 

The  house  in  which  James  A.  was 
born  was   not  unlike  llie  houses  of 
poor  Ohio  farmers  of  that  day.     It 
.<;£  about  20x30  feet,  built  of  logs,  witli  the  spaces  be- 
.\/aen   the  logs  filled  with  clay.     His  father  was  a 
lard  working  fanner,  and    he  soon    had   his   fields 
cleared,  an   orchard  planted,  and  a  log  barn  built, 
file  household  comprised  the  father  and  mother  and 
heir  four  cjiildren — Mehetabcl,  Thomas,  Mary  and 
'ames.     In  May,  1S23,  the  father,  from  a  cold  con- 
.racted  in  helping  to  \mt  out  a  forest  fire,  died.     At 
'his  lime  James  was  about  eighteen  months  old,  and 
Thomas  about  ten  years  old.     No  one,  perhaps,  can 
icll  how  much  James  was  indebted   to  his  biother's 
(cil  and  self-sacrifice  during  the  twenty  years   suc- 
ceeding  his    father's   death,   but    undoubtedly   very 
much.     He  now  lives  in  Michigan,  and  the  two  sis- 
itrs  live  in  .Solon,  O.,  near  their  birthplace. 

The  early  educational  advantages  young  Garfield 
enjoyed  were  very  limited,  yet  he  made  the  most  of 
them.  He  labored  at  farm  work  for  others,  did  car- 
penter work,  chopped  wood,  or  did  anything  that 
would  i)ring  in  a  few  dollars  to  aid  his  widowed 
mother  in  he'  ^Ji-nggles  to  keep  the  little   family  to- 


gether. Nor  was  Gen.  Garfield  ever  ashamed  of  his 
origin,  and  he  never  forgot  the  friends  of  his  strug- 
gling childhood,  youth  and  manhood,  neither  did  they 
ever  forget  him.  When  in  the  highest  seats  of  honor, 
the  humblest  fiiend  of  his  boyhood  was  as  kindly 
greeted  as  ever.  The  jMorest  laborer  was  sure  of  the 
sympathy  of  one  who  had  known  all  the  bitterness 
of  want  and  the  sweetness  of  bread  earned  by  the 
sweat  of  the  brow.  He  was  ever  the  simple,  plain, 
modest  gentleman. 

The  highest  ambition   of  young  Garfield  until  hi 
was  about  sixteen  years  old  was  to  be  a  captain  of 
a  vessel  on  Lake  Erie.     He  was  anxious  to  go  aboard 
a  vessel,  which  his  mother  strongly  opposed.     She 
finally  consented  to  his  going  to  Cleveland,  with  the 
understanding,  however,  that  he  should  try  to  obtain 
some  other  kind  of  employment.     He  walked  all  the 
way  to  Cleveland.    This  was  his  first  visit  to  the  city 
After  making  many  applications  for  work,  and  trying 
to  get   aboard  a   lake  vessel,  and  not  meeting  with 
success,  he  engaged  as  a  driver  for  his  cousin,  Amos 
Letcher,  on  the  Ohio  &  Pennsylvania  Canal.     He  re- 
mained at  this  work  but  a  short  time  when  he  wen* 
home,    and  attended   the   seminar;'    at   Chester   for 
about  three  years,  when  he  entered  Hiram  and  the 
Eclectic  Institute,  teaching  a  few   terms  of  school  in 
the  meantime,  and  doing  other  work.     This  school 
was  started  by  the  Disciples  of  Christ  in   1850,  of 
which  church  he  was   then  a  member.     He  became 
janitor  and  bell-ringer  in  order  to  help  pay  his  way 
He  then  became  both  teacher  and  ])upil.     He  soon 
"exhausted  Hiram  "and  needed  more;  hence,  in  the 
fall  of  1854,  he  entered  Williams  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1856,  taking  one  of  the  liighest  lien- 
ors of  his  class.     He  afterwards  relumed  to  Hiram 
College  as  its  Presit'ent.     As  above  slated,  he   early 
united    with    the   Christian   or   Diciples    Church    at 
Hiram,  and  was  ever  after  a  devoted,  zealous  mem- 
ber, often  preaching  in  its  pulpit  and    places  where 
he  happened  to  be.     Dr.  Noah  Porter,  President  of 
Yale  College,  says  cf  him  in  reference  to  his  religion : 


9« 


JAMES  A.  GARFIELD. 


"  President  Garfield  was  more  than  a  man  of 
strong  moral  and  religious  convictions.  His  whole 
history,  from  boyhood  to  the  last,  shows  that  duty  to 
man  and  to  God,  and  devotion  to  Christ  and  life  and 
faith  and  spiritual  commission  were  controlling  springs 
of  his  being,  and  to  a  more  than  usual  degree.  In 
my  judgment  there  is  no  more  interesting  feature  of 
his  character  than  his  loyal  allegiance  to  the  body  of 
Christians  in  which  he  was  trained,  and  the  fervent 
sympathy  which  he  ever  showed  in  their  Christian 
communion.  Not  many  of  the  few  'wise  and  mighty 
and  noble  who  are  called'  show  a  similar  loyalty  to 
the  less  stately  and  cultured  Christian  comnmnions 
in  which  they  have  been  reared.  Too  often  it  is  true 
that  as  they  step  upward  in  social  and  political  sig- 
nificance they  step  upward  from  one  degree  to 
another  in  some  of  the  many  types  of  fashionable 
Christianity.  President  Garfield  adhered  to  the 
::hurch  of  his  mother,  the  church  in  which  he  was 
trained,  and  in  which  he  served  as  a  pillar  and  an 
evangelist,  and  yet  with  the  largest  and  most  unsec- 
*arian  charity  for  all  'who  loveour  Lord  in  sincerity.'" 

Mr.  Garfield  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Lucretia  Rudolph,  Nov.  ii,  1858,  who  proved  herself 
worthy  as  the  wife  of  one  whom  all  the  world  loved  and 
mourned.  To  them  were  born  seven  children,  five  of 
whom  are  still  living,  four  boys  and  one  girl. 

Mr.  Garfield  made  his  first  political  speeches  in  1856, 
in  Hiram  and  the  neighboring  villages,  and  three 
years  later  he  began  to  speak  at  county  mass-meet- 
ings, and  became  the  favorite  speaker  wherever  he 
was.  During  this  year  he  was  elected  to  the  Ohio 
Senate.  He  also  began  to  study  law  at  Cleveland, 
and  in  1861  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  The  great 
Rebellion  broke  out  in  the  early  part  of  this  year, 
and  Mr.  Garfield  at  once  resolved  to  fight  as  he  had 
talked,  and  enlisted  to  defend  the  old  flag.  He  re- 
ceived his  commission  as  Lieut. -Colonel  of  the  Forty- 
second  Regiment  of  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  Aug. 
r4,  1861.  He  was  immediately  put  into  active  ser- 
vice, and  before  he  had  ever  seen  a  gun  fired  in  action, 
was  placed  in  command  of  four  regiments  of  infantry 
and  eight  companies  of  cavalry,  charged  with  the 
work  of  driving  out  of  his  native  State  the  officer 
{Humphrey  Marshall)  reputed  to  be  the  ablest  of 
those,  not  educated  to  war  whom  Kentucky  had  given 
to  the  Rebellion.  This  work  was  bravely  and  speed- 
ily accomplished,  although  against  great  odds.  Pres- 
ident Lincoln,  on  his  success  commissioned  him 
Brigadier-General,  Jan.  10,  1862;  and  as  "he  had 
been  the  youngest  man  in  the  Ohio  Senate  two  years 
before,  so  now  he  was  the  youngest  General  in  the 
army."  He  was  with  Gen.  Buell's  army  at  Shiloh, 
in  itsoperations  around  Corinth  and  its  march  through 
Alabama.  He  was  then  detailed  as  a  member  of  the 
General  Court-Martial  for  the  trial  of  Gen.  Fitz-John 
Porter.  He  was  then  ordered  to  report  to  Gen.  Rose- 
crans,  and  was  assigned  to  the  "  Chief  of  Staff." 

The  military  l>Jstory  of  Gen.  Garfield  closed  with 


his  brilliant  services  at  Chickamauga,  where  he  won 
the  stars  of  the  Major-General. 

Without  an  effort  on  his  part  Gei?  Garfield  was 
elected  to  Congress  in  the  fall  of  1862  from  the 
Nineteenth  District  of  Ohio.  This  section  of  Ohio 
had  been  represented  in  Congress  for  sixty  year* 
mainly  by  two  men — Elisha  Whittlesey  and  Joshui. 
R.  Giddings.  It  was  not  without  a  struggle  that  he 
resigned  his  place  in  the  army.  At  the  time  he  en- 
tered Congress  he  was  the  youngest  member  in  that 
body.  There  he  remained  by  successive  re- 
elections  until  he  was  elected  President  in  1880. 
Of  his  labors  in  Congress  Senator  Hoar  says  :  "  Since 
the  year  1864  you  cannot  think  of  a  question  which 
has  been  debated  in  Congress,  or  discussed  before  & 
tribunel  of  the  American  people,  in  regard  to  whicL 
you  will  not  find,  if  you  wish  mstruction,  the  argu, 
ment  on  one  side  stated,  in  almost  every  instance 
better  than  by  anybody  else,  in  some  speech  made  in 
the  House  of  Representatives  or  on  the  hustings  by 
Mr.  Garfield." 

Upon  Jan.  14,  1880,  Gen.  Garfield  was  elected  to 
the  U.  S.  Senate,  and  on  the  eighth  of  June,  of  tlie 
same  year,  was  nominated  as  the  candidate  of  his 
party  for  President  at  the  great  Chicago  Convention- 
He  was  elected  in  the  following  November,  and  on 
March  4,  1881,  was  inaugurated.  Probably  no  ad- 
ministration ever  opened  its  existence  under  brighter 
auspices  than  that  of  President  Garfield,  and  every 
day  it  grew  in  favor  with  the  people,  and  by  the  first 
of  July  he  had  completed  all  the  initiatory  and  pre- 
liminary work  of  his  administration  and' was  prepar- 
ing to  leave  the  city  to  meet  his  friends  at  Williams 
College.  While  on  his  way  and  at  the  depot,  in  com- 
pany with  Secretary  Blaine,  a  man  stepped  behind 
him,  drew  a  revolver,  and  fired  directly  at  his  back. 
The  President  tottered  and  fell,  and  as  he  did  so  the 
assassin  fired  a  second  shot,  the  bullet  cutting  the 
left  coat  sleeve  of  his  victim,  but  in.licting  no  further 
injury.  It  has  been  very  truthfully  said  that  this  was 
"  the  shot  that  was  heard  round  the  world  "  Never 
before  in  the  history  of  the  Nation  had  anything  oc- 
curred which  so  nearly  froze  the  blood  of  the  peop"-; 
for  the  moment,  as  this  awful  deed.  He  was  smit- 
ten on  the  brightest,  gladdest  day  of  all  his  life,  and 
was  at  the  summit  of  his  power  and  hope.  For  eighty 
days,  all  during  the  hot  months  of  July  and  August, 
he  lingered  and  suffered.  He,  however,  remained 
master  of  himself  till  the  last,  and  by  his  magnificent 
bearing  was  teaching  the  country  and  the  world  the 
noblest  of  human  lessons — how  to  live  grandly  in  the 
very  clutch  of  death.  Great  in  life,  he  was  surpass- 
ingly great  in  death.  He  passed  serenely  away  Sept. 
19,  1883,  at  Elberon,  N.  J,  on  the  very  bank  of  the 
ocean,  where  he  had  been  taken  shortly  previous.  The 
worid  wept  at  his  death,  as  it  never  had  done  on  the 
death  of  any  other  man  who  had  ever  lived  upon  it. 
The  murderer  was  duly  tried,  found  guilty  and  exe- 
cuted, in  one  year  after  he  committed  the  foul  deed. 


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T  WEN  T  Y.  FIRS  T  PRESIDENT. 


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HESTER      A.      ARTHUR, 

twenty-first    Presi'l.iii   of  the 

United    States    was    born    in 

Franklin  Courty,  Vermont,  on 

thefifthofOdober,  1830,  andis 

he  oldest   of  a   family    of  two 

>ons  and    five   daughters.     His 

father  was  the  Rev.  Dr.  William 

Arthur,  a  Baptist cJ.rgyman,  who 

emigrated  to  tb.s  country  from 

the  county  Ant.nm,   Ireland,   in 

his  1 8th  year,  and  died  in  1875,  in 

Newtonville,   neai    Albany,   after  a 

long  and  successful  ministry. 

Young  Arthur  was  educated  at 
Union  College,  S(  henectady,  where 
he  excelled  in  all  his  studie-;.  Af- 
ter his  graduation  he  taught  school 
in  Vermont  for  two  years,  and  at 
the  expiration  cf  that  time  came  to 
New  York,  with  S500  '"  his  [locket, 
and  entered  the  office  of  ex-Judge 
E.  D.  Culver  as  student.  After 
I  being  admitted  to  the  bar  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  his  intimate  friend  and  room-mate, 
Henry  D.  Gardiner,  with  the  intention  of  practicing 
in  the  West,  and  for  three  months  they  roamed  alwut 
in  the  Western  States  in  search  of  an  eligible  site, 
but  in  the  end  returned  to  New  York,  where  they 
hung  out  their  shingle,  and  entered  upon  a  success^ 
ful  career  almost  from  the  start.  General  Arthur 
toon  afterward  nMxr^d  the  daughter   of  Lieutenant 


Hemdon,  of  the  United  States  Navy,  who  was  lost  at 
sea.  Congress  voted  a  gold  medal  to  his  widow  in 
recognition  of  the  bravery  he  displayed  on  that  occa- 
sion. Mrs.  Arthur  died  shortly  before  Mr.  Arthur's 
nommation  to  the  Vice  Presidency,  leaving  two 
children. 

(ien.  Arthur  obtained  considerable  legal  celebrity 
in  his  first  great  case,  the  famous  Lemmon  suit, 
brought  to  recover  possession  of  eight  slaves  who  had 
been  declared  free  by  Judge  Paine,  of  the  Superior 
Court  of  New  York  City.  It  was  in  1852  that  Jon. 
athan  Lemmon,  of  Virginia,  went  to  New  York  with 
his  slaves,  intending  to  ship  them  to  Texas,  when 
they  were  discovered  and  freed.  The  Judge  decided 
that  they  could  not  be  held  by  the  owner  under  the 
Fugitive  Slave  Law.  A  howl  of  rage  went  up  from 
the  South,  and  the  Virginia  Legislature  authorized  the 
Attorney  General  of  that  State  to  assist  in  an  appeal. 
W^m.  M.  F>varts  and  Chester  A.  Arthur  were  employeii 
to  represent  the  People,  and  they  won  their  case, 
which  then  went  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States.  Charles  O'Conor  here  espoused  the  cause 
of  the  slave-holders,  but  he  too  was  beaten  by  Messrs 
Evarts  and  .\rthur,  and  a  long  step  was  taken  toward 
the  emancipation  of  the  black  race. 

Another  great  service  was  rendered  by  General 
Arthur  in  the  same  cause  in  1856.  Lizzie  Jennings, 
a  respectable  colored  woman,  was  put  off  a  Fourth 
Avenue  car  with  violence  after  she  had  paid  her  fare. 
General  Arthur  sued  on  her  behalf,  and  secured  a 
verdict  of  $500  damages.  The  next  day  the  comjia- 
ny  issued  an  order  to  admit  colored  persons  to  ride 
on  their  cars,  and  the  other  car  companies  quickly 


CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR. 


followed  their  example.  Before  that  the  Sixth  Ave- 
nue Gampany  ran  a  few  special  cars  for  colored  per- 
sons and  the  other  lines  refused  to  let  them  ride  at  all. 

General  Arthur  was  a  delegate  to  the  Convention 
at  Saratoga  that  founded  the  Republican  party. 
Previous  to  the  war  he  was  Judge-Advocate  of  the 
Second  Brigade  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  Gov- 
ernor Morgan,  of  that  State,  appointed  hmi  Engineer- 
in-Chief  of  his  staff.  In  1861,  he  was  made  Inspec- 
tor General,  and  soon  afterward  became  Quartermas- 
ter-General. In  each  of  these  offices  he  rendered 
great  service  to  the  Government  during  the  war.  At 
the  end  of  Governor  Morgan's  term  he  resumed  the 
practice  of  the  law,  forming  a  partnership  with  Mr. 
Ransom,  and  then  Mr.  Phelps,  the  District  Attorney 
of  New  York,  was  added  to  the  firm.  The  legal  prac- 
tice of  this  well-known  firm  was  very  large  and  lucra- 
tive, each  of  the  gentlemen  composing  it  were  able 
lawyers,  and  possessed  a  splendid  local  reputation,  if 
not  indeed  one  of  national  extent. 

He  always  took  a  leading  part  in  State  and  city 
politics.  He  was  appointed  Collector  of  the  Port  of 
New  York  by  President  Grant,  Nov.  21  1872,  to  suc- 
ceed Thomas  Murphy,  and  held  the  office  until  July, 
20,  1878,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Collector  Merritt. 

Mr.  Arthur  was  nominated  on  the  Presidential 
ticket,  with  Gen.  James  A.  Garfield,  at  the  famous 
National  RejJublican  Convention  held  at  Chicago  in 
June,  t88o.  This  was  perhaps  the  greatest  political 
convention  that  ever  assembled  on  the  continent.  It 
was  composed  of  the  Jsading  politicians  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  all  able  men,  and  each  stood  firm  and 
fought  vigorously  and  with  signal  tenacity  for  their 
respective  candidates  that  were  before  the  conven- 
tion for  the  nomination.  Finally  Gen.  Garfield  re- 
ceived the  nomination  for  President  and  Gen.  Arthur 
for  Vice-President.  The  campaign  which  followed 
was  one  of  the  most  animated  known  in  the  history  of 
our  country.  Gen.  Hancock,  the  standard-bearer  of 
the  Democratic  party,  was  a  popular  man,  and  his 
party  made  a  valiant  fight  for  his  election. 

Finally  the  election  came  and  the  country's  choice 
was  Garfield  and  Arthur.  They  were  inaugurated 
March  4,  i88t,  as  President  and  Vice-President. 
A  few  months  only  had  passed  ere  the  newly  chosen 
President  was  the  victim  of  the  assassin's  bullet.  Then 
came  terrible  weeks  of  suffering, — those  moments  of 
anxious  suspense,  when  the  hearts  of  all  civilized  na- 


tions were  throbbing  in  unison,  longing  for  the  re- 
covery of  the  noble,  the  good  President.  The  remark- 
able patience  that  he  manifested  during  those  hours 
and  weeks,  and  even  months,  of  the  most  terrible  suf- 
fering man  has  often  been  called  upon  to  endure,  was 
seemingly  more  than  human.  It  was  certainly  God- 
like. During  all  this  period  of  deepest  anxiety  Mr, 
Arthur's  every  move  was  watched,  and  be  it  said  to  hi? 
credit  that  his  every  action  displayed  only  an  earnest 
desire  that  the  suffering  Garfield  might  recover,  to 
serve  the  remainder  of  the  term  he  had  so  auspi- 
ciously begun.  Not  a  selfish  feeling  was  manifested* 
in  deed  or  look  of  this  man,  even  though  the  most 
honored  ]X)sition  in  the  world  was  at  any  moment 
likely  to  fall  to  him. 

At  last  God  in  his  mercy  relieved  President  Gar- 
field from  further  suffering,  and  the  world,  as  nevei 
before  in  its  history  over  the  death  of  any  othei 
man,  wept  at  his  bier.  Then  it  became  the  duty  o) 
the  Vice  President  to  assume  the  responsibilities  ol 
the  high  office,  and  he  took  the  oath  in  New  York. 
Sept.  20,  1881.  The  position  was  an  embarrassing 
one  to  him,  made  doubly  so  from  the  facts  that  all 
eyes  were  on  him,  anxious  to  know  what  he  would  do, 
what  policy  he  would  pursue,  and  who  he  would  se- 
lect as  advisers.  The  duties  of  the  office  had  been 
greatly  neglected  during  the  President's  long  illness,' 
and  many  important  measures  were  to  be  immediately 
decided  by  him ;  and  still  farther  to  embarrass  him  he 
did  not  fail  to  realize  under  what  circumstances  he 
became  President,  and  knew  the  feelings  of  many  on 
this  point.  Under  these  trying  circumstances  President 
Arthur  took  the  reins  of  the  Government  in  his  owi. 
hands ;  and,  as  embarrassing  as  were  the  condition  of 
affairs,  he  happily  surprised  the  nation,  acting  so 
wisely  !hat  but  few  criticised  his  administration. 
He  served  the  nation  well  and  faithfully,  until  the 
close  of  his  administration,  March  4,  1885,  and  was 
a  popular  candidate  before  his  party  for  a  second 
term.  His  name  was  ably  presented  before  the  con- 
vention at  Chicago,  and  was  received  with  great 
favor,  and  doubtless  but  for  the  personal  popularity 
of  one  of  the  opposing  candidates,  he  would  have 
been  selected  as  the  standard-bearer  of  his  party 
for  another  campaign.  He  retired  to  private  life  car- 
rying with  him  the  best  wishes  of  the  American  peo- 
ple, whom  he  had  served  in  a  manner  satisfactory 
to  them  and  with  credit  to  himself. 


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TEPHEN  GROVER  CLEVE- 
LAND, the  twenty  second  Pres- 
ident of  the  United  States,  was 
l)orn    in    1837,  in    the  obscure 
town  of  Cildwell,   Essex  Co., 
N.  J.,  and  in  a  little  t«'o-and-a- 
half-story  white  house  which  is  still 
standing,   characteristically    to  mark 
the    humble    i)irth-|>lace    of  one  of 
America's  great  men  in  striking  con- 
trast with  the  Old  World,  where  all 
men   high   in  office   must  be  high  in 
origin   and   born   in    the    cradle    of 

?  wealth.     When  the   subject   of  this 

sketch  was  three  years  of  age,  his 
father,  who  was  a  Presbyterian  min- 
ister, with  a  large  family  and  a  small  salary,  moved, 
by  way  o'.  the  Hudson  River  and  Erie  Canal,  to 
Fayetteville,  in  search  of  an  increased  income  and  a 
larger  field  of  work.  Fayetteville  was  then  the  most 
straggling  of  country  villages,  about  five  miles  from 
Pompey  Hill,  where  CJovernor  Seymour  was  born. 

At  the  last  mentioned  place  young  Grover  com- 
menced going  to  school  in  the  "good,  old-fashioned 
way,"  and  presumably  distinguished  himself  after  the 
manner  of  all  village  boys,  in  doing  the  things  he 
ought  not  to  do.  Such  is  the  distinguishing  trait  of 
all  geniuses  and  independent  thinkers.  Wh<;n  he 
arrived  at  the  age  of  14  years,  he  had  outgrown  the 
.cmpacity  of  the  village  school  and  expressed  a  most 


emphatic  desire  to  be  sent  to  an  academy.  To  thia 
his  father  decidedly  objected.  Academies  in  those 
days  cost  money;  besides,  his  father  wanted  him  to 
become  self-supporting  by  the  quickest  possible 
means,  and  this  at  that  time  in  Fayetteville  seemed 
to  be  a  ixjsition  in  a  country  store,  where  his  father 
and  the  large  family  on  his  hands  had  considerable 
inrtiience.  Grover  was  to  be  paid  35°  for  his  services 
llie  first  year,  and  if  he  proved  trustworthy  he  was  to 
receive  $100  the  second  year.  Here  the  lad  com- 
menced his  career  as  salesman,  and  in  two  years  he 
had  earned  so  good  a  reputation  for  trustworthiness 
that  his  employers  desired  to  retain  him  for  an  in- 
definite length  of  time.  Otherwise  he  did  not  ex- 
hibit as  yet  any  particular  "  flashes  of  genius  "  or 
eccentricities  of  talent.  He  was  simply  a  good  boy. 
But  instead  of  remaining  with  this  firm  in  Fayette- 
ville, he  went  with  the  family  in  their  removal  to 
Clinton,  where  he  had  an  opportunity  of  attending  a 
high  school.  Here  he  industriously  pursued  his 
studies  until  the  family  removed  with  him  to  a  point 
on  Black  River  known  as  tiie  "  Holland  Patent,"  a 
villaije  of  500  or  600  people,  15  miles  north  of  Utica, 
M.  Y.  At  this  place  his  father  died,  after  preaching 
hut  three  Sundays.  This  event  broke  up  the  family, 
and  Grover  set  out  for  New  York  City  to  accept,  at  a 
small  salary,  the  position  of  "  under-teacher  "  in  an 
asylum  for  the  blind.  He  taught  faithfully  for  two 
years,  and  although  he  obtained  a  good  reputation  in 
this  capacity,  he  concluded  that  teaching  was  not  his 


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calling  for  life,  and,  reversing  the  traditional  order, 
tie  left  the  city  tc  seek  his  fortupp.  inst="''  -f  '^'^-nig 
to  a  city.  He  firsc  mougnt  ot  Cleveland,  Uhio,  as 
there  was  some  charm  in  that  name  for  him;  but 
before  proceeding  to  that  place  he  went  to  Buffalo  to 
isk  the  advice  of  his  uncle,  Lewis  F.  Allan,  a  noted 
stockbreeder  of  that  place.  The  latter  did  not 
sp.-iak  enthusiastically.  "What  is  it  you  want  to  do, 
my  boy?"  he  asked.  "Well,  sir,  I  want  to  study 
lav,"  was  the  reply.  "Good  gracious!"  remark(;d 
■h«  old  gentleman ;  "  do  you,  indeed  .''  What  ever  put 
that  into  your  head'  How  much  money  have  you 
got?"    "Well,  sir,  to  tell  the  truth,  I  haven't  got 

After  a  long  consultation,  his  uncle  offered  him  a 
place  temporarily  as  assistant  herd-keeper,  at  $50  a 
year,  wiiile  iic  could  "look  around."  One  day  soon 
afterward  he  boldly  walked  into  the  office  of  Rogers, 
Bowen  &  Rogers,  of  Buffalo,  and  told  Ihem  what  he 
wanted.  A  number  of  young  men  were  already  en- 
gaged in  the  office,  but  Grover's  persistency  won,  and 
ne  was  finally  permitted  to  come  as  an  office  boy  and 
Have  the  use  of  the  law  library,  for  the  nominal  sum 
of  $3  or  $4  a  week.  Out  of  this  he  had  to  pay  for 
his  board  and  washing.  The  walk  to  and  from  his 
uncle's  was  a  long  and  rugged  one;  and,  although 
the  first  winter  was  a  memorably  severe  one,  his 
shoes  were  out  of  repair  and  his  overcoat — he  had 
none — yet  he  was  nevertheless  prompt  and  regular. 
On  the  first  day  of  his  service  here,  his  senior  em- 
ployer threw  down  a  copy  of  Blackstone  before  him 
with  a  bang  that  made  the  dust  fly,  saying  "That's 
where  they  all  begin."  A  titter  ran  around  the  little 
circle  of  clerks  and  students,  as  they  thought  that 
was  enough  to  scare  young  Grover  out  of  his  plans  ; 
out  indue  time  he  mastered  that  cumbersome  volume. 
Then,  as  ever  afterward,  however,  Mr.  Cleveland 
exhibited  a  talent  for  e.Kecutiveness  rather  than  for 
chasing  principles  through  all  their  metaphysical 
possibilities.  "  Let  us  quit  talking  and  go  and  do 
't,"was  practically  his  motto. 

The  first  public  office  to  which  Mr.  Cleveland  was 
elected  was  that  of  Sheriff  of  Erie  Co.,  N.  Y  ,  in 
which  Buffalo  is  situated;  and  in  such  capacity  it  fell 
to  his  duty  to  inflict  capital  pi'-'.ishment  upon  two 
cjiminals.  In  1881  he  vims  elected  Mayor  of  the 
City  of  Buffalo,  oa  the  Democratic  ticket,  v/ith  es- 
pecial reference  to  the  bringing  about  certain  reforms 


in  the  administration  of  the  municipal  affairs  of  that 
c't-.r  T,,  thij  office,  a?  well  as  that  of  Sheriff,  his 
periormance  of  duty  has  generally  been  considered 
fair,  with  possibly  a  few  exceptions  which  were  fer- 
reted out  and  magnified  during  the  last  Presidential 
campaign.  As  a  specimen  of  his  plain  language  in 
a  veto  message,  we  quote  from  one  vetoing  an  iniTui 
tous  street-cleaning  contract:  "This  is  a  time  io\ 
plain  speech,  and  my  objection  to  your  action  shall 
be  plainly  stated.  I  regard  it  as  the  culmination  cf 
a  mos  bare-faced,  impudent  and  shameless  scheme 
to  betray  the  interests  of  the  people  and  to  wors3 
than  squander  the  people's  money."  The  New  York 
Sun  afterward  very  highly  commended  Mr.  Cleve- 
land's administration  as  Mayor  of  Buffalo,  and  there- 
upon recommended  him  for  Governor  of  the  Empire 
State.  To  the  latter  office  he  was  elected  in  18S2 
and  his  administration  of  the  affairs  of  State  was 
generally  satisfactory.  The  mistakes  he  made,  if 
any,  were  made  very  public  throughout  the  nation 
after  he  was  nominated  for  President  of  the  United 
States.  For  this  high  office  he  was  nominated  July 
II,  1884,  by  the  National  Democratic  Convention  at 
Chicago,  when  other  competitors  were  Thomas  F. 
Bayard,  Roswell  P.  Flower,  Thomas  A.  Hendricks, 
Benjamin  F.  Butler,  Allen  G.  Thurman,  etc.;  and  he 
was  elected  by  the  people,  by  a  majority  of  about  a 
tliousand,  over  the  brilliant  and  long-tried  Repub- 
lican statesman,  James  G.  Blaine.  President  Cleve- 
land resigned  his  office  as  Governor  of  New  York  in 
January,  1885,  in  order  to  prepare  for  his  duties  as 
the  Chief  Executive  of  the  United  States,  in  which 
ca[)acity  his  term  commenced  at  noon  on  the  4th  ot 
March,  1885.  For  his  Cabinet  officers  he  selected 
the  following  gentlemen:  For  Secretary  of  State, 
Thomas  F.  Bayard,  of  Delaware ;  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury,  Daniel  Manning,  of  New  York ;  Secretary 
of  War,  William  C.  Endicott,  of  Massachusetts ; 
Secretary  of  the  Navy,  William  C.  Whitney,  of  New 
York ;  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  L.  Q.  C.  Lamar,  of 
Mississippi;  Postmaster-General,  William  F.  Vilas, 
of  Wisconsin;  Attorney-General,  A.  H.  Garland,  of 
Arka;isas. 

The  silver  question  precipitated  a  controverr,y  be- 
tweer  those  who  were  in  favor  of  the  continuance  of 
silver  coiiage  and  those  who  were  opposed,  Mr. 
Clevela;-.d  ansv/ering  for  the  latter,  even  befori»  his 
■i:auguralior.. 


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'^KXJAMIN  HARRISON,  the 
Lwciily-lliiril  I'rt'sidenl,  is 
tlie  descendant  of  one  of  the 
liistorical  families  of  tliis 
country.  The  head  of  the 
familj'  was  a  Major  General 
Harrison,  one  of  Oliver 
Cromwell's  trusted  follow- 
ers and  fighters.  In  the  zenith  of  Crom- 
well's power  it  became  tli\-  duty  of  this 
Harrison  to  participate  ui  the  trial  of 
Charles  I,  and  afterward  tc  sign  the 
death  warrant  of  the  king.  He  subse- 
quently paid  for  this  with  his  life,  being 
hung  Oct.  13,  ICGO.  His  descendante 
came  to  America,  and  the  next  of  the 
family  that  apjK'ars  in  history  is  Henja- 
rcin  Harrison,  of  Virginia,  great-grand- 
father of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and 
after  whom  he  was  named.  Benjamin  Harrison 
was  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  during 
the  years  i774-5-C,  and  was  one  of  the  original 
signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Iiidei>eiidcuce.  He 
mt"  three  times  elected  Governor  of  Virginia. 
Gen    William  Henry   Harrison,  the  son  of  the 


distinguished  patriot  of  the  Revolution,  after  a  suo- 
cessful  career  as  a  soldier  during  the  War  of  181 2, 
and  with-a  clean  record  as  Governor  of  the  North- 
western Territory,  was  elected  President  of  the 
Uniterl  States  in  1840.  His  caroer  was  cut  short 
by  death  within  one  month  ifter  liis  ia"uguration. 
President  Harrison  w*--  bcrn  at  Nor''-.  IV-nd, 
Hamilton  Co.,  Ohio,  Aug.  "0,  18a3  His  life  up  to 
the  time  of  his  graduation  by  the  Miami  University, 
at  Oxford,  Ohio,  was  the  uneventful  one  of  a  coun- 
try lail  of  a  family  of  small  means.  Ilis  father  was 
able  to  give  hina  a  good  education,  and  nothing 
more.  He  became  cng.igcd  while  at  college  to  thi 
daughter  of  Dr.  Scott,  Principal  of  a  female  schoo 
at  Oxford.  After  graduating  he  determined  to  en- 
tcr  ui»oii  the  study  of  the  law.  He  went  Ui  Cin 
cinnati  and  then  read  law  for  two  years.  At  the 
expiration  of  that  time  young  Harrison  received  th'j 
only  inheritance  of  his  life;  his  ai'.nt  dying  left  liim 
a  lot  valued  at  #800.  He  regarded  this  legac}'  as  a 
fortune,  and  decided  to  get  married  at  once,  'aka 
this  money  and  go  to  some  E;istern  town  an  '.  be- 
giu  the  practice  of  law.  He  sold  his  lot,  and  rvith 
the  monc}'  in  bis  pocket,  he  started  out  witu  bin 
young  wife  to  fight  for  a  place  in   the   world      Me 


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BENJAMIN  HARRISON. 


decided  to  go  to  Indianapolis,  which  was  even  at 
that  time  a  town  of  promise.  He  met  with  sliglit 
encouragement  at  first,  making  scarcely  anything 
tlie  first  year.  He  worked  diligently,  applying  him- 
self closely  to  his  calling,  built  up  an  extensive 
practice  and  took  a  leading  rank  in  the  legal  pro- 
i'ession.     He  is  the  father  of  two  children. 

In  186G  Mr.  Harrison  was  nominated  for  the 
position  of  Supreme  Court  Reporter,  and  then  be- 
gan his  experience  as  a  stump  speakei  He  can- 
vassed the  State  thoroughly,  and  was  elected  by  a 
handsome  majority.  In  1862  he  raised  the  17th 
Indiana  Infantry,  and  was  chosen  its  Colonel.  His 
regiment  was  composed  of  *;he  rawest  of  material, 
out  Col.  Harrison  employed  all  his  time  at  first 
mastering  military  tactics  and  drilling  his  men, 
when  he  therefore  came  to  move  toward  the  East 
with  Sherman  his  regiment  was  one  of  the  best 
^Jrilled  and  organized  in  the  army.  At  Resaca  he 
especially  distinguished  himself,  and  for  his  bravery 
at  Peachtree  Creek  be  was  made  a  Brigadier  Gen- 
eral, Gen.  Hooker  speaking  of  him  in  the  most 
complimentary  terms. 

During  the  absence  of  Gen.  Harrison  in  the  field 
he  Supreme  Court  declared  the  office  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  Reporter  vacant,  and  another  person 
was  elected  to  the  position.  From  the  time  of  leav- 
ing Indiana  with  his  regiment  until  the  fall  or  1864 
he  had  taken  no  leave  of  absence,  but  having  been 
nominated  that  year  for  the  same  office,  he  got  a 
thirty-day  leave  of  absence,  and  during  that  time 
made  a  brilliant  canvass  of  the  State,  and  was  elected 
for  another  term.  He  then  started  to  rejoin  Sher- 
man, but  on  the  way  was  stricken  down  with  scarlet 
lever,  and  after  a  most  trying  siege  made  his  way 
to  the  front  in  time  to  participate  in  the  closing 
incidents  of  the  war. 

In  1868  Gen.  Harrison  declined  ^  re-election  as 
reporter,  and  resumed  the  practice  of  law.  In  1876 
he  was  a  candidate  for  Governor.  Although  de- 
bated, the  brilliant  campaign  hb  made  won  ior  him 
a  National  reputation,  and  he  was  much  sought,  es- 
pecial.y  in  the  East,  to  make  speeches.  In  1880, 
as  usual,  he  took  an  active  part  In  the  campaign, 
ind  wii'  elected  to  the  United  States  Senate.  Here 
lie  sei-ved  six  years,  and  ras  known  as  one  ci  the 
tbiest  men,  best  lawyer^  c.nd  strongest  debaters  in 


that  body.  With  the  expiration  of  his  Senatona 
term  he  returned  to  the  practice  of  his  profession 
becoming  the  head  of  one  of  the  strongest  firms  ii 
the  State. 

The  political  campaign  of  1888  was  one  of  thi 
most  memorable  in  the  history  of  our  countiy.  Thi 
convention  which  assembled  in  Chicago  in  June  anc 
named  Mr.  Harrison  as  the  chief  standard  bearei 
of  the  Republican  party,  was  great  in  every  partic 
ular,  and  on  this  account,  and  the  attitude  it  as 
sumed  upon  the  vital  questions  of  the  day,  chie: 
among  which  was  the  tariff,  awoke  a  deep  interes 
in  the  campaign  throughout  the  Nation.  Shortly 
after  the  nomination  delegations  began  to  visit  Mr 
Harrison  at  Indianapolis,  his  home.  This  move 
ment  became  popular,  and  from  all  sections  of  th( 
country  societies,  clubs  and  delegations  journeyec 
thither  to  pay  their  respects  to  the  distinguishec 
statesman.  The  popularity  of  these  was  greatlj 
increased  on  account  of  the  remarkable  speeches 
made  by  Mr.  Harrison.  He  spoke  daily  all  through 
the  summer  and  autumn  to  these  visiting  delega. 
tions,  and  so  varied,  masterly  and  eloquent  wen 
his  speeches  that  they  at  once  placed  him  in  th« 
foremost  rank  of  American  orators  and  statesmen 

On  account  of  his  eloquence  as  a  speaker  and  hi; 
power  as  a  debater,  he  was  called  upon  at  an  un- 
commonly early  age  to  take  part  in  the  discussior 
of  the  great  questions  that  then  began  to  agitate 
the  country.  He  was  an  uncompromising  anti 
slavery  man,  and  was  matched  against  some  of  tLe 
most  eminent  Democratic  siaeakers  of  his  State, 
No  man  who  felt  the  touch  of  his  blade  derred  tt 
be  pitted  with  him  again.  With  all  his  e'oq-'enc( 
as  an  orator  he  never  spoke  for  oratorical  effect, 
but  his  words  alwaj's  went  like  bullets  to  the  mark 
He  is  purely  American  in  his  ideas  and  is  a  splec 
did  type  of  the  American  statesman.  Gifted  witL 
quick  perception,  a  logical  mind  and  a  ready  tongue, 
he  is  one  of  the  most  distinguished  impromptu 
speakers  in  the  Nation.  Many  of  these  speeches 
sparkled  with  the  rarest  of  eloquence  and  contained 
arguments  of  greatest  weight.  Many  of  his  terse 
statements  have  alreadj"  become  aphorisms.  Origi- 
nal in  thought  precise  in  logic,  terse  in  statement, 
jet  withal  faultless  in  eloquence,  he  is  lecogTiized  as 
the  sound  statesman  and  bnlKan    orator  c    tj,  day 


■ADAMS     COUxXTY,! 


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INTRODUCTORY. 


JHE  time  has  arrived   when   it 
becomes  tlie    duty    of   the 
people  of  this  county  to  per- 
petuate the  names  of  their 
pioneers,  to  furnish  a  record 
of   their    early    settlement, 
•'=      and  relate  tiie  story  of  tlieir 
progress.     The  civilization  of  our 
day,  the  enlightenment  ot   tlie  age 
and  the  duly  that  men  of  the  pres- 
ent lime  owe  to  their  ancestors,  to 
themselves  and  to  their  jKJsterity, 
demand  that  a  record  of  their  lives 
and  deeds  should  Ive  made.   In  bio- 
graphical history  is  found  a  power 
to  instruct  man  by  precedent,  to 
enliven   the  mental  faculties,  and 
"^    '  to  waft  down  the  river  of  time  a 

safe  vessel  in  which  the  names  and  actions  of  the 
people  who  contributed  to  raise  this  country  from  its 
primitive  state  may  be  preserv..'d.  .Surely  and  rapidly 
the  great  and  aged  men,  who  m  their  jirime  entered 
the  wilderness  and  claimed  the  virgin  soil  as  their 
heritage,  are  passing  to  their  graves.  The  number  re- 
maining who  can  relate  the  incidents  of  the  first  days 
jf  settlement  is  becoming  small  indeed,  so  that  an 
actual  necessity  exists  for  llie  collection  and  preser- 
vation of  events  without  delay,  before  all  the  early 
settlers  are  cut  down  by  the  scythe  of  Time. 

To  be  forgotten  has  been  the  great  dread  of  mankind 
from  remotest  ages.  .-Vll  will  be  forgotten  soon  enough, 
in  spite  of  their  best  works  and  the  most  e.irnest 
efforts  of  their  friends  to  iH.rserve  the  memory  of 
their  lives.  The  me.ms  employed  to  prevent  oblivion 
and  to  i)er|)etuate  their  memory  has  been  in  \)ro\Kir- 
tion  to  the  amount  of  intelligence  they  |wssessed. 
Th  :  pyramids  of  Kgypt  were  built  to  per|)etMate  the 
names  and  deeds  of  their  great  rulers.  The  exhu- 
mations ni.ide  by  the  aicheologists  of  Kgypt  trom 
buried  Meu-.phis  indicate  a  desire  of  those  people 


to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  their  achievements 
The  erection  of  the  great  obelisks  were  for  tl-.e  same 
pur|K)se.  Coming  down  to  a  later  jieriod,  we  find  the 
Oreeks  and  Romans  erecting  mausoleums  and  monu- 
ments, and  carving  out  statues  to  chronicle  their 
great  achievements  and  carry  them  down  the  ages. 
It  is  also  evident  that  the  Mound-builders,  in  piling 
up  their  great  mounds  of  earth,  had  but  this  idea — 
to  leave  something  to  show  that  they  had  lived.  All 
tliese  woiks,  though  many  of  them  costly  in  the  ex- 
treme, give  but  a  faint  idea  of  the  lives  and  charac- 
ters of  those  whose  memory  they  were  intended  to 
perpetuate,  and  scarcely  anything  of  the  masses  of 
the  people  that  then  lived.  The  great  pyramids  and 
some  of  tlie  obelisks  remain  objects  only  of  curiosity ; 
the  mausoleums,  monuments  and  statues  are  crum- 
bling into  dust. 

It  was  left  to  modern  ages  to  establish  an  intelli- 
gent, undecaying,  immutalile  method  of  perpetuating 
a  full  history — immutable  in  that  it  is  almost  un- 
limited  in  extent  and  perpetual  in  its  action;  and 
this  is  through  the  art  of  printing. 

To  the  present  generation,  however,  we  are  in- 
debted for  the  introduction  of  the  admirable  system 
of  local  biography.  By  this  system  every  man,  thougl 
he  has  not  achieved  what  the  world  calls  greatness, 
his  the  means  to  perpetuate  his  life,  his  history, 
through  the  coming  ages. 

The  scythe  of  Time  cuts  down  all ;  nothing  of  the 
physical  man  is  left.  The  monument  whicii  his  chil- 
dren or  friends  may  erect  to  his  memory  in  the  ceme- 
tery will  crumble  into  dust  and  pass  away;  but  his 
life,  his  achievements,  the  work  he  has  accomplished, 
whii:h  otherwise  would  be  forgotten,  is  |)erpetuated 
by  a  record  of  this  kind. 

To  preserve  the  lineaments  of  our  companions  we 
engrave  their  i>oriraits,  for  the  same  reason  we  col- 
lect the  attainable  facts  of  their  history.  Nor  do  we 
thii-.k  it  necessary,  as  we  speak  only  truth  of  them,  to 
wait  until  they  are  dead,  or  until  those  who  know 
them  are  gone:  to  do  this  we  are  ashamed  only  to 
publi-.!)  t.j  the  world  lire  history  of  those  wh()sc  live* 
arc  unworthy  of  public  record 


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The  Wnbnsli. 

(?^-*()  llie  |iul)lic  and  mir  tlii>ii.«niiils  of  rt-nders 
iff^\.  •'•  gt'iieral:  It  will  no  iloiilil  lie  intercstliifr 
V^^'  to  nil  if  we  <jive  a  brief  descriptioii  of  this 
road.  'I'lu'  Walia."}!.  a.-  now  known,  lia>  liecn  op- 
erated under  M-veral  names  from  lime  to  time.  It 
is  the  ofT.^pring,  a.s  it  were,  of  the  first  trunk  line  of 
road  projected  in  Illinois,  then  known  a>  the 
Northern  C'ros-  Railroad.  e\tendin<^  from  Danville 
to  (^uiney.  This  was  chartered  in  lK37,and  upon 
it  the  lirst  locomotive  was  placed  in  the  winter  of 
l«38-.'!'.i.  runiiin<^  ficim  .Meredosia,  on  the  Illinois 
River,  to  Jacksonville.  In  \H42,  the  road  was  com- 
pleted from  .lacksoiiville  to  Sprin<jfield.  and  three 
trips  were  made  per  week.  The  track  was  of  the 
old  flat-rail  style,  which  w.as  made  l>_v  nailing  thin 
strips  of  iron  on  two  parallel  lines  of  tiniliers  at 
the  proper  distance  apart,  and  runninir  lengthwise 
of  the  road.  The  engine,  as  well  as  the  road,  soon 
l)ecame  so  imimired,  that  the  former  had  to  be 
abandoned,  and  mules  substituted  as  the  motor- 
power.  However,  such  locomotion  was  destined 
to  be  of  short  duration,  for  the  State  soon  after 
sold  the  road  for  a  nominal  sum,  and  thus  for  a 
short  time  was  suspended  one  of  the  first  railroad 
enterjirises  in  Illinois.  Hut  in  the  West,  a  new  era 
— one  of  prodigious  industrial  activity  and  far- 
reaching  result.s  in  the  practical  arts — was  dawning, 
and  within  thirty  years  of  the  temporary  failure 
of  the  roail  mcntionc'l,  Illinois  had  outstrip|ied  all 
other   Stales    in    gigantic  internal  improvements. 


and  at  present  has  more  miles  of  railroad  than  any 
other  State  in  the  Union. 

The  (Jreat  Western,  whose  name  has  been  suc- 
cessively changed  to  the  Toledo,  W.-ibash  iV-  Western, 
Wabash  A-  Wabash,  St.  Louis  iV  racilic,  Wabash 
Railroad,  and  The  Wabash,  the  last  of  which  it 
still  bcais,  was  an  extension  t>f  the  Northern  Cross 
Railroad  above-mentione<l,  ami  traverses  some  of 
the  finest  portions  of  Illinois,  Indiana  and  Ohio. 
It  soon  became  the  popular  highw.'iy  of  travel  and 
tr.illic  between  the  Kast  and  the  West.  Through  a 
system  of  consolidation  unparalleled  in  Anu-rican 
railroads,  it  h.as  become  a  giant  among  them,  and 
h.as  added  many  millions  of  dollars  to  the  value  of 
bonds  and  shares  rif  the  various  companies  now  in- 
corporated in  The  Wabjush  System.  The  road  takes 
its  title  from  the  river  of  that  name,  a  tributary  of 
the  Ohio,  which  in  part  separates  the  States  of  Illi- 
nois and  Indiana.  In  looking  over  the  map  of 
the  Wabash  Railroad,  it  will  be  seen  Iliat  the  line 
extends  through  the  most  fertile  and  wealthy  por- 
tions of  the  L  uited  Stales,  having  termini  at  more 
large  cities  than  any  other  Western  road.  It  was 
indeed  a  far-reaching  sag.-tcily  which  consolidated 
these  various  lines  into  The  Wabash  .System,  form- 
ing one  immense  chain,  of  great  commercial  .ictiv- 
ity  and  power.  Its  terminal  facilities  are  iinsur- 
piusscd  by  any  competing  line.  Its  general  olllces 
are  established  in  commodious  ipiarters  in  St. 
Louis.  The  lines  of  the  road  are  co-extensive  with 
the  importance  of  the  great  tiaiisportation  facili- 
ties required  for   the   products    of    the    .Mississippi 


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TRANSPORTATION. 


Valley.  This  line  passes  through  the  States  of 
Iowa,  Missouri,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Ohio  and  Michi- 
gan. 

The  various  lines  of  road  may  be  divided   into 
the  following: 

Miles. 

St.  Louis  to  Chicago 286 

Toledo  to  Kansas  Cit3- 662 

.St.  Louis  to  Des  Moines 360 

Logansport  to  Detroit 207 

Chicago  to  Laketon  .Junction 123 

Clayton  to  Keokuk 42 

Bluffs  to  Quincy 105 

Streator  to  Forrest 37 

Attica  to  Covington 15 

Champaign  to  Sidney 12 

Edwardsville  to  Edvvardsville  Crossing         9 
Benieut  to  Altamont  and  Etfingham. .        63 

Brunswick  to  Omaha 225 

Roseberry  to  Clarinda 21 

Salisbury  to  (Tlasgow 15 

Centralia  to  Columbia 22 


Miles  of  main  lines  and  branches 2204 

From  the  above  exhibit  it  will  readily  be  seen 
by  the  reader  tiiatThe  Wabash  connects  with  more 
large  cities  and  great  marts  of  trade  than  any 
other  line — bringing  Omaha,  Kansas  City,  Des 
Moines,  Keokuk,  Quincy,  St.  Louis,  Chicago,  To- 
ledo and  Detroit  together  with  one  continuous 
line  of  steel  rails.  This  road  has  an  immense 
freigiit  traflic  of  the  cereals,  live-stock,  and  various 
productions  and  manufactured  articles  of  the  West 
and  the  States  through  which  it  passes.  Its  facili- 
ties for  rapid  transit  for  the  vast  productions  of 
the  packing  houses  of  Kansas  City,  Omaha  and  St. 
Louis  to  Detroit,  Toledo  and  the  Eastern  marts  of 
trade  are  unequaled.  A  large  portion  of  the  grain 
productions  of  Kansas,  Nebraska,  Iowa,  Missouri, 
Illinois  and  Indiana  finds  its  way  to  the  Eastern 
markets  over  the  lines  of  this  road.  Tlie  Wabash 
has  alwa3's  taken  an  advanced  position  in  tariffs, 
audits  course  toward  its  patrons  has  been  just  and 
liberal,  so  that  it  has  always  enjoyed  the  commen- 
dation of  the  business  and  traveling  public.  The 
road-bed  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  country,  is  bal- 
lasted with  gravel  and  stone,  and  is  well  tied  and 
laid  with  steel  rails. 

The  bridges  along  the  various  lines  and  branches 
are  substantial  structures — mostly  built  of   steel. 


The  depots,  grounds  and  general  property  of  the 
road  are  in  a  good  condition.  The  ra.anagement 
of  The  Wabash  is  fully  abreast  of  the  times  and  the 
road  is  progressive  in  every  respect.  The  finest 
passenger  cars  on  the  Continent  are  run  on  its 
lines,  and  every  effort  is  made  to  advance  the  in- 
terests of  its  patrons.  The  passenger  department 
is  unexcelled  for  the  elegant  and  substantial  com- 
fort afforded  travelers.  On  several  of  the  more 
important  branches  of  the  system,  dining  cars  are 
run,  which  are  not  surpassed  for  the  excellence  of 
their  cuisine. 


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Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  and 
Leased  Lines. 

^i^IlIS  great  trunk  line  with  its  various  branches 
/Apv,  and  leased  lines  has  been  one  of  the  prom- 
V^/  iiienl  factors  in  promoting  the  early  devel- 
opment of  (Quincy  and  .\dams  County.  It  covers 
more  miles  in  the  county  than  any  other  road. 
It  also  operates  with  (Quincy  as  an  important 
terminal.  The  road  from  Quincy  and  Hanni- 
bal to  Kansas  City  and  St.  Jose|}h;  also  the  St. 
Louis,  Keokuk  &  Northwestern,  which  has  devel- 
oped an  important  traflic  with  the  river  towns 
and  St.  Louis;  and  the  line  from  (Quincy  to 
Burlington  have  proved  valuable  as  auxiliaries 
in  the  agricultural  development  of  those  sections. 
Through  the  great  Burlington  System,  (^uiuc_v 
has  been  brought  into  close  commercial  relations 
with  the  important  cities  of  the  Mississippi  Valley, 
all  having  for  their  main  termini  Chicago,  in 
which  city  the  road  h.as  splendid  freight  and  pas- 
senger facilities,  with  miles  of  trackage  to  the  very 
heart  of  the  liusiness  center.  Here,  also,  the  gen- 
eral oflices  of  the  (Quincy  System  are  located,  in  a 
fiue  otHce  building  owned  by  the  road.  To  speak 
of  all  the  important  towns  and  cities  reached  by 
the  Burlington  System  would  require  more  space 
than  the  brief  limits  of  this  article  will  permit, 
as  the    Burlington   ik  IMissouri  River  lines  in  Ne- 


TUANSPOin'ATIoN. 


117 


lii-aska,  Knnims,  South  l)t»k<it«.  Wyoininj^ninl  Colo- 
rado form  nil  important  |)art  of  this  colossal  sys- 
tem, which  has  for  its  most  Northern  termini 
MiiMU'n|>olis  nnil  St.  I'luil.  iind  in  Denver  reaches 
the  heart  of  the  Hoeky  Mountain  region.  Tiie 
great  slock  laiiijes  of  Wyomiufi  and  the  West 
are  opened  liy  the  lines  which  extend  to  Sheridan. 
ItiilTalo  and  Cheyenne;  while  the  great  }:rain  and 
st<K-k  marts  of  Lincoln,  Omaha.  St.  .losepli,  Kansas 
City,  l^uinc\ ,  ISiirlinij^ton  and  I'eoria  are  liroii^ht 
into  eltwe  commercial  relations  with  Chicago.  It 
is  safe  to  say  that  no  other  of  the  jireat  road>  in 
the  West  Uips  an  agricultural  region  S(»  fertile  and 
productive,  t>r  cities  and  towns  where  manufactur- 
ing is  carried  on  mote  extensively.  It  has  long 
been  the  policy  of  this  road  to  huild  numerous 
s|)urs  and  feedei-s  for  the  main  lines,  to  the  various 
towns,  mines  and  Ik'sI  agricultural  districts,  thereliy 
laying  the  foundation  foi  an  immense  and  grow- 
ing freight  tratlic.  Its  road-lted  has  long  been 
recognized  as  one  of  the  best  in  the  West,  and 
by  judicious,  energetic  and  able  management.  The 
Burlington  has  been  prompt  to  avail  itself  of  all 
the  modern  improvements  in  railroad  equipment, 
so  that  now  its  pa.ssenger  service  ranks  with  the 
l>esl  in  the  eo\inti\. 


l^iiiiiey,  Oiimlia  A:  Kansas  City  Itailwny. 

(s^v-  'Ills  railway  extends  west  from  (^iiinty.  III., 
///Ss  lo  Trenton,  .Mo.,  a  distance  of  one  hundied 
V_y  and  thirty -six  miles.  It  was  projected  by 
l^uincy  men,  and  built  with  t^uincy  capital,  and 
stands  to-day  in  iu  construction  a  monument  to 
the  push  and  energy  of  the  early  settlersof  <^uinc\ , 
the  many  of  whom  have,  before  this  writing, 
pa.ssed  to  the  great  beyond.  The  company  was  or- 
ganized .lune  21,  18G1).  and  the  road  o|K-ned  for 
business  to  Milan.  Mo.,  in  May,  18T"J,  and  toTren- 
ton.  Mo.,  in  1«H1.  Not  unlike  the  lives  of  many 
of   its  projectors,   its   early    history   ttio  often    re- 


llected  the  pages  of  disappointed  hopes.     Starting 
out  with  every  promise  of  big  returns  for  the   in- 
vestor,  it  stuck   and    (loundered   in   the  great  .lay 
C(M»k  panic,  and   shortly  afterward   passed  under 
the  control  of  the  Wabash  Railroad  Company.    Its 
operation  by  this  latter  company  was  far  from  sat- 
isfactory, and  in  August,   IKXj,  possession  was  se- 
cured by  its  ownei-s,  and  the  road  again  took   its 
place  as  an  independent  company.     It  is  here  that 
we  see  the  o])ening  of   the  bud   that  ))rcsaged  the 
iilooming  llower.    I'nssiiig  through  that  portion  of 
.Mi.ssouri     richest     in    agricultural     products   and 
mines,  over  a  great  past<»i-al   plateau    from    West 
<^uincy  to  Kirksville,and  through  Missouri's  chain 
of  mineral  hills  from  Kirksville  to  Milan,  this  road 
has  developed  a  tradic  that  now  fully  endorses  the 
wisdom  of   its  projectors,  antl   sets  at  naught  the 
many  unkind  things  that  have   been  said   against 
-Missouri's  resources.     In  the  counties  of  Marion, 
Lewis,    Knox,   A<lair,   Sullivan    and    Crundy,   of 
Missouri,  traversed  by  the  t^uinoy,  Omaha  X-  Kan- 
sas City    Railway,  wheat  and  corn  arc  profitably 
grown,  while  the  raising  of  stock  is  generally  car- 
ried on  by  farmers  to  their  enrichment.     During 
the    3ear    1S;>1,    there    were   shipped    out  of    the 
counties  named,  S.'jGjSod  bushels  of  wheat;   1.32,- 
341)   bushels  of  com;  4 1,<M2  head  of  cattle;   117,- 
97(1    head   of    hogs;    10,<l()2    head    of   sheep;  and 
4,1 1'l    head    of    horses.      The   shipments   of   coal 
mined  in  Adair  County,  not  including  such  coal 
as    w:is    used    for    railroad    purposes,   aggregated 
1. 5,228,0(10    pounds.      The    development   of    Mis- 
souri   contiguous    to    the    tracks   of    the    liuincy, 
Omaha  iV  Kansas  City  Railway  has  been  eo-exten- 
sive  with  the  progressire  management  of  the  rail- 
way by  its  present  oflli-ers.  the  prominent  ones  be- 
ing:   Amos    Cireen,   (Jeneral    Manager;    John    M. 
Savin,  Auditor;  .1.  II.  IJest.  Tratlic  .Manager;  C.  K. 
.Si.ulc,  .Superintendent  of  Transportation. 

The  farmer  or  merchant  seeking  a  change  of  lo- 
catitm  will  (ind  in  Missouri,  along  this  railway,  a 
country  healthfiii  and  inviting;  soil  rich  and  pro- 
ductive; good  scliot>is,  churches,  and  c«uintry  roads 
unsurpa.ssed,  and  withal,  evidences  of  prosperity  on 
all  sides. 


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TRANSPORTATION. 


River  Trafflc. 

IT  is  only  a  few  j-ears,  comparatively  speak- 
ing, since  the  Mississippi  River  afforded  the 
best  me.ins  for  inter-coniraunieation  lietween 
Quincy  and  other  towns  on  the  river,  and  in  the 
earlier  days  the  large  lumber,  agricultural  and 
commercial  products  of  the  town  were  conveyed 


to  market  by  means  of  steamboats,  barges  and  rafts. 
As  a  river  town,  Quincy  ranks  as  the  best  be- 
tween St.  Louis  and  St.  Paul.  But  the  incoming 
of  the  railroads  changed  all  this,  and  now  the 
principal  river  traffic  at  this  port  is  done  by  the 
"Diamond  Joe"  Line,  and  the  St.  Louis.  Minne- 
apolis ife  St.  Paul  Packet  Company. 


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?;  DWAKI )  WKI.I.s.  This  gentleman  was  one 
1^  of  the  many  who  »\>enX  the  greater  |>ortion 
»-<  of  llieir  lives  in  fU'vi'lii|(ing  tin-  connlrv- 
that  their  children  am)  grandchildren  might  ciijo^- 
the  advantages  of  a  high  state  of  civilization.  Mr. 
Well,-  was  Ixirn  in  Newlinrv|ii>rt,  Ma?»s..  March  23. 
1H1;<,  n  son  of  Samuel  \V.  and  l-',li7.:il>eth  (Swa-cy) 
Wells,  both  of  whom  were  born  in  the  lijiv  State, 
and  were  in  every  r(«|)oet  thrifty  and  (iractical 
New  Knglanders.  The  paternal  granilfalhi'r.  Daniel 
Wells,  wa.-*  fif  Welsh  deseenl.  while  the  maternal 
grandfather,  Kdward  Swasey.  was  of  Knglish  line- 
age. hi>  ancestoi-s  Imving  liccn  ninimi:  the  very 
fli-st  settlers  of  Miiissat-hnsetts. 

Kdward  Wcll>,  like  many  ^  ankce  boy>,  >tarteil 
out  to  make  hi>  own  living  with  a  determination 
to  succeed,  and  during  his  long  apprenticeship  at 
the  c<Kiper's  trade,  he  obtained  a  lliorougli  insight 
int4>  the  details  of  bu-iness.  'I'lie  cummon  si-hools 
of  Newburyport  afforded  him  a  practical  education, 
whic-h  he  fonnil  of  great  l)enelif  to  him  later  in  life. 
After  learning  and  follnwing  the  cooper's  trade  in 
Boston  until  18;{4.  he  turned  his  footsteps  West- 
ward, to  seek  u  home  in  new  fields.  He  reached 
l^niney  in  the  latter  part  of  OctoU-r  of  that  year, 
and  his  worldly  |M>sscssions  at  that  time  consisted 
of  one  silver  half-dnllar.  he  having  In-en  t)bliged  to 
siH;nd  considerable  nmney  on  his  thirty-.-even 
days'  journey  to  this  section  by  stage  and  water. 
Although  his  linaneial  resources  had  sunk  to  a 
very  low  ebb  indeed,  he  pos.-es-eil  great  pluck, 
energy  and  ambition,  and    in   the  spring  of  IH.'t.'i, 


having  in  the  meantime  .sived  some  means,  he.  in 
partnership  with  .lames  |).  Morgan,  embarked  in  the 
cooper  business,  which  cimneclion  continued  for  a 
few  years. 

Succeeding  this,  Mr.  Wells  drift<>d  into  the  p<irk 
Iiusine.s.s,  in  which  he  continued  for  a  ipiarter  of  a 
century,  his  success  in  this  branch  of  biisines.>  not 
being  due  to  any  factitious  circumstances,  but  lo 
the  fact  that  he  applied  himself  closely  to  his  busi- 
ness, gra>|H'd  at  every  opportunity  for  improving 
,  his  linaneial  condition.  an<i  w:»s  the  soul  of  honesty 
in  his  dealings  with  his  patrons.  It  is  thus  seen 
i  that  his  silver  half-dollar  was  not  iMtund  up  in  a 
napkin,  but  multiplied  itself  int^i  a  comfoi tabic 
fortune.  Itetiring  from  that  business,  he  rested 
from  his  lalM>rs  for  some  lime  and  then  U-gan  deal- 
ing in  real  estate  in  Chicago  and  els«'wliere,  whciv 
he  again  manifested  sound  business  jmlgment  and 
views  of  ;i  most  pniclical  and  progres,-.ive  nature, 
lie  was  for  many  years  a  stockholder  and  dire<-tor 
of  the  I'iist  National  llank. 

.Mr.  Wells  was  much  interesteil  in  mi  I  road  affairs 

throughout  life, and  succeetled  in  getting  the  I'enn- 

,   sylvania  Central  to  agree  to  c<»ine  to  (/uincy.    'I'lie 

■    road  W!us  to  come    in   over   the   t^uincy  .V  Warsaw 

,    road,  now  the  Carthage   branch   of   the  Chicago, 

Iturlington    A-    (^uincy.     Owing  to  circumstances 

arising  over  which  he  had  no  control,  the  road  did 

not  come,    as  the  t^uincy  A-  Wai-saw  roa<l  wius  sold 

to  the  Chicago.  Itiulington  \  (^uincy,  and  thereby 

thev   lost   the   Pennsylvania    Central.      In    various 

other  wavs  .Mr.  Wells  showed   his  public  spirit  and 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


his  earnest  desire  to  build  up  his  section.  He  took 
a  great  interest  in  the  railroad  bridge  matter  and 
spent  weeks  in  AVasliington,  D.  C,  securing  a 
chartei-.  In  company-  with  Jaines  Woodruff,  he 
went  to  Baltimore  and  interviewed  President  Gar- 
rett of  the  Baltimore  tfe  Ohio  Railwa}-,  but  a  short 
time  afterward  Mr.  Garrett  became  insane  and  this 
prevented  further  negotiations.  In  politics,  he 
was  an  uncompromising  l\ei)ubliean  and  served  one 
term  as  Alderman  from  the  Third  AV'ard.  He  was 
also  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  "N'olunteer  Fire 
Department  and  served  one  term  as  Chief  of  the 
department. 

March  19,  1837,  Mr.  Wells  married  Mary  B. 
Evans,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Capt.  Robert  Evans, 
of  Qumcy,  and  their  union  resulted  in  the  birth  of 
eight  children,  of  whom  the  four  youngest  are  liv- 
ing: George,  of  this  city;  Frank,  of  Cliieago;  Ella, 
wife  of  James  R.  Smith,  of  Wheatland,  N.  Dak., 
and  Miss  Kate,  tlie  youngest,  who  is  at  home. 

In  the  domestic  circle,  Mr.  Wells  was  devoted  to 
his  family  and  lie  possessed  very  social  and  hospi- 
table instincts,  a  gentleman  in  every  sense  of  the 
word.  He  was  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the 
Unitarian  Church,  wiiich  was  organized  in  Quincy 
over  fifty  years  ago.  He  died  at  his  home,  No- 
421  .Terse}'  Street,  May  16,  1892,  his  wife  and  two 
children,  George  and  Kate,  being  ))resent  at  liis 
l)ed-side.  His  death  was  caused  liy  congestion  of 
the  lungs,  and  was  widely  and  deeply  mourned. 
In  him  <^)uincy  lost  a  pioneer  resident,  a  successful 
business  man  and  a  valuable  eilizen. 


Wf,ILLIA]M  I.  BATES,  one  of  tiie  prominent 
and  iutluential  farmers  of  Gilmer  Town- 
ship, residing  on  section  2,  was  born  in 
Tennessee,  in  1828,  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph  and 
Nancy  B.  Bates.  His  parents  were  both  natives  of 
Tennessee,  the  former  born  in  180G,  the  latter  in 
1807.  The  maternal  grandfather  was  one  of  the 
heroes  of  the  Revolutionary  War  and   was  ninetv 


years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death.  The  Bates 
family  numbered  fourteen  children,  of  whom  ten 
are  yet  living,  our  subject  and  his  twin  sister  be- 
ing  the  eldest.  In  18.30,  the  father  emigrated  to 
Illinois  and  is  one  of  the  honored  pion(?ers  of  this 
locality.  In  the  earlier  days  he  was  a  preacher  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  for  some  time.  In  the 
days  when  Scott,  Cass  and  Morgan  Counties  were 
one,  he  was  elected  Assessor  of  one-half  of  Morg,an 
County,  just  after  its  organization,  and  for  eight 
years  held  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace.  As 
time  passed,  his  financial  condition  improved,  and 
at  his  death  he  was  the  owner  of  a  valuable  farm 
and  consideralile  town  property.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  1888,  and  his  wife  passed  away  in  1891. 

Our  subject  was  reared  amid  the  wild  scenes  of 
the  frontier  and  was  early  inured  to  the  arduous 
labor  of  farming  raw  prairie.  When  lie  began  life 
for  himself,  he  engaged  in  farming  in  Camp  Point 
Township,  where  he  improved  a  tract  of  land.  He 
afterward  removed  to  Hancock  County,  and  pur- 
chasing one  hundred  and  sixt}'  acres,  developed 
therefrom  a  good  farm,  upon  which  he  resided  for 
twenty  years.  On  the  ex|)iration  of  that  period, 
we  find  him  in  Chicago,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
the  live-stock  business.  On  selling  out,  became  to 
Adams  County  and  resumed  agricultural  pursuits, 
which  he  carried  on  in  his  own  interest  for  ten 
years.  He  was  then  appointed  Superintendent  of 
the  Adams  County  Poor  Farm  and  tilled  that  posi- 
tion with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  satisfaction 
of  all  concerned. 

In  the  3'ear  1851,  Mr.  Bates  w.as  married  to 
Miss  Mary  Robinson,  who  was  born  in  Illinois  in 
1830.  They  became  the  jjarents  of  nine  children, 
seven  of  whom  are  yet  living.  All  were  educated 
in  the  schools  of  Hancock  Count}'  and  three  of  the 
children  have  engaged  in  teaching.  The  eldest 
son  IS  Dr.  Bates,  of  Camp  Point,  who  was  graduated 
from  the  Chicago  Medical  College  and  has  now 
successfully  practiced  for  ten  years. 

In  early  life,  Mr.  Bates  was  a  supporter  of  the 
Democratic  party,  but  on  account  of  his  strong 
teinper.ance  principles,  is  Prohibitionist  in  senti- 
ment. Soci.allj',  he  isa  Knight  Templar  M.ason  and 
himself,  wife  and  children  arc  all  members  of  the 
Methodist    Episcoiial    Church,  to    the    support  of 


Pt)RTR.\rr  ANI>  mOGRArillCAL  KECORI) 


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wliioli  III'  coiilriluites  liliernll.v.  Tlu'  |iii<ir  aiid 
iiet'dy  Imvp  i-ver  found  in  liini  a  friend,  lie  is 
cliarilaliU'  and  lM>i,ov<iU'nt,>jenorou!i.  warni-ii<'nrted 
antl  tiiii'.  Ill*  life  is  well  worthy  i>f  emulation, 
niid  hy  his  n|>ri>;ht,  honorahle  eniver  he  hn.-  won 
nianv  warm  fiiend*. 


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'  AM^>^  S.  AKINS.  M.  1)..  i-  one  of  the  prom- 
inent eitizeii!*  of  l.oraine.  In  o<inneelion 
^_  with  the  pnu'tice  of  niedieine,  he  carries  on 
(^y  a  druj;  store  and  is  the  ellieient  Postmaster 
of  the  villa<»e.  He  was  horn  in  I-'ranklin,  X'enan^o 
County.  Pa.,  .Inly  11,  \MH,  and  is  the  fourth  in 
order  of  hirth  in  a  family  of  nine  children,  five  of 
whom  are  yet  liviiij;.  The  parents  were  Koherl 
and  Lucy  (Sa<je)  Akins,  the  former  born  in  Mont- 
real. Canada,  Fehruaiy  H,  17*J'.>,  and  the  latt«r 
in  Vermont  in  ISOH.  The  |)aternal  fjrniidfatlier 
was  of  Kngtish  hirth  ami  emifjrated  to  Canada, 
whence  he  came  to  the  I'nited  Stales.  Roliert 
Akins  was  a  carpenter  and  followed  tluit  trade 
durin<i;  the  "greater  part  of  his  life,  lie  and  four 
l)r<)llicr8  served  in  the  War  of  1812.  His  death 
occiired  in  Shawnee'.own.  111.,  in  DecemlH-r.  l«.'>t;. 
and  his  wife  died  in  PI\inoiilh,  llanciK-k  County, 
111.,  in  1».j8.  He  was  a  memljer  of  the  liaptist 
Church  and  she  was  a  Methodist  in  religions  be- 
lief. 

The  Doctor  re«-eived  very  meagre  ednwitional 
privileges.  When  a  lad  of  twelve,  his  father 
wanted  him  to  go  with  an  uncle  who  was  a  sjiilor 
on  Lake  Krie,  but  on  account  of  the  stories  of 
shipwrecks  and  dangers  which  the  uncle  had  re- 
lated, this  pro|K)sal  was  not  received  with  favor  by 
voung  Akins.  His  father  insisted,  however,  and 
rather  than  go  he  left  home,  making  his  way  to 
.lamcstown,  N.  Y.  He  journeyed  mostly  on  f<H>t, 
and  sometimes  slept  in  the  woods  at  night.  Ik- 
was  variously  employed  for  two  years,  but  earned 
his  own  lK»ard  and  clothes  ami  acquired  a  little 
money  bcsi<les.  At  length,  he  determined  to  try 
his  fortune  in  the  West.  aii<l  worked  hi>  way  down 


the  river*  by  bout  Ut  Shawneetown.  111.,  where 
he  had  relative's  living.  There  he  hired  out  to 
a  farmer,  and  one  of  the  provisions  of  the  con- 
tract wa.0  that  he  should  receive  instructions  in 
rending,  writing  and  arithmetic.  He  remained 
with  his  employer  two  years,  and  during  that 
time  studied  hard,  making  rapid  progress  in  the 
elementary  Idaiirhes  of  learning,  e.»pccially  in 
niathematiiv.  hi  IM.')!'.,  he  came  to  Adams  Coiinly 
and  for  three  years  worked  as  a  carpenter.  In 
IH.'iH.  he  started  for  Pike's  Peak,  being  one  of  the 
first  to  cro.sit  the  plains.  After  a  few  months,  he 
returned,  but  the  following  year  again  went,  and 
altogether  made  the  trip  acro>.>.  iIh-  plains  six  times, 
becoming  quite  fiiniiliur  with  the  wild  and   iiiouii- 

'  tAinoiis  regions  of  Colorado  and  Montana.  He  was 
in  Denver  when  a  few  shanties  constituted  that 
city,  lie  spent  some  time  working  at  his  trade  in 
Montana,  and  erected  several  buildings  in  X'ir- 
giiii.'i  City,  including  the  Recorder's  t  iflice.  He 
probably  made  the  first  shingle  manufactured  in 
that  territory.  He  saw  herds  of  one  thousand 
buffaloes,  and  killed  hundreds  of  those  animals. 
He  had  some  narrow  escapes  from  the  Indians  and 
experienced  some  severe  privations.  For  a  lime 
he  successfully  engaged  in  mining  in  California 
(iiilch,  Colo.,  and  in  18()7  returned  home. 

On  again  reaching  Adams  County.  Dr.  .\kins 
built  a  sawmill  in  Keene  Township,  which  he  o|M'r- 
aled  f«>r  two  yeai-s.  when  his  health  failed  him  anil 

'  he  sold  out.  He  had  previously  read  medicine  for 
some  lime,  and  in  18t;'.»  he  took  n  coni-se  of  lectures 

'  in  the  Kclectic  Medical  College  of  Cincinnati. 
Ohio,  from  which  lie  was  graduated  in  1871.  At 
that  time  Loiainehad  just  U-cii  platted  and  the  Doc- 
tor, erecting  one  of   the  lirst  buildings  in  the  new 

'    town,  at  once  Iwgan  practice,  which  he  has  followed 

I  continuously  since,  with  the  exception  of  about  a 
vear.     He   h.as  met  with  giMid  success  and  in  addi- 

i  lion  to  this  has  contlucted  a  drug  store  for  twenty 
years. 

In  the  year  IK.'i'J.  Dr.  .\kins  was  married  to 
.lo.Hephine,  daughter  of  .lolin  .Mcl-'arlnnd,  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  .\tlanis  County.  Six  children  have 
been  born  unto  them:  .Mice,  wife  of  S.  P.  Lemon, 
of  t^nincv;  Harry  1)..  who  is  married  and  rcsidi-s  in 

I    l^uincv;  William,  a  pro.-pcroiis  fanner,  who  is  mar- 


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ried  and  resides  in  KeeneTownsliip;  Lillie,  Arvilla 
and  Bessie,  at  home.  The  Doctor  is  a  friend  of 
education,  and  has  provided  his  children  with  good 
advantages,  thus  fitting  tliem  for  the  practical 
duties  of  life.  He  is  a  stalwart  Republican 
and  during  Grant's  administration  w.as  appointed 
Postmaster.  He  again  received  the  appointment 
under  President  Harrison,  and  has  served  in  all 
for  about  twelve  years.  Socially,  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic,  Odd  Fellows'  and  United  Work- 
men fraternities.  He  now  enjoys  a  good  practice, 
which  he  has  establislied  among  neighbors  and 
friends  who  knew  him  before  he  began  the  study 
of  medicine.  He  still  li.as  their  confidence  and 
respect  in  an  unlimited  degree. 


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E  R  R  Y  A  LEX  ANDER.  The  death  of  Mr. 
Alexander,  which  occurred  at  his  liome  in 
this  city  July  II,  1891,  removed  from  the 
agricultural  world  a  man  of  intelligence, 
enterprise  and  honor,  who  accumulated  a  com- 
petency under  adverse  circumstances  and  built 
up  a  fair  fortune  through  his  own  efforts.  He 
was  a  perfect  type  of  the  successful,  self-reliant 
and  far-seeing  tiller  of  the  soil,  and  was  a  broad- 
minded  and  intelligent  man  of  affairs.  He  was 
born  in  Pope  County,  III.,  February  29,  182(1,  a 
son  of  Samuel  and  Margaret  (.Stucker)  Alexander, 
the  former  of  whom  was  of  Scotch-English  descent 
and  inherited  the  shrewdness  and  business  judg- 
ment of  the  "canny  .Scott"  and  the  sturdy  perse- 
verance and  honesty  of  his  English  ancestors. 
He  became  a  resident  of  (^uincy  in  1832,  and  in 
addition  to  successfully  following  agricultural  pur- 
suits, he  was  also  an  extensive  and  successful  dealer 
in  real  estate.  His  father  also  bore  the  name  of 
Samuel. 

The  early  days  of  Perr\-  Alexander  were  spent 
in  Quincy,  where  he  was  given  the  advantages  of 
the  public  schools  up  to  the  age  of  thirteen  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  entered  Jacksonville 
College,   of     .Jacksonville,    wliere    he    began    the 


study  of  law,  but  his  health  became  greatly  im- 
paired during  this  time  and  he  was  obliged  to  seek 
other  employment  in  order  to  recuperate  his  shat- 
tered energies.  As  a  means  to  this  end,  he  decided 
that  farming  would  be  the  best  occupation  in 
which  he  could  engage,  and  in  Melrose  Township, 
in  Adams  Countj-,  he  began  following  the  plow. 
His  oi)erations  in  this  branch  of  business  met  with 
substantial  results,  and  he  continued  to  pursue  them 
successfully  until  he  was  stricken  down  by  the 
hand  of  death  on  the  9th  of  July,  1891.  Through- 
out his  career  he  was  one  of  the  busiest  of  busy 
men,  and  was  never  seen  with  idle  hands  when  any 
affair  of  importance  demanded  his  attention.  Ev- 
ery obligation  he  took  ujion  himself  was  faithfully 
discharged,  ever^-  promise  was  kept,  and  he  was  no 
less  higlil}'  esteemed  for  his  integritj- and  rectitude 
than  for  his  good  judgment  and  sagacious  and 
practical  views. 

His  personal  characteristics  were  of  a  kind  that 
provoked  warm  friendship,  genuine  respect  and 
kindest  regard,  and  those  who  knew  him  onl3'  as  a 
man  of  affairs  resiiected  him  for  his  uprightness, 
his  integrity,  his  fidelity  to  every  trust  reposed  in 
him,  and  his  conscientious  regard  for  the  equities 
of  business  life.  For  twenty  years  he  discharged 
the  duties  of  County  Supervisor  in  a  manner  that 
was  universally  satisfactory,  and  for  eight  years 
he  adjusted  the  affairs  of  his  neighbois  imi)artially 
as  Justice  of  the  Peace.  For  a  period  of  fifteen 
years  he  was  Town  Clerk,  and  while  filling  this 
position  he  acted  as  Overseer  of  Public  Works  for 
several  years.  He  was  a  Democrat  of  uncompro- 
mising stripe,  and  believed  in  and  supported  the 
measures  of  that  iiarty.  Mr.  Alexander  was  Quar- 
termaster in  the  INIexican  War  for  two  years,  and 
also  assisted  in  recruiting  troops  for  the  late  war. 

June  11,  18.57,  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  ISIargaret 
Carr,  daughter  of  David  and  Margaret  Hunsaker, 
of  Fall  Creek  Township,  Adams  County,  whose  an- 
cestors were  of  Scotch-English  descent.  Mrs.  Al- 
exander IS  a  worthy  member  of  the  Christian 
Church,  is  very  intelligent,  and  in  disposition  is 
amialile  and  generous.  She  bore  her  husband  the 
following  children:  Margaret,  wife  of  Albert 
Reeder,  of  Melrose  Township;  Perry,  a  farmer  of 
that   township;    Susie,  wife   of  Gustav  Duker,  of 


IH)in'I{.Mr  AM)   liKMJKAI'lIICAI.    KF.COHI). 


]•>:> 


Quincv;  Sallie,  Mal)p|.nn(l  .U-nniu-tti-.  Tlie  family 
resitU'iu'C  is  at  Nu.  .'{2  South  Ki<;litli  Street.  By 
her  first  niarrinf;e  Mrs.  .Mexnndcr  has  onr  son,  Sam- 
uel  t'arr,  of  Washington  Stale. 


EliDi;   \V.   1;1;a  I    TV.    The  enormous    in- 
eren.«e     in    the   deninnd   for    earria>;es    and 
waj;ons  of  all    grades    iins    rendered  tlicir 

manufacture  a  prominent  industry  in  the  Tnited 
States.  There  are  few  liranehes  of  industrial  trade 
in  which  such  a  vast  amount  of  capital  has  been 
invested,  and  none  other  in  wiiich  the  .\meriean 
manufacturer  has  hy  his  skill  and  ingenuity  so  far 
outstripped  his  competitors.  Among  the  most 
widely  known  and  deservedly  popidar  concerns, 
whose  productions  are  in  constant  and  ever-in- 
creasing demand,  is  that  of  the  Heatty  Bros.  It 
has  from  the  outset,  owing  to  the  superior  merits 
and  general  excellence  of  its  productions,  Ix'en 
recognized  .i.s  a  leader  in  its  line,  and  has  had  the 
l>enelit  of  the  executive  management  of  responsihle 
and  intluential  oHicers.  They  are  men  trained  In 
the  art  of  manufacture,  and  pos.se.Hs  an  intimate 
knowledge  of  all  the  details  of  the  liusiness  and 
re(iuirements  of  the  public. 

Krde  W.  Beatty  was  born  in  (Quincv,  III.,  in 
May,  18.'»'J,  to  Thomas  and  Sarah  ((Jwens)  Beatt^-, 
the  former  of  whom  was  n  farmer  by  occupation, 
and  at  the  same  time  carried  on  a  general  repairing 
business  in  Ellington  'I'ownship,  Adams  County. 
He  is  now  residing  in  <^uincy.  The  mother  w.ns 
born  in  Melrose  Township.  .Vdams  County,  III.,  a 
daughter  of  .lohn  Owen.-,  r,n  early  settler  and  one 
of  the  sulwtantial  farmers  c>f  Adams  County.  Their 
son,  Krde  \V.,  received  a  comnion-scliool  education, 
and  in  his  early  nianh<H>d  learned  the  carriage- 
maker's  trade  of  his  father,  whom  he  assiste<l,  like 
a  dutiful  son.  until  he  .-ittained  his  majority,  lie 
was  then  in  partnership  with  his  father  until 
1890,  when  the  father  retired  and  the  three  broth- 
ers. Krde  \V.,  .lolin  K.,  and  Thomas  M.,  buccee<led 


to  the  business,  under  the  Arm  name  of  Hcatty 
Bros.  'I'he.Hc  young  men  are  all  practical  and  skill- 
ful workmen,  thortiughly  experieni'cd  and  shrewd 
business  men,  and  are  well  titled  by  nature,  also, 
to  succe^fully  conduct  the  business  of  which  they 
are  the  proprietors.  'I'heir  establislinient,  which 
is  located  at  the  southwest  corner  of  'i"welfth  ami 
Hampshire  Streets,  is  well  eipiipped  for  the  suc- 
cessful conduct  of  the  business,  and  about  eight 
skilled  mechanics  are  employed  in  the  works. 
They  manufacture  only  the  very  best  articles,  built 
(<f  the  most  caref\illy  selected  materials  by  compe- 
tent judges,  under  the  supervision  of  men  with 
acute  perception  and  va.st  ex|)erience,  and  they 
have  established  a  reputation  which  has  secured 
f<»r  them  a  large  and  constantly  incre;i.«ing  tratle, 
which  they  most  suiressfully  maintain. 

These  gentlemen  are  courteous  and  obliging,  and 
their  reputation  for  sterling  int«'grity  and  per- 
sonal worth  IS  too  well  known  in  this  city  to  re- 
quire mention.  They  have  every  facility  for 
meeting  the  wants  of  their  patrons  in  the  most 
satisfactorv  manner,  and  all  orders  receive  prompt 
attention.  Krde  W.  Beatty  is  a  member  of  Bod- 
ily Lodge  No.  I,  of  the  A.  F.  «t  A.  M.,  also  the 
Modern  Woodmen.  His  residence  is  at  No.  I:17 
North  Twelfth  Street. 


«H— -^ 


« )ll  N  W.  BKt  i\\  -N.  S'cretary,  Treasurer  and 
(General  .Manager  of  the  Collins  I'k>w  Com- 
pany, of  i^uincv.  111.,  is  a  gentleman  of  su- 
perior business  attainments,  whose  energy 
and  fidelity  t<i  the  interests  of  the  i-ompany  with 
which  he  is  connected  contribute  nniterially  to 
the  success  and  continuous  expansion  of  the 
trade  of  the  house.  He  is  a  native  of  .Marion 
County,  Mo.,  born  on  the  2iitli  of  .lanuary, 
1H|(I,  near  I'almyra,  to  William  I'.  Brown,  who 
was  Ihu'Ii  in  Kentucky,  and  iH-eame  a  resident  of 
.Marlon  County,  .Mo.,  at  a  very  i-arly  jwriod.  He 
was  a  snccessfid  farmer  an<l  hemp-rais<r,  in  addi- 
tion to  which   lie  was  itUo  engaged   in  pork-pack- 


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ing,  a  calling  in  wliieli  he  was  particularly  well 
versed.  He  was  a  useful  citizen  of  the  section  in 
wbicli  lie  resided,  and  his  death,  which  occurred  in 
1853,  was  universally  regretted. 

.John  W.  Brown,  whose  name  is  at  the  head  of 
this  n:emoir,  attended  the  common  schools  in  the 
vicinity  of  his  boyhood's  home  sutliciently  to  ac- 
quire a  good  practical  education,  and  in  liis  na- 
tive county  he  grew  up  to  healthful  and  useful 
manhood.  He  perfected  himself  m  the  calling  of 
a  farmer  in  his  early  manhood,  and  this  occupa- 
tion received  his  undivided  attention  until  he  at- 
tained his  thirty-third  year,  when  he  removed  to 
Quincy,  111.,  in  which  cit3' he  has  since  continued 
to  reside.  Soon  after  locating  here,  he  became  in- 
terested in  farm  machinery,  and  was  in  the  eniplo3^ 
of  various  parties  up  to  tiie  year  1878,  when  he 
became  connected  with  the  Collins  Plow  Company 
as  traveling  salesman,  his  territory  comprising  tiie 
States  of  Illinois  and  Missouri.  This  occupation 
received  his  attention  for  several  years,  and  so 
admirably-  did  he  conduct  the  affairs  of  the  com- 
pany that  its  connection  was  very  materially  in- 
creased. In  1885,  he  retired  from  this  business, 
and  engaged  in  the  sale  of  haj'-presses  for  three 
years  on  a  salary,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  be- 
came tired  of  working  for  others,  and  purchased 
an  interest  in  the  Collins  Plow  Company,  of 
which  Martin  Heiderieh  was  President  and  Will- 
iam II.  Collins,  Treasurer.  Mr.  Brown  at  once 
assumed  the  duties  of  Sccretar3'  *i'ifl  Manager,  and 
the  works  continued  under  this  management  until 
the  death  of  Mr.  Ileiderich,  when  AV'illiam  II.  Go- 
vert  became  President,  Mr.  Collins  and  ;\Ir.  Brown 
continuing  in  the  ca}iacities  they  occupied  before. 
After  Mr.  Collins  sold  his  interest  in  the  business, 
Mr.  Brown  was  chosen  Treasurer  of  the  conipany, 
and  possessing  a  high  order  of  executive  ability 
and  sound  judgment,  the  business  has  inospered 
in  a  very  satisfactory  manner. 

This  company  is  extensively  engaged  in  the 
manufactureof  plows,  sulky-plows,  cultivators,  har- 
rows, etc.,  also  the  Eli  Baling  Presses,  and  is  now 
manufacturing  a  late  improved  press,  of  which  Mr. 
Brown  and  A.  A.  Gehut  are  the  inventors,  and 
which,  in  durability  and  simplicily.  will  surpass 
anything  yet  offered  to  the  public.    Tliis  company 


has  extended  its  business  throughout  Illinois,  Mis- 
souri, Virginia,  New  York,  the  Southern  States, 
California,  and  nearly  every  State  in  the  Union. 
They  also  ship  a  great  deal  of  machinery  to  the 
Argentine  Republic.  They  have  so  completely 
won  public  recognition  as  to  the  superior  quality 
of  their  machinery,  that  they  find  it  almost  im- 
possible to  keep  pace  with  home  orders,  and  are 
at  work  both  early  and  late  to  meet  and  properly 
fill  their  orders. 

October  31,  1861,  Mr.  Brown  won  for  his  wife 
Miss  Charity  Lovelace, a  native  of  Marion  County, 
Mo.,  and  a  daughter  of  Nelson  and  Emily  Love- 
lace. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  are  the  parents  of  three 
children,  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  The  members 
of  the  family  are  attendants  at  the  Christian  Church, 
and  politically,  Mr.  Brown  is  an  active  Democrat, 
the  measures  of  whicli  i)art_y  he  supports  at  al) 
times.  He  is  a  strict  temperance  man,  and  all 
measures  of  reform  win  his  hearty  support.  His 
residence  is  at  No.  1121  Main  Street. 


l->jA2g_ 


SO~ 


x^  APT.     W.    J.    BROWN.      A  brave  soldier 
(I  and    a    very    successful    man    in     business 

^^f'  claims  our  notice  in  this  short  sketch,  which 
can  give  only  outlines.  AV.  .T.  Brown,  M.  D.,  a  native 
of  New  York  City,  and  a  graduate  of  Louisville 
Medical  College,  w.as  the  father  of  the  gentleman 
whose  name  o[)ens  this  biography.  The  mother  of 
our  subject  was  Mary  F.  (Dickson)  Brown,  and 
came  from  Ireland  to  America  when  thirteen  years 
of  age.  The  jiarents  were  married  at  Lansing- 
burgh,  N.  Y.,  after  which  event  Dr.  Brown  went 
into  business  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  l)ut  afterward 
moved  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  he  i)racliced  med- 
icine for  seven  years.  After  a  short  time  spent  at 
Cincinnati,  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  then 
settled  at  La  Grange.  Me.,  afterward  at  Keokuk, 
Iowa,  and  then,  in  1848,  he  removed  to  (^uincy, 
111.,  and  in  the  winter  of  1850  lie  moved  to  Jlen- 
don,  where  his  life  ended  in  1871.  The  mother  of 
our  sulijecl  still  >ur\ives,  aged  seventy-four,  and 


I'dini.'.X!  I     \\l'   !  I"«.K' M'lIK    \1      UlXUllL). 


lives  ill  McndiMi.  Siic  wn.s  at  niii'  tmu-  a  mi  mini 
uf  the  ltn|)ti>I  (.'iiiiirli,  hut  now  is  ii  coiiiiiiunicniit 
at  the  C'un}rrf{r«tional  C'luircli.  Dr.  Ilrown  was  a 
vtTV  wi'll-kiiiiwii  iiinii  in  |Militii-.-,  and  was  i-ii-cteil 
from  this  I'lmiily  as  a  DciniK-ralir  nicinlKT  of  thf 
Slato  I.e^isiatiire  in  iHi\'2. 

Our    sulijwt    is    the   oldest    liviii]:^  child    of    his 
parents,  and  wns  liorii  in  Hochester,  N.  Y.,  Aiijju.sl 
29,  I8II'.      Ilf  was  lirou^lit  liv  his  pnient.s  to  Men- 
don  when  liiit  I'iiiht  years  of  aj^fe.  and   is  now   liv- 
ing  in    the    same    house   in    whieh    he    passed    his 
ninth  liirthd»\ .      lie    attended    the   (lulilie  sehuols 
in  Mendoii,  and  at  the  ajje  of  scvente»'ii.  he  lieeame 
a  elerk  in  the  employ  of  lion.  .S.  |{.  (hittenden,  of 
this  plaee.  and  euntiiiue<]   there  for   twenty   yeai>. 
lie  then  took  a  vaeation.  whieh  he   spent    in    C'in- 
einnati,  and  remained  one  year,      .\piil   21,   IHCil, 
he  enlisted    in     Company    K.    Tenth    Illinois  In- 
fantry.    He     lielonj;ed   to   the   tirst  eompaiiy  that 
reported     to  (Jo v.   Yates  at   .'^pnnjilield,  anil    the 
lii-sl    to    reach    Cairo.     They    f>lartod  at  the  call 
ot    their    eoiintrv     with     the     weapons    of    their 
pioneer    fathei-s,  wiili   tlint-loek   musket^s    and    no 
ninniunition.     He    remained    at     or    near    Cairo 
during    the    three    months    of    service  for  which 
he   at    lirst   enlisted,  an<l  assisted   in   the  liuilding 
of    the    first   fort   huill    Itetween     the    Ohio    and 
Mississippi    Kivei-s.  and    in   the    capture    of    many 
steamers.       He    was    disehaiiicd   in   AiiLiust,   1H(>1, 
liavin<;  served  a  month  over  time.  He  re-enlisted  in 
Company  K.  ( >ne  Hundred  ami  Kif:hteenlli  Illinois 
Infantry,  in  .liily,  l><(;2.     He  was  sent  to  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  and  went    with   (ien.   Sherman    to    Vicks- 
burg,   Mis.s.,   and   then    to  the   Yazoo   Hiver,    an<l 
took  part  in   the    haltle   of  Chickasaw  UlulT.  .Miss. 
He  then  w.os  sent  t<i  .\rkans2us  I'ost  and  took   part 
in    the   liattle  there,  and   then    went   to    Yoiiii'j's 
Point,    \m..   and  thence  to  Milliken's   Hend,  until 
April   2,    IHC.T.     He  took   part   in    the  e.vpedition 
against    Vickslmrg.  as  a  part  of  (ieii.   Osterhaus' 
division,    and    look    part    also   in    the   battles  of 
Tliomp.s(m's   Hill,    I'ort    <iib.son.    Champion    Hill. 
Black  I{iver  ISridfje,  anil    the    siege  of   N'ieksbiirg. 
June  10,  the  regiment    was  mounted  by   order  of 
(ien.  (irant,  and   went   with   Sherman   to  Jackson, 
Miss.,  on   the  raid  to  Itrook  Haven,  and  thence  to 
Vifksburg.     August    I,   the   regiment   was     trans- 


ferred to  tlie  .\rmy  of  the  dulf.  and  they  turned 
over  their  horses  and  became  infantry  again.  ( (iir 
subject  was  not  through  with  active  service  yet, 
for  he  was  ill  the  battle-,  of  Port  IIu<lson.  of  Car- 
rollton  (La.),  of  l;a\<iu  ItocutT  (  Iji.),  and  of  Krad- 
shaw  City.  Sept^'inU-r  1 1,  and  cros.seil  the  l5ay<Mi  lo 
Crimp  nisland  <  Ictober  7,  and  at  .Meiers,  Iji.,  wjis 
again  re-mounted,  l-'rom  Hradshaw  City  they 
marched  to  Verinillionville,  and  were  in  the  liattle 
near  Washington,  |ji.,  ( )ctober  21,  and  at  (oand 
Coteaii,  near  N'ermillion ville.  at  N'ermillion ville 
liayou.  Then  they  marched  t<i  Donaldsville,  \j\.. 
and  were  .sent  to  I'ort  Hudson  by  boat,  and  had 
sharp  skirinislie.s  almost  daily.  They  i-aptiired 
many  Confederate  prisoners,  and  at  the  battle  of 
(Ira-sseTete  they  had  a  hand-to-haiul  sabre  light. 
He  was  pari  of  a  small  foii'e  which  was  sur- 
rounded at  Plain  "s  Store.  Ij».,  and  after  a  des|ierate 
fight  escaped  and  was  removed  to  Katon  Koiige  in 
.luly,  IKtM.  He  afterward  t4iok  part  in  the  en- 
gagements at  KedwiHid,  at  Coinite  ISridge,  at  Clin- 
ton (La.),  in  the  raid  to  Liberty,  |{r<H>k  Haven 
(Miss.),  M\d  the  light  at  LilK-rty.  He  again 
went  to  New  Orleans,  and  after  doing  .s4»mc 
scouting,  on  May  22  the  horses  of  the  regiment 
were  again  relurned  except  those  of  C(unpanN  I), 
which  were  kept  for  .scouting  pur|>oses.  This  brave 
soldier  was  promoted  from  a  private  to  Ik-  a  First 
Lieutenant  of  Compaiiy  I)  in  NovemlK-r,  IHi;2. 
and  was  again  promoted  to  \>c  Captain  of  the  same 
company  in  !><(!;?.  He  was  then  in  command  until 
the  regiment  was  mustered  out.  He  was  detailed 
for  over  a  year  as  as|K>cial  scout  with  picked  men. 
He  was  mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  in  Oc- 
tober, 18(>,'(,  after  a  service  of  three  ami  one-half 
years.  Wonderful  to  relate,  he  escapeil  without 
wound  or  capture,  and,  except  for  the  effects  of  a 
partial  sun-stroke,  he  enjoys  good  health. 

.Vfler  one  year  of  (|uiet  home  life.  Captain 
ISrown  went  to  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  there,  in  IXtIT, 
he  was  married  to  Klizabeth  C.  Hyatt,  whom  he 
had  met  during  the  war,  at  Italon  liouge,  Im.,  and 
to  whom  be  liecanie  engaged  to  Ik-  niarrieil.  .She 
was  the  ilaiighter  of  .Sylvester  Hyatt,  who  w.is  a 
native  of  Ohio,  but  resided  in  lititoii  Koiige.  Iji., 
during  the  war.  He  was  a  Inion  man,  and  <k-cu- 
pied  a  very  unpleasant    position    during  the  long 


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struggle.     His  wife  was  a  native  of  Baton  Rouge, 

and  there  their  daughter  was  born  in    1845.     Mrs 
Hyatt  still  survives.    ' 

Following  our  subject's  marriage,  he  came  home 
and  bought  a  farm,  and  then  had  to  hire  a  man  to 
teach  him  to  hitch  up  a  two-horse  vehicle.  He 
only  farmed  for  one  year,  and  then  sold  out  and 
returned  to  Mendon  and  built  and  opened  a  drug 
store,  but  sold  that  in  1874,  and  purchased  a  gen- 
eral stock  of  goods.  He  has  been  engaged  in 
merchandizing  for  the  last  eighteen  years,  and 
deals  in  groceries,  boots,  shoes,  dry  goods,  and 
queensware.  He  has  a  large  and  lucrative  trade, 
and  was  first  in  business  under  the  firm  name  of 
Brown  Brothers,  but  for  the  past  three  years  the 
firm  name  has  been  AV.  .J.  Brown. 

Our  subject  has  been  the  father  of  seven  chil- 
dren, five  of  whom  are  living,  as  follows:  M.  E., 
a  daughter;  A.  S.,  a  son;  Beulah  B.,  Clarence  S., 
Harry  L.;  and  those  deceased  are  W.  ,].  and 
Charles  L.  They  have  all  been  well  educated, 
and  this  family  stands  high  in  the  estimation  of 
the  citizens  of  Mendon.  Capt.  Browii  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and 
in  his  i)olitical  preference  is  a  Democrat.  He 
has  been  honored  with  the  office  of  Super- 
visor of  Mendon  Township,  and  has  been  Con- 
stable and  Collector.  He  has  also  been  a  member 
of  the  A'illage  Council,  and  has  been  the  efficient 
President  of  the  Board  of  Education. 

If  Capt.  Brown  had  no  other  claim  to  the 
high  regard  of  the  citizens  of  Adams  Count}-,  his 
record  during  the  Civil  War  should  assure  him 
their  lastintc  regard. 


V. 


/"  •'•^•{•^SE*. 


^^USTAV  BLECHSCHMIDT  is  a  member  of 
III  (_-,  the  firm  of  Gustav  Blechschraidt  it  Sons^ 
^^|j  manufacturers  of  self-oiling  wheels.  Their 
business  has  experienced  a  prosperous  and  reassur- 
ing growth,  and  is  looked  upon  as  one  of  the  best- 
conducted   and   most   reliable  of  its  kind  in  the 


country.  Their  establishment  is  located  at  No.  725 
S.  Fifth  Street,  Quincy,  111.,  and  thej-  have  good 
facilities  for  shipping  their  goods,  a  very  imijortant 
item  with  an  establishment  of  its  kind  and  magni- 
tude. Mr.  Blechschmidt  was  born  in  Saxony, 
Germany,  January  26,  1843,  to  Gottlieb  and  Con- 
cordia (Kaublen)  Blechschmidt,  the  former  of 
whom  was  a  prosperous  miller  in  the  land  of  his 
birth.  He  was  a  man  of  considerable  influence  in 
the  locality  in  which  he  lived,  and  was  industri- 
ous, upright,  and  frugal,  like  all  Germans.  Gustav 
Blechschmidt  ])assed  his  3'outli  in  his  native  land, 
and  after  obtaining  the  common-school  education 
that  is  part  of  the  German  youth's  inheritance,  he 
began  learning  the  trade  of  a  pattern-maker,  at 
whicli  he  afterward  worked  in  the  Fatherland 
until  188.3.  In  that  j'ear,  he  came  to  America, 
being  the  first  member  of  the  family  to  seek  a 
home  beyond  the  sea,  landed  at  Baltimore,  Md., 
and  soon  after  removed  to  Peru.  111.,  where 
he  secuix'il  employment  at  his  trade  and  carried 
on  contracting. 

In  tlie  mouth  of  April,  1891,  became  to  (^uinc^-, 
and  with  characteristic  energy  and  enterprise  he 
started  a  siiop  of  his  own  and  embarked  in  tiie 
manufacture  of  self-oiling  wheels,  on  which  he  re- 
ceived a  patent  April  26,  1892.  It  is  unnecessary 
to  state  that  this  firm  in  all  cases  uses  the  veiy 
best  material  that  can  be  obtained,  and  all  their 
goods  are  thoroughly  tested  before  they  are  al- 
lowed to  leave  the  works.  Tlie}-  ship  their  goods 
to  all  parts  of  the  United  States,  and  occupy  two 
floors  of  a  building  60x70  feet,  and  fitted  with  all 
the  latest  improved  machinery  that  is  necessary 
for  the  proper  conduct  of  their  business.  This 
house  is  a  thoroughly  represcntTative  one  in  its 
line  and  deserves  honorable  mention  among  the 
foremost  business  houses  of  Quincy,  the  proprietor 
of  which  is  highly  regarded  in  business  circles, 
and  justly  deserves  the  liberal  and  influential  pat- 
ronage he  has  secured  Ijj'  his  well-directed  efforts 
to  please  his  customers,  who  reside  in  all  portions 
of  the  Republic.  Unlike  man}'  Germans,  he  sup- 
ports the  principles  of  the  Repulilican  party,  but 
does  so  intelligently,  for  he  is  a  man  who  forms 
his  own  oiiinions,  has  a  mind  of  his  own,  and 
thinks  for  himself, 


rt)HtHAn    AM)  niOr.RAl'HlCAL   RKCOKI). 


131 


The  year  18SI  witnessed  the  i-elehration  of  liis 
inarrinjre  to  Miss  Mona  1-A-klianlt.  a  daiij^htt'i-  nf 
(iiittlii'b  F.  Kokliaidt,  nii  Ikukiii-iI  and  Milislan- 
tial  ii'sitlont  uf  the  (iiTinan  ICinpirc.  'I'Uv  iinii)ii 
<if  Mr.  and  Mi>.  Hlcflisfhniidl  has  ri'siilted  in  Ilic 
liiith  of  twti  sons,  who  liicJ  fair  to  rival  their  father 
as  lni>lni's.s  men,  and  as  nscfiii,  iiro>jressive  and 
loyal  citizens  of  a  c-oiiiUiy  that  has  eon f erred  end- 
less i)enefit.s  npoii  self-sii|)i>oiUii;r  foreijfners  who 
have  set  foot  upon  her  siiores.  I'aiil,  llie  elder 
MHi.  is  associated  in  Inisiness  with  Ins  fnllici-,  and 
is  a  |)iishin^',  ninliitioiis  and  industrious  youn.i; 
man.  and  l'',iiiil,  the  youu-^er,  is  also  in  the  shop. 
U-arninij  the  details  of  the  business,  to  which  he 
expects  to  devote  his  attention.  .Mr.  Hlech- 
schinidt  resides  at  No.  7liH  Jefferson  Street,  where 
he  makes  his  home  .Tiid  V  wliicli  he  retires  when 
bis  day's  labor  is  over,  w  Oie  conseion.  ■•  e  Uiat 
he  will  tnere  uini  .^.a  and  comfort. 


JUDGK    WJl.J.l.VM    MAHMI.       Amonjr    the 
prominent  citizens  of  (^iiincy,  wluise   supe- 
rior abilities   aiicl   >plendid    reputation  en- 
hance  the  fame  of  his  adopted  city,  may  be 

mentioned  the  irentleman  wliose  name  introduces 
this  liioijraphical  notice.  His  record  as  attiunev  and 
judge,  and  as  a  progressive  and  active  promoter  of 
all  the  interests  of  .\dams  County,  is  worthy  of 
note.  This  volume  would  be  incomplete,  espec- 
ially for  thfise  by  whoin.Iudge  Marsh  is  personally 
held  in  the  highest  esteem,  if  some  reference  were 
not  made  to  his  career. 

Prior  to  a  more  extended  account  of  the  life  of 
our  suliject.  some  reference  to  his  parentage  may 
not  lie  amiss.  His  paternal  graiiilf.Mther,  Isbenezer 
Marsh,  was  born  in  Hampshire  County,  Mass..  and 
traced  hi^  ancesti\  to  Kngland.  The  father  of 
our  subject,  Ziinri  Marsh,  who  was  also  a  native 
of  the  Hay  State,  married  .Miss  Crus.sa.  daughter  of 
Calel)  Hulibnrd.  familiarly  known  as  Major  Hub- 
bard of  the  "I'luin  Trees,'"  who  roided  in  .Mas.--a- 
rluisetts  and  was    .-i   miiiutem:in    diirinu^  the  lievo- 


lutionary  War.  participati\^j  ^,,p  battle  of  li\inker 
Hill.  When  advanced  h\\^  ^|,^,  mother  of  our 
subject  came  to  <^uincy.  "Ik^.i^,  died  in  "*'".'••<.•. 

Horn  ill  Cayuga  County,  \  •.-.  .»lMreli  11.  1H22, 
William  M!ii>h  w.-r-  the  f'lurtli  in  a  family  of  seven 
children.  He  pa.s'ie<l  some  time  in  his  Itoyhood  at 
•A  private  school  in  Tompkins  County.  N.  Y.,  and 
later  w.is  a  student  in  an  academy,  where  lie  laid 
the  foundation  of  the  broad  and  extensive  learn- 
ing which  is  now  one  <»f  his  personal  attributes. 
His  subsequent  studies  were  carried  on  in  I'liioii 
College,  New  York,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1812.  Having  determined  to  enter  upon  a 
professional  career,  he  commenced  the  study  of 
law  ill  the  otiice  of  .ludge  .lewett.  of  Skaneateles, 
N.  Y.,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  liar  of 
the  State  in  l«4.->. 

Oliening  an  otliee  at  Itliai'"  "^  ^  '  --  .•!..... 
vKiiv.ixivii  viicic  111  ,.i..cLice  until  1H54,  which  year 
witnessed  his  arrival  in  (Juiiicy.  Here  for  three 
years  he  was  associated  in  partnership  with  Will- 
iam H.  Henneson,  andat  the  expiration  of  that  lime 
.Judge  .Skinner  was  admitted  into  the  firm,  the 
title  being  changed  to  Skinner,  IJenneson  A-  Mai-sh. 
This  connection  Cfmtinued  until  1M<'>2,  when  .Mr. 
Benneson  entered  the  army  as  Colonel  of  the 
Seventy-eightli  Illinois  Infantry.  This  linn  con- 
tinued liusme.ss  under  the  name  of  .Skinner  A:  Marsh 
until  1877,  when  Judge  .Skinner  died.  Afterward, 
our  subject  formed  a  partnership  with  William 
-McFadon,  which  continued  until  ISS.'i,  when  he 
was  elected  Circuit  Judge  of  the  Sixth  Judici.al 
District,  comprising  the  counties  of  .\daiiis.  Pike, 
Hrown,  .Schuyler,  Fulton  and  Hancock. 

For  six  years  Judge  Marsh  served  on  the  lieiich 
to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned,  and  since  that 
time  he  has  lived  jiracticallv  rotii-ed  from  active 
busines.«.  His  career  has  been  tli;it  of  the  succe.«s- 
ful  lawyer,  eminent,  trusted  and  honored.  For 
perhaps  a  ipiarter  of  a  century  he  has  not  only 
been  an  acknowledged  leader  at  the  Har.  but  has 
also  stood  as  one  of  the  ablest  counselors  and 
most  courageous  champions  of  the  Democratic 
partv.  of  which  he  has  been  an  active  member 
from  the  attainment  of  his  majority.  He  has  been 
an  ellicient  coadjutor  with  the  best  men  of  Illinois 
ill  |ierfccting  lliegfivernmcnt  of  the  Stale  in  all  its 


.  -i  j„rents,  as  well  as  in  theup- 

institutions  and  cicr         ' 

'  ,,.         ,i- I  and  strengthening  of  Ins 

building  of  his  prof  S 

August  29,  .  .  'iiilge  ^larsh  inariied  Miss 
Cornelia  M.,  the  daughter  of  Hon.  J.  L.  AVoods,  of 
Lockport.  N.  Y.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Marsh  hare  three 
cliildreu,  namely:  :\Iar\-  M.,  wife  of  Don  A.  Sweet, 
of  Tompkins  County,  N.  Y.  ;Cornelia  W.,  who  is  Mrs. 
C.  A.  Babcock,  of  Quincy,and  I-awrence  "\V..  wiiose 
home  is  also  in  this  city.  Judge  Marsh  is  closely 
identified  with  many  of  the  industries  and  enter- 
prises of  tlie  city;  he  is  a  stockholder  in  the  First 
National  Bank,  the  C^uincy  (ias  Company,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Barlow  Corn  Planter  Company,  and 
connected  with  various  other  business  enterprises 
of  less  importance.  AVhenever  possible,  ho  has 
taken  an  active  part  in  all  measures  tending  to  the 
advancenierit  of  the  city  and  its  growth  along 
moral,  social  or  business  lines.  His  pleasant  home 
is  a  brick  residence  at  No.  818  North  Fifth  Street, 
in  the  midst  of  inviting  surroundings,  and  in  one 
of  the  best  portions  of  the  city. 


-^^^^  ^  It  ^@I  ^  ^^ 


C.  ALTENHEIN,  dealer  in  agricultural 
implements  at  No.  1219  Broadway,  (^uincy, 
111.  There  have  been  few  departments  of 
manufacture  in  which  the  improvement  has  been 
so  great  as  in  agricultural  implements,  and  among 
the  men  who  keep  a  fine  line  of  modern  farming 
machinery  is  Mr.  Altenhein.  He  is  a  native  of  the 
city  of  (^uincy,  111.,  and  is  a  son  of  Frederick  and 
Christina  (Rhode)  Altenhein,  the  former  of  whom 
was  successfully  engaged  in  tilling  the  soil,  and  was 
thrifty,  progressive  and  industrious,  as  are  all 
Germans. 

F.  C.  Altenhein  was  the  eldest  in  a  family  of 
five  children,  and  until  he  was  about  fourteen 
years  of  age,  his  time  was  about  equally  divided 
between  attending  school  and  assisting  his  fatiier 
on  the  farm,  but  from  that  .age  up  to  about  1886,  his 
time  was  given  almost  exclusively  to  agriculture. 
While  following  the  plow,  he  gained  a  clear  insight 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


into  the  kind  of  implements  that  were  required  for 
a  successful  conduct  of  the  farm,  and  when  start- 
ing out  in  life  for  himself,  he  determined  to  make 
this  his  first  business  venture,  and  at  once  laid  in 
a  comprehensive  supply  of  macliiiieiy,  which  h.as 
gradually  increased  in  volume,  until  he  now  does 
a  very  extensive  business.  His  stock  is  carefully 
selected  from  the  products  of  the  best  manufactur- 
ers, and  his  house  has  a  first-class  standing,  and  is 
recognized  as  occupying  a  high  place  among  the 
solid  and  substantial  business  concerns  of  Quincy. 

In  connection  with  this  business  Mr.  Altenhein 
also  carries  on  general  farming  and  stock-raising, 
and  on  his  land  uses  many  of  the  imi)lements  in 
which  he  deals,  and  thus  has  a  practical  knowledge 
of  their  good  points.  lie  makes  large  consign- 
ments to  Illinois,  low"  '  id  Missouri,  and  for  the 
proper  <:\3nrtuct  of  hi;  liness  he  has  extensive 
buildings  and  a  fine  warehouse  located  at  No. 
1219  Broadway.  His  jiremises  are  in  every  re- 
spect adapted  to  the  business  that  is  done,  and  for 
the  business  ability  he  has  displaced,  as  well  as  for 
the  characteristics  that  attach  to  useful  and  hon- 
orable citizens,  he  deservedly  occupies  a  high 
rank  in  mercantile  circles. 

Since  attaining  his  majority,  he  has  supported 
Democratic  principles,  although  he  has  never  had 
any  desire  for  public  preferment,  the  duties  of  his 
calling  completely  occupying  his  time  and  atten- 
tion. While  on  the  farm,  he  was  Clerk  of  Elling- 
ton Township,  Adams  County,  for  four  .years,  has 
been  Countj'  Supervisor  two  years,  and  was  Asses- 
sor of  Ellington  Township  one  year,  but  .aside  from 
these  instances,  has  continued  to  pursue  the  ■' even 
tenor  of  his  way"  with  good  financial  results. 

Mr.  Altenhein  celebrated  his  marriage  in  1881, 
Miss  Anna  Henerhoff,  a  daughter  of  Frederick  Hcn- 
erhoff,  a  farmer  of  this  countj^  becoming  his  wife. 
They  have  an  interesting  family  of  two  sons  and 
two  daughters:  AVilliam,  Albert,  Nora  and  Laura. 
These  children  are  growing  up  in  a  home  that  has 
been  provided  for  them  by  their  father's  industry 
and  push,  and  has  been  made  pleasant  and  com- 
fortable by  their  mother's  taste  and  naturally  am- 
iable disposition.  j\Ir.  and  Mrs.  Altenhein  are 
earnest  members  of  the  Seventh  Street  German  Lu- 
theran Church,  and  in  their  dailv  w.n Ik  through  life. 


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pndoiivor  to  follow  llie  toncliiiifp*  of  the  "(Joldi-n 
Kuli'."  Thcv  are  (icservtMily  iiiiiMinK'd  niiioiii;  ijii' 
lirst  citi/.fn,-*  of  (^iiiiuT.  Our  miI.jjhI  whs  horn  in 
this  city  in  .InniiBry,  IK.'il.iind  lias  aiwnvs  rosidod 
here. 


I..  HAIMCAIMNKK.  In  preparation  of 
this  brief  outline  of  the  life  histoi y  of  the 
best  man  of  (iernian  liirlh  whoever  made 
his  liome  in  Adiinis  Cnunty.  faets  appear 
whieli  are  ;;reatly  to  his  credit.  His  intelliueneo, 
enterprise  and  inte>rrity.  as  well  as  many  other 
estimable  iiualities,  have  ac<|uired  for  him  a  popu- 
larity not  derived  from  any  lictitious  circumstan- 
ces, but  which  is  a  permanent  and  spontaneous 
tribute  to  his  merit,  l-ookin;,'  back  ui)on  Mr. 
14aumi,'artner"s  ancestors,  it  is  found  that  they  were 
(iermans  on  both  sides,  and  that  his  father,  Frank 
Haumjfnrtner,  followed  the  honorabie  and  useful 
callinir  of  a  s<-hoo|  teacher,  in  which  occupation  he 
won  distinction  for  himself  as  an  able  edueator 
and  a  line  disciplinarian.  I'lie  maiden  name  of 
our  subject's  mother  w:is  IJuikart,  and  her  family 
was  highly  respected  throuirhoul  the  region  in 
which  they  reside<l. 

.v.  I,.  1inum<rartner  was  the  \ounjrest  ol  four 
children  that  were  jjiven  to  the  union  of  his  par- 
ent*, and  up  to  the  aj^e  of  liftecn  yeni-s  he  was  an 
attendant  of  the  pulilic  .schools  of  Haden.  where 
his  career  was  marked  by  faithfulness  tohis  duties. 
and  by  fair  proyrei^s  in  his  studies,  lie  had 
heard  much  of  the  advantajres  offered  to  vouufj 
men  of  push  and  enterprise  in  the  New  World, 
and  with  the  laudable  ambition  of  belterini,'  his 
financial  affairs, and  frainin^r  a  secure  footiiold  upon 
the  ladder  of  success,  he  came  to  America  .May  .'<  I , 
I«4(».  landing' at  New  York  City,  .\ftcr  a  short 
residence  in  the  metropolis  of  the  I  nited  Slates. 
he  removeil  to  Claiion  County,  I'a.,  where,  for  fif- 
teen years,  hisatlention  was  dovot<'d  to  t he succe.ss- 
fulcoiiduet  of  a  fncnontilecstnlilislnneiit,     Hedis- 


played  marked  ability  in  the  mana;fenient  of  his 
business  (ifTairs  and  atcumulated  considerable 
means,  but  became  dissatisfied  with  his  lt>cation. 
dis|M)sed  of  his  st<K.'k  of  ^mmmIs  ami  turned  liis  foot- 
steps towards  the   West. 

In  IH.'i.'i,  he  took  up  his  abo<le  in  t^uincy.  111.,  at 
which  place  he  o|)ened  n  fjrocery  store,  and  for  live 
years  thereafter  his  .attention  was  devoted  to  this 
eallinix.  In  this  capacity  he  liecame  well  known 
to  the  citizens  of  Adams  (  ounty,an<l  acfpiired  the 
reputation  of  an  honorable,  upriudit  man  of  afTairs, 
who.se  desire  wa.s  to  plejisi-  and  accommodate  his 
patrons,  a.s  well  as  to  gain  a  com|M'teney  for  him- 
.self.  lie  kept  a  well-st<Hked  esl«lilishment.  hantl- 
linj;  all  necessary  articles  in  his  line,  and  his  ca- 
reer as  a  man  of  biisine.ss  is  one  of  which  he  has  no 
occasion  to  be  .-ohamed.  Since  U'comin^'  natural- 
i/ed,  .Mr.  l{aum;;artner  h:is  supported  the  principles 
of  Democracy,  and  for  two  year-  .-icted  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  .Vsscxsor  of  t^uincy. 

In  the  month  of  .luly,  l«i;t.  his  marna^'e  with 
Miss  Klizabeth  A.  Walley  was  celebrated,  but  after 
a  very  short  period  of    wedde<l   happiness    he   was 

left  a  widower,    and   in    the   nth    of   December, 

18.'il.  he  took  for  his  second  wife  Miss  Fannie 
Walley,  sister  of  his  former  wife  and  d.-iujihtcr  of 
Nichol;is  W.illey,  a  I'eiin.sylvanian.  .Mr.  Haum- 
{jartner's  tii-st  union  resulted  in  the  liirth  of  one 
son.  Samuel  f  )tto,  who  is  a  resident  of  (.^uincy. 
and  is  a  well-known  man  of  business,  as  well  as  an 
honored  citizen.  .\lr.  Maiim<;nrlner  has  a  very 
comfortable  residence  at  No.  I  l(l7  Hampshire 
Street,  where  he  and  his  wife  trive  cordial  welcome 
to  their  numerous  friiinN. 


IDtiK  HKNKY  Kf)I,I,KK  K<)D(  il.F.  .lusiice 
of  the  I'eaee.  Nolaiy  Public.  Pension  At- 
torney ami  (olleeting  .\jjent.  of  (^iiincy.  III., 
has  been  :\  resident  of  this  city  since  iMIi.'l. 
but  was  born  in  .Viahaii,  Switzerland,  in  IK2(>.  his 
nat.al  day  beinj;  the  ;flst  of  .Inly.  His  father,.!. 
('.  I".  I{o(|o|f,  was  in  the  {''reiicli  army  .niid  was  ('oni'' 


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i'ORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


inander  of  a  company  of  Swiss  in  Napoleon 's  Arm >-, 
with  whom  he  inarclied  to  Moscow,  Russia.  In  the 
fall  of  1832,  1r-  c.Tmc  witli  his  family  to  America 
and  settled  in  New  Orleans,  but  after  a  very  short 
residence  there  took  his  family  to  St.  Louis,  where 
he  began  practicing  law,  having  been  graduated  in 
that  science  while  in  his  native  land.  In  the  winter 
of  1832.  while  on  a  visit  to  New  Orleans  on  business, 
he  was  taken  ill  and  died  there,  leaving  his  family 
strangers  in  a  strange  land.  His  wife,  who  was 
formerly  Miss  Emerensinia  von  KoUer,  was  a 
daughter  of  President  von  Koller,  who  had  a 
beautiful  residence  in  the  city  of  Zurich.  He  was 
President  and  Attorney-General  of  Switzerland  for 
years  and  was  a  very  highly  educated  and  refined 
gentleman,  and  very  jsromineut  in  the  histoiy  of 
his  countrj'. 

Mrs.  Rodolf  was  educated  in  Switzerland  and 
France  and  was  a  lady  of  more  than  ordinary 
intellect.  After  the  death  of  her  husband,  she 
nobly  performed  her  part  as  head  of  the  family-, 
and  in  1833  came  with  her  children  to  Galena,  111., 
but  two  years  later  removed  to  Mineral  Point,  Wis., 
where  she  was  called  from  life.  Her  worthy  traits 
of  character  endeared  her  to  all,  and  her  death  was 
lamented  by  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  as  well  as  by 
her  own  immediate  and  sorrowing  family.  She 
was  an  Episcopalian.  Her  family  consisted  of  five 
sons  and  two  daughters,  only  four  sons  of  whom 
now  survive.  Fred  J.  P.  resides  in  LaFayette  Coun- 
ty, AVis.;  Hon.  Theo  was  a  member  of  the  Slate 
Legislature,  and  died  in  La  Crosse;  Dr.  P^rank 
S.  is  a  resident  of  Oakland,  Cal.;  Hon.  Charles  .1. 
was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of  AVisconsin 
seven  terms  and  is  now  residing  in  Wichita,  Kan. 

Of  this  family  Judge  Henry  Koller  Rodolf  was 
the  youngest;  until  he  was  about  seven  years  of 
age,  he  lived  on  the  Rhine  River,  in  Switzerland. 
He  came  with  his  parents  to  America,  taking 
passage  on  the  sailing-vessel  "Isaac  Hicks"  at 
Havre,  France,  and  after  a  short  voj'age  of  fortv- 
eight  daj's  landed  at  New  Orleans.  From  that 
city  to  Lake  Pontchartrain,  he  rode  on  the  first 
train  of  cars  he  had  ever  seen.  He  attended  ilie 
common  schools  in  the  different  localities  in  which 
his  mother  resided,  hut  later  finished  his  education 
ill    Mt,    Morris   Academy,    wliicli    institution    he 


quitted  in  1842.  He  entered  upon  the  study  of 
law  in  Wisconsin,  to  whose  Bar  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  at  Richland  Center  in  1843,  but  prior  to 
this  time,  in  1842,  having  learned  the  harness  and 
saddle-maker's  trade,  he  went  to  Dubuque,  Iowa, 
for  the  jiurpose  of  pursuing  that  calling,  where  he 
remained  in  business  a  short  time,  then  studied 
law,  as  above  stated.  la  1855,  he  returned  to  Du- 
buque, where  he  became  a  Clerk  in  the  Post  Office, 
and  in  1856  was  made  Mail  Clerk  Agent  on  a 
Mississippi  River  steamboat  and  took  the  first  mail 
that  was  ever  carried  up  the  Mississippi  River  to 
St.  Paul,  and  afterward  opened  forty-seven  post 
oltices  on  tlie  way.  He  continued  in  this  business 
until  1858,  then  located  in  Dubuciue.  Init  sjienthis 
winters  at  La  Crosse,  Wis.,  as  si)ecial  agent  in  the 
JIail  Department. 

In  1860,  he  went  to  Virotiua  and  became  well 
acquainted  with  Hon.  Jerry  Rusk,  when  the  latter 
was  mail  carrier,  and  while  there  was  United  States 
Deputy  JNIarshal  and  took  the  census  of  Vernon 
County  in  1860.  For  some  time  after  this  he  was 
in  the  liarness  business  in  Sparta,  to  which  occupa- 
tion he  devoted  his  attention  until  he  sold  out  to 
take  charge  of  the  Government  Works  in  Racine, 
Wis.,  later  occupying  the  same  position  in  Chicago. 
In  February,  1863,  became  to  (^uincy  and  was  in  the 
Government  employ,  cutting  out  knajtsacks  till  the 
contracts  were  filled,  after  which  he  resumed  woi  k 
at  his  trade.  In  1866,  he  was  appointed  Postal 
Clerk  on  The  Wabash  under  President  .lohnson, 
which  office  he  held  until  the  latter  had  completed 
his  term  of  office,  when  he  turned  his  attention  to 
other  occupations.  In  1868,  he  made  over  fifty 
political  speeches  in  Indiana  and  Illinois,  and  in 
1870  was  elected  Police  Magistrate  and  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  serving  until  the  4th  of  Jul}-,  1874.  In 
187.">,  he  was  elected  Assessor  of  (^uincy  for  two 
j'cars,  after  wdiich  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
the  Justice  Courts,  giving  considerable  attention 
to  pensions. 

Since  1885,  he  has  held  the  office  of  Justice  of  the 
I'eace.  has  been  a  member  of  the  County  Demo- 
cratic Committee  for  years,  has  been  Chairman  of 
his  precinct  convention  and  a  delegate  to  the 
county  and  State  conventions.  He  has  been  an 
active  politician  and  has  made  a  great   many  poll- 


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135 


lical  spcfclu's,  ns  w«'ll  ns  }i|>oeclic.s  for  differt'iit 
sofietic's.  lit-  wns  tlit-  first  oiip  to  orjinnizc  the 
eiglil-linur  syj^tviM  fur  wmkiiicn.  and  is  in  pvcrv 
resptfl  tlu'  wriiknicn's  friend,  and  Im.x  nindo  many 
specelifs  ill  tlicir  lielialf  in  both  Knjirlisli  and  (ler- 
nian.  lie  lia.s  n  c-onifortaltie  residence  at  No.  2"2;!l 
Ilainpsliire  .Street,  (^iiiney.  He  was  first  married 
in  1811,  in  |)nliui|uc.  to  Miss  Kliza  Corkery,  a 
native  of  l'liila<1elpliia,  I'a..  wiio  died  in  Dn- 
luu|ne  after  liavinji  borne  six  children:  !•".  II..  in 
Dakota:  .loiiii  .1.,  at  Mt.  Sterlinjr.  111.:  A.  ('.,  a 
niorcliant  of  I,e  Mars,  Iowa;  .Mary,  wife  of  V.  W. 
Nanels.  of  Denver;  ICmnia,  wife  of  |{.  T.  Shcckelis 
of  Denver;  and  Khod;i.  wife  of  S.  1'.  Ilesler.  of 
Denver. 

!Mr.  Hodolf's  second  union  look  place  in  Duhn- 
<)ue  in  1H.">!).  Kllen  Mealy,  of  Cork,  Ireland,  liecoin- 
in};  his  wife;  she  is  tlie  mother  of  seven  children: 
l.onis.  wife  of  II.  W.  .leffrey,  of  Denver;  Kttie, 
wife  of  K.  1'.  Woillard;  Nellie.  Lillian,  Laura, 
Isabel  and  Henry  .1.,  the  latter  being  head  clerk 
for  Ilessler  \-  Co.,  corainis.sion  merchants.  .Mr. 
Rodolf  .-ind  family  are  members  of  the  Catholic 
Church,  and  he  is  an  old  and  highly  respected 
citizen  of  this  .section. 


i  =-^^^m-^^mmm=^ 


TOIIN  r.  WKN/.KL.  Prominent  among  the 
commercial  resources  of  the  city  of  i^uincy 
must  be  included  the  trade  carrie<l  on  in 
agricultural  implements,  and  among  those 
most  prominently  identilied  with  it  is  Mr.  .lohn  1'. 
Wenzel,  who  is  a  gentleman  of  wide  and  enlight- 
ened views,  and  one  highly  esteemefl  in  business 
and  .s<K-ial  circles  in  this  lUiurishingi-ity.  Combin- 
ing energy  anil  force  with  his  experience, and  giv- 
ingclose  attention  to  his  business,  Mr.  Wenzel  gains 
more  and  more  the  people's  patronage.  l5orn  in 
Adams  County.  III.,  in  October,  183!!,  it  is  but 
natural  perhaps  that  he  should  t«ke  more  interest 
Ml  the  progress  and  <levelopment  of  his  county 
than  those  who  have  moved  in  from  other  .Stales. 
He  has  ever  lieen    noted   for   the  deep  interest  he 


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takes  in  all  the  affairs  of  moment  in  the  county, 
particularly  those  relatintr  in  any  way  to  the  com- 
mercial resources  of  the  city. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  inherits  all  the  perse- 
verance and  energy  for  which  he  is  noted  from 
his  (ierman  ancestors,  who  were  wealthy  and  in- 
lluential  jwople  of  their  native  eoiintry.  I  lis  par- 
ents, .lohn  and  Margaret  (Leibig)  Wenzel.  were 
iKirn  in  the  Fatherhind,  but  at  an  early  daU-  emi- 
grated to  America,  and  in  18:5:1  made  a  settlement 
in  Adams  County,  III.  They  were  the  parent.s  of 
nine  children,  of  whom  our  subject  was  the  eldest 
son.  The  latter  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  received 
the  advantages  of  a  district-schrtol  education  in 
Melrose  Township.  Like  the  nu»jority  of  farmer 
boys,  he  divided  his  lime  between  attending  .school 
and  assisting  his  father  on  the  farm,  where  he  early 
bec:ime  inured  to  hard  labor.  Fiom  the  age  of 
seventeen  until  nineteen,  he  was  actively  employed 
on  the  farm,  but  in  the  spring  f>f  18.'i8  he  came  to 
<.iuinc_\  and  began  learning  the  blacksmith "s  trade. 
This  he  continued  with  fair  success  until  187!t, 
when,  in  partnership  with  (lec^rge  Keller,  he  en)- 
Itarked  in  the  farm  im|>lemenl  business,  uniler  the 
lirm  name  of  Wenzel  A  Keller,  and  tliLs  still  con- 
tinues. They  are  located  in  a  good  business  part 
of  the  city,  occupy  three  rooms,  i^.^xfin  feet,  ami 
are  doing  a  flourishing  and  very  successful  busi- 
ness. Energetic,  reliable,  conducting  their  business 
on  the  most  elevated  plane  of  mercantile  honor 
and  practically  conversant  with  it  in  all  its  details, 
this  lirm  has  become  one  of  the  lepresentative ones 
in  this  line  in  (^uiiicy. 

In  the  vear  18(i:i.  Mr.  Wenzel  w.-is  married  to 
Miss  Caroline  Ileiliiian,  dauuhter  of  .lacob  Ileil- 
man.  of  <iuiiicy.  Hy  her  he  had  one  dau;;htir, 
Lydia,  wife <if  Ernest  C.  Miller,  of  (^uiiicy.  llewa-s 
married  the  second  lime  to  Miss  Ann  A.  I'llger. 
and  they  have  the  following  chiblren:  Amelia. at 
home:  Laur.-i.  .-i  sleiiograi>her  of  (^iiincy :  AllK-rL.Vr- 
lliur  and  Leroy. 

.Mr.  and  .\Ii>.  Wenzel  :ire  earnest  and  devoted 
meml)ers  of  the  Methodist  Cliui-eh,  and  are  claj>.sed 
anioMif  the  highl\'  respected  and  esteemed  citizens 
of  the  place.  They  enjoy  the  comforts  of  a  good 
home  at  No.  1(1.17  .lersey  Street.  In  politics,  .Mr. 
Wenzel  is  a  Kepublic.aii.  and  ailds  lii>   iiilbienee   to 


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every  cause  that  needs  a  helpful  impetus  and 
promises  to  be  a  benefit  to  the  people  at  large. 
We  take  pleasure  in  presenting  this  worthy  gen- 
tleman and  his  family  among  the  prominent  busi- 
ness men  whose  biographies  are  given  in  this  work. 
Mr.  Wenzel  is  a  member  of  Gem  Citj'  Camp  No. 
319,  ]M.  W.  of  A.,  and  is  a  member  of  the  People's 
Benefit  Association. 


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^ATHAN  ROBBINS,  one  of  the  most  exten- 
sive land-owners  and  a  leading  agricultur- 
ist of  North  East  Township,  residing  in 
Golden,  claims  North  Carolina  as  the  State  of  his 
nativity.  He  was  born  in  Guilford  County,  in 
1824,  and  is  a  son  of  .James  and  Elizabeth  (.Johnson) 
Robbins,  the  former  a  native  of  North  Carolina, 
and  the  latter  of  Ireland.  Of  their  family,  Cle- 
ments married  Miss  Leo  Burke,  aud  came  to  tliis 
county  in  1836.  William,  born  in  1818,  married 
Miss  Dorset,  and  is  living  in  North  East  Town- 
ship; Kesiah,  wife  of  Nixon  Balfour,  born  ni  1826, 
resides  in  Augusta,  111.;  Martha,  born  in  1828,  is 
the  wife  of  James  Warren,  of  this  county;  Rosa, 
born  in  1830,  is  the  wife  of  Jeffrey  Horney,  of 
La  Prairie,  111.;  Ann,  born  in  1833,  is  the  wife  of 
Lemuel  Burke,  of  this  county;  A.  Smith,  born  in 
183.5,  makes  his  home  in  this  county;  Jane,  born 
in  1836,  is  the  wife  of  Josepli  CrumwelLand  resides 
ill   Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

(Jur  subject  spent  the  first  twelve  years  of  his 
life  in  the  State  of  his  nativity,  and  in  1836  came 
to  Adams  County,  111.  On  attaining  to  mature 
j-ears,  he  married  Miss  Elizabetii  J.  Dorset,  who 
was  born  in  1832.  Their  union,  celebrated  in 
1848,  has  been  blessed  with  a  family  of  seven 
children:  Jeffrey,  born  in  1849,  married  Miss  Dor- 
set, and  resides  in  Kansas;  James,  born  in  1851, 
married  Miss  Hackney,  and  makes  his  home  in 
North  East  Township;  C.  P.,  born  in  1853,  wed- 
ded Miss  Ross,  and  is  living  in  Missouri;  Nath.an 
Lewis,  born  in    1856,  married    Miss   AValker,   and 


lives  in  Colorado;  William,  born  in  1857,  married 
Miss  Hoyt,  and  lives  in  this  county;  Mary,  born 
in  1859,  is  the  wife  of  James  Ross,  of  this  county, 
and  Iva  May,  born  in  1871,  now  Mrs.  Eugene 
Ketchum,  completes  the  family. 

Throughout  his  entire  life  Mr.  Robbins  has  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits.  Purchasing  a  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  North  East 
Township,  he  there  made  his  home  until  1891. 
For  that  farm,  which  he  bought  when  twenty-four 
years  of  age,  he  paid  1350.  He  improved  the 
laml,  erected  good  buildings  upon  it,  and  made  it 
an  excellent  farm.  He  has  since  bought  four  hun- 
dred and  eighty  acres  additional,  and  is  one  of  the 
extensive  land-owners  of  the  county.  His  success 
has  all  been  acquired  thvough  his  own  efforts.  He 
started  out  in  life  empty-handed,  but  with  perse- 
verance and  determination  lie  overcame  the  diffi- 
culties ill  his  path  and  steadily  worked  iiis  way  up- 
ward to  a  position  of  wealth  and  affluence.  His 
prosperity  is  certainly  well  deserved.  In  politics, 
he  is  a  Republican,  and  is  a  liberal  supporter  and 
faithful  member  of  the  United  Brethren  Church. 
Those  who  know  him  esteem  him  highly  for  his 
sterling  worth,  and  his  friends  throughout  the 
comniunitv  are  many. 


\T'OSEPH  H.  ALESHIHE,  M.  D.  In  every 
I  town  througliout  our  broad  land,  there  may 
I  lie  found  men  who  are  proving  successful 
'  ill  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery,  and 
who  are  becomiug  known  rapidly  or  otherwise  in 
accordance  with  their  skill.  The  town  of  Plain- 
ville  is  the  seat  of  the  labors  of  several  physicians 
who  manifest  as  much  ability  in  the  treatment  of 
diseases  as  their  brethren  in  our  large  cities. 
Among  this  number  is  Dr.  Aleshiie,  who  was  born 
in  Hancock  Countj',  111. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  w.is  lint  two  years  of 
age  when  he  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Rich- 
field Township,  this  county,  and  here  grew  to 
mature    years,  receiving   an    excellent   education 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD 


I. IT 


in  the  puMit-  scliool  and  in  llie  i-ollegeal  Diuivillo, 
Ohiii.  hi  1K7(I,  he  wi'iil  to  Woodville,  Ky.,  wlierc 
lie  wiirkcil  at  liis  tiaiU-  of  a  carriafjc  iniiiiiifacliiier. 
ein|ili)yiii<.'  lii>  leisure  time  in  leailiii^  inedn-iiie 
iiiulcr  Dr.  K.  \V.  Woodson,  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent pli\>icians  in  tlie  Ulue  (irass  Slate.  After 
l)einf;  tlius  fny.iued  for  two  years,  he  returned  to 
this  Stjite.  and  at  l.ilK'rty  pursued  liis  niedieal 
stuilies  with  Dr.  (Jrinies.  In  tlie  fall  of  1KT2.  he 
entered  tli<'  St.  Louis  Medieal  College,  and  in  the 
!«pring  of  the  foilowini;  year  located  at  Seehorn, 
and  hesran  the  practice  uf  his  i)rofession.  In  1M77, 
he  received  the  tlegree  of  Doctor  of  .Medicine  from 
the  College  of  I'hysicians  and  .Surgeons  at  Keokuk, 
Iowa, and  retiiiningto  Seehorn, engaged  in  practice 
there  for  two  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time,  June 
2*2,  187!),  he  located  in  I'lainville,  and  has  since 
l>een  identiiied  with  the  interests  of  this  place. 

The  lady  to  whom  Dr.  .Vleshin  wits  married  in 
August,  1872,  was  Miss  Kli/.a  F.,  daughter  of  .lame.s 
M.  and  Nancy  McCrac.  a  most  refined  and  intelli- 
gent lady.  To  them  has  Ik'cii  granted  a  family 
of  three  children:  Jessie,  Leonard  and  James. 
They  have  all  heeii  given  tine  ediic.it ions,  and  the 
eldest  h.'is  been  engaged  as  a  teacher  in  the  county 
for  the  past  two  years.  .Soon  after  locating  in 
this  place,  the  Doctor  estiihlislied  in  the  drug  luisi- 
ness,  which  he  has  since  carried  on  in  connection 
with  his  extensive  i)rnctice. 

Jonathan  aiui  rcrmelia  (Marshall)  Aleshirc.  the 
parents  of  our  siiliject,  were  natives  of  ()liio,  this 
State,  and  were  married  in  Meigs  County.  Ohio. 
Of  the  four  children  lioin  to  them,  three  grew  to 
mature  yeai-s,  viz:  our  suliject.  \V.  Oscar,  and 
Irena,  who  is  now  deceased.  W.  O.scar  married 
Miss  Llla  IIat«-lier,  and  hecamc  the  father  of  five 
children,  the  youngest  of  whom  was  adopted  In- 
cur subject  when  eight  yeai-s  of  age.  Orandfather 
Kphr.-iim  .Meshire  was  a  wheelwright  by  trade  ami 
followeil  that  profession  in  this  State,  where  he 
wasone  of  the  early  pioneei-s.  His  father,  Kphraim 
Aleshire,  was  a  pioneer  Baptist  minister  and  a 
circuit  rider  in  Ohio. 

Dr.  -Vleshire  is  public-spirited  and  endeavoi-s  by 
continual  rendiii;;  and  thought  to  ailvunce  his  pro- 
fe.ssional  culture,  and  thus  make  his  work  of 
greater  beiielit  to  mankind.     He  is  identified  with 


the  Modern  Woodmen,  is  an  Arch  Mason  and  is  a 
popular  member  of  society,  lieing  genial,  well- 
breil  and  well  informed.  He  owns  a  pleaiiant  hoiiie 
in  the  village  and  numliers  among  his  friends  the 
be»t  re.sidents  in  the  county.  In  politics,  he  is  a 
stanch  Democrat.  He  belongs  to  th<'  Adams 
Counl\-  Medical  Association,  to  the  interest  of 
which  he  contributes  by  his  manifest  desire  to  in- 
crease his  own  knowledge  and  skill  ami  lay  tn-fore 
its  members  every  illuslratioii  or  ipiestion  which 
his  own  practice  develop.s. 


m>^-^m^' 


DWIN  CLKVKLANl),  insurance  agent. 
The  city  of  (^uincy  can  cerUiinly  be  con- 
I  ^  gratulated  upon  the  high  standard  of  en- 
teiprise  and  ability  displayed  by  its  leading  insur- 
ance agents,  prominent  among  whom  is  .Mr.  Cleve- 
land, who  is  kiii>wii  as  one  of  the  most  reliable 
authorities  on  ail  matters  pertjiiiiing  to  insurance, 
and  stands  in  the  very  foremost  rank.  .Mthougli 
his  earliest  recollections  arc  of  .\dams  County, 
111.,  he  W!Ls  born  in  Ashtabula  County,  Ohio.  De- 
cember 21,  18:!,'(,  but  his  father.  Isjuic  Cleve- 
land, was  born  in  Schoharie  County.  N.  Y.,  the 
Kmpire  State  l>eing  also  the  natal  State  of  the 
paternal  grandfather,  Henry  Clevelaml.  The  lat- 
ter was  an  honest  "'son  of  the  soil,'"  but  in  connec- 
tion with  this  work  followed  the  calliny:  of  a 
black^niith.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1H12, 
and  was  well  known  for  his  [latriotic  sentiments. 
He  came  to  .Vdniiis  County,  111.,  in  .lune,  lM."i7. 
ami  with  his  fjimilv  located  in  iiichtield,  near 
which  (ilace  he  purchased  some  unimproved  land, 
which  he  grc'itly  improved  prior  to  his  death.  He 
w.as  of  Knglish  descent  and  sprang  from  Kenj.-itnin 
Cleveland,  who  came  to  America  in  Itili.-i. 

Isaac  Cleveland  was  reared  and  married  in  the 
State  of  his  birth,  but  after  the  celebration  of  hi- 
ll iiptials  he  removed  to  Ohio,  where  he  resided  for 
two  ye.Mis.  In  -lune,  1H.'}7.  he  came  via  the  Ohio 
and  .Mississippi  Rivers  to  Richtield,  Adams  Coun- 
tv.  with   his  father  where   he   also    purchased    and 


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improved  a  wild  tract  of  land,  working  also  at  the 
stone-mason's  trade.  In  1882,  be  sold  out  and 
located  at  Barry,  Pike  County,  wliere  he  is  still 
living  retired  from  the  active  duties  of  life,  hav- 
ing attained  to  his  seventy-seventh  year.  He  was 
a  township  officer  in  early  days  and  has  long  been 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  He 
was  married  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Chickering,  in  Scho- 
liarie  County,  N.  Y.,  a  daughter  of  a  pioneer  set- 
tler of  that  county.  She  died  in  Adams  County 
at  the  age  of  fift^'-flve  years,  having  become  the 
mother  of  six  children,  three  of  whom  are  living. 

Edwin  Cleveland's  first  recollections  are  of  his 
old  log  home  in  Adams  County  and  the  region 
roundabout,  which  abounded  in  wild  game  of 
all  kinds.  He  was  brought  up  at  a  time  when  the 
advantages  of  an  education  were  not  so  fully  ap- 
preciated as  at  this  day,  and  when  the  facilities  for 
obtaining  an  education  were  only  such  as  the  com- 
mon schools  of  that  day  afforded,  but  sound  sense 
and  discriminating  judgment  were  not  lacking 
and  he  improved  his  opportunities  to  the  utmost. 
At  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  he  left  home  to  do 
for  himself,  and  purchased  a  farm  of  eighty  acres, 
which,  at  that  time,  was  heavilj'  covered  with  tim- 
ber. This  farm  he  successfully  conducted  un- 
til the  fall  of  1861,  when  he  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany L  of  the  Tenth  Illinois  Cavalry,  and 
was  mustered  into  the  service  at  Quincy  as  a 
private;  the  following  spring  he  was  sent  South 
and  was  in  a  number  of  raids  and  skirmishes  in 
Missouri.  He  was  honorably  discharged  in  No- 
vember, 1862,  having  been  wounded  in  the  knee 
in  an  engagement,  which  necessitated  his  being 
sent  to  the  hospital,  where  his  leg  was  amputated 
above  the  knee.  Succeeding  this,  he  opened  a 
general  mercantile  establishment  in  Richfield,  but 
three  years  later  he  went  to  Newtown  and  bought  a 
wagon  and  plow  shop,  which  he  successfully  oper- 
ated for  four  3'ears. 

In  1871,  he  was  nominated  and  elected  to  the 
position  of  Count}'  Treasurer  on  the  Democratic 
ticket,  and  in  December  of  that  year  he  entered 
upon  his  duties,  which  he  discharged  in  so  faithful 
and  satisfactory  a  manner  that  he  was  re-elected  in 
187;5,  and  served  until  187.5.  During  this  time, 
the   Court  House  caught   lire  and   burned  to  the 


ground,  but  owing  to  the  heavy  snow  on  the  roof 
the  fire  was  slow,  and  so  all  the  valuable  county 
documents  and  papers  were  saved.  ^Ir.  Cleveland 
next  engaged  in  tiie  manufacture  of  brick,  luit 
three  years  later  opened  an  insurance  office  and  is 
now  ably  representing  three  companies:  Trader's 
of  Chicago;  Manchester,  of  England,and  Newark,  of 
New  Jersey.  He  is  serving  his  sixth  year  as  Town- 
ship Supervisor  and  has  been  on  the  Committee  of 
Finance,  the  Committee  on  Claims, and  others.  He 
was  married  in  Richfield  in  18.34  to  Miss  Sarah  E. 
Young,  daughter  of  .Tames  F.  Young,  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  this  section.  They  became  the  par- 
ents of  six  children:  Melissa  (Mrs.  Proctor)  died  in 
Newtown;  Ilattie;  Ada;  William  II.  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty-six  years;  Anna  (Mrs.  Fulton);  Lena 
died  when  young.  Mr.  Cleveland  is  the  owner  of 
considerable  real  estate  in  (Quincy,  and  is  well  off 
financially.  He  is  a  member  of  Bodily  Lodge,  A. 
F.  i\r  A.  M.,  which  order  he  joined  in  1858,  and 
has  held  numerous  offices  in  tiiesame.  He  was  one 
of  the  organizers,  and  is  now  Commander  of  the 
Union  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Veteran  Association, 
and  is  Secretary  of  the  Adams  County  Democratic 
Central  Committee. 


IIARLES  SELLNEK.  The  subject  of  the 
following  sketch  is  one  of  the  most  pleasant 
and  agreeable  among  the  business  men  of 
this  city.  He  has  been  a  dealer  in  leather  and  find- 
ings, and  has  lived  on  his  present  site  since  1856. 
He  was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  near  Stuttgart,  Ger- 
many, October  17,  1825. 

In  1847,  our  subject  came  to  America,  coining 
via  London,  where  he  embarked  in  a  sailing-vessel, 
"Toronto"  by  name,  and  after  a  forty-two  days' 
trip,  reached  New  York  City.  From  there  he 
came  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  engaged  as  a  clerk 
in  a  hide  and  leather  store,  working  for  $4  and 
board  at  first,  this  being  gradually  increased. 
He  remained  with  this  house  for  a  short  time,  and 
then  engaged  with  J.  F.  Schoellkopfs,  who  is  still 


PORTUAIT  AM)  RIOfJRAI'lIK  Al.    IJFCOKD. 


I  n 


:\  lni<rc  U'atlii'i'  nicrclmiit  .'it  thai  pliu'c.  IIiti'  lie 
I'l-iimiiieil  for  iiiiif  yi':u>  inid  workcil  fmiii  tlicliut- 
liiin  u|i.  Ill  I.s.'h;.  lie  fjiiiii- tt>(^iiiiic\  l)_\  llic  Noilli- 
fiii  (los!*  liailruiui,  ami  1ii'j;mii  l>ii>iiic.s.s  fur  liim!<t'lf 
ill  tin-  Mock  llial  111'  now  ix'cupii'S,  oiiua<;iii<i  ni>l 
ill  till'  hide  and  leather  ImsinoNs  niid  later  eiiteriii<: 
into  llie  leather  and  liiidin<rs  business,  lie  now 
lia>  one  of  the  oldest  leather  house.-  in  (^iiiney. 
and  |ii'olialily  in  the  State. 

Our  .«»il>ject  wa.s  ninriied  III  New  ^olk  Slate  to 
Miss  Amelia  Kiiorr.  who  was  horn  in  Wiirli'iiiheiLr. 
(Jennany.  'I'liey  have  live  ehildren :  (harU's.  a 
dealer  in  Jihotoijraphie  siiiiplies  at  l)es  Moines, 
Iowa;  Alhert,  in  the  same  hiisino.'-s  in  (^iiiney: 
Kmilie.  now  Mi's.  Althaus,  rcsidintr  in  St.  I.oiiis: 
Julia,  now  .Mrs.  Knittlc.  residiliir  in  <i>iiiiiey.  and 
Dr.  Arnold,  who  is  a  •jradiiate  of  St.  Louis  Med- 
ieal  College  and  resides  at  St.  Louis. 


-t#l^^» 


-<D 


U  IIAHI)  F.  NKWCOMH.  The  eily  of 
l^uiney  i.s  the  home  of  in.'iiiy  enerjretie  and 
^•^  \  prosperous  business  men  who  have  won 
for  thein.selvcs  both  fame  and  fortune,  but 
none  merit  greater  praise  or  arc  more  highly  es- 
teemed than  he  wlio.se  history  einims  attention, 
lie  is  considered  one  of  the  most  substantial  and 
enterprising  citizens  of  the  place,  where  lie  is  a 
enpitnlist  and  a  retired  paper  maniif.actiirer. 

.V  native  of  Massachusetts,  our  subject  was  born 
in  liernardston,  Franklin  County,  September 
2",  18."J7,  and  is  the  youngest  of  nine  children 
born  to  /ebina  H.  and  >Laria  L.  ((loodale)  New- 
comb.  His  father  w.as  for  many  yeais  engaged 
in  the  general  mercantile  business  and  liore  an  en- 
viable re|iiitation  .as  a  most  charitable  and  benev- 
(tlent  gentleman.  Richard  F.  of  this  sket<.<li  re- 
ceived his  primary  education  in  the  common 
selii«)|s  of  his  native  town,  and  when  ipiite  young 
actjiiired  a  knowledge  of  agriculture,  much  of  his 
time  having  lieen  s[>cnt  on  a  farm.  Heing  desir- 
ous of  gaining  a  good  education,  he  attended    the 


home  academy  and  afterward  became  a  stiulenl 
at  Willision  Seminary,  at   K.astlianipton,  Miuss. 

When  sixteen  years  of  age,  young  Neweomb 
went  to  ISoston,  where  he  .-erveil  an  apprentice- 
ship and  remained  for  four  years.  Reliiniini;  to 
his  native  town,  he  there  remained  until  entering 
the  service  of  his  country  in  IK(!2,  when  he  lie- 
I'.'iine  a  member  of  Company  .V,  Fifty -seconil  .Ma>- 
sacliusett.'<  Infantry,  and  for  nine  months  fought 
bravely  and  well  to  save  his  country'''  honor.  .Vt 
the  expiration  of  that  time,  he  received  his  dis- 
charge and,  returning  home,  a>-i-ted  Ids  fMlIiiT  in 
the  mercantile  l)usiiie.<«s. 

Desiring  to  know  more  of  the  Western  eoiintry  . 
Mr.  Newc4>inb  in  !»)>(!  came  West,  locating  in 
lieloii.  Wis.,  where  he  engaged  to  work  in  the  pa|ier 
mills  nianiira<-tiiring  wrapping  paper,  lie  |iossessed 
such  energy  and  force  of  character  that  he  was 
soon  given  an  interest  in  the  business,  in  the  con- 
duct of  which  he  exhibited  that  shrewd  judgment 
"  which  later  placed  him  on  the  top  round  of  the  lad- 
der of  fortune.  After  continuing  in  IJeloit  for  sev- 
eral years,  Mr.  Neweomb  came  to  (^iiiney  and  pur- 
cha.sed  of  Messrs.  WoodrutT  A-  IJoyd  the  mill  prop- 
erty which  was  located  on  .South  Front  .Street. 
This  he  greatly  improved,  added  new  machinery 
and  increa.sed  the  capacity  of  the  plant.  His 
piircliH:$e  of  the  old  paper  mills,  and  his  skillful 
management  of  the  same,  proved  to  the  people  his 
cap.acity  as  a  business  man.  He  wius  the  prime 
mover  in  the  organization  of  the  t^uincy  Paper 
Company,  of  which  he  was  made  I'resident.  :ind 
with  which  he  was  actively  connected  until  \)<X'.K 
when  he  retired  from  business,  although  he  is  a 
large  stockholder  in  the  company. 

Our  subject  is  a  sagacious,  practical  man  uf 
business,  possessing  the  necessary  foresight,  linaii- 
cial  ability  and  tenacity  of  piir|«ise  reipiisite  to 
success  in  any  walk,  and  his  affairs  are  manage  1 
with  scrupulous  honesty  and  with  a  conscientious 
regard  for  the  rights  of  others.  He  h.as  been 
inomineiit  in  the  upbuilding  of  (^uincy  and  has 
never  allowed  his  enterprises  to  linger  long  on  a 
.scheme,  but  has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  all 
measures  tending  toward  its  improvement, and  his 
inlliience  and  generosity  are  felt  in  all  diixH-tions. 
To  Richard    F.    .Neweomb  is  due    the   biiililing  of 


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the  Newcomb  Hotel  on  Fourth  and  Main  Streets, 
also  the  location  of  the  new  librar3^  building;  the 
beautiful  appearance  of  the  business  block  at  the 
same  corner  is  largely  due  to  his  enterprise,  for 
many  thousands  of  his  money  are  invested  in  the 
lilirary  and   hotel. 

His  frank,  courteous  bearing  and  warm-hearted 
nature  make  his  friendsiii|)  desirable,  and  have 
won  for  Mr.  Xewcomb  the  conlidence  of  the  en- 
tire community  and  given  him  a  liigh  place  in  the 
regard  of  all  with  whom  he  associates  either  in  a 
business  or  social  way.  He  is  kept  busy  looking 
after  his  large  property  investments  in  Quincy, 
and  is  still  interested  in  a  number  of  important 
manufacturing  enterprises.  He  is  President  of  a 
company  organized  to  build  the  (Quincy,  Beards- 
town  &  Havana  Railroad,  and  is  also  associated 
with  other  gentlemen  in  promoting  anenterpiise 
for  constructing  a  new  railroad  and  wagon  biidge 
across  the  Mississippi  River  at  Quincy,  with  ter- 
minal facilities.  If  these  enterjirises  are  success- 
fully consummated,  they  will  add  largely  to  the 
growth  and  prosperity  of  the  city  of  t^uincy.  Mr. 
Newcomb  takes  an  .active  part  in  local.  .State  and 
National  politics,  and  is   a  pronounced  Democrat. 

In  1891,  Mr.  Newcomb  built  his  palatial  resi- 
dence of  modern  architectural  design,  elegantly 
finished  and  furnished  throughout,  and  pleasantly 
located  on  the  corner  of  Sixteenth  and  Main 
Streets.  Ju  1860,  Mr.  Newcomb  was  married  in 
M.assaehusett  to  Miss  Eliza  A.  Bowman,  who  died, 
leaving  one  daughter.  In  1868,  Mr.  Newcomb 
and  Miss  Anna  M.  Ritchie,  of  Beloit,  Wis.,  were 
united  in  marriage,  and  tiieir  union  has  been 
blessed  with  four  cliildreu,  all  living  and  at  home 
with  their  ijarents. 


^} 


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T=T7'   M.  SIMMONS,  the  eflicient  Supervisor  of 
■r^^j  Ellington  Township,  and  a  prominent  and 
\         representative   farmer  residing  on  section 
6,  is  a  native  of  this  State.     He  was  born  in  Mor- 
gan County,  August  .30,1832.     His    father,   Enos 


Simmons,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  in  a  very 
early  day  emigrated  to  Morgan  County,  where  he 
resided  ten  years.  He  was  one  of  its  first  settlers. 
In  183.'5,  he  came  to  Adams  County  and  puicliased 
eighty  acres  of  land  on  section  6,  Ellington  Town- 
ship, only  partially  improved.  The  small  log 
cabin  was  his  home  for  some  years.  He  cleared 
and  planted  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land, 
and  in  course  of  time  had  a  fine  farm.  He  mar- 
ried Alice  Scott,  a  native  of  Kentuck}',  who  died 
in  18.")0,  and  after  her  death  he  was  again  married. 
Bj'  the  first  union,  he  had  eleven  children,  but 
only  two  are  now  living,  and  onlv  one  of  the  four 
children  born  of  the  second  marriage  is  living. 
The  father  died  in  1863,  at  the  age  of  .seventy-two 
years.  In  early  life,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  but  joined  the  Methodist 
Protestant  Church  on  its  organization,  and  was 
one  of  its  prominent  and  faithful  workers.  From 
a  financial  standpoint,  his  life  was  very  successful. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  fifth  child  in 
his  father's  family.  Since  a  bal)e  of  a  year,  he  has 
resided  in  tins  county,  has  witnessed  almost  its  en- 
tire growth,  and  has  been  identified  with  its  up- 
building and  improvement.  The  subscription 
schools  furnished  him  his  educational  privileges. 
He  remained  at  home  until  twenty-four  years  of 
age,  and  then  purchased  a  sawmill  in  Ellington 
Townsliip,  in  18.56,  about  two  miles  west  of  his 
father's  home.  Two  years  later,  he  purchased  an 
interest  in  a  threshing-machine,  which  he  operated 
for  two  years.  In  1860,  he  bought  a  small  farm 
on  section  6,  Ellington  Township,  and  has  since 
devoted  his  energies  to  agriculture  pursuits.  In 
1863,  he  purcli.ased  the  old  homestead,  and  has 
since  resided  thereon.  He  now  owns  a  fine  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  eight3-  .acres  of  land,  pleas- 
antly located  about  seven  and  a  half  miles  from 
Quincv.  The  highly  cultivated  land  yields  to  him 
a  golden  tribute,  and  the  neat  appearance  of  the 
place  indicates  his  careful  supervision.  He  is  also 
interested  in  other  lands. 

On  the  5th  of  May,  1861.  iMr.  Simmons  wedded 
Mary  A.  Campbell,  one  of  the  fair  daughters  of 
this  county.  Her  parents,  Claybourn  and  Rachael 
Campbell,  were  natives  of  Kentucky,  and  became 
early    settlers    of   Adams    County.      Six   children 


PORTRAIT   AM)   I'.lor.RAPITirAr.  RF.PORD. 


1 1.; 


were  Imni  i>f  tlu-ir  iiiiioii:  \Villi:iiii  .iiiil  Rufii>. 
tK'ceasvd;  Maiv  K.;  John  'I'.,  who  i.s  iiianifd  nn<l 
roi<los  on  a  farm  on  strtion  0,  Kllin!;ton  Town- 
ship; C'harlos  ('..  who  is  inarriiMl  and  follows  fann- 
ing on  section  7;  and  Mattie  K. 

Hoth  Mr.  and  Mi's.  Simmons  are  miMnbers  of  the 
Mothodi>t  I'rolf-Iant  (  liurfli.  in  whieli  he  has 
served  as  Steward,  lie  has  also  Ix-en  a  delp<jate 
to  its  conferenees  several  limes,  and  is  one  of  its 
faithfnl  and  leading  workers,  doing  all  in  his 
power  to  promote  its  growth.  His  life  is  in  har- 
mony with  ills  profession,  and  ins  honorably  up- 
right earoer  is  well  worthy  of  enuilation.  In  pol- 
itics, he  is  a  stalwart  Repiihiiean,  and  has  fre- 
ipiently  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  county  con- 
ventions. For  fifteen  years,  he  held  the  olliee  of 
.Sc-hool  Director,  and  is  now  serving  his  third  term 
as  SuperTisor.  discharging  his  duties  with  credit  to 
himself  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  constituents. 
Fur  almost  sixty  yeai-s,  he  has  made  his  home  in 
this  county,  and  few  inen  are  more  widely  or  fav- 
orably known  in  the  community  tliini  V.  M.  Siiii- 
Mions.  the  honored  pioneer. 


^1 


\t^=^' 


Umy    \V.  liVI.ANl)   is   an   enterprising  an<l 
representative  agriculturist   of   North  Fast 


I 

^sJI  Township.  lie  owns  one  hundred  and 
V<^f/  sixty  acres  of  land  on  sections  1  and  12, 
and  devotes  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  its 
cultivation.  The  place  is  now  one  of  the  leading 
farms  of  the  community,  complete  in  all  it.s  ap- 
pointments and  supplied  with  all  modern  acces- 
sories. A  neat  and  commodious  seven-rfKjm  resi- 
dence is  su(>plcmented  by  good  barns  and  outbuild- 
ings and  these  in  turn  are  surrounded  b\-  well- 
cultivated  fields,  their  waving  grain  giving  promise 
of  golden  harvests. 

Mr.  Byland  was  born  in  lM2."i,  and  is  the  seconil 
in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  two  sons  and  two 
daughters.  The  parents  were  tJeorge  and  I'ranccs 
Byl«n<l.  William,  the  eldest  child,  born  in  1H2:{, 
was  married,  and  died  in    I8t»0.     .Jennie.   b<irn    in 


IH'JM,  is  the  wife  of  Tlioma.-^  II.  iiaker.  of  Nebraska, 
by  whom  she  Iiils  live  children;  Klizabetb.  Ixirn  in 
IM'2,  married  Willie  I'.  IJowers,  a  resident  farmer 
of  Iowa,  by  whom  she  ha.-  three  children. 

The  subject  of  thi>  sketch  acipiiied  hiseducaliun 
in  the  same  school  that  lion.  .Iame>  ( i.  lllHiiir  al- 
teiiderl.  .\t  the  ago  of  seventeen  years,  he  began 
learning  the  mason's  trade  and  followed  that  oc- 
eupatiiui  for  twenty  year.s.  With  a  view  to  trying 
his  fortune  in  the  West,  he  emigrated  to  this  county 
ill  18,">.'),  an<l  here  followed  his  chosen  trade  for  a 
numlier  of  years.  As  the  result  <if  his  thrift,  eiiter- 
pri>e  and  good  dealing,  he  did  an  excellent  business. 
.\t  length,  he  purclia.«ed  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
of  land  at  !?H(i(i  and  ttirnetl  his  atl4-ntion  to  the 
developnu'ul  of  :i  farm.  That  tract  ha.-  >ince  U-en 
his  home. 

In  lM."i.').  .Mr.  liyliiiid  wn-  united  in  m.-irriavc 
with  Sarah  A.  Iiaker.  who  was  born  in  Im;)().  and 
was  one  of  a  family  of  seven  ehildren.  Thomas  II., 
boj'ti  in  1822.  married  .lane  liyland,  by  whom  he 
has  live  children  and  makes  his  home  in  Nebra.-ka. 
lieorge,  born  in  the  year  1821,  resides  on  a  farm 
in  Wisconsin,  and  married  Martha  Watson,  by 
whom  he  has  three  children.  Margaret,  born  in 
1821),  is  now  deceased.  Lewis  .)olin,lK>rn  in  18.S2. 
resides  in  Kansas  with  his  wife  and  live  children. 
During  the  late  war,  he  enlisted  in  the  State 
militia  and  served  for  three  years.  William  .M.. 
liorn  in  18.'! 7,  married  Fannie  Gliist,  and  is  a  car- 
penter of  California.  Pa.  He  enlisted  in  the 
Seventh  Pcnn.sylvania  Kegiiuent  and  was  in  the 
service  four  yeare.  (lark  L.,  born  in  18^1,  wa.- a 
member  of  a  Pennsylvania  cavalry  compaii\. 
tieorge  also  served  several  months  during  the 
fivil  War. 

I'nto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Byland  have  been  born  four 
children:  Mary  F.,  born  in  IHiiG,  is  the  wife  of 
.lames  K.  W'alker.  of  this  county;  Fmma,  born  in 
18.-17.  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Walker,  also  of  this 
county;  Wilber,  born  in  IM.'iii,  married  I.onie  F. 
Tarr  and  with  their  only  child  they  reside  in  .\ilams 
County:  Annie,  born  in  IKIM,  is  the  wife  of  .lack- 
son  T.  Hottorff  uiid  they  have  one  child,   Fdith  F. 

For  a  half  century,  our  subject  has  l>een  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Fpiscopal  Church  and  for 
fort^■  \''ii«  lii«  uifi-  li.i-   been   rniinciiei)    uiih   the 


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same  church.  He  has  served  as  Class-leader  and 
Trustee  and  lias  ever  been  one  of  its  liberal  sup- 
porters, faithful  meml)ers  and  active  workers.  For 
many  years,  he  taught  in  the  Sunday-.school.  He 
has  long  been  a  member  of  tlie  Masonic  fraternity 
and  in  politics  he  is  a  Republican  but  has  never 
lieen  an  ollice-seeker.  Mr.  Byland  is  a  man  in 
whom  liis  fellow-citizens  repose  implicit  confi- 
dence. A  long  life  characterized  b^'  all  that  is  hon- 
orable and  upriglit  has  won  him  their  high  regard. 


(*  felLLIAM  A.  ttUSEMAN,a  self-made  man, 
\f\i/l  engaged  in  agricultuial  pursuits  on  sec- 
\VW  tion  17,Keene  Township, was  born  in  i\Ion- 
ongalia  County,  AV.  Va.,  October  25,  1827,  and 
is  of  (lerman  descent,  the  family  having  been 
founded  in  America  by  the  great-grandfatlier  of 
our  subject,  wlio  was  born  in  Germany,  and,  with 
his  brother,  started  for  America.  They  arrived 
safeh'  in  New  York,  but  never  saw  eacii  otlier 
afterward.  The  grandfatlier  was  a  farmer  and  had 
large  milling  interests  in  A'irginia. 

Isaac  Guseman,  fatlier  of  our  subject,  was  born 
in  Fredericksburg,  Xa,.,  in  1791.  and  when  seven- 
teen years  of  age,  learned  the  trade  of  a  silver- 
smitli,  which  he  followed  throughout  his  entire 
life,  lie  and  two  of  his  brothers  served  in  the 
War  of  1812.  He  came  to  Illinois  in  1858,  and 
here  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days.  He  was  a 
local  preaclier  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  for  over  fifty  years  engaged  in  the  work  of 
tlie  ministry.  He  preaclied  a  great  many  funeral 
sermons,  and  held  successful  revival  meetings, 
in  wliicli  many  conversions  were  made.  His  death 
ocenrrcd  in  1871,  in  liis  eighty-first  3'ear.  His  was 
a  long-lived  family.  His  eldest  brother  died  at 
the  age  of  eighty-eight,  and  two  otlier  brothers 
reached  the  age  of  ninety-tiiree.  Mrs.  Guseman, 
motlier  of  our  subject,  bore  tlie  maiden  name  of 
Jane  Heed.  .Sjie,  too,  was  born  in  \'irginia,  and 
came  of  an  ohl  faniilv  of    that  .State.     Slic  died  in 


1861,  at  the  age  of  fifty -eight  years,  in  the  faith  of 
the  Methodist  Church. 

Our  subject  was  the  third  in  the  family  of  five 
sons  and  live  daugliters,  of  wliom  six  are  yet  liv- 
ing. His  education  was  acquired  in  the  subscrip- 
tion schools  in  the  old  pioneer  log  schoolhouse, 
with  its  puncheon  floor,  slab  seats,  and  few  books. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  took  charge  of  a  store 
in  Morgantown,  W.  Va.,  which  he  operated  for 
three  j'ears,  and,  on  attaining  his  majority,  he 
embarked  in  business  for  himself  in  that  line. 
Twelve  years  were  spent  in  this  way.  He  was 
also  engaged  in  lumbering  and  milling,  and  met 
with  good  success  until  1856,  when  his  sawmill 
was  burned,  and  he  sustained  a  heavy  loss,  as  there 
was  no  insurance  upon  it.  In  the  spring  of  1858, 
he  came  to  Illinois,  and  spent  about  three  3ears  in 
Hancock  County.  In  1861,  he  came  to  Adams 
Count}',  and  purchased  a  farm  in  Keene Township, 
on  which  he  has  since  made  his  home.  He  has 
eighty  acres  of  valuable  land  on  section  17,  and 
one  hundred  on  sections  9  and  16.  His  posses- 
sions have  all  been  acquired  through  his  own 
labors,  and  arc  as  nifinuments  to  his  thrift  and  en- 
terprise. 

Mr.  Guseman  was  one  of  the  boys  in  blue  dur- 
ing the  late  war.  He  enlisted  in  August,  1862,  as 
a  member  of  Comjiany  B,  Seventy-eightii  Illinois 
Infantry,  but  was  transferred  to  Company  D,  and 
served  sixteen  months.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Reserve  Corps,  and  participated  in  no  regular  bat- 
tles. He  was  injured  at  Bridgeport,  Ala.,  and  was 
taken  to  Chattanooga  on  a  wagon,  where  he  re- 
ceived his  discharge,  in  November,  1863,  on  ac- 
count of  physical  disabilit}-.  Although  not  in  the 
regular  b.attles,  he  saw  some  hard  service. 

On  his  return  home,  ISIr.  Guseman  resumed 
farming,  and  in  the  year  1868  he  was  married 
to  Miss  Laverna  E.  ]5reneman,  of  West  A'irginia, 
who,  at  the  age  of  three  years,  came  with  her 
parents  to  Illinois,  the  family  settling  in  Hancock 
County,  where  the  father  and  mother  both  died. 
Our  subject  and  his  wife  have  two  sons,  William 
H.  and  Harry  .S. 

Mr.  Guseman  was  reared  as  an  old-line  Whig, 
and  since  the  organization  of  the  Reiuiblican 
party  has  been  one  of  its  stanch    supporters.     He 


roiMK'AiT  .\M>  i;iiii.i;.\r'iii(Ai.  iM.roKn. 


1 1.-. 


has  atteiidi'd  iimiiy  of  its  conventions,  and  takes 
an  active  interest  in  (mlitical  atTaii>.  He  servetl 
as  Supervisor  for  two  yt'ai's.  lias  lieeii  Scliool 
■rrca>urer  for  six  yeai-s,  has  lieeu  a  nieniU-r  of  llie 
Town  Hoard  of  Trustees  for  a  lonfj  period,  ami 
was  President  two  years.  His  faitliful  perform- 
ance of  duty  led  to  his  continuance  in  olllce,  and 
won  him  commendation.  Socially,  lie  is  a  niem- 
lier  of  the  (Jrand  .\rmy  of  the  liepultlic.  Ilini.-elf 
and  wife  have  U-en  memliers  of  the  Methodist 
Kpisi-opal  Church  for  a  (|U!irtcr  of  a  century,  and 
are  earnest  workers  in  the  .Ma.-<ter's  vineyard. 
Mr.  (iuseman  is  Steward  and  Trustee,  and  has 
>crved  several  years  as  Class-leader.  His  life  has 
Ih'cu  well  and  worthily  s|>ent.  and  the  hl<;h  rcfjard 
of  the  entire  community  is  his.  He  is  a  promi- 
nent and  inlluentiul  citizen,  and  liy  his  enterprise 
and  iudu?trv  li.is  hecome  a  suhstanlial  farmer. 


•S^ 


ll\i;i.i:s  II.  SPKNCKH.  The  gentleman 
who>e  lijoiiraphy  is  here  {»iven  is  a  t;cnial, 
pleasjinl  man.  and  litis  the  important  po- 
sition he  holds  with  credit  t<.i  the  railroad  he 
is  connected  with.  lie  was  horn  in  Cau-jlide- 
noy,  Osweijo  County,  N.  V..  .\uL.Mi.-t  lit.  IHKi. 
His  father  was  born  in  Coblcskill,  and  his  grand- 
father, Charles,  was  from  near  .Mliany.  He  was  a 
miller,  and  later  removed  Ui  Western  New  York. 
and  died  near  Lockport. 

The  father  of  our  sidijecl  was  also  a  miller  and 
came  to  Oswego  County  when  a  young  man  and 
carried  on  a  large  industry.  In  I8.S8  or  IM'.i  he 
came  to  Calumet,  III.,  but  after  two  yeai-s  of  chills 
and  fever,  he  went  back  to  the  Kmpire  State  and 
resumed  his  emphjyment  of  miller.  He  died  there 
at  the  age  of  seventy,  in  \HHl.  He  was  a  very 
active  member  of  the  Methodist  K|)iscopal 
Church. 

From  being  a  Whig  he  naturally  went  in  the 
Kepubllc.'in  party.  His  wife  was  Catherine  .\[.  Smith. 
Ixirn  in  Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  an<l  a  daughter 
of    lA'onard    Smith,    who    was    born    in    the    Mo- 


hawk \'allev,  of  Dutch  ancestr.v.  He  was  a  con- 
tractor and  builder  and  a  brick  ma.-on  in  Oswego 
County,  and  died  at  \'ermillioii,  the  same  county. 
His  wife  died  in  1KX7,  aged  about  eighty-live 
years.  ' 

Our  subject  has  one  sister.  .Mi>.  Kli/a  .\.  .lames, 
residing  in  AmlH>y,  Oswego  County.  N.  Y.  lie  had 
a  common-school  education  and  then  attende<l  the 
Kalley  .Seminary.  When  eighteen  years  old,  he 
entered  a  drug  store  as  clerk,  and  there  continued 
until  lH(!(t;  he  afterward  acted  as  book-keeper  in  a 
llouring  mill,  remaining  there  until  the  war.  .\iig- 
ust  21,  IH<)1,  he  came  forward  as  one  of  our  coun- 
try's defenders,  enlisting  in  Company  A,  Tenth 
New  York  Cavalry  at  Syracuse.  He  entered  the 
ranks  and  w.as  soon  made  .Sergeant,  and  went  South 
that  fall.  In  the  spring  of  1862, he  did  guard  duty 
near  Baltimore,  and  then  went  to  Virginia.  In 
18()-1,  he  re-enlisted  and  was  made  I.ieutenant  of 
Company  1),  of  the  same  regiment,  and  when  he 
went  back  to  the  regiment  he  was  exposed  anil 
took  a  very  xcvere  cold  at  .lerscy  City,  incapacitat- 
inghim  for  duty, and  resigned  May  1.  18GI.  He  was 
in  charge  of  the  wagon  train  from  the  iiapidan  to 
Centreville,  during  the  absence  of  his  superior  olli- 
cer,  and  was  six  days  and  seven  night.>i  in  the  .sad- 
dle. 

Mr.  Spencer  returned  home  after  resigning,  and, 
in  18(i."i,  engaged  in  business  as  jtssislant  liook- 
keeper  in  the  Citizens"  National  Hank  at  Fulton, 
N.  Y.  He  became  Teller  in  the  bank,  and  kept  on 
there  until  I«<i7,  when  he  removed  to  <iuincy. 
.March  I.  IStJH,  he  became  cleik  for  the  old  Toledo, 
W;ibash  A:  Western. now  the  Wabash  Railroad,  and 
.Viigust  8.  was  made  chief  clerk  in  tiie  general 
aueiifs  otiice.  February,  187o.  he  was  maile 
Ca.-liicr  of  the  .simc  road,  and  soon  was  appointed 
agent  for  the  South  .Shore  Fast  Freight  Line,  and 
still  later  was  made  general  freight  and  ticket 
agent  for  the  Mississippi  \alley  A-  Western,  now 
the  St.  I.ouis,  Keokuk  A-  Northwestern,  until  they 
sold  out.  He  next  was  !Ls.>istant  freight  agent  of 
the  St.  Louis.  Keokuk  A-  Northwestern.  In  1881 
he  became  chief  clerk  of  the  t^uincy,  Missouri  A 
IVilic  Division  of  The  Wabash,  and  continued 
until  it  was  abolished,  and  then,  when  the  road 
came  back  to  the  original  trustees  in  August,  188j, 


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he  was  again  chief  clerk.  In  1888,  he  was  made 
secretary  of  tlie  Quincy,  Omaha  it  Kansas  City 
line  formed  in  February.  He  is  ciiitf  clerk  in 
tlie  TrafHc  Manager's  ofHce. 

Mr.  Spencer  was  married  here  in  February.  1869, 
to  Miss  Hattie  L.  Turner,  wlio  was  born  in  Frani- 
inghain,  Mass.  Her  father  was  Franklin  Turner, 
who  was  an  early  settler  here  and  a  railroad  con- 
tractor, and  was  in  the  Delano  Dragoons  of  Illi- 
nois through  the  war. 

The  home  of  our  subject  lias  been  blessed  with 
four  children:  Ora  M.,  AVillard  B.,  Hattie  L.,  and 
Emily  R.,  deceased.  Mr.  Spencer  has  been  hon- 
ored in  his  town  by  being  elected  to  the  iwsition 
of  Alderman;  but  he  resigned  before  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term.  He  is  socially  inclined,  and  is  a 
member  of  Hiram  Lodge  No.  144,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
at  Fulton,  N.  Y.  He  also  belongs  to  Fulton  Chapter 
167,  K.  A.  M.  He  is  a  charter  member  and  Secre- 
tary of  (Quincy  Council  No.  175,  N.I'.,  a  secret 
society. 

Mr.  S])encer  is  a  member  of  the  \'erniont  Street 
Baptist  Church,  and  has  been  the  prime  mover  in 
the  Spruce  Street  Jlission  School,  of  wliicli  he  was 
the  first  Superintendent. 


^OHN  O.  SCHWARTZ,  one  of  the  leading 
farmers  of  North  East  Township,  who  owns 
and  operates  three  hundred  acres  of  valua- 

^  ble  land  on  section  30,  has  the  honor  of  be- 
ing a  native  of  this  State.  He  was  born  in  1841, 
and  is  a  son  of  George  and  Mary  Schwartz,  who 
were  natives  of  Switzerland  and  North  Carolina, 
respectively,  the  father  horn  in  the  year  1810, 
and  the  mother  in  the  ye:ir  1813.  Ilopin"  to 
better  his  financial  condition,  the  father  emi- 
grated Westward  in  1834  and  settled  in  Pike 
County,  111.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1887.  lie  owned  at 
that  time  two  hundred  and  fiftj-  acres  of  highly 
improved  land  and  w.as  numbered  among  the  sub- 
stantial  citizens  of   the   communilv.     He   was  a 


member  of  the  Congregational  Church  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  serving  as  Deacon.  He  held 
a  number  of  public  offices  and  was  a  prominent 
and  influential  citizen  who  had  the  high  regard  of 
all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  second  in  order 
of  birth  in  a  family  of  three  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters: Mary  A.,  born  in  1838,  died  in  1855,  in  Pike 
County;  Julius,  born  in  1844,  wedded  Miss  Shaw, 
who  died  leaving  one  child,  and  after  her  death  he 
married  Miss  Brock,  by  whom  he  has  three  chil- 
dren; George,  born  in  1847,  is  a  resident  of  Pike 
County;  Lucy,  born  in  1854,  is  the  wife  of  John 
Shaw,  a  farmer  of  Pike  County. 

We  now  take  up  the  personal  history  of  our  sub- 
ject. No  event  of  special  importance  occurred  dur- 
ing his  boyhood  days,  which  were  quietly  passed  on 
his  father's  farm.  The  common  schools  afforded 
his  educational  privileges,  and  after  his  own  school 
life  was  ended  he  engaged  in  teaching  for  a  time. 
In  1861,  at  the  age  of  twenty  years,  he  enlisted  in 
the  late  war  as  a  member  of  Compan_y  B,  Twenty- 
eighth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  faithfulh^  served  un- 
til the  following  year,  when  he  was  discharged  on 
account  of  disability.  He  then  returned  to  his 
home  in  Pike  Count\-  and  for  two  terms  again  en- 
gaged in  teaching  school.  He  then  aided  his  fa- 
ther in  the  cultivation  and  management  of  the 
home  farm  for  some  time. 

In  the  year  1864,  Mr.  Schwartz  was  married 
to  Miss  Martha  J.  O'Neil,  and  by  their  union 
have  been  born  eight  children:  Laura  E..  born  in 
1867,  is  now  the  wife  of  Charles  Huff;  Charles, 
born  in  Adams  County,  in  1870;  Gay,  in  1877; 
May,  in  1880;  E;irl,  in  1882;  Clyde,  in  1884;  Lu. 
in  1886,  and  Lloyd,  in  1890. 

Mr.  Schwartz  made  his  first  purchase  of  land  in 
the  fall  of  18611,  when  he  became  owner  of  two 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  North  East  Township, 
for  which  he  paid  840  per  acre.  The  home  farm  now 
comprises  three  hundred  acres,  valued  at  $75  per 
acre.  It  is  one  of  the  model  farms  of  the  com- 
munity, its  neat  appearance,  well-tilled  fields  and 
many  impi-ovements  all  indicating  the  thrift  and 
enterprise  of  the  owner.  In  connection  with  the 
cultivation  of  his  land,  he  carries  on  stock-raisino-. 
and  success  has  crowned  his  jiidustrious  and  well- 


PORTK.M'I'  AM)   lll()(;i!AI'll'(  Al.    IM.((iI!I). 


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directed  efforts.  He  does  not  taki-  a  mtn  pioini- 
iionl  pari  in  piililic  nffaii-s,  pi-i'fen-iii<jr  lo  dcvolo  liis 
entire  time  to  liis  Imsinoss  interest,'*.  II<iwever,  he 
is  All  lionored  member  of  tlie  I'nited  Workmen. 
.Modern  Woodmen,  Independent  Order  of  I.  <  >. 
M.  A.,  and  i.'*  the  present  Worshipful  Master  of 
l.odpe  No.  2()7.  A.  F.  \'  A.  .M.  In  polities,  he  is  a 
|{epnl>iie)in  and  hn.s  served  a.s  .Scjiool  Direetor  and 
School  Trustee. 


^ 


.VMl'KL  I..  (  iill'l'KN.  One  of  the  names 
that  will  lonjj  he  renienihcred  in  this  town- 
ship was  liftrne  hv  our  sultjeet.  who  was  a 
prominent  stoeknian  and  wiiat  one  might 
call  a  model  citizen,  now  deceased.  lie  was  born 
in  Accomae  County,  Va.,  October  7,  IK."?,"?,  and  was 
a  memlter  of  tlie  1".  1".  \''s.  His  father,  .loiin  15. 
C'ripiien.  also  a  native  of  Virginia,  em iffra ted  with 
his  family  to  Illinois,  arriving  at  (^uincy,  Adams 
County,  .Inly  1,  1H4;?.  lie  lii-st  settled  near  Hloom- 
field,and  later  in  one  or  two  other  localities,  until 
he  finally  .-iettled  in  Camp  Point,  where  he  died 
.luly  30,  18X7,  aged  eighty-one.  He  was  married 
twice,  his  Hi-st  wife  dying  in  1«G1. 

Samuel  was  only  ten  years  old  when  his  paii-nts 
moved  to  this  county.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  pioneer  log  schoolhouse  with  its  rough 
hewn  slab  seat.s  and  mud  chimney.  He  remained 
at  home  until  he  was  twenty-one.  when  he  went 
to  (^uiney  and  served  an  apprenticeship  at  the 
carpenter's  trade,  .\fter  he  had  learned  the  tiade. 
he  returned  to  Camp  Point,  where  he  followed 
it  for  a  few  years.  He  abandoned  liis  trade  after 
some  years  and  removed  to  Hancock  ('f)unty. 
where  he  purchased  a  farm  and  worked  it  for  six 
years.  In  1H(!I.  he  >old  out  and  returned  to 
Cam])  I'oint  Township,  locating  on  the  old  home- 
stead of  his  wife's  parents  on  section  'Mi.  Here 
he  engaged  extensively  in  farming  and  the  rais- 
ing of  line  stock.  He  raised  llainblctonian  and 
Norman   horses,   S)iorl-horn    cattle.   South   Uown 


.-lii>|i  ;i  ml  I'tilancl-C  liiiia  liog».  He  w;iv  regarded 
as  the  leading  stiK-kinan  of  the  township  and  his 
experience  nuule  him  a  good  judge  of  sUx-k.  a«  all 
of  his  were  of  a  very  line  breed.  His  health  failed 
him.  however,  and  he  whs  obliged  to  give  up  >l(Kk- 
raising  to  a  great  extent. 

.Mr.  Ci'ippen  was  married  .Vugust  2.'t.  1H.')7.  to 
.Miss  Nancy  Wilks,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  .lane 
(Heaugh)  Wilks.  The  former  was  a  native  of 
Kentucky,  his  parents  removing  from  that  .Stnle 
to  Illinois  in  l^.Tl.  They  were  pioneers  of  .Vdanis 
County  and  among  the  lirst  settlei-s  in  Camp 
Point  Township,  where  they  suffered  some  f)f  the 
sutTerings  incident  to  tho.se  early  days.  They  had 
very  few  neighliors  and  no  markets,  but  wild 
game  was  plentiful.  .Mr.  Wilks  purchased  the  land 
on  .section  .'5.'}  where  his  daughter.  .Mrs.  (  i  ippeu. 
now  lives,  from  the  (Jovernment  and  greatly  ini- 
])roved  it.  He  finally  retired  from  active  farm 
life  and  removed  to  Camp  Point,  where  he  died 
.lune  22,  1873,  aged  sixty-seven.  His  wife  died 
.luly  17,  1864.  The  maternal  grandfather.  Heaugh, 
wa.s  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  of  Sct)lch  extrac- 
tion, emigrating  to  Kentucky  when  a  young  man. 
Here  he  married,  and  thence  removed  to  .Adams 
County,  111.,  in  the  fall  of  18:u.  He  lived  justsouth 
of  where  Camp  Point  is  now  situated  and  was  a 
well-known  ami  inuch  esteemed  citizen  for  many 
yeai-s. 

Mi's.  Crippen,  the  widow  of  our  subject,  was 
Ixirn  on  the  farm  on  which  she  now  resides  fifty- 
nine  years  ago.  .She  was  educated  in  the  log 
schoolhouse,  and  it  is  very  interesting  to  hear  her 
relate  the  occurrences  of  thf)Se  early  days. 

Mr.  Crippeji  died  February  II,  188!l,  having 
l)een  an  invalid  for  six  years  previously.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Christian  Church  and  always 
took  a  deep  interest  in  the  Independent  Onlei-  of 
Odd  Fellows,  of  which  he  was  an  honored  nieiii- 
bei'.  His  political  views  were-  Hepubliean,  and 
lie  was  .'I  strong  teinperaiice  man.  and  never 
used  tobacco  in  an>'  form.  .Vn  inllnential  man. 
lie  iiseil  his  iiitluenec  for  the  good  of  the 
part  v.  although  he  never  sought  olliee.  and  was 
considered  a  reliable  and  responsible  eitizi'ii.  and 
was  nuicli  lamented  when  he  died. 

Mr.  anil   ."^Irs.  Crii>pen  had  six  children:  Hcury 


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N.,wlio  vpsides  iu  Davenport,  Iowa;  Mary  Eleanor, 
wife  of  A.  B.  Word,  of  Camp  Point;  IXiniel  Wilks 
married  and  is  a  farmer  iu  Hancock  Count}-,  111.: 
.Jennie  E.,  wife  of  John  B.  Sears,  of  Chicago;  Rosana 
Lippincott,wife  of  J.  T.  Gilmer,  a  lawyer  of  <  Juincy ; 
and  John  P.,  manager  of  the  home  farm.  The 
home  farm  of  three  luindred  and  lifty  acres  is 
managed  by  3Irs.  Cri|)pen  and  lier  son  John.  Mrs. 
Cripiien  is  a  lady  of  intelligence  and  refinement, 
and  attends  to  the  care  of  thisexlensive  farm  with 
the  best  judgment.  Siie  is  well  known  and  beloved 
throughout  the  country  as  a  good  woman. 


bi»>.^tT.ii- 


^      I  I  >— 


EV.  WILLIAM  B.  COKBYN,  1).  D.,  Prin- 
ipal  of  the  Iligli  School  at  (^uincy,  occu- 


■i  \\\  pies  a  prominent  jjlace  among  the  cduca- 
■j^tovsot  the  State.  Tlie  citizens  of  (^uincj- 
are  wont  to  say  with  pride  that  no  city  of  equal 
size  iu  the  entire  West  has  better  schools,  and  cer- 
tainly the}-  are  everything  that  an  eflicient  corps 
of  teachers  and  experienced  and  conscientious 
principals  can  make  them.  The  curriculum  of 
study  emliraces  those  brandies  taught  in  the  best 
institutions  of  like  character  in  the  land,  and  the 
course  is  both  thorough  and  comprehensive. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  iutioduees  this  sketch, 
and  who  is  foremost  among  the  educators  in  the 
Gem  City  of  the  West,  is  deserving  of  more  than 
l)a.ssing  mention  in  tliis  vdluine.  He  belongs  to 
a  family  which  traces  its  ancestiy  to  England,  and 
has  furnished  soldiers  for  the  defense  of  our 
country,  as  well  as  distinguished  members  to  the 
various  jnofcssions.  The  paternal  grandfatlier  of 
our  subject,  William  Corbyn,  was  the  fouitli  gen- 
eration in  the  I'nited  Slates,  and  was  .-i  farmer  of 
New  England. 

Joseph  P.  Corb}^!,  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  Connecticut,  where  he  grew  to  manhood, 
and  was  married  to  Miss  Mary, daughter  of  Henry 
Howard,  of  Ashford,  Conn.  In  1815,  he  removed 
iiis  famil\'  to  what  was  then  considered  the  far 
West,  and  settled  in  the  wild  forests  of  the  (^!ene- 


see  Valley  in  the  State  of  New  York,  whither  but 
few  pioneers  had  preceded  him.  lie  experienced 
the  hardships  incident  to  life  on  the  frontier,  and 
through  his  energy  became  the  possessor  of  a 
goodly  amount  of  land. 

The  Howard  family  al.so  traces  its  lineage  to 
English  ancestors.  Col.  Thomas  Knowlton,  uncle 
of  the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  a  distinguished 
officer  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  served 
with  valor  until  his  death  at  Harlem  Heiglits. 
He  was  with  Gen.  Washington  in  tlie  army,  and 
received  high  commendation  from  Gen.  AVashing- 
ton  personally  for  liis  bravery  and  valuable  ser- 
vices rendered  to  our  country.  His  death  on  the 
field  of  battle  was  widely  lamented,  and  ter- 
minated a  career  of  brilliant  promise. 

In  Windham  County,  Conn.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  June  1,  1814.  When  about  one 
year  old.  he  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  New  York, 
and  jiassed  his  youth  amid  the  primeval  scenes  of 
the  Genesee  A'alley.  His  boyhood  was  passed  in 
Monroe  County,  where  he  remained  until  he  was 
sixteen,  meanwhile  attending  the  common  schools 
and  the  home  academy.  In  1832,  he  entered 
Phillip's  Academy  at  Andover,  Mass.,  in  prepara- 
tion for  college.  In  183.5,  he  became  a  student  in 
Yale  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  iu 
1839. 

Immediately  after  graduating,  Mr.  Corbyn  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  assistant  teacher  in  l'hillij)"s 
Academy,  and  there  he  occupied  tlie  position  of 
teacher  for  four  years.  He  was  then  admitted  to 
Holy  Orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church,  following 
which  he  spent  a  few  months  in  Boston  and  some 
time  in  Hartford  County,  Conn.  In  184G,  he  re- 
moved to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  for  eighteen  months 
was  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Parish  in  tliat  city,  where 
his  work  was  very  successful.  From  1849  until 
1871,  lie  was  occupied  as  priest  and  school  te.acher 
iu  various  [il.aces,  chiefly  at  Palmyra,  Mo. 

In  1871,  INIr.  Corbyn  w.as  called  to  the  rector- 
ship of  the  parish  of  the  (iood  Shepherd  of  (^uincy, 
and  there  he  labored  for  eighteen  3ears,  and  is 
now  entitled  Hector  Emeritus  of  the  parish. 
In  1874,  he  was  called  to  the  principalshii)  of  the 
High  School,  which  position  lie  still  holds  (1892), 
;ind    his    long  term    of    service    in  this   capacity 


PORTRAIT  AND  MKMiRArFlK  AI.    I!i:(()i;i). 


I.*)  I 


ahundnntly  proves  his  popiilnritv  with  hi.«  fellnw- 
citi/i-iis.  iU'is:iinc»t  ctlicifiit  iiistriictiir.  iiiid  i> 
if<;!irfk'(l  as  aiilliorilx'  uii  l!iii;;iiiij;i-!<.  upon  which 
hf  h.v  do  voted  vi-ars  of  study  and  patient 
lesenic'h. 


i>-^<m^ 


60i..  KDWAKi)  I'lilNCi;,  uf  (,iuini-y,  was 
.  horn  in  Kast  Itlooinlicld.  Ontario  Countv, 
N.  Y..  DiTeinlit-r  ».  IH.Jl'.  the  yininjrcst  of 
six  i-iiildriMi  Ixirn  to  David  and  Sopliia  (l-;ilsworth) 
Prince,  of  Hidokiyn,  Conn.  Tin-  father  of  David 
I'riiu'o  \va.>  Maj.  Tiniotiiy  I'muc.  who  was  a  near 
neijijilior  of,  and  served  fioni  thesjinie  eonnty  with, 
(ien.  Israel  I'ulnani.  in  the  Kevohitionary  \Vai-. 
The  mother  of  Kdward  I'rinee  was  the  dauiriiter  of 
Daniel  Klisworth.  a  relative  of  (iov.  lillsworth  and 
A  member  of  the  nnmcious  family  of  Kllsworths 
who  lijtriired  in  the  history  of  the  Kastern  and 
Middle  States  as  soldiers,  governors  and  statesmen. 

Kdward  I'rinee  was  reared  on  a  farm,  where  he 
was  early  inured  to  hard  work,  lie  attended  school 
during  the  winter  months  until  IS  It;,  and  in  the 
fall  of  that  year  entered  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  Illinois  C'ollej^e.  gradualiiii.'  in  the  (.'lass 
of  '52.  His  vacaticjns  were  spent  on  the  farm,  do- 
ing a  man's  work  in  the  harvest  Held;  ami  while 
in  college,  he  lio;irdecl  himself  and  sawed  wood  on 
.Saturd.ays  in  order  to  procure  means  with  which 
to  defray  his  e.vpeuses.  .Vfter  graduating.  In- 
worked  (»n  the  farm  for  three  months,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1«.')2  hecame  a  law  student  in  the  ollicc  of 
Williams  iV  Lawrence.  During  his  collegiate  career, 
when  aliout  sixteen  years  of  age.  he  made  with  a 
hatchet,  hand-vise  and  lile  for  tools.and  a  joint  of 
stove-pipe  and  lead  and  iron  for  materials.a  steam 
douli!e-cylin<ler  liK-omoti ve,  with  reversing  anil 
link  motion.  Tin."  machine  atlractci]  much  attention 
among  the  slinlents.  until  an  exi>losiun  one  day 
put  an  end  to  the  marvel.  In  college,  he  was  f:iir 
in  all  his  studies,  hut  seemeil  to  have  an  intuitive 
knowledge  of  natural  science. 

Aft«r  obtaining  his  license  to  practice  law,  .Mr. 

7 


I'rinee  was  associated  with  .Vbrahani  .lon:is,  and 
was  afterward  a  partner  of  Ccn.  .1.  W.  Singleton, 
ami  still  later  in  partnership  with  lion,  liernurd 
Ariitzen.  In  I «. ■),"»-.")(>,  he  traveled  on  horseback 
over  most  of  the  Southern  .States  and  boushl  lands 
for  Daniel  I'aullin  and  the  lirm  of  (iilpin  iV 
Rowland.  The  following  is  his  military  hisUjry, 
taken  from  |{.  W.Surby'-  book  on  the  raid>  of  tin- 
Civil  War. 

"When  the  .South  rebelled.  Col.  I'rinee  entered 
with  /.eal  Into  till-  service  of  his  ciuintiy.  Having 
a  taste  for  military  life,  he  studied  the  cavalry 
tactics  and  iK-caine  .S4t  familiar  with  the  drill,  that 
upon  offering  his  services  to  (iov.  Yates  in  the 
summer  of  IMCl.  he  was  appointed  Cavalry  Drill 
.Master,  with  the  rank  of  Lieu  tenant-Colonel  in 
the  Seventh  Illinois  Cavalry.  He  has  always  shown 
great  genius  in  devebjping  the  systems  and  intri- 
cate maneuvers  of  troops,  and  in  inventing  and 
improving  many  things  which  have  been  of  irreat 
value  in  the  held  and  at  home.  In  illustration  of 
this,  two  instances  may  be  described.  While  in 
front  of  I'ort  Hudson,  his  active  mind  conceived  a 
plan  by  which  the  enemy's  works  coidd  be 
brought  under  our  ob.servation.  He  applied  to 
(Jen.  Banks  for  |)erniission  to  carry  out  his 
plan.  It  was  granted,  and  he  immediately  com- 
menced building  'cavaliei>.'  which  are  high 
mounds  of  earth,  overlooking  and  commanding 
the  enemy's  parapet.-.  Col.  I'rinee  set  his  troopers 
to  transporting  from  the  sugar  hou.ses  the  empty 
hogsheads,  which  could  be  found  in  ^reat  ipianti- 
ties  in  that  .-.ection  of  the  country.  The.se  he  lilled 
with  cotton  and  rolled  at  night  to  within  a  short  dis- 
tance of  the  fort,  and  soon  live  hundred  men  were 
able  to  take  a  position  in  line  behind  this  novel 
breastwork.  The  arc  of  the  >emi-eircle  was  then 
thrown  within  lifty  yartU  of  the  rebel  works,  and 
by  digging  sullicieiit  dirt,  there  w.-is  thrown  out 
from  the  inside  enough  to  make  a  complete  forti- 
liinlion. 

"I'.y  da,\  light,  the  hogsheads  were  mou'ilcd  one 
upon  another  until  they  commanded  the  enemy '.s 
position  and  demonstrated  the  feasibility  of  the 
plans  of  Col.  I'rinee.  .\  f«'w  d!iy>  after,  the  place 
surrendered.  ()n  another  occasion,  during  the 
early  part  of  the  siege  of  I'orl  Hudson,  Col.  I'rinee 


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ascertained  from  negroes  a  Ion «:  Thompson's  Creek 
that  the  rebels  had  two  steamers  nicely  moored 
under  their  river  batteries  and  but  slightly 
guarded,  on  account  of  the  supposed  impossibility 
of  getting  at  them.  Col.  Prince  obtained  permis- 
sion of  fien.  Banks  (Grierson  refusing  permis.sion) 
to  undertake  the  capture  of  tliese  boats.  He  suc- 
ceeded where  others  failed,  and  moved  them  from 
under  their  batteries  to  the  protection  of  the  Stars 
and  Stripes,  showing  great  tact,  energy  and  perse- 
verance. AVhile  on  the  way  to  capture  the  boats, 
Col.  Prince  received  orders  from  Gen.  Grierson  di- 
recting him  to  return  and  rest  the  men  and  horses, 
to  which  orders  Col.  Prince  paid  no  attention. 
The  names  of  the  boats  were 'Starlight'  and  'Red 
Chief.'  He  was  promoted  Colonel  of  the  Seventh 
Illinois  Regiment  in  the  fall  of  1862.  This  regi- 
ment was  organized  at  Camp  Butler,  near  Spring- 
field, in  August,  1861,  and  mustered  into  the 
United  States  service  in  October.  Col.  Prince  was 
mustered  out  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  ser- 
vice by  order  of  Gen.  Washburn,  about  the  middle 
of  October,  1864." 

In  1873,  Col.  Prince,  at  the  earnest  solicitation 
of  many  prominent  citizens,  made  a  contract  with 
the  city  to  build  the  Quincy  Water  Works  and 
supply  the  city  with  water.  The  plan  was  a  small 
beginning,  with  a  small  outlay  and  a  gradual 
growth  to  meet  the  increasing  demands  of  the  city. 
He  invested  all  the  means  he  had,  as  well  as  all 
that  he  could  borrow,  and  after  the  completion  of 
the  works,  sold  out  to  invest  his  means  in  more 
profitable  enterprises  in  order  to  clear  himself  from 
debt  and  to  cease  being  the  target  at  which  everj' 
designing  and  unscrupulous  political  aspirant 
might  aim.  His  efforts,  however,  resulted  in  giv- 
ing to  Quinc3"  the  best  system  of  water  works  in 
the  West  and  at  the  least  cost  to  the  city.  The 
designs  and  plans  for  the  machinery  for  the  storage 
and  distribution  of  water  have  been  proved  by 
trial  to  be  of  the  best,  and  no  accidents  or  failures 
have  attended  the  enterprise.  Tiie  making,  laying 
and  securing  eighteen  hundred  feet  of  inlet  pipe  ob- 
liquely across  the  current  of  the  Mississippi  River, 
and  the  sunken  crib  for  the  in-take  at  the  up-river 
end,  iiave  excited  the  favorable  comment  of  engi- 
neers throughout  tl)c  eountrv. 


Col.  Prince  has  devoted  his  time  of  late  years  to 
engineering  and  has  a  splendid  and  valuable 
library,  in  many  languages,  upon  that  subject.  He 
reads  well  and  understands  Greek.  Latin  and  Dutch, 
and  speaks  P^nglish,  French,  German  and  Spanish. 
He  is  a  close  student  and  observer,  is  unpreten- 
tious, easy  to  approach,  and  as  a  neighbor,  citizen, 
husband  and  father,  is  entirely  without  reproach. 
He  is  a  man  of  diverse  talents,  vigorous  intellect- 
uality, and  has  that  thorough,  practical  knowledge 
of  the  every-day  affairs  of  life,  which  has  been  of 
material  benefit  to  himself  and  others.  His  dispo- 
sition is  kindly,  cordial,  warm-hearted  and  sympa- 
thetic and  has  won  him  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  to 
whom  he  is  loyalty  itself.  Physically,  he  seems  to 
be  in  perfect  health,  and  probably  weighs  over  two 
hundred  and  fiftv  pounds.  Although  twice 
wounded  in  the  army,  he  has  never  applied  for 
any  office  or  pension.  In  no  sense  of  the  word  a 
politician,  he  is  a  warm  admirer  of  (irover  Cleve- 
land and  denounces  in  the  warmest  terms  a  pro- 
tective tariff. 

The  domestic  life  of  Col.  Prince  has  been  an 
especially  happy  one.  September  24,  1867,  he 
married  Miss  Virginia  M.,  daughter  of  James  and 
Mar3"  Arthur,  of  Quincy.  They  have  had  born  to 
them  three  children,  namely:  Edward,  who  diedat 
the  age  of  nineteen  months;  Edith,  now  a  young 
hilly;  and  Marj-,who  is  twelve  years  old. 


^iTlAMES  AVOODRUFF.  It  is  a  well-known 
fact  that  circumstances  in. life  may  make  or 
mar  the  prospects  of  a  man  to  a  certain  ex- 
tent, but  a  determined  spirit  will  bend  even 
the  course  of  circumstances  to  its  will.  The  career 
of  Mr.  AVoodruff,  who  is  a  retired  manufacturer 
and  President  of  the  (Quincy  INIill  Coiiipauy,  is 
abundant  pi'oof  of  this  trite  saying. 

He  of  whom  we  write  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  February  26,  1821,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry 
Woodruff,  who  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  the  Nutmeg  State.     His  father  was  a  proininent 


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lawyer  in  the  Kast.and  l>y  liis  jjood  judgmoni  and 
excellent  manasjenicnt  of  his  affairs  l)e<.-anic  sue- 
cessful  linaiK'ially.  Samuel  Wimdniff,  the  grand- 
father of  our  Mihje -t,  was  of  I'.nglisli  descent,  as 
WHS  also  the  nuitlier  of  our  subject,  who  hore  the 
maiden  name  of  Kli/.ii  M.  Root,  the  daui;liter  of 
,lool  Root,  of   New  Haven,  Conn. 

.lames  Wot)druff.  of  this  sketch,  |)a.ssed  his  boy- 
hood (lays  in  his  native  place,  where  he  obtained 
a  common-school  ediication,  and  when  fourteen 
veai-s  of  age  went  lo  I'ittslicld.  Mass.,  wiierc  he 
learned  tlie  Irade  of  a  carrinjje-maker.  and  was  en- 
siaued  in  that  business  until  reachinj;  his  majority. 
In  Dctolier,  1H4"2.  he  came  to  Illinois,  and  look  up 
his  residence  in  (^uincy.  with  whose  interots  he 
has  since  been  prominently  identilied.  .'ind  as  one 
of  oiir  best  citizens  is  deservedly  popular  with  all 
who  know  him. 

The  fellow-citizens  of  our  subject.  ap|)reciating 
the  fact  that  a  man  of  his  calibre  and  understand- 
in"  would  make  a  i;ood  ollicial.  have  elected  him 
to  till  ollices  of  honor  and  tru-t.  and  October  .'til, 
1K()2,  he  was  appointed  by  the  .SecrcUiry  of  War 
to  the  i)osition  of  Assistant  I'rovo.it-Marshal  of 
the  War  Deiiartiiient,  with  Iiea(li|uart4?i's  at  (^uincy. 
Mav  7,  1HG3,  he  was  named  by  President  Lincoln 
for  Provost-Marshal  of  the  Fourth  C'ont;ressional 
District,  with  the  rank  of  t'aptain.  The  following 
year,  however,  he  resigned  anil  engaged  in  the 
mannf.icture  of  ambulances,  light  artillery  guns, 
knapsacks  and  haversacks,  which  he  furnished  to 
the  I'nitcd  Stales. 

In  1H()7,  in  company  with  Mr.  Frederick  |{o\d. 
our  subject  founded  an  inilustry  in  (^iiiiicy  that 
has  since  grown  to  an  extent  almost  unprecedented. 
This  was  the  erection  and  the  ei|uipineiit  of  the 
paper  mills,  and  the  introduction  to  the  public  of 
the  first  manufacture  of  paper  made  from  the  wild 
irrass  of  the  inundated  bottom  lamls.  Mr.  Wood- 
ruff possesses  a  tlioiiglif  fill,  clear  mind,  an  intellect 
well  balanced,  and  executive  talent  of  n  liigli 
order.  He  has  been  largely  instrumental  in  the 
upbuilding  of  the  city,  and  in  1S7II-7I  obtained 
for  the  (^iiiiicv,  Mis.<t>uri  \'  Pacilic  Railroail  the 
entire  right  of  way.  subscriptions  to  the  stock,  and 
the  new  towns  and  stations  «ites  from  the  Missis- 
sippi  River  to  Kirksville.  M<i.     lie  is  also  a  large 


.stockholder  in  the  First  National  Hank,  and  has 
large  real-estate  interests  in  the  city.  Heis  unusu- 
ally keen-wilted. and  is  able  at  a  glance  to  place 
the  c<u'rect  valuation  upon  men  and  things,  and  is 
thus  consulted  upon  many  affairs  of  importance, 
l>oth  of  a  public  and  private  nature. 

The  lady  to  whom  our  subject  w.is  married  was 
Mi>s  Mary  Diilzell.a  ilaiighter  of  .lolin  Dalzcll,  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woodruff  have 
four  sons:  .lolin,  engaged  in  railroad  business  in 
Denver.  Colo.;  ,Ioel,  of  f^uincy.  manufacturer  of 
foundry  facings  and  supplies;  William,  also  of 
<iiiincv,  Ixtok-keeper  for  the  Tayler  .Milling  Com- 
])any;  and  Charles,  a  resident  of  Chicago, engaged 
III  the  real-estate  business.  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Woodruff 
have  a  beautiful  home  located  at  No.  !Mi;i  Hroad- 
way,  where  they  aresnrroiinded  with  the  liixuriesof 
life,  and  class  among  their  warm  persimal  friends 
the  best  residents  of  the  city.  Our  subject  is  now- 
retired  from  active  business,  allliongh  he  ever 
manifests  great  interest  in  everything  calculated 
to  advance  the  interests  of  (^uincy.  In  politics,  he 
i>  a  Republican. 


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'f^^ICIIARD  IIAU.NKSS  is  engaged  in  general 
L^  farming  and  stock-raising  on  section  2.  Liiii:i 
ci  \  Township.  He  was  born  in  this  township. 
FelMiiarv  'JX,  IHtl.and  is  the  youngest  of 
eleven  children,  whose  parents  were  .losejih  an<l 
Nancy  (Worley)  Harness.  The  paternal  grand- 
father. Leonard  Harness,  was  a  native  of  N'irginia. 
and  died  in  St.  Clair  Coiinly.  III.  The  maternal 
grandpan'iits  were  Richard  and  Nancy  Worley.  The 
father  of  our  siiliject  was  born  in  St.  Clair  County, 
III.,  in  I7!t.'l,  and  the  mother  w.'is  born  .\pril  7, 
17'.Mi.  They  were  marrie<I  M.ay  tl.  IKIC.  and  li\pd 
together  as  niM  11  ."iiid  wife  for  seventy  years.  In 
1H27.  thev  eniigraled  to  .\damsConntv,  locating  in 
Lima  Township,  being  numbered  among  its  earliest 
settler>.  Mr.  Harness  secured  land  from  Iheliov- 
eriinnnt  on  sections  I  and  2,  and  built  a  log  cabin, 


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into  which  the  family  moved,  living  in  true  pio- 
neer style.  Indians  were  still  numerons  in  the 
neighborhood  and  he  was  acquainted  with  ninny 
of  their  chiefs. 

Mr.  Harness  was  a  famous  liunterand  was  famil- 
iar-with  the  woods.  He  hunted  deer,  wolves,  etc., 
and  his  table  was  supplied  with  fresh  venison.  He 
was  thrown  upon  liis  own  resources  when  onl_\' 
thirteen  years  of  age,  his  possessions  consisting  of 
only  a  two-year-old  colt  and  a  gun.  After  he  lo- 
cated in  Adams  County,  lie  would  walk  many 
miles  in  order  to  secure  farm  work.  He  also  sold 
i\eet  hides,  and  in  this  way  earned  considerable 
money.  He  was  ever  an  industrious  and  hard- 
working man  and  cleared  about  eight  hundred 
acres  of  land.  He  had  no  educational  advantages, 
but  from  experiences  gained  knowledge  and  was  a 
man  of  splendid  general  information.  By  good 
management  and  perseverance,  he  also  acquired 
wealth.  In  the  early  days,  he  had  participated  in 
an  Indian  war  and  in  the  trouble  with  the  Mor- 
mons of  Nauvoo.  His  life  was  well  and  worthily 
spent  and  he  is  numbered  among  the  county's 
honored  pioneers.  He  died  November  2.5,  1881, 
at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-eight  3'cars.  His 
wife  passed  awa^-  .September  30,  1886.  She  was  a 
member  of  the  Protestant  Methodist  Cliurch  and 
was  an  estimable  lad}'. 

We  now  take  up  the  personal  history  of  our 
subject,  who  was  reared  amid  the  wild  scenes  of 
frontier  life.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in 
a  jirimitive  log  schoolhouse,  and  his  entire  life  has 
been  devoted  to  agricultural  pursuits.  He  was 
born  and  reared  on  tlie  farm  which  is  still  his 
home  and  lived  with  his  parents,  tenderly  caring 
for  them  until  tliey  were  called  to  tlie  home  be- 
yond. 

On  the  21th  of  December,  1863,  Mr.  Harness 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Annie  Crenshaw, 
a  native  of  Hancock  County,  111.,  and  a  daughter 
of  Boschel  Crenshaw.  Her  fatiier  was  born  in 
Tennessee,  October  18,  1812,  and  was  married  De- 
cember IT),  18'57,  to  Catherine  Perry,  wlio  was  born 
in  Ohio,  Marcli  .30,  1821.  Her  death  occurred 
FcbruaiN-  11,  bssf),  and  Mr.  Crenshaw  departed 
this  life  April  17,  1889,  in  his  sevent^'-seventh 
year,     He  went  to  Hfincock  County,  HI.,  in   1827, 


and  there  I'esided  until  his  death.  For  sixty-three 
years  he  was  one  of  its  valued  citizens  and  hon- 
ored pioneers.  He  was  honest  and  upright  in  all 
things.,  and  had  the  respect  of  the  entire  commu- 
nity. WjfU  khe  Methodist  Church  he  held  member- 
shii). 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harness  have  been  born 
seven  children,  as  follows:  George  31.,  who  is  mar- 
ried and  resides  on  the  old  homestead;  Charles, 
Callie  G.,  .l.asper  and  Kffle,  at  home;  and  two  who 
died  in  infancy.  The  parents  are  both  members 
of  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church,  in  which  he 
holds  the  office  of  Steward,  and  in  polities  he  is  a 
Democrat.  Their  home  is  a  commodious  and 
pleasant  residence  which  was  erected  in  1891,  and 
is  situated  on  their  fine  farm  of  four  hundred 
acres  of  arable  land.  In  connection  with  general 
farming,  Mr.  Harness  engages  to  a  considerable  ex- 
tent in  the  raising  of  .all  kinds  of  stock.  He  has 
been  very  successful,  is  a  man  of  energy,  good 
judgment  and  excellent  business  abilit\-,  and  has 
thereby  liecome  a  prosperous  farmer. 


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AUL  EDWARDS  is  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  successful  fruit  growers  near  (^uiiicy. 
He  resides  on  section  24,  Riverside  Town- 
shq).  where  he  has  a  highly  improved  farm, 
on  which  he  raises  fruits  and  cereals  for  the  city 
market.  He  was  born  in  Hamilton  County,  Ohit>, 
about  four  miles  from  Cincinnati,  Fcl)ruary  12, 
1820.  His  father,  .loli  Edwards,  was  born  in  Xew 
Jersey  in  1781,  and  emigrated  to  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  when  there  was  only  one  store  in  that  place. 
He  traveled  all  the  way  on  foot  with  a  knapsack 
on  his  back,  lie  worked  f(jr  (Jen.  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  South  Bend,  and  for  some  years 
followed  farming  and  gardening  near  Cincinnati. 
He  afterward  came  to  Illinois  and  lived  with  our 
subject  until  his  death  in  his  eighty-sixth  year. 
He  was  twice  married.  He  wedded  Pattie  Clark, 
who  died  when  Paul  was  quite  young,  and  for  his 
.secon<l  wife  chose  Harriet  Piatt. 


PORTUAII    AM)  lilOGKAPlllCAL   liECOIiD. 


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Oiii' siilijcot  niiil  »  li!ilf-si>tei'  aic  tlif  iiiil\  siir- 
vivinjr  iiii'miIh-i's  nf  ;i  hwisc  fainilv.  Hi;*  «'(lucfiti<in 
w:ts  nciiuiiiMl  ill  I  he  priiuilive  sc-IkioIs,  niid  lu> 
!is>ist<'(l  Ins  f:itlu>r  ill  iraitlfiiiiiu;  .iii<l  iiiaikctiiii; 
iiiilil  scvciitccii  yoars  of  aiio.  In  the  fall  of  IH.'iT. 
lie  wfiit  lo(^uiiic\-  ami  worked  most  of  tin-  tiiiic 
aloiiLT  till-  liver  lioalinj;  and  elio|)|iiii<r  wood,  lie 
lioiiijlit  the  t iiiilier  wliieli  lie  eiit  and  sold  to  the 
millers  and  oilier  parties  in  i^iiiney.  After  several 
vears  spent  in  that  line  of  linsiness.  rlnnii;,'  which 
time  he  made  seven  trips  to  St.  l.ouis  on  raftc-,  on 
the  Kith  of  .liiiie.  IH.'ii'),  he  purclia.<!ed  sixty  acres 
of  land  on  sections  1:5  and  21.  Kllinjrton  'I'ownship, 
now  |{ivei>ide  Township,  lie  then  turned  his 
.-ittention  to  the  raising  of  jrarden  vegetables  and 
frnit.s  for  the  eity  market.  His  farm  is  well  im- 
proved .•iiid  is  as  tine  as  can  he  found  in  the  county. 
It  is  pleasantly  located,  just  two  miles  north  of 
<^nincy. 

(hi  the  -.'."^th  of  May,  l«lf<,  Mr.  Kdwards  wedded 
Mary  l-^.  I'laft,  of  Ohio;  and  unto  them  were  born 
seven  children,  live  of  whom  are  yet  living: 
William  A..  Rachel  K..  .Mary  L.,  Nina  lielle  and 
Carrie  1*.      I.ora  A.  ami  Flora  E.  are  both  decea.sed. 

Mr.  1-Mw:irds  is  a  siipiMirter  of  the  Kepniilican 
party,  and  has  been  elected  to  several  public 
|K>sitions  of  honor  and  trust.  He  has  now  served 
a.s  School  Director  for  several  years.  His  farm  is 
well  supplied  with  all  kinds  of  small  fruits  and 
he  finds  a  ready  syile  for  his  products.  He  is  one 
of  the  leading  fruit  growers  near  (^uincy  .'ind  has 
Ixjen  very  successful.  A  well-informed  and  in- 
fluential mail,  he  i«  numbered  among'  the  valued 
citizens  of  the  community. 


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().\.  ISAAC  I.KSK.M.  wholesale  dealer  in 
dry  goods, ami  inaiuif.acturer  of  shirts,  pants 
''  and  overalls,  is  one  of  the  representative 
citizens  of  tinincy,  in  wlnise  success  his 
fellow-townsmen  take  just  pride.  Through  the 
exercise  of  good  judgment  in  his  business  trans- 
actions, as  well    as    that    unremitting   energy   and 


tireless  activity  which  have  ever  been  prominent 
characteristics  of  his  iialnre.  lie  has  arisen  from  a 
humble  position  in  life  to  what  he  is  to-day — the 
linancial  giiiile  of  one  of  the  largest  wholesale 
dry-goods  houses  anil  factories  in  the  West. 

Itoin  in  IJavaria.  liermany,  October  I,  IS."{2.  to 
.Alexander  and  .Matilda  (Deiilsch)  I.esem,  our  sub- 
ject |)assed  his  iioyhood  years  in  the  pl.aee  of  his 
birlh.  receiving  a  good  education  in  the  eomnion 
.schools  there,  and  afterwaid  entering  the  (•erinan 
College,  where  he  continued  until  he  was  .seven- 
teen years  old.  While  in  .school,  he  applied  him- 
self diligently  to  the  acipiireiiu'nt  of  knowledge, 
and  succeeded  in  la3ing  the  foundation  of  that 
broad  and  extensive  learning  which  afterward 
'   aided  him  in  his  linancial  transactions. 

Ipon  leaving  college,  Mr.    Lcsem    immediately 
took  [i.issage  on  a  ship  for   the  United  .Slntcs,  and 
when  the  vessel  anchoreil  at  New  Orleans, after  an 
uneventful  voyage,  he  proceeded  thence  by  boat  to 
1   St.  Louis,  Mo.     In  that   city  he  accepted  a   clerk- 
ship, and,   while    thus    engaged,  learned  the  dry- 
I   goods  business  thoroughly.     In  1><.<(),  he    came  to 
j   <iuincy,    then    a  thriving  little  city,  and    here    he 
engaged  in  mercantile  ])ursuits,    at  first  on  a  small 
scale.     In  IKlM,  he  embarked  in  the  wholesale  dry- 
I   goods    business,   and    rapidly    .advanced,    moving 
every  little  while  into  larger    storerooms  in    order 
,    to  accommodate  his  constantly  increasing  business. 
i    He    now   occupies   an    immense    doulile  building, 
nearly  two  hundred  feet  square,  and  six  stories  in 
height,    tilled  from  biiseiiieiil  to  roof  with  his    im- 
mense stock. 

Hoth  in  (^uincy  and  Ihioughout  the    State,    Mr. 
Leseni  has  always  taken  a    prominent  part  in  pub- 
lic   affairs.     In    lfi73,  he  was  appointed    by    (iov. 
licveridge  Trustee  of  the  Illinois  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Asylum,   and    served  in  that  res|)onsiblc   position 
for  four  years.     In  1877,  he  was  appointed  a  nieni- 
lier  of  the  State  Hoard  of  Kducation.  and  held  the 
position    for    ten  years,  until  the  demands    of    his 
large  business    forced   him   to  resign.     Numbered 
i   among  the  leadei-s  of  the  Uepiililican   party    in  his 
.    locality,  he  is  devoted  to  the  intere-lsof  his  party. 
I   and  served  as    Republican  Presidential  Kleclor-al- 
I    large   in  IHXI.     Besides  all  the  posts  of  honor  and 
I    trust,  he  \\n-  li'ld  \?uloiis  bn-.-il  ollici's,  and  n»sisled 


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materiall}'  in  the  loeatiun  of  the  Soldiers'  Home 
in  Quincy.  In  his  religious  connections,  lie  is 
identifierl  with  the  Hebrew  Church,  and  for  more 
tlian  twcnly  years  lias  ofHeiated  as  President  of 
the  society  here.  Ho  was  for  six  years  President 
of  the  Kicker  National  ]?ank,  one  of  the  solid 
financial  institutions  of  the  city,  hut  owing  to 
press  of  otlier  business  lie  resigned. 

In  1890,  Mr.  Leseni  erected  an  elegant  residence 
on  Main  Street,  in  one  of  the  most  desirable  resi- 
dence portions  of  the  city,  containing  all  tiie  mod- 
ern improvements,  and  furnished  in  keeping  with 
tiie  exterior,  flis  marriage,  August  14,  1855, 
united  him  willi  Katie  Altschul,  of  St.  Louis,  and 
live  cliildren  were  born  to  them,  namely:  Rebecca, 
wife  of  Joseph  Kaufman,  of  Qiiiney;  Jennie,  who 
married  Ilarr)-  Nelke;  Emma,  Lena  and  Alexan- 
der, who  are  unmarried.  JMrs.  Katie  Lescm  died 
Janu.ary  17.  1890,  and  January  2.j,  1891,  Mr. 
Lesem  married  Mrs.  Pollen  Altman,  of  Baltimore, 
Md.  The  firm  of  which  Mr.  Lesem  is  the  head  is 
composed  of  Isaac  Lesem,  Isaac  II.  Lesem,  Harry 
Nelke  and  Joseph  Kaufman.  In  reviewing  tlie 
life  of  Mr.  Lesem,  it  may  be  said  of  him  that  he 
is  one  of  the  most  valued  citizens  of  (^uincy — a 
friend  to  youth,  and  a  model  after  whom  all  may 
pattern  with  pleasure  and  profit.  He  is,  in  brief, 
a  humane,  benevolent  and  successful  man. 


'^fOIIN  WOOD  BARLOAV,  Foreman  of  the 
Barlow  Corn  Planter  Company,  of  Quincy. 
111.,  is  a  native  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he 
first  saw  the  light  of  day  on  the  10th  of 
February',  1859.  He  is  the  eldest  son  of  Joseph 
C.  and  Evaline  (Streetor)  Barlow,  the  former  of 
whom  was  the  founder  of  the  Barlow  Corn  Planter 
Works.  He  was  born  in  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,, 
August  31,  1836,  and  possessed  that  enterprise, 
push  and  keen  business  foresight  for  which  the 
people  of  the  Empire  State  have  long  been  famous. 
He  was  a  son    of    Rev.    Jonathan    K.    and    Honor 


(Douglas)  Barlow,  the  latter  of  whom  was  born  in 
the  Green  ^Mountain  State  and  was  a  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Douglas,  a  relative  of  Hon.  Stephen  A. 
Douglas.  In  1849,  she  moved  with  her  husliand 
to  Quincy,  III.,  and  here  eventually  died  of  cholera. 
The  Barlow  family  have  always  been  useful  citizens 
of  the  sections  in  which  they  iiave  resided  and 
were  important  factors  in  improving  and  develoji- 
ing  Western  Illinois. 

John  Wood  Bailow  (lassed  his  youth  and  school 
days  in  (Quincy,  where  he  accpiired  a  good  common 
education,  which  he  suiipleniented  )iy  a  course  of 
study  in  the  (Jem  City  Commercial  College.  Upon 
the  completion  of  his  ec)  iicatioii  he  entered  the  Corn 
Planter  Works,  which  liad  been  securely  established 
by  his  father,  and  began  serving  iiis  a[)preiiticesliip 
in  the  machine  slioii  department,  where  lie  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  all  kinds  of  machinery,  and 
gained  a  most  practical  insight  into  all  tlie  details 
of  the  business.  After  lemaining  in  this  depart- 
ment for  several  years,  he  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  foreman  in  llie  machine  shops,  which 
he  continued  to  hold  up  to  18«8,  when  he  became 
general  foreman  of  the  works  and  assistant  sui)er- 
inlendent  of  the  shops.  The  invention  and  manu- 
facture of  machines  and  labor-saving  ap|)liances 
have  contributed  in  a  marvelous  degree  to  the  de- 
velopment of  this  country,  and  the  shops  of  which 
Mr.  Barlow  is  foreman  are  among  the  most  notable 
of  the  kind  in  the  Stale  of  Illinois,  if  not  in  the 
United  States. 

The  Imsiness  is  growing  steadily  year  by  year, 
and  their  goods  are  standard  and  are  recognized 
as  unsurpassed  in  materials  and  workmanship, and 
the  great  popularity  and  high  reputation  of  the 
house  is  due  not  only  to  the  acknowledged  supe- 
riority of  the  goods,  liut  also  to  the  systematic  cor- 
rectness of  its  methods,  and  the  spirit  of  fairness 
by  which  all  its  transactions  arc  characterized.  The 
gentlemen  connected  with  the  management  of  this 
institution  are  all  men  of  marked  administrative 
ability,  endowed  with  the  necessary  (pialifications 
for  the  judicious  management  of  this  great  enter- 
l)rise.  The  trade  which  is  supplied  by  this  house 
embraces  the  different  States  and  Territories  of  the 
United  States,  Mexico,  Australia  and.  in  fact, 
almost  every  place  where  corn  is  raised.     On  their 


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lAt* 


lorii  |iliiMli'istliev  liaveoiu'  of  llii'  liost  check-rowers 
in  iiM",  whk-li  was  invt-ntnl  l>y  tlu'  Barlows,  liitlir 
(lifferi'iit  (li-pailmi'iit-s  of  tlii-ir  works,  tliev  I'inplov 
one  liiindreil  niid  twenty-nvo  men.  wlio  are  liijriilv 
skilled  in  tlieir  different  Itranches,  and  slioiilii  their 
husiness  increase  as  rapidly  in  liie  future  av  it  has 
done  in  the  past,  a  much  larger  force  will  be  nc-  ^ 
cessary.  Separate  from  their  shops  they  have  a 
large  four-story  warehouse,  in  which  to  tinish  and 
store  their  machinery. 

In  1 XH2  .Mr.  Harlow  was  married  to  Miss  May 
Gravelle.  of  C^uiiicv.a  dausfhter  of  Joseph  (iravellc. 
and  they  have  a  \er\  pretty  and  comforlalile  home. 
No.  yoo  North  .Sixth  Street.  .Mr.  IJarlow  is  ol  quite 
an  inventive  turn  of  mind  and  in  addition  to  his 
check-rowers,  he  ha."  invented  the  <^uincy  Force 
Drop  Corn  I'lantcr. 


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l",Ni;^  (  K.\l<i.  will)  resif'.es  in  (  laylun. 
was  born  in  Scott  County.  Ind..  in  1«1M. 
and  is  n  son  of  .lohn  and  L\ilu  (Crainpton) 
(  raig.  The  paternal  ijrandfather  was  Imrn 
in  Ireland,  and  the  father  of  our  subject  was  a 
native  of  Kentucky.  The  latter  served  in  the 
AVar  of  1812.  being  stationed  at  .Jefferson  Harr.icks. 
.St.  Louis,  most  of  the  time,  and  held  the  rank  of 
First  Lieutenant.  l{eniovin<r  to  Didiana,  he  be- 
came one  of  the  |)rominent  settlers  of  Scott 
County,  and  helped  to  lay  out  the  U)\\i\  of  Vi- 
enna, where  he  cniraLrcd  in  keeping  hotel  for  some 
time. 

In  the  Craig  family  were  the  following  children: 
Rachel,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky,  married 
Charles  Cox  and  died  in  \H7i).  leaving  eight  chil- 
dren. Klizahcth  Ann  liecame  the  wife  of  .Mr.  Wat- 
kins,  by  wlKjni  she  had  live  children. and  died  in 
18t>7.  Melinda  became  the  wife  of  .Mr.  Hughes,  a 
farmer  of  Illinois, and  died  in  1879,  leaving  four 
children.  I'riscilla  is  also  Mi-s.  Hughes. and  with 
her  three  children  resides  in  Missouri.  .lohn  mar- 
ried .\gnes  Palmer  and  died  in  Adams  County, 
111.,  in  188;<,leavinLr  eight  children.      William  mar- 


ried Mrs.  .fane  Shellield.  and  was  a  farmer  of  Lib- 
erty Township.  His  death  occurred  in  December. 
IKUO.  and  he  left  three  children. 

The  subject  of  this  ski'tch  was  educated  in  the 
subscription  h-IiooIs  of  Indiana.  In  an  early  day, 
his  parents  started  with  their  fainil\-  to  ,\danis 
Countv.  111.,  by  boat.  The  vessel  sank  with  all 
their  goods  on  Injard,  but  father,  mother  and  chil- 
dren escaped.  They  reached  their  destination  with 
only  >.'iO  in  money.  The  father  secured  a  farm, 
and  followed  agricultural  pursuits  throughout  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  Our  subject  wa.*"  reared  in 
the  usual  manner  of  farnu'r  lads,  and  followed  ag- 
ricultural pursuits  in  Liberty  Township  for  some 
time.  He  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
land,  for  which  he  paid  *2(Mi,  which  is  now  worth 
ftjO  per  acre.  He  made  it  his  home  until  thirty- 
two  years  of  age,  when  he  removed  to  Kingston 
and  engageil  in  stock-dealing,  buying  and  selling 
horses  and  cattle.  In  IHj.'i,  he  removed  to  Hrown 
County,  111.,  and  purchased  a  tract  of  one  hun- 
dred and  ten  acres  of  land,  whi.li  lie  placed  under 
a  high  state  of  cultivation,  making  many  improve- 
ments upon  it.  He  bought  it  for  |i8li()  and  sold  it 
for  |;.'),(l(l(i.  t)n  disposing  of  that  pro]>erty.  he  re- 
turned to  Liberty  Township,  and  again  engaged  in 
speculation.  He  has  acquired  a  comfortable  com- 
petency by  his  judicious  investmenl.  enterprise 
and  perseverance.  He  is  now  living  retired,  and 
is  one  of  the  honored  citizens  of  Clayton. 

In  the  year  18.'i7,  Mr.  Craig  married  \  irginia 
I'aliner,  who  wjis  born  in  1m2ii.  Of  their  children, 
seven  are  now  deceased,  .lohn  W..  born  in  Adams 
County.  .lanuary  I.  18:iii.  died  in  18.')2:  Kob- 
ert  A.,  born  October  14,  l«4(l,  died  .March  20. 
lKfi2;  Margaret  K..  born  March  4,  1K42,  is  the 
wife  of  (ieorge  Ausmus,  a  liveryman  of  Clayton,  by 
whom  she  has  two  children:  Kmily  S.,  who  was 
born  November  17,  1843.  and  resides  in  Clayton, 
became  the  wife  of  La  Fayette  .\usiiius.  who  died 
in  18'.t(i,  leaving  two  children;  .Martha  ■!..  born 
Septeml)er  18.  184i'»;  Oscar  F.,  February  27.  1847; 
Lucinda,  .Vugust  111.  |8I'.»,  and  Susanna.  Novem- 
ber 20.  18.jl.are  all  dccea.sed;  Charles  IL.  born 
December  23.  18.')4,  was  employed  in  the  Clayton 
Sayings  Hank. and  died  in  1870.  Hegraduated  from 
.Miinirdon    College,   and    bore   off  the  honors   of 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


class  valedictorian.  He  was  held  in  universal 
esteem.  He  married  Laura  Cockins,  who  died 
shortly  after  his  death.  Warren  T.,horn  April  21, 
I860,  is  married,  and  follows  farming  in  this 
count.v.  He  owns  a  well-imi)roved  farm  of  two 
hundred  acres,  and  his  home  is  a  modern  two- 
story  dwelling.  He  raises  fancy  stock,  having 
some  fine  thoroughbred  horses.  The  children 
were  all  lihernlly  educated,  twf)  having  attended 
college. 

Mr.  Craig  is  not  a  member  of  any  religions  or- 
ganization, but  his  wife  belongs  to  the  Dnnkard 
Church.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Masonic 
Lodge  of  Kingston,  and  has  taken  the  Royal  Arch 
Degree.  In  politics,  he  is  a  stalwart  Democrat, 
and  was  Supervisor  of  Liberty  Township  for 
many  years.  In  18C7,he  was  elected  Sheriff  of  the 
county  by  a  large  majority  and  served  for  two 
3ears.  Subsequently,  he  was  elected  Supervisor 
of  Clayton  Township.  The  fact  that  he  has  been 
repeatedly  elected  in  a  Republican  Township  in- 
dicates his  personal  popularity  and  the  confidence 
in  which  he  is  lield  by  his  fellow-townsmen.  He 
is  now  living  retired,  enjoying  a  well-earned  rest. 


EDWARD  SOMM.  No  element  has  been 
more  potent  in  the  rise  and  progress  of  the 
immense  business  interests  of  (Juincy  than 
its  native-born  citizens,  and  as  a  representative  of 
such,  this  gentleman  occupies  an  honorable  posi- 
tion in  financial  and  social  circles.  In  banking 
circles,  he  is  especially  prominent,  and  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Ricker  National  Bank,  one  of  the  solid 
financial  institutions  of  the  citj-.  His  character  is  un- 
impeachable, and  the  interest  which  he  takes  in  all 
public  enterprises  stamps  him  as  a  man  of  excel- 
lent judgment  and  great  intelligence. 

In  addition  to  his  banking  interests,  Mr.  Sohni 
is  connected  with  the  firm  of  Sohm,  Ricker  A- 
Weisenhorn,  being  the  senior  member.  They  have 
an  immense  and  beautifully-arranged  china,  glass 
and  queensware  establishment, and  organized  their 


present  business  May  1,  1884.  The  history  of  this 
enterprise  is  the  history  of  a  number  of  other  busi- 
ness enterprises  which  have  had  their  inception  in 
(^uincj'  since  1.SS(I.  The  amount  of  business  trans- 
acted by  the  firm  during  the  second  year  of  its 
existence  was  33=^  per  cent,  in  excess  of  that  done 
the  first  year.  A  similar  increase  was  attained  in 
1886  and  1887,  while  during  the  following  year 
the  firm  did  the  largest  queensware  business  ever 
done  in  the  city  of  (^uincy  by  a  single  firm  in  the 
same  length  of  time. 

The  store  building  then  occupied  by  the  firm 
consisted  of  four  floors,  and  was  one  hiindi'ed  and 
twenty  feet  deep,  with  twenty-six  feet  frontage. 
Their  increasing  trade  soon  became  too  extensive 
for  that  building,  and  in  addition  to  it  they  now 
occupj-  two  large  warehouses.  The  retail  depart- 
ment contains  the  most  extensive  and  attractive 
(pieensware  display  in  the  city.  The  aim  of  the 
firm  is  to  cover  all  the  available  territory  tributary 
to  Quincy,  and  their  Itusiness  methods  are  such 
that  when  trade  is  once  secured  it  is  held  without 
exception. 

The  parents  of  our  subject,  P.  and  Rosa  Sohm, 
were  natives  of  CJerman  v,  and  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica when  young.  They  were  married  in  Quincy, 
where  the  father  followed  the  occupation  of  a 
cooper,  and  afterward  engaged  in  mercantile  pur- 
suits. His  death  occurred  there  in  1885.  The 
mother  is  still  living,  and  occupies  the  old  home- 
stead in  (Quincy.  Edward,  the  eldest  son  in  the 
famil}%  was  born  in  this  cit}'  October  2,  184.5, 
and  passed  his  boyhood  days  here,  attending  the 
common  schools  and  gaining  a  good  education. 
He  was  quite  young  wlien  he  entered  a  store  in  the 
capacit}'  of  clerk,  and  continued  there  until  he 
reached  his  eighteenth  year.  EoUowing  that,  he 
was  a  teacher  in  the  St.  Boniface  School,  wliere  he 
remained  one  year. 

The  next  position  secured  l\v  Mr.  Sohm  was  in 
the  employ  of  II.  Ridder  &  Co.,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained for  three  years  as  an  employe,  and  was 
then  admitted  to  the  firm,  the  title  being  Henry 
Ridder  iV-  Co.  In  1884,  he  sold  out  his  interest  in 
the  business,  the  success  of  which  had  been  gained 
largely  through  his  exertions,  and  then  organized 
a  new  firm,  that  of  Sohm,  Ricker   it  Weisenhorn, 


rfrnTIJAIT  AND  lUOOKAl'HK  AI.    I{F.(()RI). 


ir.a 


HOW  liH-nteil  nl  No.  .Mt!  .Main  Stivt-t.  mention  4if 
wliirli  li;iN  already  bcfii  made.  In  Hdilition  to 
oilier  inlere.*(s.  lie  is  a  Director  in  nnd  \iee-|>re*i- 
denl  of  llie  lierin:in  ln>uraiue  ('oni|mn.v  of 
C^iiin<>  and  a  sloeklioiiler  in  tlic  Kreibiirj;  Hoot  and 
Shoe  Factory,  liesides  servini?  a.H  Trt-nsnrer  anil 
Director  of  the  I  leriiiania  rrinlini:  A-  I'nlili^liinir 
('oin|mny. 

'I'lie  inarriaire  of  Mr.  Snlmi  look  \>\:u-r  ,\iimi>i 
l'.\.  IXtiT.  and  nnited  liini  with  Miss  HarlKira. 
daiifiliter  of  Simon  llelmer,  a  well-known  cili/en 
of  t^uincy.  Into  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .Solim  have  Iteen 
born  seven  children,  of  whom  two  are  deceased; 
those  livins;  are  Katie,  William  11.,  Theres.'i.  Kd- 
ward  and  .Mliert.  The  religious  home  of  the  fam- 
ily is  in  St.  lionifaee  Catholic  Church,  in  which 
.Mr.  Sohm  is  verv  active,  servin<;  as  Secretary  and 
Trustee,  and  contrilnilinjj  hherally  to  reli|j;ious 
causes.  The  home  of  the  family  is  at  No.  S27 
t)ak  .Street,  a  handsome  luick  structure,  the  inte- 
rior of  which  is  furnished  with  an  elejraiit  and 
quiet  taste,  rellectinfj  the  relinement  and  culture 
of  the  inmates. 


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+^H'ES+ 


„l  ?y  KV.  FATIIi:i{  MICII.VKI.WF.IS.  pastor  of  St. 
llonifacc  Critliolic  Church  in  (^uincw  isone 
of  those  projjressive  fjentlemen  who  do  not 
lielieve  that  a  iontr  face  and  sanctimonious 
airs  are  necessary  to  a  truly  religious  life,  for  he  him- 
self is  one  of  the  most  genial  of  men,  and  is  loved 
l>y  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact.  lie  was 
horn  in  IJavaria,  (iermany,  in  the  town  of  Muers- 
liaeh.  .lune  K,  1838,  and  is  the  eldest  son  of 
Michael  and  I'rsula  (  Neslrnaun  )  Wcis.  I'ntil  the 
age  of  thirteen  \  ears,  his  lioyhood  W!is  spent  in  his 
native  town,  hut  at  that  time  he  was  brought  to 
America,  landing  at  New  Yiu'k  City  with  his  |)ar- 
ents  and  brothers  and  sisters,  numbering  eight  in 
all. 

For  the  fiist  live  years  of  his  resideiK-e  in  .\mer- 
iea,  our  subject  wm«  employed  as  a  farm   hand   in 


one  locality,  but  he  later  coiitiniieil  the  .same 
henlthful  and  honorable  employment  near  Teu- 
topolis,  Ktlingham  County,  I II..  at  the  -ame  time 
pui>niiig  his  studies  with  diligence  and  persever- 
ance. After  teaching  one  year  in  tiie  public 
scIkhiIs  of  Teuto|Hilis,  and  engaging  for  two  years 
as  an  instructor  in  the  parochial  schools  of  Kd- 
wardsvillc,  Madison  Counly,  111.,  he  entered  St. 
.loscph  College  at  Teutopolis,  where  he  pursued 
his  stuilies  for  three  years.  Later,  he  entcreil  the 
(ii.'ind  Seminary  at  .Miuitreal,  Canada,  the  largest 
institution  of  it*  kind  in  America, and  upon  lieing 
graduated,  was  ordained  a  priest  at  .\lton,  III. 
His  liist  parish  was  at  N'andalia,  this  State,  where 
he  remained  one  year  and  seven  months.  His 
next  charge  was  at  Marine.  Ma<lis<iii  County,  111., 
where  he  ably  lilled  the  pulpit  in  St.  Klizabclh's 
Church.  -Vfler  a  short  time  thus  s|)cnt.  he  re- 
moved to  Kllingham.  this  State,  and  during  the 
live  yea|-s  in  which  he  there  remained,  he  was  suc- 
cessful, with  the  hearty  co-oi)eiation  and  earnest 
efforts  of  his  parishionei-s,  in  erecting  a  commo- 
dious church  in  which  to  hold  .services. 

Ill  1877,  after  the  completion  of  the  church  edi- 
fice, Father  Weis  was  obliged,  on  account  of  fail- 
ing health,  to  cea,se  for  a  time  his  arduous  lalxjrs 
on  behalf  of  his  people,  and  journeyed  We-stwaid 
to  California,  where  he  remained  for  some  time, 
after  which  he  spent  three  months  in  Minnesota. 
His  health  had  l>een  so  greatly  lK?nelited,  that  he 
returned  to  .Vlton  and  accepted  theollice  of  Chan- 
cellor of  the  diiK-ese  of  .\lt<ui,  which  position  he 
held  until  the  1st  of  .lanuary,  188(1,  when,  by  his 
own  re(|uest,  he  was  sent  to  Saline.  Madison 
County.  III.,  thence  t<>  Litchfield,  where  he  re- 
mained eighteen  months.  Following  this,  he  was 
located  for  some  time  at  Springfield,  where  he  had 
charge  of  the  Church  of  Sts.  Peter  and  Paul,  and 
in  that  city  he  resided  and  conducted  his  priestly 
labors  with  succe.s.-  for  a  period  of  live  years. 

Since  IHH~.  Father  Weis  has  been  a  resident  of 
(^uiiicy,  and  has  Ix-en  pastor  of  St.  Boniface  Cath- 
olic (  hurch,  his  congregation  numbering  six  hun- 
dred families.  .\s  a  pastor,  he  gets  very  near  his 
people,  and  lia.>j  ever  sought  toilevehip  the  highest 
type  of  social  life  of  the  church.  He  has  made 
himself  the  personal  friend  of  .■nili  memlier   of  his 


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congregation,  s\'nipatliizing  with  them  in  trouble, 
anrl  joyful  with  them  in  gladness.  He  is  of  keen 
perception,  clear  and  logical  in  his  reasoning  facul- 
ties, and  his  discourse  is  powerful  and  convincing- 
During  liis  pastorate  he  has  not  allowed  the  work 
of  the  church  to  he  at  a  standstill,  either  spiritually 
or  practically,  and  has  always  been  an  active  and 
earnest  worker  for  the  cause  of  the  Master. 


p»i.i»ji^hi"  *■ 


?      I     '     I     !• 


/EERT  BUSIS  is  numbered  among  the  prom- 
r^ii  inent  business  men  of  Golden,  having  been 
'W^  connected  with  its  mercantile  interests  for 
a  number  of  years.  He  has  tlie  honor  of  being  a 
native  of  this  county,  his  birth  having  occurred 
in  Clayton  Township.  He  is  a  son  of  John  and 
Ikke  Buss,  of  German  descent.  The  family  con- 
sisted of  the  following  children:  G.  J.,  born 
in  Germany,  is  mai-ried  and  has  two  children; 
Henry,  born  in  Germany,  is  married  and  resides  in 
Nebraska;  John  is  married  and  resides  in  Clayton 
Township;  E.  J.  resides  in  Clayton  Township  with 
his  wife  and  three  children. 

We  now  take  up  tlie  personal  history  of  our  sub- 
ject, who  spent  his  boyhood  days  upon  his  father's 
farm  and  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of 
the  neighborhood.  He  entered  upon  his  business 
career  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  becoming  a  clerk 
in  the  general  merchandise  store  of  John  Poppe, 
where  he  remained  two  j'ears.  He  was  then  em- 
ployed by  Albers  &  Ihnen,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained two  years,  and,  in  the  fall  of  1879,  he 
began  business  for  himself.  He  started  with  a 
small  stock,  but  from  the  beginning  his  trade  has 
constantly  increased,  and  he  now  carries  a  stock 
valued  at  $6,000.  He  is  doing  a  good  business, 
and  well  deserves  tlie  liljeral  patronage  accorded 
him.  He  lias  also  opened  a  broom  factory,  which 
is  one  of  the  leading  industries  of  Golden,  and  in 
addition  to  this  line  of  business-  is  engaged  in 
dealing  in  real  estate. 

Mr.  Buss  has  been  prominently  connected  with 
the  upbuilding  of  the  city,  aiding  in    every   im- 


provement calculated  to  prove  of  public  benefit. 
He  has  erected  two  residences  and  six  brick  busi- 
ness buildings,  which  he  rents,  and  has  other  valua- 
ble property  in  Golden. 

In  18711.  Mr.  Buss  married  Miss  Katie  Emminga, 
and  unto  tliem  were  born  two  children:  John  and 
Margaret.  The  mother  departed  this  life  in  1886, 
and  Mr.  Buss  was  again  married,  his  second  union 
being  with  Bertha,  daughter  of  Frederick  and 
Lena  Tensman.  Thej'  have  three  children:  Law- 
rence, Heur}',  and  Frederick.  Mrs.  Buss  is  held  in 
high  esteem  for  her  man\'  excellencies  of  char- 
acter. 

Our  subject  has  been  connected  with  the  Evan- 
gelical Lutheian  Church  for  thirtj'-two  years,  has 
held  many  of  its  offices,  and  is  one  of  its  most  prom- 
inent and  consistent  members.  His  wife  is  also  in 
the  faith  of  that  church.  In  politics,  he  is  a  stal- 
wart Democrat.  He  attiliated  with  the  Republican 
part3'  until  1884,  when,  on  account  of  his  views  on 
the  tariff  question,  he  joined  the  ranks  of  the  Dem- 
ocracy. 

In  1890,  he  was  elected  Tax  Collector  by  a  large 
majority,  although  the  township  is  usually  Repub- 
lican. He  has  never  aspired  to  offlce,  however,  pre- 
ferring to  devote  his  entire  time  and  attention  to 
his  business  interests,  in  which  he  has  met  with  sig- 
nal success.  He  is  a  wide-awake  and  enterprising 
business  man,  sagacious  and  far-sighted,  honorable 
and  upright  in  all  his  dealings,  and  Golden  may  be 
proud  to  number  him  among  its  citizens. 


l>-^r<l 


a>^ 


^^N  HARLES  F.  SCHWINDELER,  Few  fami- 
(l(  _  lies  in  this  county  have  a  higher  standing 
^^^'  for  character,  ability  and  enterprise  than 
the  one  represented  by  the  name  at  the  head  of 
this  paragraph,  and  in  its  various  members  it  is 
eminently  worthy  of  the  respect  which  is  univer- 
sally conceded  it.  He  of  whom  we  write,  who  is 
the  most  efficient  City  Treasurer  and  ex-officio 
Collector  of  Quincy,  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  well-known  men  of  this  county.  He  no  doubt 
inherits  much  of  his  thrift  and   induslrv  from   his 


I'ORlIiAir   AM)   I!I(»(.I!A1'IUCAI.   i;i".((  IRI). 


1 1;:, 


Gerinaii  !inc("-ti\.  Ii«i  lii-  IjiIIkt,  lii-riKirii  N-liwiii- 
flelcr.  w!i.-  Imiii  ill  IhiiKivcr,  Goi'iiiriiiv.  .-iiid  caiiu' 
to  AiiU'i'icii  wlicii  ;i  voilllg  IDHII.  Like  .-ill  oT  h]s 
nnti<>iialit,\ .  lie  \n\t\  leariu'fl  a  Iraiif  iluring  ytuitli. 
tlml  of  a  i'ar|ifi>ti'r,  and.  afti-r  liK'atiii^  in  IaiuIs- 
viile,  K\..  Iio  fi)li«>\ved  il  for  n  short  lime.  In  tin' 
spriMji;  of  Irt.'U'i.  lu'  ciiiiie  to  (^uinov,  and  was  cn- 
inajrt'd  ill  tlio  lii|Uor  hiisin(>s.s  in  tliis  city  for  a  nnni- 
Ikt  of  years.  IK-  was  liu-ii  I'li-cted  City  Marslial. 
and  was  lioidiiii;  tiiat  position  at  the  tinu-  of  his 
death,  in  187K.  In  politics.  In-  was  a  stroiii;  advo- 
cate of  the  (irinciples  of  tiic  Deniocr.itic  party, 
and  in  relisjion  he  was  a  inenilier  of  the  Catholic 
(hiiicli.  His  wife,  whose  m.-iiden  name  was  (ler- 
triide  Wellniaii,  was  also  anativeof  Hanover.  ( ;ei- 
inaiiy.     J ler  death  occurred   in   IHliP. 

Of  the  live  cliildien  liorn  to  this  estiinalile 
couple,  four  are  now  living-  Charles  F.  Scliwin- 
deler.  the  eldest  of  these  children,  was  horn  in 
Louisville.  Ky..  on  the  7lli  of  Sepleinher,  IH.'il. 
Itut  his  earliest  recollections  are  of  t^uiiicy.  111.,  for 
he  moved  there  with  his  father  when  ipiitc  yonn<f. 
He  was  reared  in  a  loi:  house,  and  his  scholastic 
training  was  received  in  tlie  coininon  schools. 
From  an  early  age  he  wa.spiilto  work,  aiul  wlieii 
thirteen,  he  hesraii  to  learn  the  painter's  trade  un- 
der his  uncle.  Fred  Wellman.  After  liiiisliing,  he 
started  out  for  himself  as  a  painter  and  decorator, 
and,  lieiiii;  a  lirst-clnss  workman,  he  was  successful 
from  the  lieginiiing.  He  w!is  married  in  this  city, 
in  18.'>.i.  to  Miss  Mary  Faerlier.  a  native  of  (Ger- 
many, who  was  his  companion  and  lielpmatu  un- 
til Octfiber  18.  IBSU,  when  her  death  occurred. 
Mr.  Schwindeler  has  a  comfortahle  and  attractive 
home  at  the  corner  of  Twelfth  and  Kim  Streets. 
In  the  year  1883,  he  was  elected  City  Treasurer 
and  ex-olHcio  Collector  on  the  Democratic  ticket, 
.•iiid  served  four  year5.  He  was  then  out  for  years. 
Iiut  in  the  spring  of  18;i|  he  was  elected  again, 
and  re-elected  in  I8ii'2.  He  is  uerving  his  sixth 
term  at  the  present  time.  'I'lie  otiicial  work  of  this 
gentleman  has  extended  over  maiiy  yefti-s,  and  has 
hriiught  him  prominently  liefore  the  ga/e  of  the 
piililic.  In  him  his  constituents  have  found  a  man 
of  aliility  and  integrity,  and  one  wliase  activities 
have  ever  heeii  em))Ioyed  for  the  good  of  the  com- 
munity. 


Mr.  Schwindeler  >  marriage  loiillecl  in  llu-  liirlli 
of  eleven  children. seven  of  whom  arc  living:  Fred, 
in  Chicago;  Iternard.a  painter  of  </uiiiev;  Frances, 
at  home:  Charles. at  home;  Hillic.in  Chicago;  Frank, 
at  home,  and  l.i/./.ie.  at  home.  In  politics,  our  suli- 
jecl  follows  in  the  fooLsteps  of  his  father  and  is  an 
ar<h'iit  Democrat.  He  has  lieen  a  inemher  of  the 
county  Democratic  convention,  and  has  lieeii  a 
delegate  to  county  ami  Stale  conventions.  He  is 
tine  of  the  oldest  settlers  in  this  sectifin.  having  re- 
sided here  since  18;i(I.  and  is  chussed  among  the 
most  p.steeined  and  wmihy  citizens.  When  he  first 
settled  in  t^uincy,  there  were  liut  a  few  Imildings; 
wild  animals  were  plentiful,  and  as  he  was  coiisid- 
eralile  of  a  liiinter.  he  enjoycfi  iiiiicli  -port. 


v«>  y».VSIIIN(/r(»N  CDUItlN.  Among  themany 
*/"w  P'"^'"i'"ent,  enterprising  an<l  succes>ful  cit- 
V^y  izens  of  (^uincy,  III.,  whose  biography  it  is 
a  pleasure  to  give  among  the  honored  ones  of  this 
locality,  is  the  worthy  gentleman  whose  name 
heads  this  sketch,  hut  who  is  more  familiarly  known 
as  "  Wash"  Corhiii.  He  is  well  known  all  over 
the  county,  and  his  genial,  social,  and  most  agree- 
able manners  have  won  him  many  warm  friends. 
He  is  also  one  of  the  old  «eltlei-sof  the  county,  hav- 
ing l<K-ated  here  in  18.32.  and  is  pro|iriet<»r  of  tlie  Ba- 
shaw breeding  Stables,  No.  121  South  Fourth  .Street, 
Quincy.  111.  The  stallions  in  use  are  "Corbiii 
Hasliaw.'"  17<>2;  "(Jeorge  Miller."  2.'U."J:  '•Young 
Ambov"and"  Black  Wilkes."  The  tirst-named  has 
a  record  of  2:2(i-|,  and  is  a  rich  golileii  chestnut, 
foaled  on  the  HUh  of  May.  187."),  sixteen  and 
oiie-ipiailer  hands  high,  weighs  twelve  hundred 
pounds,  and  is  a  large,  powerful  horse.  His 
gait  is  almost  perfection,  needing  none  of  the 
devices  used  to  contrtil  the  action.  His  record  of 
2:2tiJ  is  no  measure  of  his  sjieed.  as  he  has  often 
trotti'd  much  f.aster.  and  has  >liown  his  ability  to 
beat  2:20  by  several  .seconds.  This  lioi-sc  has  proven 
himself  a  race-horse,  a  sire,  and  an  individual. 
The  old  proverb,  •■  Where  there    is  smoke    there   is 


166 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


fire  "'  is  i«irticulaily  true  in  liin  ease,  for  lie  was 
sired  by  "  Amboy,"  wiio  iiad  a  record  of  2:26.  and 
his  dam,  '■  Jllack  ^raria,"  came  from  a  list  of  prom- 
inent race-horses. 

In  the  State  noted  for  fine  horses  (Kentucky)! 
Washington  Corbin  was  born,  his  birth  occurring 
in  Grant  County,  on  the  8th  of  July,  1820.  His 
father,  James  Corbin,  was  a  native  of  Culi)eper 
County.  Va..  and  of  Knglish  descent.  He  was  a 
soldier  iu  tiie  War  of  1812,  enlisting  as  a  private, 
and  after  the  war  he  settled  iu  Kentucky,  opening 
a  farm  in  Grant  County.  He  liecanie  a  veterin- 
aiT  surgeon,  one  of  the  most  prominent  in  the 
State  of  Kentucky,  and  practiced  there  for  many 
years.  In  1832,  he  came  to  Adams  County,  111., 
located  in  Burton  Township,  and  bought  some  new 
land  covered  with  white  oak  timber.  He  began 
in  true  pioneer  style,  erected  a  log  cabin,  and 
passed  his  days  in  clearing  iiis  farm  and  hunting 
the  wild  animals,  then  so  numerous.  He  followed 
his  profession  in  connection  witli  farming  for 
many  years,  and  died  here  when  fifty-four  years 
of  age.  He  had  married  Miss  Jane  Briggs,  of 
Grant  County.  Ky.,  but  she  died  in  that  State  in 
1826.  They  had  an  old-fashioned  family  of  ten 
cliildren,  as  follows:  August  (deceased),  .John  and 
Ciiarles  (twins),  (iranville,  Sally;  Parker,  who  re- 
sides at  West  Point,  1 11.;  AV'ashington  and  America, 
(twins),  the  latter  now  Mrs.  JIalone.  of  Newtown; 
Thomas  and  Nancy  (deceased). 

The  original  of  this  notice,  who  was  the  second 
youngest  in  order  of  birth,  was  reared  in  his  native 
State  until  eleven  years  of  age,  and  then  came 
with  liis  father  to  (^uincy,  111.  As  his  father  was 
in  rather  poor  circumstances,  young  Corbin  was 
obliged  to  work  hard  during  his  youth,  and  his 
boyhood  days  were  passed  in  assisting  his  father 
in  clearing  the  farm.  He  continued  on  the  farm 
until  after  his  fatiier's  death,  when  he  was  appren- 
ticed to  learn  the  cooper  trade  at  Burton.  He 
worked  at  this  for  ten  years,  and  then  purchased 
a  farm  four  and  a-half  miles  east  of  Burton,  which 
ho  at  once  began  improving.  He  iiad  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  acres,  and  in  connection  with 
general  farming,  he  was  engaged  in  trading  in 
horses,  and  stock  of  all  kinds.  During  the  war,  lie 
bought  horses   for  the  Government  for  the  com- 


pany of  the  Third  ^[issouri  Cavalry,  and  had 
none  but  what  was  accepted.  He  continued 
farming  until  1868,  and  then  sold  out  and  located 
in  (^uincy.  A  few  years  later,  he  engaged  in  bus- 
iness with  ^Ir.  Aldridgc  and  continued  with  him 
for  six  years,  after  which  he  sold  out  and  bought 
"  Amboy,"  769,  for  12,800.  This  horse  was  burned 
to  death  in  1880,  but  left  a  fitting  representative 
in  "  Corbin  Bashaw,"  Mr.  Corbin's  best  horse.  Mr. 
Corbin  also  bought  "  Black  Maria"  of  Smith  for 
II, .500,  and  she  became  the  dam  of  "Corbin  Ba- 
shaw." The  last-named  horse  li.as  trotted  in  all 
the  large  cities  and  has  brought  his  owner  a  great 
deal  of  money. 

Mr.  Corbin  was  married  in  Burton,  in  1856,  to 
Miss  Catherine  Mechiin,  a  native  of  Adams  County, 
III.,  who  was  here  reared  and  educated.  She  was 
a  school  teacher,  and  a  lady  of  more  than  the  aver- 
age intelligence  and  reflnement.  She  died  in 
1873.  Two  children  were  born  to  this  union,  but 
both  died  when  small.  Mr.  Corbin  is  a  member 
of  the  Ancient,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  He  de- 
lights in  racing,  and  in  the  fall  he  goes  to  Arkan- 
sas to  hunt.  Since  1850,  he  has  killed  two  hun- 
dred deer  in  tliis  county,  and  has  killed  tiiree  hun- 
dred in  all.  He  has  a  pleasant  residence  at  No. 
305  Fourth  Street.  In  {lolitics,  he  is  a  stanch 
Kepublican. 


(ill.,  is. 
^^^    this    pi 


^p^  EORGE  H.  WALKER,  ex-.Mayor  of  (^lincy, 
one  of  the  representative  citizens  of 
lace,  and  it  is  fitting  that  a  brief 
sketch  of  his  career  should  find  place  in  this  Ri-.(  - 
OKI).  There  is  in  the  development  of  every  suc- 
cessful life  a  principle  which  is  a  lesson  to  every 
man  following  in  its  footsteps,  a  lesson  leading 
to  higher  and  more  honorable  positions  than  the 
ordinary.  Let  a  man  be  industriously  ambitious 
and  honorable  in  his  ambitions,  and  he  will  rise, 
whether  having  the  prestige  of  fannly  or  the  oli- 
scurity  of  iioverty. 


PCiRTRAIT  AM)  Iil()f;RArm(AL   KFCORD. 


i<;7 


Kx-Mavor  Walker  is  a  native  of  Kentucky. 
jMini  in  l.ognn  County,  near  Riissellville.  »in  the 
2(1  of  iJecetnher,  IKS'.i.  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph 
Walker,  and  the  grandson  of  Klislia  Walker,  who 
was  of  Scotfh  <U'seenl.  Tlie  father  of  our  subject 
was  also  liorn  in  the  ljlue-:^ra.->s  reijions  of  Ken- 
tucky, and  was  eng.nged  in  general  niercliaiulisin<; 
the  jirincipal  part  of  his  life.  lie  married  Miss 
Delia  A.  (.'otTnian.  a  native  of  Kentu<-ky.  and  the 
daughter  of  .Jacob  CofTman,  who  was  horn  in  Ten- 
nessee and  was  of  (ierniaii  oriiiin.  ()ursulijecl  was 
the  second  in  or<ler  of  hirlii  of  eight  children, 
•■md  until  eighteen  yeai-s  of  age  remained  in  his 
native  county,  supplementing  a  common-s<'liool 
education  liy  a  term  in  a  select  school.  Later,  he 
attended  a  parochial  school,  and  suhsctpiently 
began  wielding  the  ferrule,  followinj;  the  profcssiun 
of  a  teacher  for  some  time. 

rp  to  IMTo,  Mr.  Walker  was  engaged  in  culti- 
vating the  soil,  and  he  afterward  embarked  in 
merchandising,  keeping  a  general  store  at  .Mar- 
cclline,  111.  For  twelve  years,  he  was  thus  en- 
gaged, and  during  that  time  he  accumulateil  a 
comfortable  competency.  lie  was  enterprising 
and  progressive  and  his  pleasant,  genial  manners 
won  him  many  faithful  friends.  In  the  spring  of 
18S;'),  he  came  to  i^uincy  and  embarked  in  the 
grocery  business,  whii-h  he  carried  on  for  thiee 
years.  I„'»ter.  he  was  engaged  in  the  grain, 
produce  and  commission  business  in  partnership 
with  William  S.  Flack,  under  the  linn  name  of 
Walker  A-  Flack,  with  ollices  .-it  Nos.  2.'<.')  and  237 
North  Seyenth  Stjcet.  This  fiini  hamlles  all  kinds 
of  grain  and  produce,  and  ship  to  the  l-',ast  and 
West.  It  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  houses  in 
its  special  line  of  trade  in  the  city,  aiul  the  vol- 
ume of  trade  is  constantly  on  the  incre.ise. 

During  his  residence  in  t^uiucy,  Mr.  W;ilker  has 
held  a  number  of  responsible  positions,  and  has 
ever  lH*en  interested  in  the  jprosperity  of  the  city. 
.VII  his  life  long  he  has  been  ileeply  interested  in 
the  cause  of  education. and  for  sometime  has  been 
."i  member  of  the  Sdiool  ISoaid.  He  was  .Super- 
visor of  his  township  f<'r  several  years,  and  for 
five  years  was  Chairman  of  that  body,  lie  served 
one  term  n»  .Mderman  fi-oni  the  First  Ward  in 
(^uiucy.  and  in  the  spring  of   IM'.m  he  was  elected 


Mayor  of  the  city.  His  administration  was  marked 
by  the  improvements  nwide  and  the  excellent 
jmlgnuMit  he  displayed  in  discharging  the  duties 
of  this  responsible  position.  ISesidcs  making  nniny 
v.'dunble  changes  in  the  city  government,  he  advo- 
cated the  ownership  of  the  Water  Works  by  the 
cit\ ,  which,  however,  was  defeated  b\  the  prescn' 
company. 

Mr.  Walker  is  a  stockholder  in  the  l^nincy  Shirt 
an<I  ( )verail  Company,  and  has  held  the  position 
of  Secretary  and  Treasurer  for  several  yeai>.  lie 
is  now  I'rcsident  of  the  Adams  County  Itnilding 
A.ssoeiation,  and  is  identified  with  IJodley  Lodge. 
.\.  V.  \-  A.  M.  In  politics.  Mr.  Walker  is  a  pro- 
nounced Democrat,  and  is  active  in  support  of  his 
parly.  During  bis  career  .as  a  public  ollieial,  Mr. 
Walker  displayed  much  executive  ability,  superior 
judgment  and  any  amount  of  sound,  practical 
sense.  lie  is  now  residing  at  No.  1  It'll  \ern.ont 
Street,  and  h.as  a  comfortable  and  attractiv  home. 


^^^-^-1=*= 


JAHKI)  i;.  KLV.  One  of  the  coniforUible 
residences  in  the  beautiful  little  village  of 
Mendon.  Adams  (Vmnty.  was  built,  and  is 
^^^  ocupied  by  the  subject  of  this  present 
sketch,  lie  has  been  a  druggist,  but  now  has  set- 
tled down  to  a  life  of  ease  at  his  pleas;int  home. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Kjilph  11.  Fl\.  a 
native  of  I'ortage  County,  Ohio,  born  in  1H12. 
ami  who  was  a  hoi-se-farrier  liy  tr.'ide.  'i'hc  mother 
of  the  original  of  this  sketch  was  I'ariiu'lia  (Scran- 
ton)  Fly.  and  w:is  a  native  of  Connecticut.  These 
parents  were  married  in  ()hio  an<l  came  to  Illi- 
nois in  lH;{7or  Ih.'JM,  and  settled  in  Mendon  prairie, 
being  among  the  lirstsetllei-s.  .Mr.  Kly.Sr..  practiced 
his  profession  until  |x.'>l  and  then  moved  into 
Mendon,  where  he  conlininMl  his  profession  until 
ill-health  caused  him  to  retire.  .Vl  .Mendon  he  and 
his  estimable  wife  died,  both  of  tliein  much  valued 
people  in  the  Methodist  Fpiscopal  Church  for 
their  real  Christian  piety.  Mr.  Kly  had  been  Con- 
stable of  .Mendon  Township,  ami  was  ijuite  promi- 


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nent  in  local  politics,  voting  first  as  a  Whig,  and 
later  as  a  Republican. 

Our  subject  was  born  October  6,  1830,  at  Deer- 
field,  Portage  Count}-,  Ohio.  He  came  to  Illinois 
with  his  parents  when  seven  jears  old.  lie  only 
received  very  limited  schooling,  and  remained  at 
home  until  after  he  was  twenty-one,  as  his  only 
brother  was  killed  by  the  kicl<  of  a  liurse.  The  fam- 
ily then  left  the  farm  and  came  to  the  village.  In 
18.51,  our  subject  joined  an  expedition,  under 
Messrs.  Smith  and  Stratton,  to  drive  a  lierd  of 
cattle  across  the  plains  to  California.  They  crossed 
the  Missouri  River  at  Council  Uluffs.  and  then 
there  was  but  one  liouse  where  Omaha  now  rears 
her  stately  mansions,  and  this  house  was  an  Indian 
agency.  The  travelers  went  on  by  wav  of  Salt 
Lake  Cit}-,  where  at  that  time  the  workmen  had  just 
commenced  the  laying  of  the  IMormon  Temple, 
and  on  toward  Placerviile,  Cal.,  which  Ihey  reached 
after  a  lapse  of  six  months  from  home.  There 
was  much  personal  liardship  on  the  trip,  as  there 
were  one  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  cattle  to  be 
taken  care  of,  and  only  eiglit  men  to  do  all. 
He  and  two  others  left  the  tram  at  Carson  Citv, 
and  without  money  made  their  way  to  their  desti- 
nation. This  seemed  the  limit  of  endurance — to 
be  sick  and  from  home  without  money;  Itut  just 
at  the  right  time,  he  met  an  accpiaintance,  who 
let  him  have  a  place  in  the  mines,  and  offered  him 
fifty  dollars  a  month.  Here  he  met  parties  from 
home,  and  went  in  with  them  in  mining,  and  did 
fairly  well.  He  returned  home  in  1851,  l)y  way 
of  the  Isthmus,  and  then  went  into  tiie  drug  busi- 
ness in  Mendon.  He  continued  in  that  until 
1888,  since  which  time  he  has  been  traveling  in 
the  hope  of  regaining  his  lost  health.  He  has 
made  several  trips  to  Colorado,  and  spent  last  sea 
son  in  California. 

The  marriage  of  our  suliject  to(jk  place  in  1870, 
to  Miss  Sarah  M.  McFarland,  a  native  of  I'rsa 
Township,  a  daughter  of  Joiin  McFarland.  of  this 
count}'.  ]Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ely  are  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Olive  O.  and  Esther.  They  lost  two 
boys  l)y  diptheria,  Wallace  and  Ernest.  They 
are  members  of  the  Lutheran  Church,  and  Mr.  Ely 
has  held  official  positions  in  the  chnrch.  He  is  a 
piember  of  the  Masonic  order,  and  is  a  cliarter 


member  of  the  Blue  Lodge  here.  He  has  been  the 
Treasurer  of  Mendon  Village  from  its  incorporation 
until  four  years  ago.  In  his  political  predilection 
he  is  a  Repulilican.  He  has  rented  his  farm,  as 
he  feels  his  health  too  poor  to  carry  it  on,  and  a 
sprained  ankle  gives  him  trouble. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ely  are  people  of  consequence  in 
Mendon,  and  Mr.  Ely's  travel  has  widened  his 
perceptions  and  has  made  him  a  very  entertaining 
companion. 


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^  i^dLLIAM  A.  BOOTH  was  a  worthy,  wealthy 
\/\///  '"""^  influential  man,  one  of  the  foremost 
^^^  men  in  the  county  in  his  day.  Stephen 
Booth,  the  father  of  AVilliam  A.,  was  born  in  Bed- 
ford County,  Va.,  near  the  Peaks  of  Otter,  Febru- 
ary 14,  1786.  His  father,  William  Booth,  was  reared 
in  England.  His  brothers  were  Elijah,  Anderson, 
.Tohn,  William  and  (ieorge.  His  sisters  were  Polly 
Neal,  Prudence  .loiies  and  Nancy  Franklin.  When 
about  twenty-one  ^ears  old,  he  followed  relatives 
to  Kentucky  and  lived  in  Shelby,  Nicholas  and 
Bourbon  Counties.  He  followed  the  trade  of  a  car- 
penter for  some  j-ears,  and  was  afterward  a  farmer. 
In  IS.SS,  he  moved  to  Illinois  and  settled  in  Ursa 
Township,  Adams  County,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death  in   1867. 

Mr.  Booth  was  married  in  1811  to  Mary  Congle- 
ton,  who  was  l)orn  in  Bourbon  County,  December 
25,  1  792.  She  was  a  most  worthy  wife  and  mother, 
and  survived  her  husband  some  jears.  Of  the 
eleven  children  of  Stephen  and  Mary  Booth,  ten 
were  born  in  Kentucky  and  one  in  Illinois.  They 
were  Armilda,  wife  of  William  Hedges;  Clarinda, 
wifeuf  Miner  Hedges;  Nancy,  who  died  in  infancy; 
William  .\.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Elizabeth, 
who  married  Davis  P.  Colvin;  Judith,  Mrs.  .lohn 
S.  .lohnson;  Emily,  who  married  .lohn  T.  Turner; 
Mar\ .  the  wife  of  .lohn  Duncan;  Sarah,  Mrs. Thomas 
Sibley;  Christopher  ('.,  and  Catherine  Frances,  who 
married  .lohn  L.  Moore. 

Stephen  liootli  was   ;\n  ardent  Hepublii-an.     He 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOORArmCAL    RF.CORD. 


lan 


was  a  mcinlMM-  cif  the  Chri:<tian  Chiifcli.  as  was  his 
wife,  and  ainoiifr  his  coiitriliutions  for  i-eli.<;iiius 
ouises  he  ;rave  !>5('0  for  a  scholni'ship  to  Christian 
I'lilvei-sity  at  Caiitoii.  Mn.  He  aiviiimihitefl  eon- 
sidt*ral)le  properlj',  and  wa.s  honored  in  his  coni- 
niiinity.  lie  was  the  patriareli  of  a  larire  nunil>er 
of  sons  and  daujfhtcrs  ancl  nephews  and  nieees,  and 
his  homestead  was  for  many  yeai-s  the  rallyinp- 
pltee  for  liappy  hon)e-irallierin<:s  of  the  Month  fam- 
ily eonneetlons. 

Wlien  William  A.  Hoolh  came  to  Illinois  with 
his  father  in  IM;{:i,  lie  was  fifteen  years  old.  When 
a  young  man,  he  farmed  with  his  father,  ehopped 
sawmill  timbers  in  the  .Mississi|)pi  bottoms  for  two 
or  three  winters,  taii<rht  one  term  of  school,  was 
partner  in  a  dry-goods  store  in  Xauvoo  for  a  short 
time,  and  in  1847  was  a  partner  with  '1'.  I..  McCoy 
in  the  pork-packinjj  business  in  (^iiincy.  In  IH.Id, 
he  bought  land  and  settled  in  (Jiliner  Township. 
AVlien  he  was  a  young  man  and  living  with  his 
father,  he  went  to  fieorge  .lohiison.  a  farmer  and 
blacksmith  living  near  Columbus,  and  got  him  to 
make  an  iron  moldboard  plow  for  him.  This  was 
one  of  the  first  iron  moldboard  plows  in  Mr.  Booth's 
neighborho<,)d,  and  its  working  excited  a  gt>od 
deal  of  attention  and  comment. 

Mr.  lV»otli  was  married  September  211,  in."i2,  to 
Nancy  .1.  Bradley,  born  in  Bourbon  County,  Ky., 
June  23,  1H33, daughter  ofllirainand  Mary  (.Mark- 
well)  Bradley,  the  former  born  in  Bourbon  County. 
Ky.,  and  the  latter  in  Kleiniiig  County,  Ky. 
They  were  married  in  Kentucky,  but  moved  to 
Adams  County,  111.,  in  1841,  where  .Mi-s.  Bradley 
died  soon  after  their  arrival,  and  was  buried  in 
the  cemetery  at  Burton,  in  Burton  Township. 
Adams  County.  Her  husband  returned  to  their 
former  home,  where  he  died  in  188;").  lie  was  a 
farmer,  and  his  family  was  of  Scotch   descent. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Booth  had  eight  children:  .Mary 
F..  wife  of  Dr.  C  K.  Whitlock.  of  Columbus, 
this  county;  Christopher  S.,  of  Camp  I'oiiit,  111.: 
.lohn  A.,  Nellie.  Lillie  K.  and  William,  who  are  de- 
ce,i.sed:  Newtort  ('.,  who  married  Li/./.ie  Welsh,  .-iiid 
is  A  farmer  near  Camp  Point,  and  Ida,  deceased. 
All  the  children  had  good  educational  advantages. 
Christopher  was  adininistr.-itor  of  the  otate.  wliicli 
was  divided,  aii<l  he  anil  his  mother  live  at  lamp 


Point.  Mrs.  Booth  is  a  menilx-r  of  the  Christian 
Church,  and  is  a  good  and  worthy  woman  in  every 
way. 

Mr.  Hnoih  w.rsa  suece.ssful  farmer,  owning  at  his 
death  six  hiimlred  and  ninety  acres  of  land,  and 
he  dealt  to  some  extent  in  notes  and  mortgages. 
.Vbout  18(14,  he  made  two  or  three  trips  lo  Penn- 
sylvania and  ^'ermont,  antl  bought  and  esUiblished 
one  of  the  best  Hocks  of  Merino  sheep  in  Western 
1  llinois.  lie  bought  sheep  of  Lee  .\reher  and  Sam- 
uel Archer,  of  Penn.sylvania.  and  paid  %.')0(i  for 
one  sheep,  lie  was  several  times  .Assessor  of  (iil- 
nier  Township  and,  during  the  war.  compiled  the 
list  of  men  in  (Jilmer  Township  subject  to  ilraft. 
In  187(>.  he  was  on*  tif  the  three  leading  men  who 
got  the  agricultural  fair  of  Adams  County  moved 
to  and  established  at  Camp  Point,  and  .'u-an  olllcer 
of  the  fair  he  was  eight  times  a  Director,  ten  times 
on  both  Building  and  Printing  Committees,  once 
Treasurer,  once  (Jeneral  Superinteixlent,  four  times 
First  Vice-president,  and  once  President. 

.\n  athletic  man  during  most  of  his  life,  in 
middle  age  Mr.  Booth  walked  several  times  from 
his  farm  to  (^iiincy.  a  disUuice  of  fourteen  miles. 
He  would  often  tell  with  pride  how  he  could  make 
his  hand  when  sixteen  years  old  at  cradling  wheat, 
and  until  old  age  he  could  handle  an  ax  with  un- 
vominon  skill  ami  effect.  Raiseil  at  a  period  when 
deer  and  wild  turkeys  were  common,  when  the 
ride  was  the  popular  weapon,  and  when  it  was 
against  the  rule  to  shoot  a  sijuirrel  anywhere  ex- 
cept through  the  head,  he  was  a  g<»od  marksman 
and  always  retained  a  prejudice  against  a  shotgun 
for  scattering.  An  enthusiastic  fisher  from  his 
youth,  in  his  later  years  he  had  ipiitc  a  local  repu- 
tation as  a  fisherman  with  hook  and  line. 

.\  man  of  considerable  force  of  character,  the 
pei'sonal  (pialities  of  Mr.  Booth  gained  for  him  the 
respect  of  those  who  knew  him.  With  a  logical, 
practic:d  mind,  his  judgment  in  business  matters 
was  often  sought  and  referred  to.  While  he  would 
likely  have  resented  being  told  that  he  was  ;i  good 
man,  he  seemed  ahva\s  t<»  do  what  he  flid  with  a 
consfience,  and  while  his  judgment  of  persons  wa.s 
ijenerally  just,  he  was  severely  critic-d  of  pei-sons 
who  would  try.  as  he  expre.s,«ed  it.  "ti)  show  off." 
and  for  shams  and  humbugs  his  sarcnsni  Imd  a  rip- 


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saw  touch.  It  was  a  trait  of  hi?^  character  to  avoid 
doing  things  to  attract  attention  to  himwlf.  3'et  he 
liad  strong  anitiitions,  and  liad  tlie  strengtli  of 
mind  and  will  to  work  and  ripen  his  plans  for  years 
to  achieve  the  results  at  which  he  aimed. 

As  to  his  business  habits,  proli.nbly  no  one  is  bet- 
ter (jualified  to  speak  than  his  friend  and  business 
partner,  Mr.  Thomas  Baile}-,  who,  in  a  letter,  has 
expressed  tliis  estimate  of  him:  "I  became  ac- 
quainted with  him  in  liS^.i,  when  he  was  twenty- 
five  years  of  age,  and  was  ac(iuainted  with  him 
from  that  time  on  so  long  as  he  lived,  but  for  the 
last  twenty  years  of  his  life  I  can  say  that  I  was 
intimately  .ncquainted  witli  him.  I  alwa}'*  con- 
sidered him  strictly  honest,  a  man  of  excellent 
judgment  in  business  matters,  always  taking  a 
common-sense  view  of  all  matters  that  came  up  in 
the  course  of  life.  He  was  always  indulgent  to 
creditors,  and  in  the  twent}'  years  we  did  business 
together  there  were  no  disputes,  no  misunderstand- 
ings. I  never  saw  any  act  or  thing  in  any  tran- 
saction of  business  but  that  was  honorable  and 
fair." 


JOSEPH  W.  EMERY.  No  city  of  Illinois 
surpasses  Quinc\'  in  the  encouragement 
given  to  manufacturing  enterprises  in  offer- 
ing the  means  for  their  success.  Examples 
of  success  in  that  de|)arlment  of  human  activity 
are  not  wanting,  and  the  limits  of  this  volume 
wiHild  not  suflice  to  mention  the  various  industries 
which  have  here  found  a  fitting  arena  for  their 
exercise,  and  rewarded  their  promoters  with  pros- 
perity, if  not  wealth. 

Prominent  among  the  manufacturing  firms  and 
corporations  (;f  the  city,  is  the  Channon-Kmer\- 
Stove  Company,  which  ptissesses  one  of  the  most 
thoroughly  equipped  stcjve  foundries  in  the  eoun- 
trj'.  The  officers  of  the  company  are  William  \. 
Channon,  President;  Joseph  W.  Emery,  ^'ico-pres- 
ideut  and  Treasurer;    and   'William   II.  (  hannon. 


Secretary.  The  plant  is  located  on  the  corner  of 
Eifth  and  Ohio  Streets,  in  the  center  of  the  manu- 
facturing district  of  (^uincy,  and  the  original 
buildings,  which  were  erected  in  1881,  have  been 
added  to  as  the  demands  of  their  constantly  in- 
creasing business  re(iuired.  until  now  the  foundry 
is  one  of  the  largest  and  most  complete  to  lie  founil 
in  any  city. 

The  company  manufactures  a  general  line  of 
ranges  and  cooking  and  heating  stoves  for  all 
kinds  of  fuel,  and  its  business  extends  into  every 
State  and  Territory  west  of  the  ^Mississippi  IJiver, 
as  well  as  over  a  large  jioition  of  the  East.  The 
success  of  this  Itu^iness,  which  has  grown  to  such 
wonderful  magnitude,  is  due  to  the  efforts  of 
William  >'.  Channon  and  .loseph  W.  Emery,  who, 
since  the  inception  of  the  firm  in  1880.  have  de- 
voted their  entire  attention  and  ability  to  its  pros- 
perity. It  is  with  Mr.  Emery,  ^■ice-president  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Company,  that  we  are  especially 
interested  at  present. 

The  son  of  a  minister,  Mr.  Emery  has  jiroved  by 
his  life  that  the  trite  proverl)  concerning  preach- 
ers" sons  is  untrue.  His  father.  Rev.  S.  Hopkins 
Emery,  D.  D.,  was  for  nearly  fifteen  years  pastor 
of  the  Eirst  Congregational  Church  of  Quincy, 
and  is  now  in  Taunton,  Mass.  Our  subject  was 
born  in  Taunton,  Mass..  and  was  but  a  few  years 
old  when  he  .accompanied  his  parents  to  this  city, 
where  he  has  since  resided.  In  his  l)oyliood  and 
youth,  he  received  the  advantages  of  a  good  edu- 
cation, wliicli  was  an  invaluable  aid  to  him  in  his 
business  career  afterward. 

Upon  leaving  school,  Mr.  Kmery  entered  the 
banking  house  of  L.  tV:  C.  II.  Bull,  of  t^uincy, 
where  he  continued  until  1874.  In  the  year 
above  mentioned,  he  foimed  a  iiartnerslnii  with 
Edward  J.  Parker,  under  the  tirin  name  of  E.  .1. 
Parker  it  Co.,  which  succeeded  to  the  commercial 
banking  business  o{  L.  it  C.  H.  liull.  the  latter 
firm  retiring  from  that  business  to  operate  solely 
as  a  savings  bank.  Mr.  Emery  remained  in  this 
connection  for  six  years,  during  which  lime,  liy 
his  hoiKirablc  methods  of  conducting  tinniicial 
transactions,  he  maintained  the  esteem  of  the  peo- 
ple, which  he  had  gained  in  former  years.  As 
above  stated,  he  willidrcw  from  the  firm   in   ordev 


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(o  estAltlbli  in  business  with  William  \.  Clmnnon, 
a  |ii<>neci-  in  the  stove  indiisliy  of  (^uiney.  To- 
;;etli(i-,  tliev  luiilt  the  stove  fonndi  v.  whieh  tliev 
still  o|ieiate  nn<l  whieh  has  urown  to  Ik-  oni'  of  the 
most  inipoi'tjiiit  iniiinif:i('tui'in<r  enterprises  of  (he 
eity. 

Since  the  oririini/.ation  of  ihe  \Ve>tein  Manu- 
factnrers'  Ass<K-iation,  whieh  inelii<)es  all  the  sU»vc 
manufaetiirei-s  of  (^uiney.  Ilnnnihal  ami  Keoknk, 
.Mr.  Kmery  has  lioen  its  Seerel4iiy,  and  he  has  also 
iceently  served  as  Fii>t  Viee-president  of  the  Na- 
tional .V.«,soeiation  of  Stove  Manufa<turers  of  the 
I'niled  Stjites.  lie  is  a  man  of  intelli<;eneo  and  keeps 
himself  well  posted  rej^ardin-i  Ihf  issnes  of  the  day 
and  matters  that  are  tninspirin<;  in  the  world. 
Honorable  in  piivate  life,  peaceable  and  law-abid- 
inj,' as  a  eiti/en.  and  displayiuir  energy  in  what- 
ever he  nndertakes,  he  is  looked  upon  with  i-espoel 
bv  all  who  know  him. 


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<»N.  .101  IN  V.  MIKKSKI.L.  t^uimy  has 
never  known  a  inoic  ellleient  and  capable 
.Mayor  than  .lolin  1'.  .Mikesell.  who  by  his 
V2^y  honorable.  eUicienI  and  upright  career  as 
an  ollicer  has  won  a  place  in  the  annals  of  the 
S*  *('  of  Illinois,  lie  is  a  native  of  that  grand  old 
State  \'ir<jinia,  born  in  Lynchbiirgh  on  the  17th  of 
July.  I«:J5.  and  is  a  son  of  .John  Mikesell.  also  a 
native  of  the  Old  l)ominion.  and  for  many  vcai-s  a 
prominent  lumlK>r  merchant  of  I-ynclibinirh.  In 
IHJl.  the  father  removed  to  «^uincy.  III.,  and  dui- 
ing  his  residence  in  that  city  was  actively  and  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  the  lumlier  business,  which  he 
carried  on  until  his  death,  in  |n72.  The  mother 
of  our  subject,  formerly  .Miss  Kli/abeth  \  an  I)\(ke, 
was  born  in  N'irginia.Hiid  was  the  danghier  of  I'eicr 
Van  Dycke.  who  wa-^  of  Dutch  de-cent.  The 
Mikesells  were  of  lierman  origin  and  eailv  scltlei-s 
of  X'irginia. 

When  six  years  of  age.  our  subjcci    moYcil    wilh 
his   parents   to   (.^uincy,  and   w.as  thorouiihly  edu- 
cated ill  the  public  schools  of  that  city.     In  |X|:i. 
8 


he  was  seized  with  the  gold  fever,  and  although 
only  fourU-en  years  of  age,  he  went  to  the  (;«ddeii 
Stjite  in  conip.any  with  (iov.  .lolin  Wood,  making 
the  trip  by  water,  lie  engaged  in  mining,  was 
unusually  successful,  anci  continued  there  two  and 
a  half  years.  Heturiiiiig  to  <;iiincy,  he  remained 
there  but  a  short  liini'  and  then  went  with  a  coin- 
|Hiiiy  to  .'Vnstralia.  where  he  eng.iged  in  the  IuiiiImt 
business  for  some  tune.  For  six  years,  he  was  a 
resident  of  that  country,  and  during  that  time  he 
carried  on  a  very  successful  lumlH>r  business. 

Aftt-r  .Mr.  Mikesell  returncfl  to  the  States,  the 
Civil  War  brok<'  out  .and  he  wjls  lilled  with  a  pa 
triotic  desire  to  aid  his  country "s  cause,  lie  en- 
li.fted  in  the  I'.ighteenth  Missouri  Hegiment,  under 
Col.  .Madison  Miller,  and  alMMit  two  inonllis  later 
he  wa.s  made  Cnpt.ain  of  Company  1.  In  IHt;2.  he 
w:is  ordered  to  Island  No.  I".  thence  to  I'ittsliurg 
Landing,  and  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh  liC  was  taken 
prisoner  and  held  about  a  year,  being  in  the 
prison  at  Macon.  Ca..  and  the  noted  l.ibby  prison. 
P'roni  the  latter  he  w.-is  paroled  and  came  home  to 
<iuiiic3',  and,  after  hieing  exchange*!,  joinrd  his 
regiment,  which  was  at  that  time  at  Tiiscnmbia, 
-Via.  .\fter  this  he  was  on  garrison  duty  and 
served  in  all  three  years,  being  mustered  out  with 
the  rank  of  Captain.  He  w,as  a  faithful  olficer.  a 
brave  and  gallant  soldier,  and  a  favorite  in  the 
ranks. 

Kt'turning  to  i^iiincy.  .Mr.  .Mikcxll  embarked  in 
the  pork-packing  business  with  Adams,  Sawver  A- 
Co..  and  Continued  in  this  bu-<iiiess  for  eighteen 
years,  meeting  with  success.  .M  the  end  of  tli.-il 
time,  the  partnership  was  dissolved,  and  .Mr.  Mike- 
sell turned  his  attention  to  farming  in  Missouri  and 
Illinois.  In  !«(;«,  he  leil  to  the  altar  Miss  F.liza. 
daughter  of  Thomas  I'ayne.  a  native  of  .Vdaiiis 
County.  III.  Two  children  have  lH>en  born  to  .Mr. 
and  .Mrs.  .Mikesell:  Flla.  wife  of  W.  S.  Warlield. 
.Ir.,  of  (^iiiiicy;  and  Kdith.  a  student  in  the  High 
School.  Honesty,  industry,  prudence  and  caution 
have  U'eii  the  leading  chai-acteristics  of  the  Mike- 
sell family  in  all  gi  nerntions.  and  these  traits  have 
lK?eii  manifested  always  anil  in  a  marked  degree 
by  our  subject.  Soci:illy.  he  1-  (Hipular  with  all 
who  know  liiin,  and  in  all  respects  i-  a  crediUtble 
representative  of  (he  sterling  stock  from  which  he 


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descended.  He  has  ever  taken  a  deep  interest  in 
the  prosperity  of  Qiiincy,  and  in  the  capacity  of 
Mayor,  to  which  position  lie  was  elected  in  1892, 
he  has  diisplayed  excellent  judgment  and  unusual 
executive  al)ility.  In  that  capacity  and  in  other 
ways  he  has  exerted  a  strong  influence  for  good. 
For  six  years,  he  was  Superintendent  of  I'ublic 
AVorks,  and  for  four  years  was  Alderman  of  the 
Sixth  Ward.  He  was  elected  to  his  present  posi- 
tion on  the  Republican  ticket  with  a  majority  of 
seven  hundred  votes,  the  city  being  one  thousand 
Democratic. 

Mr.  3Iikesell  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army, 
and  assisted  in  organizing  .John  Wood  Post  No. 
96.  He  resides  in  a  handsome  new  brick  building 
of  modern  arciutecture  on  East  Main  .Street,  and 
this  is  presided  over  by  his  accomplished  and 
estimable  wife,  whose  womanly  graces  and  virtues 
are  well  known.  As  a  pr.actical  business  man,  Mr. 
Mikesell's  reputation  is  excellent,  and  as  a  citizen 
he  is  well  liked  and  has  a  host  of  M'arm  fiiends. 
He  is  a  well-posted  man,  conversant  with  all  the 
leading  movements  of  the  time,  and  having 
marked  opinions  of  his  own  upon  all  important 
subjects. 


JOHN  WHEELER  lives  in  honorr.ble  retire- 
ment in  one  of  tlie  many  beautiful  homes  in 
(^uincy,  wiiich  is  pleasantly  located  at  No. 
,^j_j^  431  Vermont  Street.  He  is  one  of  the  pio- 
neers of  tliis  county,  was  active  in  its  agricultural 
development,  and  later  in  life  became  a  merchant 
and  miller.  So  successful  has  he  been  in  his  busi- 
ness career,  that  he  has  acquired  a  handsome  com- 
petence, which  enables  him  to  pass  his  declining 
years  in  comfort,  free  from  the  necessity  of  iiard 
labor  and  care,  which  were  his  portion  in  earlier 
life. 

Mr.  Wheeler  is  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  hav- 
ing been  horn  in  Sudbury,  Middlesex  County,  De- 
cember (!,  1813.  and  was  a  sou  of  Loring  Wheeler. 
mIso  ii  native  of  the   Dav  State,     The   father,  who 


was  a  well-to-do  farmer,  died  when  our  subject 
was  a  lad  of  ten  3'ears,  and  his  mother,  who  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Eunice  Brigliam,  continued  to 
reside  in  Sudbury,  where  her  birth  also  occurred, 
until  a  short  time  prior  to  her  decease,  which  look 
place  at  Brighton,  Mass. 

The  original  of  this  sketch  was  the  sixth  in  or- 
der of  birth  of  the  five  sons  and  tiiree  daughters 
born  to  his  parents,  he  and  his  brother  P.  being  the 
only  survivors.  His  boyhood  and  early  school  days 
were  passed  in  his  native  town,  where  he  attended 
the  common  school  and  worked  on  the  farm  until 
reaching  his  seventeenth  year.  Then  going  to 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  he  entered  the  employ  of  Mr. 
Ilitjginson,  who  was  a  professoi'  in  Harvard  College 
and  later  spent  two  years  as  an  assistant  in  the  in- 
sane hospital,  his  duty  being  to  purchase  the  sup- 
plies and  look  after  the  general  business  of  the  asy- 
lum. His  next  employment  was  driving  an  omni- 
bus between  Cambridge  and  Boston,  in  which  he 
w.as  engaged  for  eighteen  months,  and  in  the  fall 
of  1837  became  to  (^uincy  and  engaged  in  farming 
near  this  city.  Four  years  later,  he  built  the  Eagle 
Flouring  Mills,  which  he  operated  for  a  period  of 
thirty  years,  at  the  same  time  still  carrying  on  his 
farming  operations.  He  subsequently  operated  as 
general  merchant,  and,  on  disposing  of  his  mill 
propert3',  gave  the  greater  portion  of  his  time  and 
attention  to  that  line  of  business. 

Miss  Rebecca  Pease,  of  Quincy,  became  the  wife 
of  Mr.  Wheeler  m  1837.  She  was  the  daugiitcr  of 
Capt.  Nathaniel  Pease,  and,  like  her  husliand,  was 
also  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  having  been  boin 
in  Brighton,  May  6,  1816.  By  her  union  with  our 
subject  have  been  born  three  sons,  who  aic  living, 
viz.:  Loimg  P.,  who  is  tlie  proprietor  of  a  fine 
fruit  farm  in  Melrose  Townshij);  .John  F..  who 
makes  his  home  in  Chicago,  and  George  E.,  at 
home. 

Mr.  Wlieeler  has  always  taken  an  activ^-  part  in 
local  affairs,  and  in  1802  served  as  Alderman  for 
one  term.  In  jwlitics,  he  is  a  stuidy  Republican, 
casting  his  first  vote  for  (4en.  Harrison  in  1840. 
and  for  his  grandson  in  188H.  He  has  always  been 
liberal  to  those  aliout  him,  never  turning  from  his 
door  a  man  that  was  in  need,  if  it  were  possible  for 
him  to  .assist  liiin.    He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  First 


l\)KTRArr  AM)  IIKXJHAIMIK  AI,    KKCORI). 


i; 


National  B*iik,  and  one  of  fifteen  men  who 
foinuU'd  till'  Woodland  lloiiic  fur  iir|ilian.«.  Mi>. 
WIu'i'Ipi- dipaitt'd  tliis  lilt-  (Kiolii-r  :ll,  1N7S.  and 
luT  loiiiains  w»ti-  fiiliuwi-d  to  their  ri'>tinir  place  hv 
many  friends  who  synipathi/.ed  in  the  sjrief  of  thi- 
attli<'tod  family.  Mrs.  Wlicck-r  \va<  a  nicinluT  of  ilit- 
Hji|)ti>t  t  hiiidi 


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osl.MI  T.  HHADl-OKI).  lotirtMl  limilioinian. 
of  (^iiiiifv.  III.  This  olil  and  pi'omiiient 
resident  and  now  retired  hnsine.*.-*  man  of 
•  ^iiiney.  was  l)orn  in  Karminuton.  I''r:inklin 
County.  Me.,  Decemlier  ll!,  1X2;?.  a  son  of  .losepii 
Bradford,  a  native  c>f  the  I'ine  Tree  .state  and  a 
tanner  liy  trade.  He  was  one  of  the  famous  Cali- 
fornia gold  minersof  lHli),in  whieli  .'^tate  he  s|)ent 
two  yeai"s  in  searching  for  [lay  gravel.  Imt  with 
only  fair  results,  and  in  IX.'il  he  returned  to  his 
home  and  the  following  year  arrived  in  <^iiincy 
with  hi.-  fatiiily.  where  he  enntinned  to  make  hi.s 
home  until  \\\^  death.  Mnreh  ■!,  1X71.  lie  was 
a  son  of  William  l>railford  and  a  grandson  of 
(iov.  William  Biadford,  who  came  to  this  country 
in  the  historic  and  famous  >hip,  the  -Mayllower," 
and  l;inded  at  I'lymouth,  M.ass.  This  f.imily  has 
increased  and  multiplied  and  desceiid.iiit>  of  this 
famous  man  are  now  in  nearly  ever\-  State  and 
Territory  of  the  I'liioii.  The  maiden  name  of 
.loseph  Bradford's  wife  was  Betsey  Tuft-*;  she  was 
Ivorii  at  Maiden.  Mass.,  a  daughter  of  .lo-iah  Tuft>. 
a  native  of  Maldeij,  Ma.-s.,  an<l  a  descendanl  of 
Knglish  ancestors. 

Josluh  T.  Bradfor<l  was  given  the  ad v.'inlages  of 
the  piililic  school-  of  .Maine,  and  Ufion  reaching  a 
pro|)er  age  l)egaii  learning  the  tanner's  trade  under 
the  direction  of  his  father,  at  which  he  worked 
faithfully  .•ind  well  until  he  was  thirty  years  of 
age.  lie  then  came  to  i  juiiicy.  and  his  tirst  hlisiness 
enterprise  here  wa>  a-  a  li\'ervman,  which  lnisiiies.* 
he  carried  on  with  marked  siicce-s  for  some  lime, 
then  dispOHiJof  his  eslnblishmcnt  toeinhark  in  the 


lumber  Inisiucss  in  pnrtnershi|>  with  lii.'i  hrolher. 
and  at  the  same  time  purchased  .some  valuahle  pine 
lands  ill  Wisconsin,  lie  and  his  lirother,  Joseph 
W.,  continued  luisine.-s  a.vsociates  for  fortv-three 
\e;iis  and  were  successfully  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  pine  liimlier  up  to  iKHd.wheii  the  partner- 
ship was  dissolved  and  the  Imsiness  closed,  .losiah 
T.  tlicn  einliarkecl  on  the  commercial  sea  as  a  dry- 
goods  merchant  of  t^iiincy,and  purchased  a  general 
line  of  goods  for  his  .siuis  and  daughter,  which 
business  wa.s  conducted  by  them  for  three  years. 
.Succeeding  this,  Mr.  Brailford  purchased  the  tailor- 
ing establishment  of  <;eoige  B.  Bristol, and  placed 
his  son   in  charge  of  the  business  but,  not  content 

with  this,  he,  in  IM81,  formed  a  st<ick  ( ipany  with 

a  capital  of  ii(;(i,0(Hl  and  e-lablished  a  cattle  ranch 
in  New  Mexico  of  which.  u|>on  it-  organiza- 
tion, ^Ir.  Bradford  was  made  I'resideiit:  .lohn  T. 
Holmes,  of  I,a  Belle,  .Mo.,  Secretary;  and  John  .1. 
.\giiew,  Treasurer,  the  latter  being  connected  with 
the  l.a  Belle  (Mo.)  Bank. 

This  company  now  h.as  upon  the  ijinges  between 
livi-  llioiisand  .and  six  thousand  head  of  cattle.  Mr. 
Bradford  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in 
the  political  affairs  of  his  .section,  as  well  as  in 
National  politics,  and  is  a  Democrat  of  the  most 
pronounced  stripe.  He  is  true  to  his  convictions 
at  all  times  and  his  reasons  for  his  views  are  always 
clear  and  well  deliiied.  .\lthongh  not  in  the  lea.st 
aggressive,  he  expresses  hiinsidf  plainly  and  forci- 
bly, when  occiisioii  so  demands,  especially  in  favor 
of  justice  and  right.  His  personal  characteristics 
are  of  the  kind  that  win  warm  friendship,  gennine 
respect  and  earnest  regard.  Those  who  know  him 
only  as  a  man  of  .'ilTairs  respect  him  for  his  iip- 
riglitness,  his  integrity,  his  fidelity  to  every  trust 
rrposi'd  in  him,  and  his  conscientious  regard  for 
the  e(|iiities  of  commercial  life. 

Those  who  have  been  brought  into  more  intimate 
rel:itions  with  our  subject  have  a  thorough  appre- 
ci.-itioii  of  his  kinclly  and  sympathetic  nature. 
Benevolent,  charitable  and  philanthropic  enter- 
prises which  commend  themselves  to  his  excellent 
judgment  have  never  appealed  to  him  in  vain 
for  prompt  .'ind  siil>-tantial  eiicoiiragenunt.  and 
with  e\i'ry  :iift  lias  gone  a  hearty  ••(  Jod-speed" 
which  added  lo  the  pleasure  and  gratitude  of  the 


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recipient.  While  by  no  means  indiscrimiuale  in 
the  bestowal  of  his  charities,  he  liai  shown  little 
favoritism  and  gives  liberally  of  his  abundant 
means  wherever  a  harvest  of  good  is  promised, 
whether  the  appeal  comes  from  the  community  in 
which  he  lives  or  one  in  which  he  chances  to  bo  a 
temporary  sojourner. 

Mr.  Bradford  is  a  prominent  Mason,  l)cing  a 
Knight  Templar.  In  1847,  he  was  married  to  .Sarah 
J.  Kent,  a  native  of  .Sebec,  Me.,  and  a  daughter  of 
AVarren  Kent,  of  that  i)lacc.  By  her  he  is  the  fa- 
ther of  four  children:  Ella,  Mrs.  Walker;  AVilliam 
J.,  the  prosperou.s  proprietor  of  a  tailoring  estab- 
lishment of  (.^uincy;  Harry  K.;  and  Lulu,  wife  of 
W.  D.  Chaffee,  of  South  Bend,  Ind.  On  the  1st  of 
JMay,  1880,  Mrs.  Bradford  died.  Mr.  Bradford 
has  a  beautiful  brick  residence  at  No.  214  South 
Third  Street.  His  residence  is  very  beautifulh' 
and  tastefully  furnished  and  there  he  is  living, 
practically  retired  from  the  strife  and  turmoil  of 
business  life,  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  competency 
which  his  early  efforts  secured  him. 


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"it'ESSE  J.  ADAMS  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Wright  &  Adams,  of  Quincy,  111.,  general 
machine  manufacturers,  their  place  of  busi- 
ness being  located  on  North  Front  Street. 
Mr.  Adams'  advent  into  this  world  occurred  on 
Long  Island  in  the  month  of  June,  1852,  to  Ezek- 
iel  and  .Jemima  .1.  (Wright)  Adams,  and  he  was  the 
only  son  of  iiis  parents'  house.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  New  York,  and  in  early  life  followed  the 
calling  of  a  sailor,  but  in  his  declining  years  turned 
his  attention  to  agriculture,  and  gathered  about 
him  a  sufficient  amount  of  this  world's  goods  to 
provide  him  and  his  family  with  every  comfort 
necessary  for  their  well-being.  The  mother  comes 
of  thrifty  and  substantial  German  stock,  and  from 
her  .Jesse  J.  Adams  has  inherited  many  of  his  most 
worthy  traits  as  a  business  man,  together  with  his 
father's  enterprise  and  push. 

At  the  age  of  four  years,  .Jesse  was  taken  by  his 


parents  to  Adams  County,  111.,  and  with  them  set- 
tled on  a  farm  where,  as  he  grew  up,  he  learned 
lessons  of  thrift,  industry  and  honesty,  which  have 
been  the  means  of  placing  him  in  an  independent 
position  and  raising  him  to  a  high  place  in  the  es- 
timation of  his  fellows.  Up  to  the  age  of  four- 
teen years,  he  was  an  attendant  at  the  district 
schools,  where  he  was  alternately  in  mischief  and 
on  his  good  l)eliavior,  but  through  it  all  he  man- 
aged to  acquire  a  good  practical  education.  He 
remained  with  his  father  on  the  farm  up  to  the 
age  of  sixteen  j'ears,  and  so  energetic  and  intelli- 
gent was  he,  that  he  managed  to  imbibe  all  the 
details  of  agriculture  and  could  apply  the  princi- 
ples he  had  learned  in  a  very  practical  manner. 
At  the  above-mentioned  age,  he  entered  a  machine 
shoj)  in  (Quincy,  for  which  business  he  seemed  to 
have  a  natural  aptitude  and  inclination,  and  after 
mastering  its  intricacies,  he  began  working  in  the 
foundry  owned  b}'  Brown,  Demmick  &  Co.,  where 
he  remained  two  years. 

Knowing  his  own  capabilities  so  well,  he  re- 
solved no  longer  to  remain  an  employe,  but  to  l)e- 
come  an  employer,  and  with  this  end  in  view  he, 
in  1881,  formed  a  partnership  with  .1.  N.  Wright, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Wright  &  Adams,  which 
resulted  in  the  founding  of  the  present  admirably 
conducted  machine  shops,  of  which  they  are  the 
proprietors.  Their  connection  has  continued  very 
harmoniously  and  has  resulted  in  much  good  to 
both,  showing  what  can  bo  accomplished  when  the 
spirit  of  determination  is  exercised.  They  occupy 
two  floors  of  a  building  which  is  150x50,  and  the 
foundry  building,  which  is  also  150x50  feet,  and 
eacli  article  they  manuf;icture  is  put  to  the  most 
critical  and  exacting  tests  before  leaving  the  fac- 
toiy,  a  coinmendable  principle,  and  one  which  has 
essentially  contributed  to  the  success  which  has 
attached  to  this  house  since  its  inception.  Their 
establishment  is  well  e(iuii)ped  with  necessary  ma- 
chinery', and  the  high  standard  their  goods  has 
attained  is  the  result  of  close  supervision  of  eveiy 
detail,  and  they  are  now  doing  a  heavy  business 
throughout  the  I'nited  States.  They  send  a  large 
amount  of  tobacco  machinery  to  Europe  besides 
what  is  used  in  this  country. 

j\Ir.  Adams  has  always  lieen  a  Hopulilican  politic 


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i: 


e»ll_v.  and  s(K*ially  Iwloiigs  to  (^uiiiev  I-od-ro  Nn. 
12,  I.  ().(>.  I".;  (^iiiii.y  F.odjre  No.  2!»G.  A.  F.  A-  A. 
.M.:  niKl  l'.-iik  l-od^r..  .No.  .-.(!.  A.  ().  I'.  \V.  In  Ma\ , 
1«7'J,  he  w!i>  niarrie(]  to  .Miss  .Mnlinda  Hakt-i-.  a 
dan<;litfi  of  .lohn  Hakor.  of  (^iiinry.  and  l>\'  licr 
lias  oni'  tl.'iuirlilcr.  Klla  .\..  at  home.  'I'lifV  li.avc  a 
von  I'onifoitahlc  and  pleasant  icsidenee  at  No. 
'.M(!  Noilli  Fifth  Street. 


m^^j^^i^ic^sip 


Ddl.l'll  1-.  lidl'll.  .\  |ii-oniinont  -tock- 
hohlei'  and  Direetor  of  tlie  ( Jem  (  it  \'  liiew- 

jj  la  eiy  is  the  ifentlenian  whose  name  appears 
on  this  sketeh.  lie  was  horn  in  Wiesbaden, 
Na.ssan,  (Jermany.  .lanuaiy  1.  1MI7.  Ilis  fnlher, 
A.  F.,  wa.s  horn  in  the  same  |)laee  anil  eondneted  a 
fine  niiliineiy  estahlishment  at  a  fanions  hot-water 
s|trings,  a  great  (icrnian  resort.  The  mother  of  our 
sultjeet  w.a.s  Margaret  Wohstedder,  also  horn  in 
Na-s-sau,  and  a  woman  of  great  foree  of  eliaraeter. 
The  father  having  died  in  1849,  she  brought  the 
family  of  three  children  to  .Vmeriea  in  1M.">2.  Tiiey 
left  Hamburg  on  a  siiiling-vessel  for  New  Orleans, 
and  after  a  voyage  of  one  hundred  and  three  days 
reaehed  St.  Louis,  where  she  died  in  IK.j-l.of  chol- 
era. She  w.a.s  .iflerman  Presbyterian,  and  left  three 
children  at  her  death.  It  was  a  i<ad  fate  foi-  them, 
lint  they  found  friends. 

-Vdolph  was  orphaned  when  eight  years  of  age. 
lie  woike(l  in  a  tailoring  establi><liment  for  three 
years,  and  in  I  M.'i!)  he  removeil  to  Deeatnr.  111., 
where  he  remained  for  three  years  as  a  barl)er.  He 
then  changed  his  location  and  engaged  in  the 
cigar  liusiness  until  1SII8,  when  he  came  to  l^iiinev 
and  engageil  in  the  manufacture  of  cigars,  and 
continued  in  this  business  for  three  ye.-irs.  In 
l«7.'i,  he  starteil  in  the  retail  business.  In  IKK'.t, 
he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  ( Jem  City  Brew- 
ery, which  boutihtout  Mr.  I'renty's  brewery  and  is 
now  located  at  Ninth  and  Harrison  Street.s. 

Mr.  Roth  has  lieen  prominent  and  popular  ni  U)- 
eal  Democratic  politics.  In  18M(),  he  wa.s  elected  as 
SujMfrvisor    from  the    Second    Ward,    and  was   re- 


elected every  year  until  1«!MI.  He  ha.i  si-rved  on 
ilifTerent  committees  in  different  city  enterprises, 
lie  is  interested  in  the  building  of  bridges,  etc., 
and  the  improvement  of  inads;  is  a  nien.lK'r  of  the 
Turner  Sm-iety  .and  Independent  Order  of  Mutual 
.\id,  and  is  almost  always  a  deleg.ate  to  the  c-onnty 
and  congressional  conventions.  He  li;is  served 
for  years  on  the  City  Central  DennK'ratie  Com- 
mittee, an<l  wa-s  its  Tre.asnrer  for  years.  lie  is  now 
ft  member  of  the  Quincy  Har-keei)cr's  Association, 
of  which  ho  was  one  of  the  organizers.  He  has 
been  twice  .n  candidate  for  SherifT,  and  was  once 
defeated  by  but  one  vote  in  the  Democratic  con- 
vention,and  thesecon<l  time  by  seventy-nine  votes 
in  the  Demwratic  primary. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  Decatur,  in  18(ii(,  to 
Kate  Catfin,  liorn  in  Hlooniington.  III.,  and  has  three 
children,  Lena,  .\dolph  and  A'alenline,  who  are 
bright  and  intelligent,  and  rellect  credit  on  their 
parents.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roth  are  well  known  ami 
highly  respected    people. 


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/j^^i,  ASPER  RUFF,  Superintendent  of  the  Ruflf 
Brewing  Company,  of  (.^uincy.  III.,  is  :i  prac- 
tical brewer  of  the  highest  repute,  and  the 
most  careful  att*>ntion  is  given  to  every  stage  of 
the  process.  The  residt  h.as  been  a  brand  of 
a  l)eer  that  has  sprung  into  immense  popularity, 
and  the  output  luis  reached  large  proportions 
and  is  consiantl\'  on  the  increase.  Mr.  RutT  was 
born  in  <iuincy.  .laniniry  (!,  IHH,  a  son  of  Casper 
Ruff,  who  was  Ikmii  in  (iermany  and  who  came  to 
.\merica  in  If:!*!,  and  in  the  city  of  <^uincy  fol- 
lowed the  calling  of  a  blacksmith,  wlii<-h  occupa- 
ti<m  he  had  learned  in  his  native  land,  initilal>out 
IH.'iii,  when  he  founded  the  Washington  Brewery. 
As  his  means  were  (piite  limited,  he  commenced  in 
a  very  modest  way  on  the  corner  <if  .Sixth  and 
State  Streets,  but  in  lH."i2  his  business  had  assumed 
such  pro|iortioiis  that  he  found  it  expeiiient  to  re- 
move to  more  commodious  (luarti'i-s,  and  established 
himself  at  the  present    location  of   the  Huff    Brew- 


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ins^  Company.  He  successfully  conducted  the  busi- 
ness until  1864,  wiieii  he  was  succeeded  bj'  John 
and  Casper  Ruff,  who  continued  the  manufacture 
of  beer  until  the  death  of  .7ohn  in  1880,  after  which 
Casper  and  his  brother  Henry  conducted  the  estab- 
lishment until  1882,  Casper  being  President  and 
Henry  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  It  was  then  in- 
corporated into  a  stock  company,  and  has  since 
been  conducted  under  the  name  of  the  Ruff  Brew- 
ing Conipan}-.  Casper  Ruff,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  made  President  and  Secretary  of  the 
company,  which  position  he  held  up  to  1889,  when 
Henry  Ruff  retired  as  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and 
William  J.  Ruff  was  made  President,  Edward  Ruff, 
Secretar_y  and  Cas|)er  Ruff'  Superintendent  and 
Treasurer. 

In  18',(1,  the  company  made  improvements  to  the 
extent  of  $18,000,  putting  in  all  the  latest  ai)pli-  ; 
auces  in  improved  machinery,  among  which  is  a  \ 
refrigerator  machine,  and  the  wonderful  increase 
in  the  patronage  is  indicated  by  its  output,  which 
amounts  to  8,000  barrels  annually.  The  building 
is  a  substantial  biiek  structure,  with  commodious 
ice-houses  and  warehouses,  and  all  conveniences 
necessary  for  the  successful  manufacture  of  their 
product.  The  works  are  located  near  a  large  spring, 
the  sparkling  and  pure  waters  of  which  are  used 
in  the  manufactiu'e  of  tiieir  beer,  which  is  of  a 
very  superior  quality,  rich  in  color  and  Havor. 
They  have  a  one  hundred  and  thirty  horse  power 
engine  and  boilers,  and  under  the  most  etlicient 
management  of  Casper  Ruff,  the  establishment  has 
become  one  of  the  solid  institutions  of  the  State. 
The  beer  which  is  manufactured  by  these  gentle- 
men is  a  wholesome  and  healthy  beverage,  and  the 
popularit3'-  which  it  has  acquired  shows  the  people's 
good  sense,  and  that  they  have  a  thorough  apprecia- 
tion of  its  merits.  The  Messrs.  Ruff  have  made  it 
a  point  to  make  their  product  finer  and  better  as 
they  have  gone  along,  and  it  is  of  a  (juality  that 
can  not  be  surpassed,  for  it  is  rich  in  nutritive 
matter,  and  serves  to  satisfy  hunger  as  well  as  thirst. 

Everything  about  their  premises  is  arranged  to 
facilitate  the  manufacture  and  handling  of  the 
enormous  quantity  of  beer  which  they  produce, 
and  a  large  number  of  men  are  continually  em- 
ployed.    These  gentlemen  are  respected  and  well- 


known  citizens,  and  what  they  do  not  know  about 
the  manufacture  of  lieer  is  not  worth  knowing. 
They  are  genial,  whole-souled  men,  and  stand  high 
in  the  business  circles  of  t-^uincy,  where  they  have 
many  friends.  Casper  Ruff'  has  by  industry  and  hon- 
esty made  himself  wealthy,  and  has  helped  to  build 
up  the  city  of  t^uincy  along  with  him.  He  has 
always  taken  an  active  part  in  social  matters,  and 
is  in  every  way  as  important  a  factor  in  the  pros- 
perity of  the  city  as  his  beer  is  in  adding  comfort, 
happiness  and  health  to  its  citizens.  He  was  mar- 
ried October  20,  1804,  to  Miss  Hannah  C.  Taus- 
mann,  daughter  of  John  H.  Tausmann.  They  have 
had  boin  to  them  six  children.  P^dward  died  aged 
fifteen  months.  The  second  son  is  Edward  H., 
who  married  Annie  E.  Menke.  and  has  one  ciiild. 
The  last  four,  Ida,  Elenora.  Emma  and  Walter,  are 
single  and  at  home.  Politically,  our  suliject  is  a 
Democrat. 


^^" 


?RANCIS  A.  ANEALS,  who  owns  and  o|)er- 
ri>  ates  three  liundred  acres  of  land  on  section 
10,  is  one  of  the  few  early  settlers  of  El- 
lington Township  who  yet  remain  to  tell  the  story 
of  pioneer  life  in  this  locality.  A  native  of  Boone 
Count3',  Mo.,  he  was  born  October  31,  1826.  His 
paternal  grandfather  enlisted  from  Pennsylvania 
in  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  never  afterward  heard 
from.  His  widow,  with  her  one  son  and  two 
daughters,  then  returned  to  the  Empire  State,  and 
the  young  boy,  Erancis  Aneals,  afterward  (uir  sub- 
ject's father,  was  ap|)renticed  to  the  carpen- 
ter's trade.  He  was  born  in  New  York  in  the 
year  of  1798.  Having  emigrated  to  ^lissouri,  he 
sold  his  farm  in  Boone  County  in  1829,  and  re- 
moved to  Illinois  on  account  of  the  slave  system 
in  the  former  State.  He  then  became  a  farmer  of 
Schuyler  County,  and  in  1M."52  came  to  Adams 
County,  entering  land  from  the  ( iovernment  in 
Ellington  Township,  where  he  died  of  cholera  in 
18.'].'?.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal  Church    and    Ijecame    a    local    preacher.       He 


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wiiulil  walk  III  (^uiiii'v  eiich  Sunday  and  tliere  en- 
giiirc  in  iniMi.->torial  wurk.  and  it  was  wliilc  in  that 
<-ity  that  he  Ix'cauH'  a  victim  nf  the  discasf  which 
Ivrniinatcd  his  iifc.  His  wife,  whu  Ikhc  the  maid- 
en name  nf  Mamaret  Berk.  wa.s  a  native  of  Marv- 
lanil,  and  died  at  the  Imme  iif  our  subject  at  the 
a>;e  of  lifty-two  years.  Fivo  ot  their  six  children 
allained  lo  maniiood  and  woniaidiood:  Kli/alH-lli. 
.lohn  \\'..  Knincis.  Justus  \V.  and  Fletclier  A.,  fif 
whom  our  suliject  and  .lohn  \V.  are  now  tiie  only 
survivinir  nieml>ers  of  tlie  family. 

t  )ur  suhject  acquired  his  education  in  a  |irimi- 
live  log  st'lioolhouse  and  lie  was  reared  amid  the 
wild  scenes  of  frontier  life,  ex|ieriencing  all  the 
hardships  and  trials  which  fall  to  the  hit  of  the 
pioneer.  lie  wa.s  in  his  sixth  year  when  hi.s  father 
died,  Imt  his  mother  carefully  reared  her  children. 
provitliiiiT  for  them  as  liest  she  could.  .M  the  aire 
of  fifteen,  he  liegan  working  hv  the  iiionlh  as  a 
farm  hand  and  was  thus  employed  until  he  had 
altaiiu'd  his  majority,  when  he  started  out  in  life 
for  himself.  In  1h17.  he  rciiteri  a  farm,  and  .'iflcr 
two  years  purchased  his  present  farm  vu  section 
111,  Kllin<;t<in  Township,  where  he  has  made  his 
home  almost  continuously  since.  With  ohanicter- 
istic  energy,  he  iK-gan  clearing  the  land,  and  soon 
acre  after  acie  was  under  the  plow  and  the  rich 
an<l  fertile  lields  were  made  to  yield  to  him  a  gold- 
en tnliiite.  In  IH.'i.").  he  entered  intf)  partnership 
with  .losepli  Kirtpatrick,  and  eslalilished  the  third 
st<ire  in  Camp  Point,  which  town  had  just  l)een 
founded.  Imt  in  the  s|iring  of  IK.'(7  sold  out  and 
returned  to  his  farm. 

On  the  19th  of  Decemlicr.  1H17.  .Mr.  .\neals 
married  KImira  Frost,  a  native  of  Athens  County, 
( )hio,  liorii  .Mine  .J,  1M27.  With  her  parents,  she 
came  to  Illinois  in  183.').  Tlie\  have  three  chil- 
dren: Klla.  wife  of  Sultzer  Kiiotts,  of  Oiegon: 
Willie  K..  who  is  married  and  resides  on  an  ad- 
joining farm:  and  .Minnie  !•;..  wife  of  Thomas 
Dempsey.  a  residi'Ut  farmer  of  Klliiii;loii  Town- 
ship. 

1 11  politics,  Mr.  Aneals  is  n  I{e]>ulilicnn.  and  has 
taken  (piite  an  active  part  in  political  affairs.  Foi 
eleven  yeai-s  he  has  served  as  .Iiislice  of  the  I'eace. 
an<I  fin-  three  t*rms  was  Supervisor.  The  prompt 
and  alile  manner  in  which  he  dischurj'ed  his  duties 


led  to  hi:i  re-election  and  won  him  the  commenda- 
tion of  all  concerned.  For  many  years,  he  and 
hib  estiinalile  wife  have  hecii  numlx-rsof  the  .Meth- 
odist Kpiscopal  Church.  .Mr.  .Viieals  is  one  of  the 
highly  respectc<l  gentlciiien  aiid  valued  citizens  of 
this  commiinitv. 


GKC)I{(;K  I).  KIDDI.K.  a  proiuinent  and  en- 
terprising young  farmer,  who  resides  in 
Keene  Townshi|),  was  liorn  in  this  township, 
March  2«,  IHCl.  IIi,s  grandfather.  (Jeorge  I). 
Hiddlc,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  his  father, 
who  liore  the  same  name  as  the  grandfather,  was 
liorn  in  Pendleton  County,  Ky.,  in  1H22.  At  an 
early  day,  he  came  to  Adams  County,  III.,  locating 
in  Keene  Township  in  IHfil.  He  i>ureha.sed  a 
partially  improved  tract  of  land  on  .section  10. 
and  carried  on  farming  until  IHtii I.  when  he  crossed 
the  plains  lo  California  for  his  health,  .\fler  two 
years  s))ent  on  the  Pacific  slope,  he  returned  home, 
and  when  the  late  war  liroke  <iut  he  enlisted  in 
the  Sixty-tifth  Illinois  Infantry,  serving  until  its 
close,  when  he  was  honoralily  discharged.  In  this 
community  he  held  a  numlier  of  local  ollU-es  and 
wa.s  a  prominent  and  intluentini  citizen.  He  was 
long  a  meinher  of  the  Christian  Church,  and  set  ved 
;i>  <leacon  for  many  years.  He  was  a  imlile.  whole- 
souled  ni.nn.  kind-heart«d,  generou>  and  true,  and 
had  the  respect  <if  all  with  whom  lie  came  in  con- 
tact. In  is41.lie  married  Klmirar  \arnier.a  native 
of  this  State,  and  a  daughter  of  .\<lin  and  .lane  .M. 
(Crawford)  \'arnier.  early  settlers  of  .\dams 
County.  Of  their  children,  live  sons  and  three 
daughters  are  yet  living.      Three  are  deceased. 

We  now  take  up  the  personal  history  of  our 
subject,  who  has  spent  almo>t  his  entire  life  in  the 
rounty  of  his  nativity.  His  earlx'  education, 
acipiired  in  the  district  schools,  was  supplemented 
liy  study  in  the  pulilic  scIkmiIs  of  Loraine.  In  the 
spring  of  1882,  he  embarked  in  the  hardware  busi- 
ness in  l.oraine.  but  after  nine  months  >obl  out;  in 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


the  spring  of  1883,  he  visited  the  Pacific  slope, 
spending  several  montlis  in  California.  Since  his 
return,  he  has  devoted  iiis  time  and  attention  ex- 
clusively to  farming.  He  is  a  practical  and  pro- 
gressive agriculturist,  .and  the  neat  appearance  of 
the  place  indicates  his  tlirift  and  enterprise. 

On  the  13th  of  January,  1892,  Mr.  Kiddle  led 
to  the  marriage  altar,  Miss  Lizzie  L.  Tittle,  daugh- 
ter of  A.  G.  Tittle,  a  resident  farmer  of  Honey  Creek 
Township.  The  young  couple  are  well  and  favor- 
ably know  in  this  community. 

In  connection  with  his  brother,  Mr.  Riddle  owns 
and  operates  two  hundred  and  ninet}'  acres  of 
land  on  sections  15  and  1(5,  Keene  Township.  Since 
attaining  his  niajorit3',  he  has  been  a  stalwart  sup- 
porter of  the  Repul)lican  party,  and  is  quite  promi- 
nent in  its  circles.  He  has  served  for  two  years  as 
Collector;  held  the  office  of  Assessor  one  year,  and 
is  now  the  efficient  Supervisor  of  his  township. 
The  prompt  and  faithful  manner  in  which  he  dis- 
charged his  duties  brings  him  high  commenda- 
tion. He  has  the  confidence  and  regard  of  all,  and 
is  a  worthy  representative  of  an  honored  pioneer 
famil}-. 


'—i- 


,^^<^^ 


\»r^RANCIS  M.  STUMP.     An  honorable  posi- 
■S^;  lion     among    the    men    to    whom    Adams 
/li  County  is  indebted  for  its  high  state  of  de- 

velopment is  held  by  Mr.  Stump,  who  resides  on 
section  3,  Houston  Township.  The  present  condi- 
tion of  his  farm  displays  his  ability  in  agricultural 
affairs,  and  a  short  conversation  with  him  shows 
that  he  is  much  more  than  a  tiller  of  the  soil.  Tlie 
father  of  our  subject  was'  Henry  Stump,  who  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania,  in  1796.  The  remote  an- 
cestors of  our  subject  were  Germans,  but  his 
grandfather  emigrated  from  Pennsj'lvania  to  Cler- 
mont Count}',  Ohio,  when  Henry,  our  subject's 
father,  was  a  lad,  and  there  the  latter  was  reared. 
In  1821,  Henrj'  started  Westward  and  paused  first 
in  Sangamon  Count}-,  111.,  where  he  remained  a 
short  time,  and  then  went  into  Morgan  County, 
where  he  bought  land  and  engaged  in  farming  for 


several  years.  In  February,  1834,  lie  came  to 
Adains  County,  and  settled  on  section  19,  in  Hous- 
ton Township.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  settle 
on  the  "  Big  Neck  "  jjrairic,  but  the  log  cabin  was 
snug,  game  w.as  plentiful  and  no  one  suffered.  He 
did  not  enjoy  hunting  as  a  pastime,  but  as  a  means 
of  livelihood  it  assumed  another  asiject.  His  first 
visit  to  this  county  was  made  on  horseback  and 
was  of  short  duration.  When  he  returned  to 
Ohio,  he  married  Phtebe  Osborne,  of  that  State, 
and  she  became  the  mother  of  our  subject.  She 
died  at  the  age  of  about  fifty-eight  years,  a  de- 
voted member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
Henry  Stump  died  here  in  IHfii;,  in  his  seventy- 
first  year. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  lifth  of  six  chil- 
dren boin  to  his  parents,  four  of  whom  are  still  liv- 
ing. He  attended  the  log  schoolhouse  which  every 
pioneer  district  hastened  to  provide,  and  sat  upon 
the  uncomfortable  slab  seats,  which  the  children 
of  the  present  day  would  look  upon  with  wonder 
and  dismay.  The  fireplace  was  of  mud  and,  it  is  to 
be  feared,  often  did  not  do  its  duty  in  keeping 
warm  the  poor  little  lads  and  lasses,  who  had 
trudged  miles  through  the  snow  to  gain  what 
knowledge  was  possible  in  the  short  winter  terms- 
Mr.  Stump  remained  at  home  until  he  was 
twenty-three  years  of  age,  sometimes  doing  a  little 
threshing  through  the  county,  but  never  working 
from  home  by  the  month.  .Vfter  his  marriage,  he 
purchased  land  in  Chili  Township,  in  Hancock 
County,  and  followed  farming  there,  but  in  1862 
he  returned  to  Houston  Townshi|),  and  settled  on 
the  old  homestead,  and  has  farmed  here  ever  since. 
He  has  built  a  substantial  frame  house  and  made 
other  improvements. 

Our  subject  was  married,  .Inly  1,  18.J8,  to  Miss 
Hannah  V.  Mock,  a  native  of  Bourbon  County, 
Ky.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah 
.S.  Mock,  who  came  to  Illinois  and  located  in  Han- 
cock County,  in  Augusta  Township,  where  they 
carried  on  farming.  There  the  father  died,  but 
the  mother  is  still  living.  Mrs.  Stump  is  one  of 
five  children,  all  of  whom  are  still  living. 

These  worthy  representatives  of  Adams  County 
pioneers  have  only  two  children,  but  these  promise 
to  be  as  highly  respected  as  their  honored   jiarents. 


w/lu. 


POirriJAlT  AND  I'.IOCi; Al'IITCAL  RECORD. 


18.T 


("linrles  II.  is  niarriod  .niid  is  sotllf<l  on  a  fanii  in 
tills  tn\vnslii|i.  :in<l  Ills  lirotlior.  (u'luye  1'.,  is  .-i 
fannt'i-  in  (Jjlincr  'riiwnslii|>. 

Mr.  Simnp  is  ii  vt-rv  prtuiiincnl  I  >fm<>ci:it  nf  tliis 
M'ctiiMi.  .and  lin.s  friMiiicnllv  rcpiosciiU'(i  U\>  fcl- 
luw-citizons  in  their  con vcntions.  lU-  is  nincli  in- 
terested in  iMiproveint-nts,  and  is  now  serving  his 
tliinl  term  a-  Hoad  Conunissioner.  an<l  lias  served 
two  terms  as  Supervisor. 

This  genllenian  is  the  ownei-  of  one  lmii<lre(l 
and  twenty  aeres  of  line  land,  and  has  >;lven 
each  of  his  sons  eiiiht.v  acres,  lie  has  done  some 
eAltle-raisiiig,  l)iit  not  in  late  years.  He  is  a  self- 
mad<'  man.  and  is  a  kind  and  hospitnhle  nei^lilxir. 
It  is  needless  tosay  that  his  n^piitalion  lliroiiirhont 
the  eounty  is  that  of  a  jnst  and  intelligent  citizen. 


-m- 


^  \t  ^-  PKNFIKI.l).  "Death  loves  a  shininir 
'/'  I  mark,"  and  in  t.akinjj  awa_v  the  {;entlenian 
\;5>l^  whose  name  appears  at  the  head  of  this 
sketch  the  county  has  lieen  deprived  of  a  man 
who  hail  acquired  a  wide  reputation,  not  only  for 
mental  acumen  in  commercial  affairs  and  business 
life.  Iiut  for  his  unl>ia>ed  .^nd  unprejudiced  views 
on  all  matters  of  moment,  tojjether  with  ;;enerons. 
liosi>itable  and  charitable  instincts.  He  was  Ixirn 
in  Harpersfield.  Delaware  Ctiiinty.  N.  V..  .Iiiiie  22. 
1«22,  u  son  of  David  and  Hoadice.n  I'entield.  an<l 
a  grandson  of  Peter  Penfield. 

v.  S.  Peiitield  spent  his  boyhood  in  the  town 
of  his  birth,  but  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years, 
or  in  IH.iH.  he  came  with  his  parents  to  l^nincy, 
111.,  wlieie  he  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in 
a  mercantile  house,  in  which  he  prudently  re- 
inained  until  he  had  aci|uii'cd  a  thorough  knowl-- 
edge  of  the  business  and  its  reiiuirenient,--.  Then 
opening  an  establishment  of  liisown.he  conducted 
this  with  snbstantial  results  for  a  number  of 
years.  Following  this,  he  engaged  in  milling  in 
partnership  with  .lohn  15.  Brown,  who  is  now  de- 
ceased, and  with  him  erected  the  Star  Mills;  they 
formerly  sUjod  near  the  corner  of  Front  ami  Spring 


.Streets,  but  were  removed  to  give  way  to  the  Chi- 
cago, IJnrlington  ,V  (^•nincy  Hnilroad  depot  yar<ls. 
Following  this.  Mi.  Peiilield  wa.>  called  to  accept  the 
responsible  position  of  Cashier  of  the  First  National 
Hank  of  (^biincy.  which  position  he  tilled  in  a  most 
pin i.»e worthy  niaiiner  until  his  <leath.  He  was  a 
111:111  possessed  of  rare  business  i|nftlilications  ami 
was  devotion  itself  to  the  responsible  duties  of 
tlii>  position.  While  here,  he  made  a  reputation 
for  himself  .-is  a  skilled  and  shrewd  linancier,  anil 
won  the  coiilidence  and  respect  of  every  citizen  of 
•  ^iiiiicy.  He  slmwed  a  vast  amount  of  tact  in  the 
management  of  his  affairs,  while  as  a  banker  he 
showed  so  much  sound  judgment  that  to  his  elli- 
cieiicy  wa^  largely  due  the  prosjierity  of  the  bank 
with    whieli  he  w.as  connected. 

Politically,  he  was  a  stanch  Republican,  and.  so- 
cially, was  a  memlK-r  of  the  Royal  .\rcaniim  and 
the  I  nde|)endent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  I  )n  the 
Tth  of  April.  lHr,:(,  Mr.  Penlield  married  Miss 
.Vniaiiila  Ward,  of  (^uincy,  a  daughter  of  Fber  and 
Sarah  W;iid,  the  former  of  whom  was  lioni  in 
Massacliusett.s.  He  was  a  Oovernnienl  Inspector  of 
.\rii):«  dining  the  Revolutionary'  War.  a  position 
held  for  several  years,  and  discharged  the  duties  con- 
nei'ted  therewith  for  some  time  at  A'alley  Forge,  lb- 
was  a  patentee  of  gun  barrels,  in  .Ma?sachiisetts, 
which  were  used  during  the  war  with  ( Ireat  Hritain. 
His  wife  was  born  in  Connecticut,  and  was  of 
sturdy  and  upright  (iermaii  ancestry,  his  ancestors 
having  been  natives  of  the  Isle  of  Krin.  The 
■rreat-giandfather  of  Mrs.  Penlield  was  a  (ierniaii 
nobleman  by  the  name  of  Cable. 

To  U.  .S.  Penfield  .'111(1  wife  a  family  of  six  chil- 
dren was  born:  .Miiry  K.;  Charles,  who  is  a  suc- 
ce-isful  coal-oil  merchant  of  t^nincy;  Fannie  II..  at 
home;  .liilia;  .loiinie,  wife  of  K.  P.  Fassett,  tif  Chi- 
cago, and  Iri.  wlici  is  still  in  school.  Mr.  I'enfield 
was,  as  is  his  widow,  !i  devoted  member  of  the 
Congregational  (liiiicli.  Personally  and  in  every 
private  relation  and  duty  of  life,  too  much 
can  not  be  said  in  his  praise.  Liberal,  gj'iieroiis 
and  high-minded,  he  wa>  the  life  of  siK-ial  inter- 
course and  the  soul  of  true  honor  and  nnlHiiinded 
greatness  of  heart.  He  had  the  instincts  and 
training  of  a  true  gentleman,  which  he  manifested 
in  hisdailv  walk  and   conversation,  and   while  he 


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was  not  aggressive  in  opinion,  nor  disposed  to  be 
disputatious,  yet  lie  had  most  emphatically  a  "mind 
of  his  own,"  with  the  moral  courage  to  express  it 
when  occasion  so  demanded.  His  life  was  full  of 
kind  deeds,  and  it  can  be  trul\-  said  of  him  that 
lie  never  violated  a  friendship  nor  forgot  a  kind 
action  done  him.  He  was  of  the  material  of  which 
model  citizens  are  made,  and  possessed  that  moral 
and  personal  integrity  and  clear,  well-lialanced, 
active  intelligence  which  adorn  the  private  station 
and  make  and  keep  the  public  service  ))ure. 


'  MONROE  RH^ENBERICK,  Pension  Agent 
and  Attorne}' at  t^uiney.  111.,  like  many  of 
tlie  other  representative  citizens  of  the 
'  county,  is  a  native  of  the  Keystone  State, 
born  in  Clarion,  Clarion  County,  on  April  30, 
1842.  His  father,  William  Rifenberick,  as  well  as 
his  grandfather,  Richard  Rifenberick,  weie  natives 
of  New  .Jersey  and  descendants  of  German  ances- 
tors, the  great-grandfather  having  emigrated  from 
the  Fatherland  to  New  Jersey  at  a  very  early  date. 
The  grandfather  was  a  successful  tiller  of  the  soil, 
and  followed  that  occupation  in  his  native  State 
for  many  >ears.  When  his  son  William  was  four- 
teen years  of  age,  he  removed  to  Clarion,  Pa.,  and 
there  passed  the  remainder  of  his  days. 

The  father  of  our  subject  became  familiar  with 
the  arduous  duties  of  the  farm  at  an  earlv  age,  but 
after  reaching  mature  years  he  embarked  in  mer- 
chandising at  Greenville,  where  he  carried  on  a 
very  large  and  successful  business.  After  contin- 
uing this  for  several  ^ears,  he  located  on  a  farm  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  near  that  city,  and 
there  his  death  occurred  on  May  14,  1803.  In 
politics,  he  was  an  ardent  Democrat,  and  held  a 
number  of  township  offices.  In  his  religious 
views,  he  was  allied  with  the  Methodists.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  Ralston,  a  native  of  Greensburg, 
Westmoreland  County,  Pa.,  and  the  daughter  of 
William  Ralston,  who  was  a  native  of  the  Green 
Isle  of  Erin,    and  who  settled  on  a  farm  five  miles 


out  of  Greensburg,  Pa.,  where  lie  became  well 
known  as  one  of  the  most  prominent  farmers.  He 
was  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Mrs. 
Rifenberick  died  in  Penns3lvania,  on  the  1st  of 
December,  1869.  One  child  besides  our  subject 
was  born  to  them — Louisa,  who  married  William 
II.  Lane,  and  now  resides  near  Peoria,  III. 

Like  the  average  farmer  boy,  our  subject's 
youthful  days  were  passed  between  the  handles  of 
a  plow  and  in  the  district  school.  Later,  he  en- 
tered Covode  Academy  and  there  remained  until 
August  12,  1864.  when  he  threw  aside  his  books 
and  shouldered  his  musket.  He  volunteered  in 
Company  C,  Two  Hundred  and  Sixth  Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry,  and  w.as  sent  right  to  the  front. 
He  remained  in  Richmond,  \a.,  until  the  fall  of 
that  3'ear,  was  on  guard,  and  was  honorably  dis- 
charged on  .Tune  26,  1865,  at  that  place.  AVheii 
before  Richmond  he  received  a  Hesh  wound  in  the 
right  hand,  but  was  never  off  dutj'.  After  return- 
ing to  Pennsylvania  he  entered  the  academy 
again  and  was  graduated  in  the  fall  of  1866.  After 
this  he  began  wielding  the  ferrule  in  the  High 
School  at  Covode,  Pa.,  and  later  taught  for  two 
years  at  Punxsutawney,  where  he  read  medicine 
for  one  year  with  Dr.  W.  A.  Means.  In  the  fall 
of  187(1,  he  came  to  IMooraington.  taught  two 
years  in  Peoria  County,  and  then  returned  to 
Clarion,  Pa.,  where  he  studied  law  under  David 
Lawson  for  eighteen  months.  His  funds  getting 
low,  he  went  to  ISIcLean  County,  where  he  taught 
school  for  twelve  years,  being  Principal  of  the 
Selma  Schools  three  years  of  that  time. 

In  1883,  Mr.  Rifenberick  had  his  third  stroke  of 
paralysis  and  for  thirteen  months  could  not  walk. 
After  this  he  was  able  to  be  around  some  but  had 
not  entirely  recovered.  In  May,  1887,  he  came 
to  the  Soldiers'  Home,  and  was  there  for  eighteen 
months,  but  as  soon  as  able  he  located  in  (Juincy. 
While  in  the  Home,  he  became  familiar  with  the 
pension  business  and  was  registered  as  Attorney  in 
the  Department  of  the  Interior.  On  January  3(1, 
1889,  he  opened  his  office  and  presented  over 
one  thousand  two  hundred  claims,  only  a  few  be- 
ing rejected.  He  has  been  veiy  successful  in  this 
business  and  devotes  his  entire  attention  to  it.  He 
is  one  of  the  most   successful  pension-claim  attor- 


PORTRAIT  AND  IMOCUAPIIIfAl.   RECORD. 


18.-. 


lU'Vs  ill  tlir  Wot.  iuul  .ill  kiiuis  of  notary  wmk  arc 
t'xt'ciilcd   :iii(|    |i('iisi(>ii    vducluTS    c-orioctly    iiiaiU' 

Olll. 

On  FuhriiaiT  12,  18K;i,  our  .•*iil)jfct  «ns  iiiHrricd 
to  Miss  Kva  K.  Iliivi-s.  a  nalivi-of  Loxmjitun,  111., 
ami  a  vcrv  siifccssfiil  sfliool  tt'iii'lioi'.  Ilur  di-atli 
i>c('un'<-<l  .liiiic  li'i.  |««;5.  Mr.  Kifenhcrick's  second 
nianiam' iici-urrcd  on  .liilv  2."i,  IM'.Ml.  to  Mrs.  Li/./ic 
A.  (C'raiir)  Tlionijison.  who  was  liorn  at  Ln  ( iraiiijo, 
M".  Ili-r  jiarcnt.s  wure  .lolin  and  Cliodoler 
CiHit,'.  .-ind  till-  niotiicr  resides  in  t^uincy  at  the 
present  liiiii-.  lly  lier  first  marriage  Mrs.  Hifen- 
l>eriek  became  the  mother  of  three  children,  viz.: 
Ora  1..,  Iiook-kee|u-r  in  .an  olliee;  Thomas  ('.  and 
I'ansy  Kva.  ( lur  siilijeet  adopted  the  last-named 
and  her  name  was  changed  to  Uifenberiek.  Our 
subject  is  a  mcmlier  of  the  Independent  ( )rder 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  also  a  niemlier  of 
the  .lolin  Wood  I'ost  No.  yC.  (i.  A.  K..  of 
•  ^uinoy.  lie  holds  memliership  in  the  Presbyter- 
ian C'hurcli.  In  jiolitics  he  upholds  the  principles 
of  the  Republican  party,  and  is  deeply  interested 
in  all  its  movements,  lie  has  alllliated  with  this 
party  since  the  war.  While  a  resident  of  .MclA'an 
County,  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  c-ounty  and  Slate 
conventions,  ami  when  twenty-three  years  of  age, 
he  was  elected  .Viiditor  of  Clarion  County,  Pa., 
serving  in  that  capacity  in  a  creditable  and  satis- 
factory maimer  for  one  year.  lie  li.is  a  very 
pleasant  home  in  Quinev.  which  is  preside<l  over 
l)y  his  accomplished  and  refined  wife,  a  lady 
possessed  of  nuicli  more  than  the  average  intelli- 
gence. 


mr 


FliA.NK  Ali.Mol.l).  The  encour.agenient  ;if- 
fordeil  those  who  are  struggling  to  aci|uirc 
a  home  by  the  history  of  others  who  have 
p.issed  through  similar  trials  and  come  otf  con- 
■  lueroi-  can  scarcely-  be  estimated.  We  are  there- 
fore pleased  to  incorporate  in  this  volume  the  biog- 
raphy of  an  honored  resident  of  Adams  County, 
who,  from  the  condition  of  a  poor  young  man,ha^ 
become  the  owner  of  a  good  properlv.  and  from   a 


standing  of  no  iniporttnce  lia^  grown  lobe  inlluen- 
lial  an<1  promineiil.  The  home  farm  of  Mr. 
.\rmold  lompiises  one  hundred  and  forty-seven 
a<'res  on  .sections  in  .and  l."i.  Paysijii  Towiisliip, and 
the  huildiiii.'s  thereon  are  .second  to  none  in  the 
couiil\.  The  acre.-ige  is  carefully  and  intelligently 
cultivated,  and  our  subject  is  recognized  as  one  of 
the  learling  agriciiMniists  in  this  section. 

A  native  of  Pennsylvania,  our  subject  was  born 
in  ^dik  Coiiiily.  in  l«;!i<,  and  there  grew  to 
mature  years,  attending  the  district  school  and 
aiding  his  fathei-  in  the  farm  work.  When  rea<ly 
to  begin  his  personal  career,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  years,  he  came  to  .\dams  County,  where  he 
remained  a  twelvemonth,  then  went  to  Ogle 
County,  where,  in  IHfil,  he  enlisted  in  the  Second 
Light  Artillery  ami  joined  the  main  arm\-  at 
N'itkslnirg.  Remaining  in  that  place  until  the  close 
of  hostilities,  he  returned  to  his  native  pl.nee  and  in 
the  spring  of  IKtiti  came  the  secfind  time  to  Adams 
County,  with  whose  interests  he  has  since  been 
identilied. 

In  the  fall  of  IMtJT.  I'liiiik  .\rmold  wjus  m.-irricd 
to  Miss  K.aehael  W.,  daughter  of  Bracket  Pottle, 
and  after  her  decease  in  1871,  was  married  to  Miss 
l\mily  Scarborough.  .Mrs.  Arniold  is  the  daughter 
of  Daniel  Scarborough,  and  by  her  union  with  our 
subject  has  become  the  mother  of  two  children: 
Clarence  S.  and  Nellie  W. 

I'eter  and  Harb:ira  (Lehman)  .Vrmold,  the  par- 
ents of  our  subject,  were  al.so  natives  of  York 
County,  Pa.,  where  they  reared  a  family  of  nine 
children,  viz:  .Mary,  who  married  Martin  Lau,  of 
York  County.  Pa.;  Rudolph,  al.so  making  his  home 
in  that  county;  Christian,  who  lives  in  Clark 
County,  Mo.;  Conrad,  who  is  deceased;  Lovica, 
who  married  .lohn  Haines,  of  York  County,  Pa.; 
I-'rank.  of  this  sketch,  wjio  is  the  next  in  order 
of  birth:  Peter.  wIki  makes  his  home  in  Lancaster 
County,  Pa.;  .losepli  .\.,  who  resiiies  in  Crecne 
County,  this  .Stale:  ami  Calvin,  who  li\cs  in 
Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  .\rmol(l  is  a  man  of  exelleiit  coimiKui-scnse, 
of  sturdy  principles  and  good  habits,  lie  is  a 
stirring,  active  man,  who  has  a  souml,  practical 
knowledge  of  his  calling,  which  he  carries  on 
under    g 1    business    methods.       He     is    public- 


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spirited  and  does  all  that  he  can  to  forward  the 
best  interests  of  his  township  and  county-.  He 
and  his  wife  are  sincere  Cliristians  and  devoted 
members  of  the  Congregational  Church.  He  is 
not  interested  in  politics  other  than  to  cast  a 
straight  Democratic  vote  during  elections,  but  as  a 
shrewd,  intelligent  business  man,  occupies  a  high 
place  among  the  agriculturists  of  Payson  Town- 
ship. 


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jf?.SAAC  R.  SUMMERS,  au  euteri)rising  young 
i  farmer  residing  on  section  12,  Riverside  Town- 
|1^  ship,  has  the  honor  of  being  a  native  of  this 
county.  He  was  born  on  the  Summers  homestead, 
in  Ellington  Township,  August  2,  1857,  and  is  the 
third  child  in  a  family  of  eight  children,  whose 
parents  were  Richard  and  Louisa  (Triplett)  Sum- 
mers. His  father  was  born  near  Lexington,  Ivy., 
May  12,  1818,  and  his  mother  is  a  native  of  Pike 
County,  Mo.  The  paternal  grandfather,  emigrat- 
ing from  Delaware,  became  a  pioneer  settler  of 
Kentucky.  He  removed  to  Adams  County-  in 
1834,  locating  in  Melrose  Township,  among  its 
first  settlers.  The  father  of  our  sul)jeot  purchased 
land  in  what  is  now  Riverside  Township  about 
1856,  and  the  farm  wiiieli  he  there  developed  and 
improved  he  made  his  home  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  August  .31,  1889.  He  was  a  successful 
farmer  and  became  well-tf)-do,  and  was  honored 
with  a  number  of  local  ofttces.  His  widow  still 
survives  him  and  is  yet  living  on  the  old  homestead. 
In  the  usual  manner  of  farmer  lads,  our  subject 
spent  the  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth.  His 
,  early  education,  acquired  in  the  district  schools, 
was  supplemented  by  a  course  in  the  Gem  City 
Business  College,  of  (Juincj-.  On  attaining  his 
majority,  he  started  out  to  earn  his  own  livelihood 
and  has  made  farming  his  life  occupation.  He 
engaged  in  the  operation  of  the  home  farm  until 
1889,  when  he  located  on  his  present  farm.  He 
now  owns  and  operates  forty  acres  of  valuable  land 
oil  section    12,  Riverside  Township.     The   tract  is 


under  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  and  the  well- 
tilled  fields  and  many  improvements  upon  the 
place  indicate  the  thrift  and  enterprise  of  the  owner. 
On  the  15th  of  September,  1889,  Mr.  Summers 
led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss  Carrie  Howsley,  a 
native  of  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  and  a  daughter  of 
R.  H.  and  Belle  Howsley,  both  of  whom  were  born 
in  Kentucky.  Her  father  was  a  lawyer  by  pro- 
fession, and  for  a  time  engaged  in  practice  in 
Leavenworth,  after  which  he  located  on  a  farm  in 
Kansas.  He  now  makes  his  home  in  Leavenworth, 
and  is  interested  in  mining.  Mrs.  Summers  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  her  native  cit}'  and  in 
Cliaddock  College,  of  Quincy.  Three  children 
grace  this  union,  Florence  G.,  .lake  and  an  infant. 
In  politics,  Mr.  Summers  is  a  Republican  and  has 
filled  the  office  of  Road  Commissioner.  He  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  prosperous  and  progres- 
sive young  farmers  of  Riverside  Township,  and  is 
an  intelligent, genial  youngman.  Both  he  and  his 
wife   are  popular,  and  rank  high  in  social  circles 


^OHN  GRAHAM,  M.  D.  Among  the  promi- 
nent physicians  of  Adams  County  is  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  who  is  recognized  as 
a  man  of  superior  attainments  and  one 
well  calculated  to  add  fresh  laurels  to  the  jirofes- 
sion  to  which  he  devotes  his  time  and  talent.  His 
inactice  is  both  extensive  and  lucrative,  and  his 
patients  honor  and  resiiect  him  as  only  those  are 
regarded  who  are  the  fortunate  possessors  of  some 
means  of  benefiting  and  imiiroving  the  condition 
of  their  fellow-men.  His  practice  lies  cliietly  in 
and  about  Plainville,  where  he  is  at  present  resid- 
ing. 

Born  in  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  our  subject 
grew  to  mature  years  in  the  Emerald  Isle,  where 
he  received  a  thorough  and  liberal  education.  In 
1868,  desiring  to  better  his  fortune,  he  emigrated 
alone  to  America,  and,  locating  in  Kentucky, 
taught    school    in    Falmouth    and  other  i)laces  for 


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POHTU.MT  AM)   P.K  )( :  K'A  Tl  l'(  Al.    I!i:((  >I{I>. 


I8!t 


Steven  vcars.  IK-t«rinining  to  follow  llu-  life  oc- 
(Mi|intioii  of  a  plivsii-iiiii,  lie  I'lilercd  tlio  nu'difiil 
follei;e  nt  ('iiu-iiiiiiiti  in  1X77,  mid  aflcr  Ins 
grndiiation,  iiniiu'diiitelv  lK->;nii  piai-tii-o  in  tlii> 
|ilnci\  wlioiv  lie  has  siiuv  icsiclod.  \\c  i>  often 
i-alli'd  upon  to  visit  patient-  tliroiiglionl  tlii.-  and 
I'ike  Counties,  and  the  •iratifyinjr  results  which 
have  nowned  the  effoils  of  his  life  are  the  more 
nolieealile  and  praiseworthy  because  of  the  few 
opportunities  afforded  him  in  the  earlier  days  for 
that  traiiiini;  and  other  help  that  are  Mjmetimes 
considered  ahsohitely  iiidispensalile  as  a  start  in 
life,  lie  is  one  of  that  class  of  whom  many 
Worthy  representatives  are  found  in  the  Wot.  and 
who  aie  perhaps  liest  desijjnaled  liy  t\\r  term  of 
self-made. 

.lohn  and  .lane  (  Park)  (irahani.  the  parents  of  our 
subject,  were  natives  of  Si-otland.  They  reared  a 
lar>;e  family  of  children,  of  whom  two  sons  are  en- 
fjai;ed  in  liusine>s  in  C'liieairo,  and  two  mhis  and  a 
daufjhter  still  reside  in  Ireland.  The  Dtxtorisa 
memlx'r  of  the  I'rotestant  Kpiseopal  C'liiiirh,  to- 
ward the  support  of  which  he  is  a  liberal  and 
cheerful  contributor.  I'olitically,  he  is  a  Prohibi- 
tionist, and  is  an  untirin<;  worker  in  the  ranks  of 
the  'remperance  party.  Amid  all  his  toil,  he  still 
liinls  time  for  the  study  of  his  profession,  keeping 
himself  apace  with  the  practical  deUiils  in  the  im- 
provements of  medicine,  ."ind  ranks  .'iiiioiiir  the 
Ik-VsI  physicians  of  the  county. 


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f— yUKDKKKK  W.  Mi;.Mvi:.  The  character 
U-^  of  a  people  i>  (li>played  in  their  dwellings. 
1^  He  they  educated  or  ignorant,  lesthetic  or 

depraved,  elevated  or  di-b.-vsed,  the  beauty  or  ugli- 
ness of  their  .■ircliit<><-ture  is  a  siu'e  criterion  by 
which  to  judge  the  public  titste.  No  city  of  its 
size  in  the  entire  country  can  bu.iijt  of  so  many 
liaiidsoiiic  editices  for  the  home  life  of  its  people 
as  does  i^uincy.  Its  broail  .•iveniies  and  iKuilevards 
are  lined  with  stately  resiliences,  constructed  ac- 
cording U>  nioderi)  styles  of  architecture  in    brick 


stone  and  wood.  Many  of  its  grand  buildings 
would  do  credit  to  the  metropolis  of  the  New 
World,  and  few  cities  of  larger  population  can 
boast  of  a  more  extended  succession  of  ■.nagnilicent 
hoiiso  than  .-ire  found  along  its  >ha<led  street.-. 

Here  we  liiid  ma.-sive  piles  of  brick  and  terra 
colta,and  mansions  made  of  stone  from  hoinei|u:ir- 
ries,  wliieli  are  cpiite  abundant.  'riie>e  buildings 
arc  the  embodiment  of  the  ideas  of  the  architect 
and  builder,.s<i  moditiedas  to  conform  to  individual 
taste,  formed  by  careful  study  of  all  styles  and  de- 
signs. The  efforts  of  many  minds  and  hands  have 
contributed  to  the  general  attr.active  appearance  of 
the  homes  of  the  (ieni  City  of  the  West,  but  it  is 
sjife  to  say  that  no  man  is  entitled  to  a  greater 
credit  than  the  gentleman  whose  name  introduces 
this  -ketch.  With  a  natural  mind  f.ir  the  con- 
templation of  mechanical  designs,  he  early  de- 
veloped a  taste  for  designing  and  building,  and  as 
contractor  and  builder  has  attained  a  iiaiiie  second 
to  none  in  the  city,  or,  indeed,  in  this  part  of 
Illinois. 

The  stone-works,  of  which  Mr.  Menke  is  one  of 
the  proprietors,  are  the  most  extensive  in  Western 
Illinois,  and  are  locat'Cd  near  the  banks  of  the 
Mississippi  Kiver.  adjacent  to  the  tracks  of  the 
Chicago,  IJurlington  A-  (^uincy  Kailroad.  .Mr. 
Menke  slii|is  stone  from  the  different  <|uarrics  in 
various  .States  to  his  yard,  where  it  is  sawed 
an<i  dressed  lor  building  purpose.*,  lie  is  one  of 
the  heaviest  contractors  of  Western  Illinois,  and 
has  in  his  employ  constantly  about  one  hundred 
and  sixty  men.  Many  of  the  line.-t  and  most 
substiintial  stores,  residences  and  public  buildings 
of  f^uincy  have  been  crectt'd  under  his  direct  pt-r- 
sonal  supervision,  and  stand  as  monuments  to  his 
al)ility  and  t«ste. 

Mr.  Menke  is  a  native  of  Prussiti.  and  wjus  born 
in  Westphalia,  April  21,  1k:!2.  lie  is  the  eldest 
of  six  children  born  to  Ilernwiii  II.  and  llannnh 
(Kicksick)  Menke,  his  father  following  the  occu- 
pation of  farmer  and  veterinary  surgeon.  Freder- 
ick W.,  was  educated  in  his  native  country,  and 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  left  s<-liooi  in  order  to 
give  his  entire  time  to  as.sisting  his  father  on  the 
farm.  In  18.')2,  he  sailed  for  America,  landing  in 
New  Orleans,  and   |)roceeding    theiu-e  |o  t^uiiicy, 


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where  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  stone  cutter,  and 
was  thus  engaged  until  1863.  He  then  commenced 
to  operate  as  ;i  contractor  and  builder,  and  his 
skilled  workmanship  brougiit  him  the  confidence 
of  the  people  as  well  as  a  lai'ge  business. 

In  1886,  our  subject  organized  the  F.  W.  Menke 
Stone  A'  Lime  Company,  of  whicli  he  was  appointed 
President,  and  still  retains  the  position.  In  1874, 
he  was  chosen  Vice-president  of  the  Building  & 
Homestead  Association  and  is  also  serving  as  a 
director  in  the  same.  He  is  one  of  the  thorough- 
going, enterprising  business  men  of  Quincy,  and 
hisenergj'  and  ability  have  contriljuted  effectively 
to  the  advancement  of  the  city.  In  politics,  he  is 
a  Repulilican,  stanch  and  true  to  the  principles  of 
the  party.  He  is  now  (1892)  one  of  the  Republican 
Presidential  Electors-at-largc  for  the  State  of 
Illinois.  For  twelve  years  he  served  as  Alderman 
of  the  Fourth  Ward,  and  in  1892  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  for  a  term  of 
two  years.  In  this  position,  as  elsewhere,  he  is 
working  successfully  for  the  best  interests  of  the 
jieople,  and  his  labors  entitle  him  to  grateful 
praise. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Menke  occurred  in  October, 
1855,  and  united  him  with  Miss  Louisa  Wulfmever, 
an  accomplished  lady  residing  in  (^iiincy  and  the 
daughter  of  Henry  Wulfmeyer.  They  are  the 
parents  of  six  children,  namely:  Amelia,  widow  of 
Frank  Hagenbruch;  William  O.;  Edward  II.;  John 
H.;  Anna,  wife  of  Edward  Ruff,  and  Fred  C.  Their 
home,  at  Na  .300  South  Twelfth  Street,  is  one  of 
the  attractive  residences  of  the  city. 


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RANCIS  J.  GUTHKIIKIE  well  deserves  re- 
presentation in  this  volume,  for  he  is  a 
leading  farmer  and  prominent  citizen,  as 
well  as  an  early  settler  of  the  county.  He  now  re- 
sides on  section  8,  Concord  Township.  He  was 
born  in  Virginia,  May  23,  1819,  and  is  descended 
from  good  old  Revolutionary  stock,  his  mal-ernal 
grandfather   having  seryed  in  the  War  for  Inde- 


pendence. His  parents,  J.  F.  and  Elizabeth  Guth- 
ridge,  were  also  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion. 
Unto  them  was  born  a  family  of  three  sons  and 
one  daugiiter:  Joseph,  born  in  1821,  married  Miss 
INIaiia  Gabad,  and  in  1862  enlisted  for  the  late 
war,  serving  until  its  close.  John,  born  in  1829, 
married  Miss  Nancy  Potter,  and  was  also  in  the 
AVar  for  the  Union  from  1862  until  its  close. 
His  death  occurred  in  1868.  Elizabeth,  born  in 
1836,  died  in  1866. 

We  now  take  up  the  personal  history  of  our 
subject.  His  educational  advantages  were  meagre. 
In  early  boyhood,  he  attended  the  old  subscrip- 
tion schools  of  Virginia  and  Kentucky,  but  the 
greater  part  of  the  time  he  worked  upon  the  home 
farm,  and  to  his  father  gave  the  benefit  of  his  la- 
bors until  twenty-five  years  of  age.  Wishing  to 
try  his  fortune  in  the  West,  he  then  left  home  and 
emigrated  to  Adams  County,  111.,  casting  in  his  lot 
with  its  early  settlers.  He  cut  and  split  rails  for' 
a  time,  and  in  that  way  secured  the  money  with 
which  to  |)urcliasc  a  forty-acre  tract  of  land. 
Upon  the  wild  pr.iirie  not  a  furrow  had  been 
turned  or  an  improvement  made,  but  he  placed  it 
under  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  and  as  his  finan- 
cial resources  were  increased,  he  made  additional 
purchases,  and  is  now  the  owner  of  one  hundred 
and  thirty -seven  acres  of  rich  land,  valued  at  iTiO 
per  acre.  His  business  career  has  been  one  of 
prosperity,  and  he  has  acquired  a  lnnd»onie  com- 
petence as  the  fruit  of  his  labors. 

In  1858,  Mr.  (iiithridge  married  Miss  Diana 
Seoggan,  who  was  born  in  1835,  and  they  are 
the  parents  of  five  children:  Winfleld  Scott,  born 
in  Adams  County  in  1861,  is  now  a  farmer  of 
Nebraska;  Walter,  born  in  1864,  is  engaged  in 
school  teaching  in  Iowa;  Eliza  Jane,  horn  in  1866, 
is  a  successful  school  teacher;  Alice,  born  in  1868, 
and  Cla3',  born  in  1878,  are  still  under  the  pa- 
rental roof.  The  children  were  all  i)rovided  with 
good  educational  advantages,  and  other  members 
of  the  fMinily  arc  graduates  of  the  Clayton  High 
School. 

For  thirty-six  years,  Mr.  (uitliridge  has  held 
membership  with  llic  Haptist  Church,  and  for  a 
long  time  served  as  Trustee.  He  is  one  of  the 
charter  ineuibcfs  of  Clayton  Lodge  No,  100, 1.  O, 


PORTRAIT  ANP   lUOORAPIIlCAI.  RKCOKI^ 


191 


< ).  F..  and  in  politics  is  a  suppoi'ter  of  the  Ro- 
piililionn  partv.  lie  is  niniilioicd  !iiiioii<r  the  early 
settlers  of  Adams  Countv.  has  witnessed  almost  its 
entire  growtli,  has  aided  in  it.s  development,  and 
home  his  share  in  its  nplmildiiitr.  In  the  lon^ 
vears  wliieh  have  passed,  lie  has  proved  himself  a 
valuahlc  citizen,  and  we  lake  pleasure  in  present- 
ing' to  our  reatlers  the  life  reeord  of  tliis  honored 
pioneer. 


'iii^S^  ^  H  ^.  iC^^l^ 


^'  WILLIAM  MClKlLSON.  One  of  the 
wealthiest  and  most  (ironiinent  farmers  of 
I'rsa  'I'owiisliip  is  the  orij^inal  of  onr  no- 
'  tiec.  His  fallier  was  .lolin  Nicholson,  who 
w.as  a  native  of  Falmouth.  Ky.,  and  was  liorii  in 
IHl  1,  and  lived  an  ajirieultural  life  lie  came  to 
Illinois  when  a  younfr  man  and  settled  in  t^uinev 
f<M-  a  time  ami  then  came  U>  this  place,  wheie  he 
died,  March  :?,l8'.t(l.  His  lirst  wife  was  Miss  Fletcher, 
to  whom  he  was  married  in  Illinois,  and  she  left 
one  child,  now  deceased.  His  second  wife  was 
Hester  Orr.  She  died  .lune  IC,  1»<SI.  Onr  subject 
is  the  eldest  son  of  ten  children  liorn  to  this  mar- 
riage. He  was  horn  on  this  farm.  Dceemher  li, 
IS49,  and  was  reared  on  the  place  to  understand 
farm  work,  and  remained  at  home  until  he  mad»- 
a  home  for  himself. 

Mr.  Nicholson  was  married  in  l)<8ii,  to  .Miss 
Idealia  King.  lM)rn  October  2,  18(j;{.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  William  King,  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
born  April  11,  IHIL  He  came  to  Illinois  in  lH;i(l, 
.•I  very  [)oor  man.  but  when  he  died.  November  II, 
1»7H,  he  was  one  of  the  wealthiest  nuMi  in  this  sec- 
tion. He  was  lirst  married  to  Saliiia  Edgerton,  a 
native  of  Connecticut,  and  by  that  mairi.Hge  there 
were  four  children,  but  all  arc  deceased.  His  sec- 
on<l  wife  was  l-Miza  ( iallamoer,  the  niother  of  Mrs. 
Nicholson,  born  in  North  Carolina,  Februai\  1  I. 
I«2(i.     She  died  February   1.'.,  IHT'.I. 

Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Nicholson  are  the  parents  of  four 
children,  only  two  of  whom  are  now  livin;:.  Iili 
Opal   was  Ijorii  August  27.   ixt*l.  and  .lessie  ICthel, 


August  l.S,  188.3.  The  family  an-  memlMrs  of  the 
Christian  Church  at  I'rsa  and  arc  among  the  most 
important  people  in  the  neighborhood.  Mr.  Nich- 
olson ha,s  been  Deacon  and  Trustee  of  the  church, 
and  the  family  takes  an  active  part  in  the  work  of 
the  Sunday-school.  Our  subject  has  given  his 
name  and  inlliience  to  the  MiLsonic  order  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  .Modern  Woodmen.  He  has 
held  the  otlice  of  .School  'I'rustee  for  four  years.  In 
liis"  political  opinion.*,  he  is  a  DeiniK-rat.  but  <loes 
not  take  iiiiy  active  part  in  the  agitating  ipiestions 
of  the  day.  being  satisfied  to  perforin  his  duty. 

.Mr.  Nicholson  has  one  hundred  and  forty  acres 
of  land  miller  cultivation.  In  1888.  lie  built  his 
fine  resilience  at  a  cost  of  ?2,2.')n.  and  in  IH«7  he 
was  sfi  iiiifortiin.'ile  as  to  have  a  larger  one  con- 
sumed by  lire.  He  also  owns  two  tine  business 
blocks  in  <^iiiucy.  .Vfter  marriage,  he  lirst  lived 
on  section  21.  in  Mendou  Township,  for  three  years. 
It  was  the  farm  owned  by  .Vlexander  Fra/ier.  and 
the  house  was  built  by  Mr.  Nicholson.  He  then 
moved  to  Kirksville  and  was  there  about  nine 
months,  and  then,  in  October,  1KX.">,  he  moved  to 
his  present  farm.  He  has  lost  two  houses  on  this 
farm  bv  fire. 


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4m- 


RKV.  WILLIAM  IIAI.LFRIIKKC.  Among 
the  grand  rcprcsentjitives  of  Christian  man- 
liofid — the  ministers  of  the  (iospel — may 
be  mentioned  Rev.  William  Ilallerberg.  who 
is  one  of  the  earnest.  ( iod-feariiig.  and  self-sacri- 
licing  .servants  of  the  church,  and  is  the  present 
pastor  of  St.  .lacobi"s  (ierman  Kvangelical  Luther- 
an Church  of  <^nincy.  111.  He  was  born  in 
llerford.  (lerinany.  March  IM.  iM.tT.  ami  i.s  the 
oiih  survivor  of  a  family  of  ten  I'hildren  born  to 
William  and  Margaret  (Ilaiiptman)  Ilallerberg. 
The  subject  t»f  this  sketch  spent  his  boyhood  in  ller- 
ford. and  up  to  the  ai^'e  of  eij;hteen  yeai-s  was 
ail  attendant  of  the  common  schools,  but  at  the  end 
of  thai  time  he  entered  a  private  school,  where  he 
pui-sued   his  studies   with  diligence  for  two  years 


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longer.  The  following  seven  j'ears  were  spent  at 
college  in  Herinansburg,  and  from  tliis  institution 
he  was  graduated  in  1867.  From  the  beginning  of 
his  college  career,  he  applied  himself  closely  to  his 
studies,  and  was  noted  for  his  diligence,  his 
industry,  and  his  great  perseverance  in  whatever 
he  undertook,  characteristics  which  lie  appears  to 
have  carried  with  him  to  the  present. 

In  1867,  he  came  to  America,  landed  at  New 
York  City,  thence  to  St.  Louis.  Mo.,  and  took 
charge  of  a  church  in  Central  Township,  St.  Louis 
County,  v/here  he  remained  until  1870,  his  next 
location  being  in  Yorkville,  Kendall  County,  111. 
In  September,  1873,  he  received  a  call  to  Quincy, 
and  here  has  since  had  charge  of  St.  Jacobi's  Church, 
and  [larlicipates  actively  in  every  movement  cal- 
culated to  promote  the  interests  and  extend  the 
usefulness  of  the  church  organization  to  which 
he  is  devotedly  attached.  As  a  minister  of  the 
Gospel,  Mr.  Ilallerberg  has,  combined  with  logical 
reasoning  powers,  a  fair  share  of  puliiit  eloquence 
and  impressiveness.  He  is  an  earnest  and  scholar- 
ly expounder  of  the  truths  of  the  Bible  as  he 
understands  them,  and  of  the  doctrines  of  the 
church  to  whicli  he  belongs.  A  man  of  most  pos- 
itive convictions,  he  never  hesitates  to  attack 
what  he  looks  iipon  as  an  evil,  however  strongly 
it  may  be  intrenched  in  pojuilar  favor,  or  in  what- 
ever guise  it  is  foisted  u|)on  his  attention. 

I5roadly  charitable,  he  is  nevertheless  pro- 
nounced in  his  views,  tf)  which  he  gives  expiession 
in  no  uncertain  or  ambiguous  terms  whenever  oc- 
casion demands  it.  He  is  clear  and  concise  in  his 
statements,  and  his  reasons  for  his  convictions  are 
always  well  defined  and  plausible.  He  has  always 
been  a  believer  in  the  theory  that,  .aside  from  reliev- 
ing immediate  necessities  in  cases  of  cliarity,  the 
best  kind  of  aid  which  can  be  extended  to  those  in 
need  of  assistance  is  that  which  enables  them  to 
help  themselves,  and  he  acts  largely  upon  this 
principle. 

On  the  1th  of  .lune,  1868,  Mr.  Ilallerberg  was 
married  to  Miss  Bettie  Klinsing,  of  Hanover, 
Germany,  and  the  result  of  this  marriage  has 
been  a  family  of  ten  children,  seven  of  whom 
are  living.  Tliey  are  liright  and  intelligent  and 
gives  every  promise  of  attaining  an  honorable  and 


useful  manhood  and  womanhood.  Two  of  the 
sons  are  now  studying  for  the  ministry — 'William, 
a  student  at  the  Lutheran  Theological  Seminary, 
St.  Louis,  and  Herman,  at  the  Gymnasium  at  Mil- 
waukee. Mr.  Ilallerberg's  residence  is  at  No.  723  8. 
Eighth  Street,  (Juincy,  111.,  where  he  is  ever  ready 
to  give  counsel  or  material  assistance  to  those  who 
are  in  want  and  need  his  assistance. 


^^z 


y'^!  B.  STENBECK.  who  resides  in  the  village 
of  Columbus,  is  a  native  of  New  Jersey. 
„  „  He  was  born  in  1813,  and  is  a  son  of  .lohn 
and  Piuebe  Stenbeck,  who  were  of  German  descent. 
His  father  was  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  The  family'  numbered  six  sons  and 
one  daughter,  all  of  whom  are  deceased  excej)!  our 
subject  and  one  brother,  Charles  M.  This  brother 
w.as  born  in  New  Jersey,  in  1811,  married  Miss 
Asenath  Case,  and  now  resides  in   Delaware,  Ohio. 

We  now  take  up  the  personal  history  of  our  sub- 
ject, who  at  an  early  day  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Ohio,  and  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  the 
Buckeye  State.  On  starting  out  in  life  for  him- 
self, he  worked  .as  a  farm  hand  for  some  time,  and 
his  first  purchase  of  land  consisted  of  a  tract  of 
eighty-eight  and  one-half  acres  in  Ohio.  Locating 
upon  that  farm,  he  engaged  in  its  cultivation  until 
1864,  which  year  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Adams 
County.  He  here  purch.ased  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  at  >;.'!()  per  acre,  but  after  three  years 
sold  that  farm  and  |iurcliased  his  [iresent  farm  of 
one  hundred  and  Hfty-six  acres  in  Columbus  Town- 
ship. Tliis  tract  is  under  a  higli  state  of  cultiva- 
tion and  well  improved  with  good  buildings. 

In  1838,  Mr.  Stenbeck  led  to  the  marriage  altar 
Miss  Rhoda  Foster,  of  New  Jersey,  who  was  born 
in  1820,  and  they  became  tlie  parents  of  seven 
children:  Charlie  E.,  burn  in  lf<3;i.  married  Sadie 
llloiidon,  and  is  a  resident  farmer  of  ( J  ilmer  Town- 
ship; .John  Henry,  born  in  ()hio,  enlisted  in  1862 
as  a  member  of  Company  I,  Thirty-second  Ohio 
lnfantr\-,  and   laid   dnwii   liis  life  on   the  altar  of 


roUiKAIT  AM)  I!I()(;|{A1'II'(M.    KIX'ORI). 


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his  country,  dying  in  the  service  In  IHGI;  l.iu-v 
A.,  now  ilocfasefl,  wii.-.  Imhii  in  (Hiin,  nmt  was  t In- 
wilp  (if  Slim  FosUt;  Miirv  K..  tin-  wife  »if  (Mtirjic 
Kia^rs?.  "'f  Kiilton  Countv.  III.;  CliMrlnlti'  A.  is  the 
wife  of  C'liai'les  C.  Sparks,  n  resident  of  Coliunhus 
'rownsliip;  Lewis  W.  niarrieil  .lolianna  Kelley  and 
IS  livinu'  in  liiitcliinson,  Kan.;  Sarah  !•'.  is  the  wife 
of  .1.  M.  stcwiirt.  who  resides  in  Kiillon  (  <miit\ .  III. 
Mr.  Stenlieok  ca>t  his  tlrsl  rrfsidentiai  vote  in 
18M(;  for  William  llenrv  Harri>ou.  ami  his  last  liai- 
lol  was  for  the  illustrious  grandson  of  the  Tippe- 
canoe hero,  lion.  IVujamiri  Harrison.  Since  the 
organization  of  the  He[>ul)lii'an  party,  he  has  U'cn 
one  of  its  stanch  supporters.  He  is  ever  found  in 
the  front  rank  of  any  enterprise  calculated  to  prove 
of  puhlic  lienelit,  and  is  a  puMic-spii  iteil  and  pro- 
gressive citizen.  Ilis  life  lia.'«  lieen  well  and  worth- 
ily spent,  and  in  his  declinin;;  years  he  can  look 
hack  over  tlie  past  with  no  reirret  for  lost  opi)or- 
tunities.  He  litis  the  liijfli  regar<I  of  yoiinj,'  and 
old.  rich  and  poor,  and  it  is  with  pleasure  that  we 
present  this  reconl  of  his  life  to  our  readers. 


V. 


Ir^KV.  F.VTIIKK  I'K'IKK  M- <  il  KH.  pastor  of 
jbi\[  St.  Peter's  Catholic  (  liurch.  in  <^nincy.  is  a 
ii^ 'Y  man  whose  true  piety  and  nohle  example 
''  have  worked  wonders  in  the  cliaiacter  of 
his  congregation  since  his  residence  in  this  city. 
Father  Mc(;irr  is  a  iiativeof  tlie green  Isle  of  Krin, 
lK)rn  in  County  Tyrone,  .June  2'J.  IH.'J.T.  lie  was  a 
regular  attendant  at  the  parochial  school  until  lie 
had  reached  the  age  of  lifteen  yeai-s.  at  wliicli  time 
he  entered  the  College  of  Holy  Cross,  near  Worces- 
ter, .Mass.,  where  he  pursued  his  studies  until 
1856. 

At  that  date,  our  suhject  entered  the  Theological 
Seminary  at  Haltiinorc.  hut  in  IM.'ili  went  from 
there  to  the  (liiiiid  Seminary  at  .Montreal, Canada, 
where  he  linishefl  his  stiiilies,  In  IHdI.liewas 
ordained  prie.st  l»y  the  Hishop  .at  .\ltoii.  and  liis 
Brat  charge  was  at  riltsfield,  I'ike  County,  tills  SUile, 

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where  he  ministered  to  the  spiritual  wantjs  of  his 
fellow-men  for  sixteen  in<jnths.  From  there  he 
w.a.s  called  to  (^iiiiicv.  where  he  lia.s  since  lieen  |>a.s- 
tor  of  St.  I'eler's  Church.  Ilis  present  coiigrrga- 
lioii  niiiiiliers  three  hundred  and  thirty  families, 
.and  many  li.ave  lieen  the  impiovements  made  hy 
this  worthy  ni.aii  since  he  dilivered  his  tiist  sermon 
liele. 

The  present  church  edilice  was  erected  in  li^7"J, 
al  a  cost  of  *l(io.(HHi,  and  a  school  is  carried  on  in 
connect  ion  with  the  cliurcli.  The  interior  of  this 
line  structure  is  in  keeping  with  the  means  used 
to  perft'ct  it  and  Is  very  lieautifiil.  The  parsonage, 
too,  is  a  very  line  liuilding,  .and  Itotli  are  an  orna- 
ment to  the  city.  Tlu>  .Sunday-school  is  well  at- 
tendc<l.  and  a  decided  interest  is  manifested  by  all 
in  the  good  work  of  the  church.  Father  McCJirr 
is  one  of  the  most  exemplary  and  esteemed  citizens. 
an<l  Is  ever  on  the  alert  to  lussist  tho.se  in  distre.s,s 
and  to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  all  worthy  and 
laudaljle  enterprises. 

Fathi-r  .Mctiirr  is  a  very  convincing  and  mag- 
netic speaker  and  his  earnebt  efforts  in  Christian 
work  have  Ik-cii  followed  with  excellent  resnlt-s. 
lie  imparts  singular  |>athos  and  animation  to  his 
delivery,  and  his  elo(|uencc  and  earnestness  have 
lieen  the  means  of  liringiiig  many  li.ack  from  the 
paths  of  sin.  lie  Is  regarded  with  iinhounded 
confidence  and  affection  by  his  congregation,  and 
Ills  native  wit  and  naturally  bright  mind  make 
him  welcome  wherever  his  footsteps  are  directed. 
Kind  and  .sympathellc,  earnest  and  sincere,  he  it  a 
man  among  a  tli<Mis:ind. 


N#-f-*        'pi' 


Ai;>llAl.l.  U.  Ml  Uri;\  A.NT.  An  hoii- 
'\;  orable  position  anxing  the  agriculturists 
of  I'ayson  Township  is  lield  by  the  gentle- 
man above  iiameil,  who  i>  the  fortunate 
pos.se.ssor  of  sixty  acres  of  excellent  land  on  section 
2(i,  this  county,  and  twenty-live  acres  in  I'ikc 
County.  TIk'  well-tilled  acres  are  devot<'il  to 
raising  nii.\e()  croj)*  and  the  orUinary  ftuiouiil  of 


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stock,  both  grain  and  animals  being  of  good  qual- 
ity. A  pleasant  dwelling  and  various  outbuildings, 
together  with  the  well-kept  orchards  and  gardens, 
indicate  to  the  passer-by  that  the  land  is  occupied 
by  a  family  of  enterprise  and  good  judgment. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Savoy,  Berkshire  County, 
Mass.,  in  1818,  and  there  resided  until  attaining  to 
mature  j-ears.  He  received  such  an  education  as 
the  schools  near  his  home  afforded,  and  to  that 
foundation  he  Ii.ts  added  by  reading  and  observa- 
tion, his  effort  being  to  keep  himself  well  informed 
regarding  current  events  and  topics  of  general  in- 
terest. Young  Stiu'tevant  was  reared  to  farm  pur- 
suits and  aided  in  working  the  home  place  until 
reaching  his  seventeenth  year,  when  he  engaged 
to  work  in  the  cotton  factory  a  portion  of  the 
time  until  thirty  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Sturtevant  was  fortunate  in  his  choice  of  a 
life  companion,  winning  for  his  wife  MissPliidelia 
Ketchum,  a  native  of  Dover,  Cuyahoga  County, 
Ohio,  to  whom  he  was  united  in  1838.  Ten  years 
later,  they  removed  to  this  State,  locating  in  Win- 
nebago Count}',  where  our  subject  followed  the 
occupation  of  a  farmer  until  1856.  Then  going 
to  Pike  County,  he  erected  and  operated  a  saw- 
mill for  about  a  year,  when  he  traded  that  prop- 
erty for  a  farm  of  eighty-five  acres.  This  he  has 
developed  and  improved  until  it  fields  its  owner 
a  good  income.  In  his  political  relations,  our  sub- 
ject votes  with  the  Republican  party,  prior  to  the 
organization  of  which  he  was  a  Whig.  Himself 
and  wife  have  reared  an  adopted  son,  Charles  W., 
who  .served  from  the  beginning  to  the  close  of  the 
late  Civil  War  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Eighteenth 
Illinois  Infantry.  ^Nlr.  Sturtevant  has  so  conducted 
himself  in  his  career  as  a  fanner,  citizen,  husband 
and  neighbor,  as  to  win  the  respect  and  regard  of 
all  who  know  him. 

Daniel  and  Ilepsebah  (liarney)  Sturtevant,  tiie 
parents  of  our  subject,  were  natives  of  Massachu- 
setts, and  reared  a  large  family  of  thirteen  children, 
three  of  whom  are  living  in  this  State,  viz.: 
Hepsie  Ann,  tlie  widow  of  Alonzo  Bowker,  of 
Plainville;  .Joshua  B.,  who  makes  his  home  in  Pike 
County,  and  Marietta,  the  widow  of  Laroney 
.lohnson,  makes  her  home  in  Hull.  The  grand- 
father of  our  subject,    Hobcrt   Sturtevant,  was  n 


native  of  England,  and,  after  coming  to  America, 
was  married  in  the  Bay  State  and  became  the  father 
of  six  sons  and  one  daughter,  all  but  one  of  whom 
became  heads  of  families.  In  social  matters,  our 
subject  has  been  identified  with  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternit}'  since  1858,  in  which  order  he  has  a  high 
standing.  He  has  never  been  an  office-holder, 
finding  sufficient  occupation  in  his  personal  affairs, 
the  quiet  duties  of  citizenship  and  the  pleasure  of 
social  and  domestic  life. 


-^^ ^ 


)}OTTLJKB  SCHANZ,  the  ple.isant  proi)rietor 
of  the  Schanz  Brewery,  formerly  known  as 
the  AVashington  Brewery,  was  born  in 
Wurtemberg,  German j-,  October  19,  1845.  His 
father,  Johannes,  and  his  grandfather,  George, 
were  both  farmers  of  the  same  place,  Reidengcr, 
where  Gottlieb  was  born.  Johannes  lived  and 
died  in  his  native  place,  as  did  his  wife,  Chris- 
tine Relling,  a  native  of  the  jjlace.  They  left 
three  children,  of  whom  our  subject  was  the  eldest. 

Gottlieb  was  raised  on  the  farm  and  attended  the 
common  school  until  fourteen  years  of  age.  When 
he  was  seventeen,  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  brewer, 
and  remained  until  he  was  twenty  years  old.  In 
the  fall  of  1865,  he  left  Bremen  on  a  sailing-vessel, 
"Clora"  by  name,  and  landed  in  >sew  York  after 
a  voyage  of  seventy  days.  Erom  there  he  went  to 
Arwicksburg,  Pa.,  and  was  employed  at  his  trade. 
He  also  engaged  at  it  in  Portsmouth  and  Philadel- 
phia. In  1871, he  went  to  Milwaukee  and  was  in  the 
employ  of  the  Melms  Brewery,  and  two  years  later 
went  on  to  St.  Louis  and  was  employed  by  Anheu- 
ser  &  Wainwright  as  head  brewer. 

In  1877,  our  subject  came  to  (Juincy  and  was 
foreman  for  Dick's  Brewery  for  three  years,  when 
he  started  in  the  business  for  himself  in  partner- 
ship with  Mrs.  Luttcr.  They  ran  it  two  years  and 
then  dissolved  partnership.  He  then  started  the 
Harrison  Brewery,  now  known  as  the  Gem  City 
Brewery,  and  ran  it  seven  years  as  sole  proprietor. 
IJe  then  bought  the  Avers  Brewery  and  formed  n 


PORTRAIT  AM)  l!l<  KlRAl'lHCAL   RECURi). 


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pHrtiHM-sliip  with  Frit/  Walil:  lalvr  lie  >t!irl<-<l  the 
SfliMiiz  A-  Wnlil  Hrewerv.iiiKi  inn  il  forfoui-  yeai>. 
In  ISiU.lii-  sold  il  !in<l  >t!iiU()  iini>tlici  lufwi-rv  l>.v 
Imviiij;  till"  olii  ^VIl^llin;,'lon  Hitwimt.  iiud,  rclittinii 
il,  opciu'd  hii.siuess  lii-ro  niidi-r  the  nnnn*  of  thi- 
S  lianz  Hiowprv.  It  is  thf  oldest  in  the  couiilv. 
Its  ea|>!R-it_v  is  forty  Imrrols  u  day,  an<i  il  is  lin-aU-d 
on  llic  corner  of  Sl«U'  andSixlli  StreeUs.  It  <Kru- 
pio.s  a  liuildiiiir  llirce  slorics  liii;li.  1  :i  I  x  I  7<l  fi'i-t. 
IK'  lia.-  an  ii'i-lioiisi-,  "iloiiif^o,  lini<ri'«nd  clrvator  in 
oonni'ctiou  with  ihc  hrewer.v .  This  brewery  has 
a  tliirteen-liorse  power  and  is  supplied  with  all  the 
riiodeni  iinproveinent.s. 

Ml'.  Sehaii/.  was  married  for  the  lirst  time  in  St. 
I.uuis.  to  AiiL;ust.i  Kiieap,  lioiu  in  Westphalia, 
(ierniany,  and  she  liore  him  live  children:  Fred,  a 
liook-keepor  in  St.  Louis;  (iotllich,  in  (^iiiney; 
(icoiiie.  -Augnst,  .and  William,  at  home.  He  was 
married  for  the  seeond  lime,  in  this  eily,  to  Mrs. 
Lizzie  Steffel,  horn  in  Adams  t'ounty.  .Sho  was 
Ihe  niolhor  of  two  of  his  children.  Christina  and 
.\ugusta.  His  third  marria_!j;e  ocenired  in  this  city, 
Miss  Annie  .'Nteffcl,  born  in  this  city,  becominjj  his 
wife.     They  liave  one  cliihi.  .\niia. 

.Mr.  S<-h!in/.  is  a  I)e|nily  in  Ihe  (Jrand  Lodge  of 
the  .\ncient  Order  of  I'nited  Workmen,  and  is  a 
slaiieli  Democrat  in  polities.  He  has  always  Iteen 
a  linrd-workiiig  man  nn<l  li.as  m.adc  his  money  him- 
self. He  deserves  much  credit  for  his  eflforls  and 
he  has  the  esleem  of  all  who  know  liiin. 


y.       LM;V  lil.KMKK  is  n  iiMiiilier  of  the  linn  of 

2Hlomer  iV-  Michael,  pork  packers  of  ijiiincy. 
III.,  which  Itusiness  luu-  lieen  in  successful 
operation  since  1S7M.  Mr.  Itlomer  wa.»  horn 
in  Prussia,  (■eriiiaiiy.  in  Novcmlier,  is;i.'t.  and  in 
l«|.'{was  liroui:ht  to  <  ^uinc\  .  III.,  via  New  Orleans, 
reai'hiii;;  the  lirst-nienlionecl  place  on  Ihe  .Mh  of 
.Inly.  Ili»  father,  .lohn  IJIolncr,  was  a  farmer  by 
occupation  and  passed  from  life  in  </uincy.  where 
tlie  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Clirisliu.-i 
liriiikmnii.  »|so  hicuthccl  her  l»»t,     lleiirv  IMonier 


was  the  second  son  and  third  chihl  in  a  family  of 
six,  all  of  whom  .nre  industrious,  enterprising  and 
loyal  residents  of  the  I'liited  States.  His  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  common  schools  <»f  Adams 
('ouiit\  and  in  ijiiiiicy,  and  after  altaining  to  a 
suitable  age,  he  began  learning  Ihe  trade  of  a  lirick- 
l.'iyer,  at  which  he  served  a  three-years  apprentice- 
ship. From  thai  time  until  he  attained  his  majority 
he  worke<l  as  a  journeyman,  and  subsecpiently  l)e- 
eame  an  exleiisivc  eoiitractor,  which  business  he 
carried  on  for  .seventeen  yeai-s. 

In  1S7(I,  he  formed  a  parlnership  with  (  .  .\.  \an- 
denboom  in  the  jiork-packing  business,  and  the 
firm  bucanie  known  as  N'andciiboom  \-  Hlomernnd 
continiieil  as  such  up  to  1SK"2,  when  Mr.  Hlomer 
became  the  owner  of  the  entire  enterprise,  and 
later  asscK'ialeil  himself  with  Wolf  iV  Michael,  with 
whom  he  was  connected  for  seven  years.  When 
this  period  had  expired,  Mr.  Wolf  retired,  and 
since  then  the  linn  hai>  been  known  as  Hlomer  A 
Michael.  They  kill  vast  numbers  of  cattle,  hogs  and 
sheep,  and  Ihe  supervision  in  Iheir  packing  houses 
is  so  perfect  that  il  is  impossible  fora  diseased  or  in- 
ferior animal  to  be  entered  for  consumption.  This 
company  handles  only  liist-class  stock,  and  deals 
extensively  in  hogs  on  foot,  mess  pork,  hams,  bacon, 
lard,  etc.  Orders  are  promptly  filled  at  tlu'  iowe-sl 
ruling  market  iniees.  and  entire  .satisfaction  is 
guaranteed.  The  largest  coiisnin|ition  of  animal 
products,  especially  thai  of  the  hog,  is  in  the 
Tnited  Stales,  which  couiitr\  is  exempt  from  any 
traceable  ill  effects  from  trichina.  Hogs  in  Amer- 
ica are  as  healthy  and  sound  as  any  sl<K-k  in  Ihe 
world,  ancl  in  spite  of  the  |>i'ohibition  pl.aced  on 
our  hog  products  by  l'"raiii'c  and  ( Jerniany,  are 
ecpiai.  if  not  superior,  lo  any  similar  producti<ms 
prepiired  in  Kuiope. 

During  the  winter  sciuson,  Me.s,si-s.  Hlomer  A-  Mi- 
chael em|iloy  in  Iheir  eslalilishment  alMPiil  one 
hundred  and  Iwi'iity-live  men,  and  in  Ihe  summer 
from  ihiity-livi'  to  fort\.  Their  repiilalion  as 
substantial  business  men  has  gone  forth  in  all  di- 
rections, and  the  product  of  their  house  is  deserv- 
edly ranked  among  the  U'st  in  the  I  niled  Stales. 
They  ar<'  highly  esleemed  in  liiiancial  and  com- 
incrci.'tl  circles  for  Iheir  .-ound  inismess  principles 
ni)(|  sterling  iiite^rilv.  while  llieir  I'lands  tif  pro. 


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visions  liave  become  well  known.      Their   occupa-    I 
lion   is   iindoiilitcdly  a  very    important  one,  ana 
•  ^iiincy  is  well  represented  in  tliis  respect  by   tiiis 
reliable  and  representative  business  house. 

In  Iftfil,  Mr.  lilomer  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Ann  Klatte,  a  native  of  Germany,  and  to 
tliem  a  family  of  live  children  has  been  born: 
Anna,  now  Mrs.  Frieburg;  John  G.,  a  book-keeper 
in  liis  father's  office;  Christina,  wife  of  J.  Tiptesar;  1 
Ada  and  Joseph.  Politically,  Mr.  Blomer  is  a 
Democrat,  and  on  tiiat  ticket  was  elected  to  tlie  j 
position  of  Alderman  from  the  .Sixth  Ward,  wliicli 
he  iield  for  two  years.  He  lias  been  active  in  the 
]niblic  affairs  of  (Juinc\-,  and  is  President  of  the 
Freiburg  Boot  and  Shoe  Company  of  tliis  city. 
He  and  iiis  wife  are  members  of  St.  F'rancis"  Cath- 
olic Church,  and  have  a  very  nice  residence  at  No. 
150U  Bro.adwav. 


J  .5. 4.  .5.4. 


eAMPBELL  ,S.  IIF:ARN.     In  this  .short  bio- 
graphical  sketch   we  can  onl)-  give  a  few  of 
.     the  prominent  incidents  in  the  life  of  one 

who  for  twenty-five  years  has  been  known  tlirough- 
out  Melrose  Townsliip,  and  who  is  now  one  of  the 
prominent  agriculturists  in  Adams  County.  He 
was  born  in  Woodford  County,  Ky.,  Noveml)er  2(1. 
1844,  and  was  tiie  sixtli  in  order  of  birth  in  the 
family  of  eight  children  born  to  Warren  and  Jane 
(Alexander)  llearn,  na.tives  resjjectively  of  Owen 
and  Woodford  Counties,  Ky. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  who  was  named  in 
iionor  of  Gen.  Warren,  of  Bunker  Hill  fame,  was 
the  first  white  child  born  in  Owen  County,  whence 
his  parents  emigrated  as  early  as  1790  from  Mar}-- 
land,  where  his  birth  occurred  in  180.5.  He  w.as 
one  in  a  family  of  seven  children,  his  In-others 
and  sisters  being  Sallie,  Lovisa,  Harrison.  Luke, 
Elizabeth  and  Melvina.  His  parents  were  Jacob 
and  Jane  (Harrison)  Hearn,  the  former  of  whom 
was  liorn  in  Maryland  and  was  the  second  child 
in  the  family  of  .Jacob  and  Saiah  ((iilderoy)  Hearn, 
li-i'ives  respectively  of  ivighiijd  and  Wales,  Jacob, 


the  grandfather  of  our  subiect,  was  born  in  1770, 
and  was  married  in  Kentucky  in  1796.  The  ma- 
ternal grandfather  of  our  subject,  Peter  Alexander, 
was  born  in  Virginia  and  served  as  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary-  War,  in  which  struggle  he  occu(iied 
the  position  of  Captain. 

He  of  whom  we  write  resided  in  his  native 
State  until  1851,  at  which  time  he  removed  with 
his  parents  to  Missouri,  where  they  lived  until 
1863.  Then  returning  to  Kentucky,  they  remained 
for  four  years,  when,  desiring  to  make  tlieii- future 
home  in  Illinois,  they  came  to  (^^uincy,  where  our 
subject  located  on  the  farm  on  which  he  is  at  pres- 
ent residing.  His  father,  who  was  a  hardworking 
man,  died  August  1,  1882,  and  the  mothei',  who 
jjreceded  him  to  the  better  land,  departed  this 
life  May  22,  1875.  They  were  people  who  stood 
well  in  the  community,  and  their  neighborly  kind- 
ness and  excellent  traits  of  head  and  heart  at- 
tracted to  them  warm  friends. 

Campbell  S.  Hearn  received  a  limited  education, 
attending  the  subscription  school  held  in  a  log 
cabin  and  sitting  on  the  regulation  slab  seats  of 
those  d.ays.  When  of  age,  he  began  his  personal 
career  as  a  farmer,  and  pursuing  his  work  with 
energy  and  intelligence,  h.as  prospered  accordingly. 
In  September,  1872,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Eliz- 
abeth Hastings,  and  to  them  has  been  born  one 
son,  (ieoi'ge.  On  the  death  of  his  wife,  Mr.  Hearn 
was  again  married,  this  time  to  Miss  Emma,  daugh- 
ter of  fieorge  F'elt,  and  the  two  children  born  of 
this  union  bear  the  respective  names  of  Warren  F. 
and  Mar}'  C.  The  fellow-citizens  of  our  subject, 
recognizing  his  ability  and  superior  business  quali- 
fications, elected  him  nine  successive  years  as  Su- 
pervisor, the  duties  of  which  ottice  he  performed 
in  a  creditable  manner.  He  was  placed  in  nomina- 
tion as  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  F^ijualiz.a- 
tion  in  the  spring  of  1892,  and  will  be  elected,  as 
the  Democrats  have  a  large  m.ajority.  Politically, 
he  casts  his  vote  and  intliienco  on  the  side  of  the 
Democratic  party,  and  socially  is  an  Odd  Fellow, 
a  Modern  Woodman,  and  is  connected  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Mutual  Aid.  He  is  a  man 
possessing  enlightened  views  on  various  subjects, 
and  brain  and  business  tact,  combined  with  stead^■ 


industry,  have  brought  him  to    the    frimt. 


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f«rm.  wliieh  comprises  ><\w  liiiii<li<'<l  mimI  sixty 
!ii,TOs,  is  miller  I'xcclli'iit  ciillivatioii,  iiml  il  ismilv 
li\  ruiislniil  npidicHtion  to  his  work  lliiil  Mr.  Ileum 
has  ljroii<rht  it  to  its  pri-M'iit  coinlitioii. 


1^^ 


ON.  .lOSKi'il  SIH|.i';V.  Tiiis  (listinmiishcd 
jurist  hits  lujuh-  his  homo  in  tin-  liciuitifu! 
*^  -^  city  of  t^iiiiu'y  for  inori'  than  a  niiartcr  of 
a  fi'iitiirv.  an<l  is  now  ilpvotiiiLj  his  .ntten- 
lion  to  the  legal  profession,  in  which  he  has  al- 
ways hail  a  large  practiee,  won  many  victoriesand 
accinnulateil  consifleralile  wealth,  lie  is  ilesceniled 
from  families  of  sniistanlial  worth  and  honored 
name  in  New  lOngland,  and  liy  his  services  in  the 
legal  arena  and  in  ollicial  statioiiH  has  added  lus- 
tre to  the  name  he  hears. 

In  noting  the  record  of  the  progenitors  of  Judge 
.'^ililey,  we  tind  that  his  father,  .Varon  Sihley,  was 
liorn  in  Connecticut  in  1  77'.i,  and  his  niolher,'rry- 
pheuia  Agard,  wa.s  likewi.se  a  native  of  that  State, 
liut  removed  to  Massachusctt.s  when  young.  On 
hotli  sides,  the  line  of  descent  is  traced  to  Kng- 
land.  ( irandfatlier  Ezekiel  Sibley  was  a  resident 
of  Connecticnt.  .as  was  also  (irandfatlier  Agard. 
Aaron  .Sihley  wa.s  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  was 
prominent  in  Hampden  County,  Ma.s.s.,  where  the 
most  of  his  life  was  passed,  and  where  his  death 
occurred.  In  political  matters,  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat, and  served  as  a  member  of  tlietJeneial  Court 
of  1M2H  and  lH2'.i.as  well  as  in  other  positions  <if 
trust. 

Morn  in  \Vestliclii.  Hampden  County.  .Mass., 
in  1HI8,  our  sulijcrl  passed  his  boyhood  in  a  com- 
paratively uneventful  nianiier,  alteiiiating  work 
on  his  father's  farm  with  attendance  at  the  district 
school  and  In  the  academy  near  his  home.  Karlv 
in  life  he  evinced  a  thirst  for  knowledge,  and  wju* 
ever  eager  to  grasp  new  theories  and  .^olve  the  in- 
tricate |)roblems  which  the  majority  of  the  school 
Uiys  shirked.  .Vt  the  age  of  twenty  yeai-s,  he  wsjs 
appointed  deputy  to  High  Sheriff  Rii*e,  and  his  ser- 


vices in  thai  capacity  for  scnci.iI    xcmis    wcif  s!ili«- 
fnctory  and  elticient. 

When  about  twenty-two  years  old,  .liidgc  .S|l(it<v 
removed  U>  ScheneclJidy,  N.  V.,  where  he  engaged 
in  niercnntile  pursuits  for  two  years,  but  desirous 
of  entering  upon  a  professional  cireer,  he  read  law 
with  I'age  iV  Totter,  and  was  admitted  to  tin-  Itar 
ill  1846.  lie  chose  for  his  location  the  city  of 
Xauvoo,  IfaneiM-k  County,  111.,  wlieie  he  remained 
several  years  in  the  (iraclice  of  his  profession,  and 
during  his  residence  there  was  a  strong  anti-.Mor- 
inon.  .Vt  that  time  there  were  few  afTairs  of  more 
vital  interest  to  the  citizens  of  Hancock  County 
than  the  Mormon  question,  and  particularly  wen- 
the  residents  of  Nauvoo  interested  therein,  for 
their  city  was  the  seat  of  the  'ri-inplc  mid  ilirlioini' 
of  the  prophet,  .losepli  Smith. 

Removing  in  \Hfui  from  Nauvoo  lo  War- 
saw, in  the  same  county,  our  subject  continued  his 
legal  practice.  While  at  Nauvoo,  he  w.-us  eWcted 
on  the  Democratic  ticket,  in  IS.'iO.  to  represent 
Hancock  County  in  the  .State  Legislature,  and  his 
.satisfactory  service  resulted  in  his  re-electi«fi),  in 
IS.'i2.  for  a  term  of  two  years.  Returning  from  the 
Legislature,  he  resumed  his  puu-tice  at  Wai-saw. 
hut  was  soon  called  into  public  lifeagain.  In  IH.'i.O, 
he  was  elected  Circuit  .liidge  for  the  Kifteeiilh  .lii- 
dicial  Circuit,  which  was  composed  of  Hancock, 
Henderson  and  .Adams  Counties.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  of  six  years,  he  was  re-elected, 
in  IH('il,anil  served  by  re-election  until  Ift"'.*, being 
on  the  Bench  In  all  twenty-four  years.  Meanwhile. 
Ill'  removed  from  Warsaw  toi^uincy.  where  he  has 
continued  to  make  his  home  since.  In  1x77.  la- 
was  appointed  .ludge  of  the  .\ppellate  Court  for 
the  Second  District  of  Illinois,  and  served  two 
yeai-s  in  that  ea|iaeity.  On  retiring  from  that  ollice. 
he  resumed  his  law  practice  in  t^ulncy,  which  lie 
li;us  conducted  until  the  present  time  in  the  local. 
State  and  federal  courts.  In  politics,  he  is  a 
stanch  DeiiiiMTat,  devot'd  to  the  interests  and 
principles  of  his  chosen  party. 

Among  the  beautiful  residences  of  t^uiinv  is  that 
of  .ludge  Sibley,  which  is  pleasantly  located  on 
Kighth  Street,  in  the  luiiisf  of  extensive  grounds 
and  beautiful  lawns,  ornainented  with  elms  and 
other  trees.      In  that  home   he    liiids   rest  from  the 


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tolls  of  professional  life  and  public  service,  and 
there  many  of  his  happiest  hours  have  been  passed. 
He  was  married  in  1849  to  Miss  Maria,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Biackelt,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
a  resident  of  East  St.  Louis,  111.,  but  had  formerly 
made  his  home  in  St.  I>ouis,  Mo.  ,,  Tiie  maternal 
grandfather  of  Mrs.  Sibley.  Nicholas  Jarrott,  wa.s  a 
native  of  Paris,  France,  hut  emigrated  to  America 
at  an  early  daj'^,  and  became  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  Cahokia,'Ill.  The  marriage  of  Judge  and  Mrs. 
Sibley  has  been  blessed  by  the  birth  of  two  chil- 
dren: .Joseph  J.,  who  follows  agricultural  pursuits 
in  Missouri,  and  Julia  I>.,  who  is  at  home  with  her 
parents. 

The  long  professional  and  judicial  career  of 
Judge  Sibley, and  his  natural  traits,  have  moulded 
him  into  a  type  of  a  lawyer  and  a  jurist  wjiicli,  in 
dignity  and  ability,  marks  the  highest  order  of  his 
profession.  Few,  if  any,  judges  of  Illinois  have 
worn  the  judicial  ermine  for  so  many  years  as  he. 
On  the  Bench  he  showed  a  true  conception  of  the 
duties  of  the  position,  and  was  alert,  impartial, 
learned  and  honest.  By  his  bearing  he  gave  courage 
to  the  younger,  and  commanded  the  respect  of  the 
older,  practitioner.  As  a  lawyer,  his  daily  jtrac- 
tice  and  research  have  given  him  a  wide  repu- 
tation as  a  reliable  counsel  and  successful  advo- 
cate, which,  witii  his  personal  qualities,  has  at- 
tracted to  him  a  large  circle  of  friends. 


\|/AMES  B.  CORRIGAN.  The  ability  shown 
by  James  B.  Corrigan  in  several  directions, 
^^  his  faitliful  discharge  of  every  pulilic  trust 
^5^//  reposed  in  his  hands,  .and  the  interest  he 
has  taken  in  the  advancement  of  measures  for  the 
good  of  Quincy,  111.,  caused  him  long  since  to  be 
classed  as  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  that  flour- 
ishing city  of  the  Mississippi  Valle3-.  Although 
young  ill  years,  he  luas  been  a  resident  of  this 
county  all  his  life,  and  the  people  have  had  every 
opportunity  to  judge  of  his  character  and  qualifi-   ; 


cations.  In  eveiy  walk  of  life,  he  has  acquitted 
himself  with  credit,  and  his  admiralile  Inisiness 
qualities,  coupled  with  his  executive  capacity  and 
popularity,  point  him  out  as  one  sure  to  be  called 
to  public  position.  He  at  present  holds  the  re- 
sponsible position  of  Treasurer  of  Adams  County, 
111.,  and  the  faithfulness  and  capability  shown  by 
this  gentleman  have  won  him  the  respect  of  all. 

Mr.  Corrigan  was  born  mi  a  farm  in  Liberty 
Township,  Adams  County,  III.,  on  the  21st  of  Feb- 
ruary, IH.'ifi,  and  inherits  the  quick  wit  and  active 
mind  of  his  Iiish  ancestors.  His  parents,  James 
and  Sarah  (Hart)  Corrigan,  were  natives  of  the 
green  isle  c>f  Erin  and  came  to  the  United  States 
when  young.  Settling  on  a  farm  in  Adams  County, 
III.,  they  have  since  made  their  home  there,  and 
reside  on  the  land  settled  by  them  in  early  days. 
Of  the  nine  children  born  to  them,  James  B.  was 
fifth  in  order  of  birth.  His  boyhood  and  early 
school  days  were  passed  in  assisting  on  the  farm 
and  in  attending  the  district  school.  Later,  he  en- 
tered INIaplewood  High  School  and  then  St.  Francis 
College,  l^uincy,  giaduating  from  the  latter  insti- 
tution in  the  year  1884.  After  this  he  read  law 
with  Sibley,  Carter  tt  Govert. 

After  leaving  the  school-room,  Mr.  Corrigan  was 
appointed  Deputy  Sheriff  under  P>eiijamin  Heckle, 
and  filled  that  position  in  a  ver_\-  satisfactory  man- 
ner. His  capalile  manner  of  filling  that  position 
aiaturally  caused  the  people  of  (Quincy  and  Adams 
County  to  desire  that  the  same  qualities  should 
be  directed  to  the  public  service  in  another.  Ac- 
cordingl}-,  he  was  appointed  Deputy  County  Treas- 
urer under  John  B.  Kreitz  until  his  term  closed. 
He  was  retained  by  his  successor.  L.  Finley,  and 
continued  under  him  until  his  term  closed.  In 
the  fall  of  1890,  Mr.  CVu'rigan  was  nominated  for 
the  office  of  Treasurer  and  was  elected  by  a  fair 
majority.  He  assumed  the  duties  of  his  otlice  the 
December  following,  .and  in  that  capacity  has 
proved  himself  a  very  efficient  officer. 

On  the  16th  of  June,  1887,  Mr.  Corrigan  was 
married  to  ]\Iiss  Agnes  liernbrdck.  of  (Quincy.  III., 
the  daughter  of  William  l>ernlii<ick,and  he  ami  his 
wife  reside  comfortalily  at  Twentieth  and  Elm 
Streets.  In  polities,  Mr.  Corrigan  isa  Democrat,  and 
is  a  stanch  supporter  of  his  part}'.  He  is  justly  re- 


R)RTRAIT  AND  BIOORAl'MICAL   RECORD. 


•20.1 


gank'il  as  oiii'  of  (In-  in<»t  |iroiiiiiifiit  of  the  self-re- 
liant anil  pni^iTssivo  men  i>f  wlmni  (^nini-v  has  been 
Ml  ronspiunonsly  fniitfnl.  His  lilwral  vifws,  un- 
i|ui'siii)nt'il  lionosty  and  iuj;<;oil  ronimoii-sensi'  luive 
;,'iveii  liini  an  iiilluiMxr  which  is  not  relanU'd  in 
any  way  liy  his  youth.  He  has  never  lieen  found 
wanting  in  any  fapaeily  which  he  has  been  called 
upon  to  till.  tendin<;  to  the  upbuilding  of  one  of 
the  most  thrifty  and  prosperous  cities  of  the 
\allcv. 


•I  (^  '•  '• 


<^> 


'jfJ'OIlN  II.  RATCLIKF.  who  is  engajred  in 
general  farming  on  section  II,  Concord 
Township,  claims  Kentucky  ns  the  State  of 
'  his  nativity.  He  was  born  in  1821.  and  is 
a  st>n  of  .loseph  and  Mary  (Bryant)  RatclitT.  In 
the  family  were  the  following  children:  l-Jic- 
nezer,  deceased;  Isabella,  born  in  18(tl;  Nancy,  in 
IMdC;  Caroline,  in  18ii«;  A.  H..  in  IsM:  I.ucinda. 
in   IHHI;  .Vnnie,  in   1HI«.  and  .Joseph,  iii   l.*<2.'). 

No  event  (>f  special  importance  occurred  during 
the  boyhood  of  our  subject,  which  wa.s  ipiietly 
passed,  alternating  his  tin)e  by  work  on  the  farm 
in  the  summer  months  and  by  attending  the  com- 
mon schools  of  the  neighbf)rhood  during  the  win- 
ter season.  .\t  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  started  out 
in  life  for  himself  and  has  since  been  dependent 
uiMiu  his  own  resources.  That  his  life  has  been  an 
industrious  an<l  enterprising  one  is  proved  by  the 
success  that  has  crowned  his  efforts,  lie  is  now 
the  owner  of  a  valuable  farm  of  two  hundred  and 
ft)rty  acres,  worth  *jii  per  acre,  lie  laiscs  grain 
and  stock,  and  his  li<M>es.  cattle  and  hogs  are  all 
good  grades.  His  neat  and  sulistantini  residence 
was  erected  at  a  cost  of  fi.lUKi.  He  Iuls  a  large 
barn  and  the  other  oiilbiiihlings  are  niorlels  of  con- 
venience. The  well-lilled  (ields  and  neat  api)ear- 
ance  of  the  place  indicate  his  careful  supervision 
and  give  evidence  of  his  imlustrlous  ami  well-di- 
rected effort.^. 

In  18.'i2,  Mr.  l{at<-lilT  married  Miss  M.  , I.  Chip- 
man,  a  daughter  of  .lesse  and    llarriell    Chipmati. 


She  wai«  born  in  18.S2.  Their  union  li.as  lieeii  blessed 
with  nine  children,  six  of  whom  are  yet  living: 
Isabella,  born  in  Adams  County,  in  18.').3:  Mary, 
iHirn  in  IS.'i^'i.  is  the  wife  of  .Mien  l.iicas;  .loseph, 
born  in  18'>1.  married  Rachel  lirown,  ami  died  in 
1881;  Harriet,  born  in  18.'»H.  is  now  .Mrs.  Lucas; 
Valdora.  born  in  18()0,  deceased;  Myron,  born  in 
IX(>2.  married  Ijivina  Davis;  riysscs.'born  in  18U5. 
deceased;  Chipman,  born  in  18(i7,  wedded  Carrie 
Harper;  and  Delia,  born  in  187-1,  is  at  home.  The 
chiiilien  all  received  good  educational  advantages 
to  fit  them  for  the  practical  and  responsible  posi- 
tions of  life,  and  two  have  l)een  successful 
teachers. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  years.  .Mr.  RatclifT  united 
with  the  I'resbyteriaii  Church  of  Clayt<iii,  and  for 
nine  j'ears  he  has  been  one  of  the  ruling  Klders- 
To  its  support  he  contributes  liberally  and  gives 
freely  to  all  charitable  and  benevolent  entcr- 
|>riscs.  The  church  linds  in  him  a  faithful  mem- 
ber and  his  life  is  in  harmony  with  his  profession. 
He  exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of 
the  Republican  jiarty,  and  has  served  as  Road 
Ovei-seer.  .'ncIiooI  Director  and  Trustee,  lliscareer 
has  l>een  an  exemplary  one,  and  the  confulence 
and  good-will  of  his  fellow-townsmen  is  freely 
accorded  him.  He  is  held  in  the  highest  regard 
as  a  man  of  sterling  worth,  and  with  pleasure  we 
present  to  our  readers  this  life  record  of  .lohn  II. 
Ratcliff. 


'•^I-I<^"' 


Mr=M.IAS  C.  llAl.l..  After  a  long  life  ..f 
usefulness.  Klias  C.  Hall  passed  from  the 
scene  of  his  earthly  labors  and  left  an 
honored  name  and  grateful  memories  in  the  citv 
where  he  has  so  long  been  a  resident.  He  had  a 
pleasant  home  in  (juincy.  and  was  surrounded  by 
all  that  made  life  enjoyable — dfunestic  hap|>iness 
and  prosperity,  a  clean  conscience  and  abiindani 
means.  To  his  praise  be  it  said,  that  his  accumula- 
tions were  made  without  1o.hs  or  injustice  toothers. 
For  niaiiy  ycirs  he  was  a  residcnl   of  (^iiincy.  and 


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toils  of  professional  life  and  public  service,  and 
there  nian_v  of  his  happiest  hours  have  been  passed. 
He  was  married  in  1849  to  Miss  Maria,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Brackett,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
a  resident  of  East  St.  Louis,  111.,  but  had  formerly 
made  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  ;,  The  maternal 
grandfather  of  JNIrs.  Sibley.  Nicholas  Jarrott,  was  a 
native  of  Paris,  France,  but  emigrated  to  America 
at  an  early  day,  and  became  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  C'ahokia,'lll.  The  marriage  of  Judge  and  Mrs. 
Sibley  has  been  blessed  b_v  the  birth  of  two  chil- 
dren: Joseph  J.,  who  follows  agricultural  i)ursuits 
in  Missouri,  and  Julia  L.,  who  is  at  lioine  with  her 
parents. 

The  long  professional  and  judicial  career  of 
Judge  Sibley,  and  his  natural  traits,  have  moulded 
him  into  a  type  of  a  lawyer  and  a  jurist  which,  in 
dignity  and  ability,  marks  the  highest  order  of  his 
profession.  Few,  if  any,  judges  of  Illinois  have 
worn  the  judicial  ermine  for  so  many  years  as  Ire. 
On  the  Bench  he  showed  a  true  conception  of  tlie 
duties  of  the  position,  and  was  alert,  impartial, 
learned  and  honest.  By  his  bearing  he  gave  courage 
to  the  younger,  and  commanded  the  respect  of  the 
older,  practitioner.  As  a  lawyer,  his  dailv  prac- 
tice and  research  have  given  him  a  wide  repu- 
tation as  a  reliable  coun.sel  and  successful  advo- 
cate, which,  with  iiis  personal  qualities,  has  at- 
tracted to  him  a  large  circle  of  friends. 


'II  AMES  B.  CORRIGAN.  The  ability  shown 
by  James  B.  Corrigan  in  several  directions, 
^^  I  his  faithful  discharge  of  every  public  trust 
^^'  reposed  in  his  hands,  and  the  interest  he 
has  taken  in  the  advancement  of  measures  for  the 
good  of  <^uinc\-,  111.,  caused  him  long  since  to  be 
classed  as  one  of  tlie  leading  citizens  of  that  flour- 
ishing city  of  the  Mississippi  Valley.  Although 
young  in  years,  he  has  been  a  resident  of  this 
county  all  his  life,  and  the  people  have  had  ever}- 
opportunity  to  judge  of  his  character  and  qualifi- 


cations. In  everj-  walk  of  life,  he  has  acquitted 
himself  with  credit,  and  his  admiralile  business 
qualities,  coupled  with  his  executive  capacity  and 
popularity,  point  him  out  as  one  sure  to  he  called 
to  public  |)osition.  He  at  present  holds  the  re- 
si)onsible  position  of  Treasurer  of  Adams  Count}', 
111.,  and  the  faithfulness  and  capability  shown  by 
tills  gentleman  have  won  him  the  respect  of  all. 

Mr.  Corrigan  was  Imhu  mi  a  fai'm  in  Lil)erty 
Township.  Adams  County,  III.,  on  the  21st  of  Feb- 
ruary, l^aT),  and  inherits  the  quick  wit  and  active 
mind  of  his  Irish  ancestors.  His  parents,  James 
and  Sarah  (Hart)  Corrigan,  were  natives  of  the 
green  isle  of  Erin  and  came  to  the  United  States 
when  young.  Settling  on  a  farm  in  Adams  County, 
III.,  they  have  since  made  their  home  there,  and 
reside  on  the  land  settled  by  them  in  earlv  days. 
Of  the  nine  children  born  to  them,  James  B.  was 
fifth  in  order  of  birth.  His  boyhood  and  early 
school  days  were  passed  in  assi.--ting  on  the  farm 
and  in  attending  the  district  school.  Later,  he  en- 
tered Maplewood  Iligli  Schoiil  and  then  St.  Francis 
College.  <^uincy.  graduating  from  the  latter  insti- 
tution in  the  year  liSH4.  After  this  he  read  law 
with  Sibley,  Carter  &  (Covert. 

After  leaving  the  school-room,  Mr.  Corrigan  was 
appointed  ])ei)uty  Sheriff  under  Uenjamin  Heckle, 
and  tilled  that  position  in  a  very  satisfactory  man- 
ner. His  capalile  manner  of  filling  that  position 
naturally  caused  the  people  of  Quincy  and  Adams 
County  to  desire  that  the  same  qualities  should 
be  directed  to  the  pulilic  service  in  another.  Ac- 
cordingly, he  was  appointed  Deputy  County  Treas- 
urer under  John  B.  Kreitz  until  his  term  closed. 
He  was  retained  Iiy  his  successor,  L.  Finley,  and 
continued  under  him  until  his  term  closed.  In 
the  fall  of  LSTH),  Jlr.  Corrigan  was  nominated  for 
the  office  of  Treasurer  and  was  elected  by  a  fair 
majority.  He  assumed  the  duties  of  his  office  the 
December  following,  .and  in  that  capacity  has 
proved  himself  a  very  efficient  officer. 

On  the  16tli  of  June,  1887,  Mr.  Corrigan  was 
married  to  ^liss  Agnes  Benibnick,  of  <^)uincv.  III., 
the  daugliter  of  William  I)crnbiock,and  he  and  his 
wife  reside  comfortably  at  Twentieth  and  Elm 
Streets.  In  jiolitics,  Mr.  Corrigan  is  a  Democrat,  and 
is  a  stanch  supporter  of  his  part}'.  He  is  justly  re- 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOORAl'IlKAL    HF.CORD. 


•20.1 


fjardud  ns  oiu-  nf  tlu'  iiii»l  |ii'<iininciil  iif  tlic  si'lf-re- 
liant  and  prosji-ossivc  inon  of  whdiii  (^iiiiu-y  lias  been 
>u  con^iiii'UDiish'  fruitful.  His  lihoral  vit-ws,  iin- 
iiuo^tiiincd  linnpst  y  and  lUiriiod  I'liinni'in-suiiso  have 
Kiven  liin)  an  influence  wiiich  is  iiol  retarded  in 
any  way  by  his  youth,  lie  has  never  lieen  found 
wantin-;  in  any  rapacity  which  he  luus  heen  called 
upon  to  (ill,  tcndin>;  to  the  upluiilding  of  one  of 
tlie  nii»l  thrifty  and  pro>pcrous  cities  of  the 
\allev. 


"i^'dllN  II.  K.vrn.ll-I'.  who  is  enga-ied  in 
trencral  farniini;  on  sccticui  II,  Concord 
Township,  claims  Kentucky  as  the  Slate  of 
'  liis  nativity,  lie  was  born  in  1821,  and  is 
a  son  of  .loseph  and  Mary  (Hryaut)  Ratcliff.  In 
the  family  were  the  followinjj  children:  VAte- 
nezer,  deceased;  Isabella,  born  in  180 1;  Nancy,  in 
IKdC;  Caroline,  in  18(18;  A.  I?.,  in  1811;  I.ucinda. 
in  181(;:  Annie,  in  18I«.  ancl  .Joseph,  in  182.'i. 

No  event  of  spcci.-il  importance  occurred  during 
the  boyhood  of  oui  subject,  which  w.a.s  tpiietly 
pn.ssed,  allernatini;  lii.s  time  by  W4iik  on  the  farm 
in  the  summer  mouths  and  by  attending  the  c<»m- 
mou  schools  of  the  nciy:liborhood  during  the  win- 
ter season.  At  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  started  out 
in  life  for  himself  and  has  .since  been  dependent 
uiMin  his  t)wii  resources.  That  his  life  has  been  an 
industrious  and  enterprising  one  is  proved  by  the 
success  that  has  crowned  his  offortj*.  He  is  now 
the  owner  of  a  valualile  farm  of  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres,  worth  *jii  per  acre,  lie  laises  grain 
and  stock,  and  liis  horses,  cattle  and  hogs  are  all 
good  grades.  Ills  neat  and  sul>slanti:il  residence 
was  erected  at  a  cost  of  fi.'Hid.  He  Iuls  a  large 
barn  and  the  other  outbuildings  are  models  of  con- 
venience. The  well-lilled  lields  and  neat  appear- 
ance of  the  place  indicate  his  careful  supervision 
and  give  evidence  of  his  industrious  and  well-di- 
rected eflfort.*. 

In  ly.ji,  Mr.  RatclilT  married  Miss  M.  .1.  Chip- 
man,  a  daughter  of  .les-c  and    Harriett   Cliipman. 


•She  was  born  In  IM.'ii'.  Their  union  has  been  blessed 
with  nine  children,  six  of  |  whom  are  yet  living: 
Isabella,  born  in  Adams  County,  in  1M.").3;  Mary, 
born  ill  18.").'>,  is  the  wife  of  .Mien  Lucas;  .losepli, 
born  in  18;')l,  married  Kaclicl  Krowii.  and  died  in 
1881;  Harriet,  born  in  I8.')K,  is  now  Mrs.  Lucas; 
\'ald<u-a,  born  in  18('>0,  deceased;  Mynui.  born  in 
I8G'2,  married  Ijivina  Davis;  I'lysses.'born  in  18tJ5i 
deceased;  Chipman,  born  in  18(;7,  wedded  Carrie 
Harper;  and  Delia,  born  in  1874,  is  at  Iminc.  The 
children  all  received  good  educational  advantages 
to  fit  them  for  the  practical  and  responsible  posi- 
tions of  life,  and  tw<i  have  l>een  successful 
teachers. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  ye:ii>,  .\lr.  RatclifT  united 
with  the  I'resbyterian  Church  of  ClayUui,  and  for 
nine  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  ruling  Klders- 
To  its  support  he  contributes  liberally  and  gives 
freely  to  all  charitable  anil  benevolent  enter- 
prises. The  church  finds  in  him  a  faithful  mem- 
ber and  his  life  is  in  harmony  with  his  profession. 
He  exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  has  served  as  Road 
Ovei-seer.  School  Director  and  Trustee.  Hiscareer 
has  been  an  exemplary  one,  and  the  conlidence 
and  good-will  of  his  fellow-townsmen  is  freely 
accorded  him.  He  is  held  in  the  highest  regard 
as  a  ninn  of  .••lerling  worth,  and  with  pleasure  we 
present  to  our  readers  this  life  recoril  of  .lolm  11. 
Ratcliff. 


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^€#!#®s-«"»-i^N#i= 


«^)LIAS    C.     HALL. 

il 


.\fler  a  long  life  of 
usefulne.ss,  Klias  C.  Hall  passed  fntin  the 
/J^^  scene  of  his  earthly  lalxu-s  and  left  an 
honored  name  and  graU-ful  memories  in  the  city 
where  he  has  so  long  been  a  resident.  He  had  a 
ple.a,sant  home  in  (^iiincy,  and  was  surrounded  by 
all  that  made  life  enjoyable — domestic  happiness 
and  prosperity,  a  clean  cons(.-ience  and  abundant 
means.  To  his  praise  be  itsaicL  that  his  accumula- 
tions were  matle  without  luss  or  injustice  toothers, 
[•"or  many  ye:ir>  he  w.as  a  resident    of  i^uincv,  and 


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fluiing  his  wliole  life  naught  was  ever  said  de- 
rogatory to  his  c'liaracter  and  honor.  His  memor.y 
will  live  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  long  after  his 
body  has  mouldered  to  dust. 

jNIr.  Hall  began  iiis  eartlily  career  in  Scottsville, 
N.  Y.,  in  1816,  and  was  a  son  of  Clark  Hall,  who 
followed  the  occupation  (f  a  miller  in  New  York 
State  for  many  j-ears.  The  latter  was  of  English 
descent,  and  his  ancestors  came  to  this  country  at 
a  very  early  date.  He  was  a  man  of  great  energy 
a7id  perseverance  and  succeeded  in  accumulating 
considerable  means.  Elias  C.  Hall,  the  third  son 
of  seven  children,  secured  a  good  practical  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools,  and  there  pursued  Ills 
studies  until  fourteen  years  of  age,  when  he  en- 
tered Howard  College  and  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in  1837.  After  this  he  returned 
to  his  home  and  engaged  in  milling  with  iiis  father. 
He  was  a  wide-awake,  progressive  business  man 
and  won  many  friends  by  his  upright,  lionorable 
conduct. 

In  the  year  1867,  Mr.  Hall  moved  to  t^uincy, 
III.,  and  engaged  in  the  insurance  business,  which 
he  conducted  up  to  tiie  time  of  his  death.  lie  was 
a  man  wliose  sterling  worth  of  character  was 
recognized  by  all,  and  iiis  death  was  deeply  de- 
plored by  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances, as  well  as  his  own  immediate  and  sorrowing 
household.  U.seful  and  reliable,  his  high  character 
and  noble  conduct  have  reflected  upon  his  de- 
scendants and  connections  the  highest  renown.  In 
politics,  this  much  esteemed  citizen  was  warmly 
attached  to  the  principles  of  the  good  old  Repub- 
lican party,  and  was  ever  ready  with  his  influence 
and  ballot  to  advance  its  interests.  He  was  also 
prominent  in  Masonic  circles. 

Mr.  Hall  selected  his  bride  in  the  person  of  Miss 
Christina  Schnowder,  who  was  born  in  Allegheny 
County,  Pa.,  in  1846,  and  tlieir  nuptials  were  cel- 
ebrated in  the  year  1871.  When  nine  years  of 
age,  Mrs.  Hall  moved  witii  her  parents  to  Fairfield 
County,  Iowa,  and  entered  the  common  schools  of 
that  place.  Possessed  of  a  bright  and  active  mind, 
she  made  much  headw.ay  in  her  studies,  and  is  a 
lady  of  culture  and  intelligence.  She  is  of  Ger- 
man-French descent,  and  her  ancestors  were  among 
tlie    prominent    families  of    Pennsjivania  in    the 


days  of  William  Penn.  In  the  year  1859,  she 
came  witii  her  parents  to  (^uincy,  and  here  became 
acquainted  with  Mr.  Hall,  whom  she  subsequently 
married.  After  this  union  Mr.  and  jMrs.  Hall  made 
their  home  in  t^uincy  and  resided  at  No.  51 1  North 
Sixtli  Street.  She  has  a  very  pleasant  home,  and 
being  a  lady  possessed  of  much  sociability  and 
learning,  has  a  host  of  warm  friends. 


\i^^  OMER  M.  SWOPE.  This  well-known  niem- 
*  her  of  the  legal  profession  has  made  his 
home  in  Adams  County  since  he  was  six 
months  old.  His  present  place  of  business 
is  No.  217  North  Fifth  Street,  (^uiiic\'.  111.,  where  he 
attends  to  a  large  and  growing  practice,  and  where 
he  conducts  the  legal  business  of  the  city,  of  which 
he  has  been  made  City  Attorney. 

Mr.  Swope  was  born  May  1."),  1857,  in  Vienna, 
Ind.  (For  family  sketch  refer  to  that  of  A.  F. 
Swope.)  He  was  the  fifth  in  a  family  of  seven 
cliildren.  He  received  the  advantages  of  the  com- 
mon district  schools  and  then  graduated  from  the 
High  School  and  at  that  time,  1874.  went  into  the 
classical  department  of  Carthage  College  and  grad- 
uated there  in  1879  with  the  degree  of  A.  15.  and 
three  years  later  took  tlie  M.  A.  degree.  He 
then  spent  one  year  in  teaching  school  in  Cass 
County,  lie  remained  on  his  father's  farm  until 
he  was  prepared  to  locate  here  in  1881.  At  that 
time  he  entered  the  firm  of  Sibley,  Carter  it 
Govert  as  a  student  and  continued  with  them  until 
September  1,  1882,  when  he  entered  the  Iniversity 
of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  in  the  deiiartment  of 
Law.  Here  he  graduated  in  1884,  witli  the  degree 
of  LL.  B.  He  located  here  and  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  and  in  1884  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Mr.  McMurry.  This  coutiiiued  until 
May,  1891,  when  it  was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Swope 
has  been  alone  in  business  since  then.  Mr.  McMurry 
went    into    other   business    and    at   this  time  Mr. 


PoUTKAlT  AM)  HI»k;RAPI11CAI,    HKCoRD. 


■2o; 


Swiipf  \V!i>  fleeted  City  Altoiiiev.  In  Irt'.f^.  lie 
wa.-*  ie-t'leoU>(l  amj  is  serving  at  this  time. 

.Mr.  Swope  lends  hi.-,  name  and  aid  to  many  of 
llie  rei>res«-ntali ve  MK-ial  and  lin>ine!-s  int<'rest.->  of 
the  city  and  we  mention  a  few.  He  lH>lon<^  to  the 
Inler-Stal*'  Itiiilding  and  Loan  .\ssoeialion;  he  is 
llie  attorney  for  this  and  also  for  Ihadstrect'sCol- 
leelion  Afjency,  and  is  a  memher  of  and  attorney 
for  the  As.sociated  Ijiw  and  Colleelion  olllee.  lie 
.•ilso  helonjj  to  the  Mutual  .Vid  of  Illinois,  to  the 
lnde|>endent  Order  of  Mutual  Aiil  .'in<l  lo  the 
Royal  .\reannm. 

( )ur  ,-ulijcct  was  married  here  in  1MK7.  to  Mi.ss 
llallie  .\.  Bradley.  theeharinin<;  daujjhter  of  Roherl 
Ihadley.  Two  beautiful  ehildren  have  eonie  to 
liless  this  pleasant  lionie.  and  their  miisieal  names 
are  Lillian  and  AInui. 

.Mr.  .S\v<»pe  is  an  upholder  of  piii'e  Democratic 
principles  and  we  venture  to  predict  that  a  future 
record  of  this  county  will  show  him  a  >till  nuire 
))romineiit  num  than  he  now  i.".  ( )ur  country  needs 
the  i'dut'ated  younir  nu-ii  of  the  Land  to  eome  to 
the  front  and  irive  life  and  vii;or  lo  the  Nation's 
laws. 


1^-f^^ 


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1-^  i:\.    F.vriiKi;    (;i:i;iiai{|)    .Mii;r.A(  ii. 

Il^  Amonir  the  worthy  Christians  and  alile 
J,\\l  expounilers  of  the  (iospcl.  may  lie  men- 
V^  tioned  Rev.  Father  ( Jerhard  Mirliach,who 
is  a  gentleman  in  every  sense  of  the  wfird,  and 
throughont  the  sixty  years  of  his  life,  whatercr 
his  hand,  heart  or  mind  has  found  to  do.  he  ha.s 
done  it  with  all  his  mijirht.  He  has  devotetl  his 
time  to  the  s)iiritual  and  mental  want-s  of  his  fel- 
low-mortals and  has  done  far  more  than  the  ordi- 
n;iry  man  to  raise  the  standard  of  morality  in  the 
dilTerent  localities  in  which  his  lot  h.os  been  c.a.st. 
lie  is  a  man  of  line  presence,  and  in  his  linsom 
there  heat.-  a  heart  warm  enough  to  >ympnthize 
with  the  sufferings  of  all  humanity. 

Father    Mirliaeh    wa.s    horn    in    (lerdauen.   (ier- 
many.  Septenilier  X.  lM->.  I<>  Williain  and  Aiin.-i  ( '. 


(\'ou  Neel)  Mirhach.  anil  in  the  LmiuI  of  lii>  liirth 
his  huylxHid  days  were  s|K>nt,  Ix'ing  an  attendant 
of  the  parochial  schools  up  to  the  agi'  of  (iflei-n 
years.  .Vt  th.at  time,  he  euler<'d  the  gymnasium 
at  Nens,  where  he  studied  ftir  a  sluirt  time,  after 
whi<-li  he  lieg.'in  his  collegiate  career  in  the  I'ni- 
vei-sily  i.f  Itonn,  where  he  faithfully  pursued  his 
studies  for  three  years.  On  the  M  of  .""ieptemlH-r. 
IHUit,  having  liccome  prfilicienl  in  theology,  |i<- 
wa.s  ordained  a  priest  in  the  Catholic  CInireh  and 
soon  after  took  charge  of  a  church  in  Koeln,  Oer- 
tnany.  llealily  dis<'harged  the  duties  of  that  lespon- 
silile  position  until  May  8.  ISfi'.l,  when  he  came  to 
.Vmerica  and  liist  tiet  f<M>t  on  .\meiican  soil  .at 
New  York  City.  From  there  he  removed  to  Fay- 
clteville,  .St.  Clair  County,  III.,  where  he  liecame 
p.nstor  of  St.  I'ancratius'  Catholic  Church,  and  con- 
tinned  a.s  such  until  1X7-1.  Comingat  that  time  to 
•  iuincy.  he  took  charge  of  St.  Mary's  Church, 
which  at  that  time  had  an  attendance  of  tw<i  hun- 
dred and  eight  families,  linl  which  now  has  two 
hundred  and  fifty  families  in   regular  attendance. 

•I'll e  edi lice  in  which  Father  Mirliaeh  held  ser- 
vices was  burned  February  .'?,  ISSM,  since  which 
time  he  luus  built  a  handsome  brick  structure  of 
modern  architecture,  supplied  with  all  the  latest 
im|iroveinent«,  and  hicated  on  the  corner  of  .Vdams 
and  .Seventh  Streets.  The  church  was  erected  at  a 
cost  of  i<:V2,(iiMi,  and  will  be  dedicated  liy  Bishop 
Ryan  December  8,  lhi»2.  The  distance  from  the 
ground  to  the  lop  of  the  dtime  is  one  hundred  and 
sixty-eight  feet  and  the  dimensions  of  the  building 
are  l.'{2x(!(l  feet.  Father  Mirbach  was  bImi  the  prime 
mover  in  the  erection  of  a  line  brick  school  build- 
ing, in  which  instruction  is  given  by  a  competent 
corps  of  teaehei>  to  one  hundred  and  seventeen 
children,  lie  is  much  beloved  an<l  respected  by 
the  memU-rs  of  his  congregation  for  his  unselfish 
clevotiou  and  persistent  effcirt-  in  their  behalf,  and 
he  has  at  all  times  proved  himself  to  be  n  wife 
counselor  ami  a  consi-ienlious  adviser  in  spiritual 
matters. 

Father  .Mirbach  is  a  clear,  concise  and  forcible 
speaker,  kind  in  dispositi<in,  e<u'dial,  warm- 
hearted and  sympathetic,  and  is  always  ready  to 
lend  a  helping  hand  to  the  unfortunate  and  a 
listening  ear  to  tin' woe- uf  the  Hitlicted  ami  iieeily. 


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■When  llie  size  of  liis  eongiegation  is  remembered, 
ami  wlien  tlie  many  expensive,  yet  necessary,  im- 
pixivemcnts  in  tlie  fliiireli,  seliool  and  pastoral  resi- 
dence are  taken  into  consideration,  it  truly  indi- 
cates a  praiseworthy  si)irit  among  the  people  and 
shows  that  an  admirable  nnderstanding  exists 
between  the  pastor  and  his  flock.  Father  Mirbach 
possesses  excellent  qualifications  as  a  man  of  edu- 
cation and  refinement,  and  is  evidently  deeply 
interested   in   tlie  noble   work  in   which  he  is  en- 


gaged. 


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■'.H, 


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ylLLIAM  HARNESS,  who  h.as  spent  his  en- 
tire life  in  this  county,  now  resides  on 
section  2,  Lima  Township,  near  the  old 
farm  -where  his  birth  occurred  October  12,  1831. 
None  iiavc  been  more  prominently  identified  with 
the  history  of  this  community  than  the  Harness 
family.  The  grandfather,  Leonard  Harness,  was  a 
native  of  Virginia,  but  at  a  very  early  day  emi- 
grated to  St.  Clair  County,  111., where  Josejih  Har- 
ness, the  father  of   our  subject,  was  born  in  179.3. 

The  grandfather  died  when  Joseph  was  quite 
young,  and  he  was  reared  in  the  American  Bot- 
toms of  St.  Clair  County,  among  the  frontiers- 
men, and  was  inured  to  all  the  hardships  and 
privations  of  such  a  life.  On  the  6th  of  May, 
1816,  he  married  Nancy  Worley,  who  was  born  in 
Virginia  April  7,  1796,  and  for  several  years  they 
resided  ui)on  a  farm  in  the  county  of  his  nativity. 

In  the  spring  of  1827,  they  came  with  their 
family  to  Adams  County,  locating  on  section  1, 
Lima  Township,  where  Mr.  Harness  pre-empted 
and  afterward  imjiroved  a  large  tract  of  land. 
He  brought  with  him  ox  and  horse  teams,  with 
which  he  broke  the  prairie.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  north  of  Bear  Creek.  The  Indians 
were  numerous  in  the  neighborhood  and  he  was 
on  friendly  terms  with  several  famous  chiefs,  in- 
cluding Black  Hawk  and  Keokuk,  wiio  frequently 
visited  his  log  cabin.  As  he  was  reared  amid 
wild  scenes,  he  knew  how  to  keep  on  fricndlv 
terms  with  the  red-men. 


Although  never  addicted  to  strong  drink,  Mr. 
Harness  brought  a  barrel  of  whisky  to  this  county'. 
As  soon  as  the  Indians  learned  this,  they  were  con- 
tinually scheming  to  get  it.  but  never  succeeded. 
One  day  a  savage  fell  from  a  tree  not  far  from 
the  Harness  cabin,  and  the  fellow's  brother  was 
dispatched  for  a  little  liquor.  He  said  he  wanted 
it  for  medicine,  but  Mr.  Harness  doubted  his  story 
and  refused.  The  Indian  was  so  disappointed 
that  he  cried,  but  his  tears  availed  him  nothing. 
Mrs.  Harness,  however,  unknown  to  her  husband 
gave  him  some  whisk}',  for  which  she  received 
many  thanks.  Mr.  Harness,  on  learning  this,  was 
much  displeased,  as  he  feared  that  the  Indians 
might  become  intoxicated  and  return  .and  do  them 
harm. 

When  the  ISlack  Hawk  "War  broke  out,  there 
was  much  excitement,  and  safety  was  sought  in 
blockiiouses,  but  Mr.  Harness  remained  in  his 
little  home,  saying  that  he  had  always  been  a 
friend  of  Black  Hawk  and  did  not  fear  injury. 
He  was  a  famous  hunter  and  in  those  earlv  days 
supported  his  family  with  his  gun,  killing  scores 
of  deer,  wolves,  etc.  His  death  occurred  Novem- 
ber 25,  1881,  and  his  wife  died  .September  30, 
1886.  They  were  among  the  most  [trominent 
citizens  of  this  community  and  played  an  impor- 
tant part  in  its  history.  Their  daughter,  .lulia 
Ann,  now  the  wife  of  Jason  Strickler,  was  the 
first  white  child  born  in  Lima  Township. 

William  Harness,  wdiose  name  beads  this  sketch, 
was  born  in  the  log  cabin  home  and  with  the 
family  experienced  all  the  hardships  and  priva- 
tions of  pioneer  life.  He  had  no  educational  ad- 
tages,  but  his  training  at  farm  labor  was  not 
meagre.  He  was  early  inured  to  the  arduous  task 
of  developing  wild  land,  and  he  worked  for  his 
father  until  twenty-seven  years  of  age.  In  those 
early  days,  he  also  hunted  a  great  deal  and  be- 
came an  expert  with  the  rifle,  killing  many  deer, 
turkeys,  ducks  and  geese,  and  also  wolves. 

In  18.')7,  Mr.  Harness  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Mary  Crenshaw,  and  unto  them  have  been 
born  the  following  children:  Leonard,  General 
Jackson,  Arthur,  John,  Isaac,  Marj-,  Waldo,  Winnie 
and  Richard.  They  began  their  domestic  life 
upon  the  farm  which  has    since  been   their   home, 


rOUTRAIT  AND  BIOCRAl'IMCAL  RKCORI). 


2i»9 


jiiiil  finiii  tlic  wild  Mini  liaiKMi  liai'l  Mr.  Ihinii'^s 
liii>  <lf'v«'lii|i('(i  nrli  iiiid  fertile  fieUls,  wliicli  vieiti 
to  him  :i  l;iiIi)cii  triliuti'.  lie  bus  tliree  liiiii<lre(| 
mill  eiijlitv  Hcres  of  liij^lilv  eultiviited  land  in  tlie 
lionie  fiirni  and  owns*  eonsidernlilc  traeU  elsewhere. 
In  |Milili<-s,  Mr.  ll:ir)iess  is  a  Democrat.  Iml  has 
never  lieen  an  ollke-.seeker.  lie  lia>  wilne»e<l  al- 
most the  entire  <i;rowlh  of  the  count  v.  lias  aided 
in  it.s  develojiment  and  has  lionie  his  part  in  its 
npliiiildiii';  and  iiii|iiovemenl.  I'lililie-spirited  and 
progressive,  he  is  a  valued  eili/.en  as  well  as  an 
honored  pioneer,  and  is  rerlainlv  deseivin;^  of 
representation  in  the  history  of  his  native  countv. 


V. 


lis.  KI.I/.AUrni  CARRKrr.  The  esti- 
nialile  lady  wliose  name  appears  at  tin- 
open  in  •;  of  this  artiele  is  the  widow  of 
the  lion.  I'eti-r  1!.  (Jarrett.  Her  residence 
is  on  two  hundred  and  lifty  acres  of  land  adjoin- 
iu};  the  town  of  (.'amp  Point,  III.,  and  is  a  large 
hiiek  house  surrounded  with  shiiiMierA'  and  trees. 
The  paternal  grandfather  of  oursuliject  was  WilU 
iani  Welsh,  who  had  been  a  farmer  in  Walesand  had 
lii-st  settled  in  Pennsylvania  upon  coming  to  Amer- 
ica, and  from  there  he  had  moved  to  Kentuckv. 
where  he  was  one  of  the  tii-st  settlers.  The  father 
of  «>ur  subject  was  named  Robert  and  was  one  of 
six  children.  He  liecame  a  farmer  and  lived  and 
died  in  .Jefferson  County.  Ky.  His  Kiitli  had  oc- 
curred in  Feliruary,  I78G,  in  the  State  of  Penn- 
.sylvania.  and  his  death  M.arch  14,  IHfiii.  The 
mother  of  our  snliject  w.as  a  native  of  Kentucky; 
her  maiden  name  w;l-<  Mary  (iuthrie.  and  her 
liirtli  took  place  in  ■lanu.-iry,  17!Mi.  Hoth  she  and 
her  Inisband  were  consistent  inenil)ersof  the  church 
which  grew  up  under  that  great  and  good  man, 
Alexander  Campbell.  She  pa.ssed  ipiietly  awav  at 
her  home  Septemlier  2'.i,  IMC).'),  .after  .-i  well-spent 
life. 

Mrs.    tlarrelt    was    the   second   in    a   famil\-   of 
twelve   children,  four   of   whom    are   livin".     She 


enjoyed  .such  ad\antage>  a-  were  afforded  in  the 
log  schoollious<'s  of  that  date,  and  faithfully 
trudged  away  thrruigh  rain  and  snow  to  iiliend. 
In  1«.!2.  she  became  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  Peter 
It.  ( tari'ctt.  a  native  of  \'irginia,  born  November 
•  t,  IHi)!!.  His  father  was  the  Rev.  Silas  ( Jarrctl,  a 
Kaptist  minister  and  farmer,  who  eniigrateil  to 
.leffei-son  County,  Ky..  where  lie  lived  and  died. 
Peter  I!.,  the  lamented  husband  of  our  subject, 
seltled  on  his  father's  farm  after  his  niarri.age, 
and  there  the  young  couple  iH'gan  life  and  re- 
m;iined  until  is.'l.'i,  when  they  emigrated  to  Illi- 
nois, making  the  long  journey  in  wagons.  They 
located  in  Camp  Point  Township.  Adnms  County, 
pitching  their  camps  in  the  woods,  where  they 
resided  until  their  log  cabin  was  built,  doing 
from  necessity  what  their  deseendnnts  do  for 
pleasure.  The  country  was  verv  wild  and  unset- 
tled, but  few  people  had  preceded  them  to  the 
.State.  .Mud  the  great  groves  resounded  with  .«ong» 
of  birds,  and  deer  and  wolves  were  plentiful.  Mr. 
(Jarrett  employed  his  time  in  improving  his  farm, 
which  was  prairie,  part  of  which  he  broke  with  his 
team  of  horses,  but  later  he  used  oxen.  He  was 
an  active  and  industrious  young  man.  working 
hard  on  his  fniin  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
to  which  he  added  from  time  to  time  until  he 
ownecl  about  eight  hundred  acres  at  the  lime  of 
his  death. 

When  tlie  lirst  railroad  ran  through  the  pl:ice. 
.Mr.  (iarretl  was  one  of  the  men  who  laid  out  the 
town  of  Camp  Point,  and.  :is  a  part  of  his  land 
w.as  included  in  the  town  plot,  its  value  was  in- 
creased. He  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature 
for  one  term  on  the  Repuhlienn  ticket.  Ashe  hauled 
his  grain  to  i^iiincy  to  market,  he  metnian\-  of  the 
prominent  men  of  the  section  and  soon  became 
well  known  throughout  the  .">tate.  His  death  oc- 
curred .lanuarv  1'.'.  IHG.').  He  was  a  good  man. 
.•ictive  in  church  work  and  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church.  He  had  gained  the  res|>ect  and 
esteem  of  all  who  knew  him.  and  he  held  many 
of  the  township  oltlces.  In  1M.')0.  he  cret'ted  a 
nice  brick  residence  on  his  farm  and  built  a  mill 
in  the  early  days,  which  was  run  by  oxen.  In 
time,  he  made  a  lloiir  and  feed  mill  and  sub- 
stituted stenni    for   the  ox-power.     This   mill    was 


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:i  great  accommodation  to  the  people  of  the  sec- 
tion. He  was  one  of  the  men  whose  life  should 
1)8  thoroughly  written  up  as  a  memento  of  past 
pioneer  life  and  of  the  success  which  attends  hon- 
est industry. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garrett  had  eleven  children,  viz.: 
Silas,  Mary,  Robert;  Richard,  who  died  in  the  war; 
Susanna,  deceased;  Sarah,  Elizabeth,  George  W., 
Christopher  B.,  .Tohn  H.  and  Albon  A.  They  are 
all  married,  and  the  last-named  child  lives  on  the 
old  home  place  and  is  a  farmer. 

Mrs.  Garrett  has  been  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church  since  she  was  eighteen  years  of  age. 
She  has  passed  a  useful,  honored  life  and  enjo^'S 
the  esteem  of  the  county.  Her  mother-in-law, 
Judith  Booth,  of  Virginia,  died  at  the  home  of 
the  Hon.  Peter  B.  Garrett  at  the  age  of  forty-nine. 

Mrs.  Garrett,  our  subject,  lives  just  on  the  edge 
of  the  town  in  her  beautiful  house,  surrounded  by 
the  trees  and  rare  shrubberj"  which  have  been 
planted  by  her  own  hands.  Both  she  and  her  hus- 
band were  worthy  pioneers,  working  hard  all  their 
lives,  and  now  Mrs.  Garrett  enjoys  the  fruits  of 
their  united  labors.  She  is  a  lady  possessed  of 
admirable  qualities  that  make  her  a  favorite  among 
her  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances. 


■  J  t»i  >  i^jp^.^.^ 


"Yf  A.  WAGNER,  M.  I).,  is  a  physician  of  abil- 
it}-  and  high  standing  in  Adams  County 
and  makes  a  specialty  of  diseases  of  the  nose, 
throat  and  lungs,  along  which  lines  he  is 
considered  one  of  the  ablest  phj-sicians  in  his  sec- 
tion of  the  country.  AVhile  enjoying  a  lucrative 
practice,  he  is  known  as  a  careful  and  conscientious 
practitioner,  who  is  more  devoted  to  medicine  for 
the  sake  of  science  than  for  purely  personal  reasons. 
He  was  born  in  the  county  in  which  he  now  resides 
Oetol)er  20,  1853,  to  .Jacob  and  Mary  A.  (Brown) 
Wagner,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  millwright  in 
early  life  but  finall}^  turned  his  attention  to  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising,  in  the  pursuit  of  which  oc- 
cupations he  met  with  well-deserved  success.     The 


paternal  grandfather,  Henry  Wagner,  was  a  Penn- 
sylvanian  by  birth  and  a  German  by  descent,  and 
in  the  Commonwealth  founded  by  the  great  law- 
giver, William  Penn,  .lacob  Wagner  was  born  and 
reared.  He  became  a  resident  of  Melrose  Town- 
ship, Adams  Count}', 111.,  in  1839,  and  here  became 
well  known  as  an  honorable,  upright  man,  and  a 
useful  and  progressive  citizen. 

Up  to  the  age  of  nineteen  3-ears,  .1.  A.  Wagner 
resided  on  the  home  farm,  his  summers  being  de- 
voted to  tilling  the  soil  and  his  winters  to  attend- 
ing the  district  school  near  his  rural  home.  In  the 
fall  of  1872,  he  found  himself  fitted,  both  intel- 
lectuall)-  and  financially,  to  enter  college,  and  for 
one  year  thereafter  he  pursued  his  studies  in  Chad- 
dock  College.  During  this  time  his  generous  na- 
ture turnrd  instinctively  to  the  broad  field  of 
human  suffering  for  his  life  work,  and  in  1875  we 
find  hini  in  the  Medical  Department  of  .lefferson 
College,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated as  an  M.  D.  March  10,  1877.  Immediately 
after  he  returned  to  (Juincy,  and  up  to  the  spring 
of  1884  was  engaged  in  general  practice,  then  be- 
came a  specialist  and  has  been  very  svieeessful  in 
his  treatment  of  diseases  of  the  throat,  nose  and 
lungs.  He  is  at  present  conducting  almost  exclus- 
ively an  oflice  practice,  which  is  large  and  lucra- 
tive. He  believes  in  a  progressive  33-stem  of  medi- 
cine, and  notes  with  eager  interest  every  progres- 
sive step  taken  by  his  profession,  especially  in  his 
specialties. 

Dr.  AVagner  is  the  inventor  of  several  instru- 
ments peculiarly  adapted  to  his  line  of  work,  and 
since  he  entered  upon  his  life  work  has  been  a 
benefactor  to  mankind.  He  has  alwaj's  acted  with 
the  Republican  party.  Temperate  in  all  things 
himself,  he  can  not  be  otherwise  than  an  advocate 
of  temperance  in  others,  and  strives  by  every  means 
in  his  power  to  promote  temperance  and  sobriety. 
He  is  strongly  in  favor  of  Prohibition.  He  is 
Jledical  Examiner  of  Peerless  Lodge  No.  11  of  the 
Mutual  Aid  Society  of  Quincy,  is  interested  in 
many  movements  tending  to  the  public  welfare. 
and  as  a  man  his  character  is  unassailable. 

In  the  year  1880  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary 
F.  Reeder,  daughter  of  William  Reeder,  of  Melrose 
Township,    Adams   County,  but    in    1881    ho  was 


rORTRAir   AMI   r.ItUIUAIMIK  Al.   KKCOKD. 


II  I 


calli'd  ii|iuu  tu  nuiurn  lier  death,  she  leaving'  him 
with  oiu-  chih!  tu  care  for.  William  W.  Ilis  second 
:iiid  |iif>fiU  tiiiion  t<K>k  place  in  OctolnT.  1H8(>, 
Miv«  .Maiv  K.  Tavliir.  n  <laiiy;litfr  i>f  Sainiii-rravlor 
of  Ko(-k|>oi't,  I'ikc  County,  III.,  hccomin}>;  his  wife, 
and  cvfiitiiailN  till'  niotlior  of  his  lliivo  childron: 
l.iln  lU'llc.  Lillian  .Mat'  and  .lai-oli  SaniUfl.  Mr>. 
Wni^iuT  is  a  devout  mcmlior  of  the  .Methodi.'<t 
K|iisi'o|ial  Clini'i'li  and  is  a  lady  of  nuK-h  intt'lli- 
tH'iicc  anil  forci-  of  i-liaracler.  This  household  is 
an  iili-al  oiii-  and  she  preside-s  over  it  with  a  ■;iiice 
and  diLTiiity  thai  stamp  her  a-  a  model  lad  v. 


=^=^>-^^«^i 


.•5>^ 


:*/  KANDKU  lilUkr,  is  the  ownei  of  one  of 
I  /Q  the  finest  farms  of  Adams  County,  located 
i — Ni  on  section  12,  I'rsa  Township.  He  i.«  also 
a  representative  citizen  of  the  eommunily  and  an 
honored  veteran  of  the  late  war.  ami  it  is  with 
pleasure  that  we  present  his  sketch  to  our  reailers. 
lie  was  horn  near  <^nincy.  on  .Mill  Creek,  .March  7, 
ISI  I.  and  is  a  son  of  Hiram  and  Hehecca  (tiawt) 
Hurke,  the  former  a  native  of  Ntirth  Carolina  and 
the  latter  of  Kentucky.  The  paternal  ;:ran<lfatlier 
was  a  native  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  The  father  of 
our  suliject  was  a  cooper  liy  trade.  Kmiiiratinj;  to 
Kentui'k\  in  an  early  day,  he  locatf  d  near  Coviiij;- 
ton,  and  followed  that  husiness  until  in:tt>,  when 
he  came  to  .\dams  County,  III.,  and  purclia.sed 
land  on  .Mill  Creek,  near  <^uincv.  lie  was  anionic 
the  first  settlers  in  that  secti<»n  of  the  county,  lie 
was  very  fond  of  huutinir,  and  in  those  early  days 
killed  many  deer.  In  lM;i«,  he  removed  to  I'rsa 
T(jwnsliip,  locatinjj  west  of  Marcelline,  and  after- 
ward purchased  a  farni  on  section  12,  near  I'rsn, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  dyi'ij;  in 
i««:l  at  the  age  of  eighty  four  years,  lie  held  a 
numhi-r  of  local  oHIces,  and  was  a  memhcr  of  the 
Christian  Church.  The  motlici-  of  our  snitject  dieil 
in  IK4'.I,  and  .^^r.  Burke  was  .again   married. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  seventh  in  a 
family  of  ten  children  horn  of  the  first  union,  of 
whom  three  are  vet    liviuy.     lie  wsis  educutcii  iu 


the  primitive  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
left  home  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world.  With 
luit  a  nickel  in  his  pocket,  and  with  two  shirts  tied 
up  in  a  handkerchief,  he  started  out  t'l  hunt  work. 
lie  seeurc<l  a  posititm  as  a  farm-hand  in  I'rsa 
Town>hip.  and  for  f<tur  months'  lahor  received 
only  i<lii.  lie  worked  in  that  way  for  three  _\ears, 
and  his  largest  wages  were  only  ♦l.'tper  month. 
In  the  spring  of  IHfil,  he  hegan  learning  the  hlack- 
smith's  traile  in  .Marcelline,  hut  in  the  fall  of  I«ti2 
aiiandoucd  it  to  enter  his  country's  .service. 

Mr.  Hurke  enlisted  as  a  mcmlier  of  Company  H, 
Seventy-eighth  Illinois  Infantry,  an<l  the  regi- 
ment organized  at  l^uincy  was  comniunded  hy 
C<j1.  William  II.  Dennison.  They  went  to  .lelTer- 
sonville.  Ind.,  crossed  the  river  to  Louisville,  and 
did  guard  duty  f(jr  some  time.  In  Doceinher, 
IH(!2,  the  company  was  taken  [irisoner  hy  .Mor- 
gan, on  the  Louisville  A-  Nitshville  liailroad,  and 
when  paroled  was  .sent  to  Hcnton  Barracks.  .Mr. 
Burke  wiis  there  exchanged,  and  just  had  time  to 
join  the  army  under  Sherman  licfore  the  liattle  of 
Mission  Ridge.  He  also  participated  in  the  hat- 
tie  of  Rome,  and  was  with  Sherman  until  after 
the  capture  of  .Vtlaiitn.  where  he  was  taken  sick 
and  .sent  to  the  rear.  .Vfter  his  recovery,  he  was 
transferred  to  an  Ohio  command  and  took  part  in 
the  hattlc  of  Nashville.  He  was  then  sent  by 
water  to  I'arkei-sburg,  Va.,  and  went  on  to 
Washington,  boarding  a  steamer  at  Georgetown, 
whence  he  proceedeil  to  Ft.  Beaufort.  There  were 
three  hundred  .<»oldici-s  on  the  vessel.  A  great 
storm  came  up,  which  lasted  three  days  and  nights, 
and  not  a  man  expecte<l  to  see  land  again.  Mr- 
Burke  iiiMrched  from  Ft.  Beaufort  to  (Joldshoro, 
N.  ('..  a  distance  of  one  hundred  miles,  and  there 
joineil  his  old  regiment.  .V  few  days  later,  they  fol- 
lowed .lohnston  to  Raleigh,  -\fter  the  surrender 
of  Lee,  they  started  for  Washington,  marching  for- 
iv-live  miles  a  day  until  the  city  was  reached.  He 
participated  in  the  (!rand  Review,  the  most  celc- 
liratol  military  pageant  of  the  New  World,  and  was 
then  mustered  out.  receiving  his  discharge  .lune 
2.'1,  1MG.1,  in  Chicago.  He  saw  siune  hard  servic*-, 
hut  was  ever  found  at  his  post,  faithfully  perform- 
ing each  ilnty. 

Uu  his  return   from    the   war,  Mr.  Burke  began 


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f.arrning  on  the  old  homestead,  wliere  he  has  since 
resided.  He  now  owns  eiglit\-  acres  on  section  12, 
I'rsa  Township,  lying  on  the  second  bottoms  of  the 
Mississii)pi,  and  no  finer  land  can  l»e  found  in  the 
county.  Tlie  farm  is  under  a  liigli  state  of  culti- 
vation, and  its  neat  appearance  indicates  his  en- 
ergy and  industry.  He  was  married  on  the  12th 
of  December,  1867,  to  INIiss  Sarah  L.  Rockwell,  a 
native  of  Mendon,  and  three  children  have  been 
horn  unto  them:  Silva  O.,  wife  of  (ieorge  W. 
Grimes,  a  farmer  of  this  township;  Alta  Belle,  and 
Rosa  Catherine. 

In  political  sentiment,  Mr.  Burke  is  a  stalwart 
Republican,  and  has  served  as  School  Director  for 
fifteen  years.  The  cause  of  education  ever  finds 
in  him  ,i  warm  friend,  and  he  li.is  done  much  for 
its  advancement.  Socially,  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Array  of  the  Republic,  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  himself  and  wife  are 
both  members  of  the  Christian  Church.  Througli- 
out  the  community  tliey  are  held  in  high  esteem 
for  tiieir  excellencies  of  character,  and  their  friends 
are  many. 


ON.  JOHN  McADAMS,  is  the  proprietor  of 
the  Seaton  Hotel,  Quincy,  111.,  which  is  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  leading  hotels  of  the 
city.  He  w.as  born  in  the  county  in  which 
lie  is  now  residing  in  .January,  184.'3,  the  eldest  son 
of  \Villiamand  Elizabeth  (Taylor)  McAdams,  both 
of  whom  were  born  in  the  Blue  Grass  region  of 
Kentucky,  in  which  State  their  childhood  days 
were  si)ent.  The  father  was  born  in  1816,  was 
reared  to  the  life  of  a  farmer  in  Adams  County, 
111.,  and  when  starting  out  to  make  his  own  way 
in  the  world,  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  he  verv 
naturally  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father, 
and  began  devoting  his  attention  to  agricultural 
pursuits  in  (ireene  County,  111.  His  father,  .Jc)hn 
McAdams,  sis  well  ,as  the  latter's  wife,  was  born  in 
the  Emerald  Isle,  but  sougiit  a  home  for  him.self 
(lud  family  uii  Auierican  shores,   wUvf^  yottujie 


smiled  on  him  and  where  he  resided  until  death 
called  him  home. 

John  McAdams,  wliose  name  heads  this  sketch, 
w.as  the  eldest  son  and  third  child  in  a  family  of 
nine  children,  six  of  whom  lived  to  maturity.  Like 
a  dutiful  son,  he  assisted  his  father  on  the  lu)me 
farm  until  he  had  nearly  attained  his  majority,  in 
the  meantime  acquiring  a  practical  education  in 
the  common  schools,  which  lie  supplemented  by  a 
tw-o-years  coui'se  in  the  schools  of  (Quincy.  Upon 
leaving  home  to  earn  his  own  livelihood,  he  com- 
menced farming,  .as  an  t)ccupation  with  which  he 
was  most  familiar,  and  in  time  acquired  sutlicient 
means  to  enable  him  to  purchase  two  hundred  acres 
of  land,  which  he  so  admirably  impro\ed  in  every 
way,  with  buildings,  fences,  orchards,  etc.,  that 
when  he  sold  it,  in  1880,  it  brought  him  in  the  sum 
of  ^22,(10(1. 

In  187il,  he  was  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
to  the  State  Legislature  and  served  in  the  ses- 
sion of  1880-81,  during  which  time  he  showed 
the  vvorkings  of  a  fine  intellect,  and  his  rep- 
utation as  a  pure  and  intelligent  Legislator  was 
of  the  very  best.  He  was  an  active  supporter  of 
grave!  roads,  and  also  took  a  prominent  stand  on 
the  lime  question.  He  was  an  active  member  in 
other  ways,  and  upon  the  completion  of  his  term, 
he  returned  to  <^»uiiicy  and  began  dealing  in  grain, 
a  business  he  followed  with  success  up  to  September 
of  1891,  when  he  inirchased  the  Seatou  Hotel,  of 
which  he  took  possession  in  May,  1892,  and  has 
conducted  it  with  good  success  ever  since.  In  the 
month  of  March,  1863,  Miss  Anna,  the  daughter  of 
James  Smith,  Esi].,  of  Adams  County,  became  his 
wife,  and  in  due  course  of  time  a  family-  of  five 
children  gathered  about  his  hearthstone,  those 
living  being  Harry  M.,  William  and  Lewis  S. 
.lames  Smith,  the  father  of  Mrs.  McAdams,  was 
one  of  the  very  early  settlers  of  Adams  County 
and  was  a  man  of  excellent  reputation,  who 
empKiyed  his  time  to  the  best  advantage  and 
endeuvered  to  follow  the  teachings  of  the  Golden 
Rule. 

Mr.  Jlc.Vdams  has  always  taken  an  active  inter- 
est in  politics,  believing  it  to  be  the  duty  of  every 
loyal  citizen  to  support  the  man  whom  he  consid- 
ers best  littecl  ioy  uny  position,    He  is  ratec]  as  a 


R^RTIJAIT  AND  UIOGRArinCAL   RECORD. 


21.1 


111:111  of  rons|)icii(ni-i  intellifjencp.  aiKi,  lu'iii^r  f<irl\- 
nilii"  \i'!irs  of  a<ic.  is  in  tin-  wry  zi-iiitli  of  his 
powers,  lit-  is  a  strong  i'li!iin|>i<iii  of  what  In-  lic- 
licvcs  to  1)0  riiilit  and  is  honest  nu<\  tiiin  in  his 
convictions.  lie  is  a  model  citizen  of  a  model 
|{o)>iihlic.  loval.  hiw-al)iding:  and  iiiiWic-spiiited. 


i;\'.  KKHDINAM)  liKRi  JMKYKR.  Superior 
of  SI.  Francis'  Mona.--ler_v,  is  a  zealous 
■M  Y\  worker  for  llie  cause  of  Christianity,  and 
liis  iiidefatiirahU'  efforts  in  this  direction 
have  liceii  cniwncd  with  success.  In  the  very 
earliest  history  of  the  Mississippi  Valley,  the 
l)laek-gowne(l  priest  in  his  hircli  canoe,  armed 
with  his  crucili.x  and  breviary,  led  the  way  to  civ- 
ilization and  came,  devoted,  eager  and  intense,  and  . 
with  hut  one  object  before  his  heart  and  eyes,  to 
snatch  from  misery  the  poor  and  ignorant,  and  to 
break  the  bread  of  life  eternal  to  those  who  were 
in  the  shadow  of  death.  Tiie  ijood  work  has  gone 
on  and  great  results  have  been  accomplished.  , 
Father  Uergineyer  is  especially  relined.  intelligent  j 
and  eloquent,  and  has  accompli>hcd  much  since 
taking  upon  liimself  his  priestly  duties. 

He  was  born  in  Riesenbeck,  Germany,  Oetolier 
.•50,  l«2l),  a  son  of  Henry  and  .Mary  .\.  (Ileilers) 
Bergmeyer,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  farmer  by 
occupation.  Ferdinand,  the  elder  of  their  two 
children,  spent  his  boyhood  in  Riesenlieck,  and 
after  attending  the  common  schools  for  eight 
years,  entered  college  at  .Minister,  where  he  re- 
mained live  years.  Succeeding  this,  he  began  the 
study  of  theology  and  philosophy  in  I'aderborn 
University,  in  (iermany,  where  he  remained  four 
years,  graduating  in  1H.')H.  lie  was  ordaiiieil  at 
Paderborn.  and  in  IX.jK  came  to  America,  and 
after  a  short  residence  in  New  York,  at  which  city 
he  landed,  he  removed  t<i  'I'eiitopolis,  Klliiighaiii 
County,  111.,  where  he  had  charge  of  St.  Anthony 's 
Church  until  1H*;|. 

In  .Iiine,  IJ^til,  i|c  caiiif  to  (.^uincy    as  l'a>lor  of 


•^l.  I'rancis'  (liunh  and  Superior  of  SI.  Franeis' 
Monastery,  and  .-ibly  lilled  his  onerous  duties  until 
December  2."),  IMii'.t,  at  which  time  he  was  sent  to 
the  city  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  to  liecome  Pastor  of  .St. 
.Vnthony's  Church  and  guardian  of  .St.  Francis" 
Monastery.  In  1«77.  he  left  St.  Louis  and  went  di- 
rectly to  Iiidiaiia|x>lis,  Ind.,  where  he  became 
Pastor  of  the  Sacred  Heart  Church, and  Superior  of 
the  Home,  di.scharging  the  ilulies  of  these  positions 
with  the  utmost  wisdom  and  intelligence  until 
lXK;"i.  At  this  time,  he  was  sent  to  Santa  Haibara. 
Cal.,  and  there  l)ecame  guardian  of  the  olii  Fran- 
ciscan Missicm.  the  history  of  which  is  romantic 
and  interesting,  and  here  he  remained  three  years, 
and  then  returned  to  .St.  I..ouis,  .Mo.,  where  his 
home  continued  to  be  until  IH'Jl. 

He  remained  in  that  city  as  Provincial  .Superior, 
but  in  .luly.  18'Jl,  liecame  a  resident  of  '^uincy, 
and  took  upon  hini-seif  the  duties  of  Superior  of 
St.  Francis'  Monastery.  In  his  labors,  he  h.as  I)een 
earnest  and  persistent,  working  for  the  good  of 
others  rather  than  for  his  own  glory,  but  has  se- 
cured a  part  of  his  reward  in  this  world,  for  he  has 
the  conlidence,  love  and  respect  of  his  fellows  and 
the  consciousness  that  he  has  brought  many  to  the 
feet  of  Christ.     His  residence  is  at  the  Monaster^'. 


•^ 


IIO.MAS  WIHTK.  President  of  the  Whit.' 
//j-\  Stove  Coiii[)any,  '^uincy.  III.,  is  another  of 
^i^'  the  many  prominent  citizens  of  the  county 
who  arc  natives  of  iMuiny  Scotland,  having 
been  born  in  (Jlasgow,  in  1S2.'>.  His  parents, 
Thoinas  and  Fsther  (Watson)  White,  wcreidsip  na- 
tives of  that  country,  where  the  father  was  a  manu- 
facturer of  silk  goods.  Our  subject  received  his 
scholastic  training  in  his  native  country,  and  rc- 
iiiaiiied  there  until  1H,')2.  when  he  braved  Neptune's 
lender  mercies  and  came  to  the  I'nitcd  .states. 
Previous  to  this,  he  had  learned  the  carpenter's 
and  pattern-maker '>  trades,  and  after  touching 
American  soil,  he  determined  to  put  these  inl«i 
practice.  He  landed  at  New  Orleans,  and  went 
thence  direct  to  t^uinoy,  HI.,  by  boat, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  ItECORD. 


In  tliis  city  our  .subject  was  employed  by  tlie 
Comstock  Stove  Company,  and  worked  at  his  trade 
for  twelve  j'ears,  meeting  with  unusual  success. 
When  lie  first  came  to  this  city,  lie  possessed  but 
little  of  this  world's  goods,  but  lie  did  possess  that 
which  alwa^'s  insures  the  success  of  men.  He  was 
honest,  ambitious  and  industrious,  and  liy  these,  as 
his  only  ca[iital,  he  has  advanced  step  by  step, 
higher  and  higher,  until  he  is  now  at  the  summit 
of  a  successful  life.  He  possesses  the  spirit  of  the 
Pilgrim  Fathers,  and  thus  made  this  Western 
county  his  home,  where  all  have  been  blessed  and 
benefited  by  his  coming. 

In  1863,  Mr.  White,  Mr.  Bonnet  and  Mr.  Duffy 
commenced  the  manufacture  of  stoves  and  hollow- 
ware  under  the  firm  name  of  White,  Bonnet  A-  Co., 
possessing  a  total  capital  of  about  $3,000.  In 
1866,  Mr.  White  bought  out  the  interests  of  his 
partners  and  conducted  the  business,  which  has 
grown  very  large,  alone  until  1887,  when  the  iires- 
^nt  business,  under  the  name  of  tlie  Tliciraas  White 
Stove  Company,  «as  incoiporated  as  a  stock  con- 
cern, with  a  paid-up  capital  of  81.50,000.  Their 
foundiy,  warerooms  and  offices  occupy  nearly  a 
half-lilock  in  the  heart  of  tlie  city,  and  are,  as  may 
be  imagined,  veiy  valuable  property. 

As  Mr.  White  was  foreman  of  the  Ph<enix  Stove 
Company  Works  about  186(1,  it  may  again  be  seen 
how  energy  and  enterprise,  honest\-  and  industry, 
will  win  in  the  city  of  '^uincy,  if  practiced  as  Mv. 
White  has  practiced  them,  faithfully  and  persist- 
ently, and  a  successful  life  is  that  of  the  suliject  of 
this  sketch.  When  Mr.  White  first  manufactured 
heating  and  cooking  stoves,  the  company  employed 
about  one  hundred  men.  This  firm  is  now  repre- 
sented by  four  traveling  men  on  the  road,  and  the 
trade  extends  over  Illinois,  Missouri,  Kansas,  Ne- 
braska, Iowa,  the  Territories,  California  and  Min- 
nesota. 

The  nuptials  of  our  subject  with  Miss  Mary 
Bowman,  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  were  celebrated  in 
1848,  and  since  that  time  an  interesting  group  of 
six  children  has  grown  up  around  them,  four 
daughters  and  two  sons,  as  follows:  Robert  B., 
book-keeper  in  his  father's  office;  Thomas  C,  Secre- 
tary of  the  Stove  AVoiks;  Marion,  Esther,  Laurena, 
»iul  3Xar)',  now  Mrs,  Wilson,  a-t  home,     Ju  politics, 


he  affiliates  with  the  Republican  party.  '  He  and  Mrs. 
I    White  are  members  of  the  Congregational  Church, 
I    in  which  he  is  Trustee,  and   both  are   very   active 
I    workers  in  the    church.     They  are    popular  with 
all  classes  and  are  among  the   representative  cit- 
izens.    Mr.  White  is  a  member  of   Bodley  Lodge 
No.    1,  A.  F.    it  A.  M.;    Quincy    Chapter   No.   5, 
R.  A.  M.;  Beauseant  Comma ndery  No.    11,  K.  T., 
and  Treasurer  of  the  same,     lie  has  a  choice  loca- 
tion at  No.  1806  Broadway.  <)iiincy. 


^^^HOMAS  S.  WALLACE,  who  is  engaged  in 
general  farming  on  section  7,  Concord 
Township,  and  also  owns  quite  a  large 
apiary,  claims  Kentucky  as  the  State  of  his  na- 
tivity. He  was  born  in  Garrard  County,  on  the 
26th  of  .lanuary,  1834,  and  is  a  sou  of  Shannon 
and  Eli/.alietli  (Reed)  Wallace.  The  father  was 
born  in  Garrard  County  in  June,  1799,  and  died 
December  4,  18r)8,  and  the  mother  was  born  in 
Shelby  County,  Ky.,  in  October,  1804,  and  died 
.July  6,  1888.  Tliev  were  married  in  Kentucky 
November  1,  1827.  His  maternal  grandfather  was 
a  Revolutionary  soldier,  who  heroically  battled  for 
independence.  During  an  engagement  he  was 
captured  b.\'  the  liritish,  but  succeeded  in  making 
his  escape. 

Our  subject  is  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  tliree 
children.  His  sister,  Sarah  Jane,  became  the  wife 
of  William  Wallace,  a  fruit-grower,  of  Monmouth, 
111.  The  brother,  Reed,  was  born  in  1830,  wedded 
Mary  Ann  Fmley,  and  is  engaged  in  agricultural 
pursuits  in  Missouri. 

Thomas  Wallace  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  the 
usual  manner  of  farmer  lads.  He  attended  the 
district  schools  during  the  winter  season,  and  in 
the  summer  aided  in  the  labors  of  the  farm.  He 
remained  under  the  parental  roof  and  assisted  his 
father  in  the  cultivation  of  the  home  farm  until 
his  marriage,  which  was  celebrated  November  ;">, 
185.'),  Miss  Mary  .lane  Ralston  becimiing  his  wife. 
The  lady  wssborn  in  Tennessee  in  ]S39,»nd  twelyt? 


I\)HTRAIT  AND  IU(  « ilJ MMIK    \1.    KKCORD. 


•ii; 


children  linvc  Ikhmi  born  of  tlicir  union,  of  whom 
Wi\  are  vol  liviiij;.  tlu'  cl<Ii'>t  of  wlioni  is  Kli/.itlictli 
R.:  Saiiuu-1,  wlio  we(l<U'<l  Miiiy  lUiick  NovfinlnM- 
;•.  IM^<•2,  is  n  fanner  in  Aii/.onii:  Man  Ann  and  an 
infantson  ariMltH't-asi-d;  Rt-cd  isi'n<;af;cd  in  fainiinj; 
in 'I'l-nni-sMH';  Saiali  M.  is  at  lionH-;  Anna  M.. Shan- 
non,.Icnnif.  Thomas  . I..  Ki-fd  and. losi'pli  Henry  are 
.still  under  the  parental  louf.  The  ehildrenall  re- 
ceived irotid  educational  advantjittes.  sueli  as  wnulrl 
lit  them  for  the  practical  duties  of  life,  and  one  of 
the  dau};htei>  isenija^jed  in  teaching  school.  Sarah 
.M.  is  a  crayon  artist,  ami  is  located  in  i^iiincy. 

'I'hrouithout  his  entire  life.  Mr.  Wallace  has  fol- 
lowed the  occupatit>n  of  farminsr.  Me  now  owns 
a  valuable  farm  of  two  hundred  and  nineteen 
acres.  The  arable  land  has  been  placed  under  a 
hi<;li  state  of  cultivation,  and  yields  a  <;<ilden  Irib- 
tilo  to  his  care  and  labor.  In  cDnm-ctioii  with 
>;eneral  farminj^.  he  is  also  engaired  in  bee  culture, 
and  has  an  apiary  of  one  hundred  hives,  lie  has 
met  with  success  in  this  line  of  work,  anil  from 
the  sale  of  honey  reaps  ajrtMid  income.  The  many 
improvements  upon  his  farm  stand  as  monuments 
to  his  enterprising  and  progressive  spirit,  and  he 
ranks  among  the  substantial  and  leading  agrieul- 
tuiisLs  of  Concord  Township.  In  his  religious  be- 
lief, Mr.  Wallace  is  a  I'nitcd  I'resbyterian, holding 
memltersliip  with  the  clinrch  in  Clayton.  He  ex- 
ercises his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  Repub- 
lican principles,  and  is  an  active  worker  in  the 
intere.»ls  of  his  party.  The  cause  of  education 
finds  in  him  a  warm  friend,  ancl  while  serving 
during  the  past  lifteen  years  .is  Director,  he  has 
<lone  effective  service  for  the  schools  in  this  com- 
miinilv  and  their  advancement. 


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DSKl'll  AD.V.MV.  Ill  this  age  of  gross  and 
almost  universal  adulteration,  it  is  a  pleas- 
ure to  In?  able  to  refer  to  those  reliable 
houses  where  the  people  are  assured  of  ob- 
taining only  the  purest  and  best  goods,  and  »licic 
no  imposition  is  practiced  on  credulous  customers. 

10 


Of  such  is  the  responsible  establishment  of  .losopli 
.Vdamy.  wholcMdc  liipior  ilealer.  whose  business  is 
located  at  No.  '>'22  Hampshire  Street.  </uiucy. 
The  aim  of  this  popular  house  has  always  Iteen  to 
cany  onl.\'  pure  and  lirst-class  goods  .-it  reasonable 
price*:  and  that  this  fact  has  not  been  unappre- 
ciated by  the  trade  and  general  public  is  abiinil- 
antly  evinced  by  the  cxtcu-iivi' and  inllncntial  pat- 
roii:(ge  secured  in  this  and  other  States. 

.Mr.  .\dumy  wa>  bom  in  riiis»la.  in  Dccciiilicr. 
D^.'tl.and  until  fourteen  ycai-s  of  age  received  his 
education  in  tin-  common  st'hool.s  of  that  country. 
.Vt  that  age.  he  entered  the  College  at  .Minister, 
Westphalia.  Cerinany.  ami  there  pui-sued  his  stud- 
ies for  live  \ears.  The  New  Worlil  at  that  time 
had  many  attractirtns  for  him.  .-iiid  in  IH.'it  he 
braved  the  st<uniy  deep  and  lauded  safely  in  the 
liarUir  of  New  Orleans.  From  there  he  went  up 
the  .Missis,sippi  River  to  ijuincy.  and  accepted  a 
position  in  the  grocery  store  of  .lolin  li.  Mcismaii, 
with  whom  he  remained  for  two  years.  He  after- 
ward clerked  for  various  lirms  in  (/uiiicy,  and 
wherever  he  was  employed  his  services  were  duly 
appreciated,  for  he  w.a.s  industrious  and  willing. 
Leaving  ( juincy,  he  went  to  liiirlington.  Iowa,  and 
was  engaged  as  clerk  for  ( Icorire  I5u>h  .V  Co.  for 
four  years. 

.\fter  visiting  for  .-i  \c;ir  in  the  Fatherland,  Mr. 
.Vdamy  returned  to  thcCnited  .State's  in  lX'>.3.and. 
locating  in  (juiiicy,  embarked  in  the  wholesale 
liipior  business  in  partnei-ship  with  Mr.  Levy,  under 
the  linn  name  of  Adamy  >y  Levy.  That  partner- 
ship continued  until  1)^70.  when  .Mr.  Lcv\' sold 
out  to  oiirsubjecl.  who  assumed  full  control  of  the 
busine.'>s.  He  occupies  a  large  warerooin,  2."ix  12(1 
feet,  where  he  handles  all  kinds  of  liipio|-s  and 
line  wines,  selling  to  retailei-s  anri  jobbei-s  in  Illi- 
nois. Missouri  and  Iowa,  lie  conducts  a  success- 
ful enterprise  and  is  foremost  in  his  business  in 
this  ((art  of  the  country.  His  house  has  a  reputa- 
tion that  is  unsiirpas.oed  for  the  tptalily  of  it-s 
goods,  the  purity  of  which  is  iiinpiestioned,  and 
which  are  largely  used  for  medicinal  and  s.acramen- 
tal  purposes. 

In  Itcardstow  II,  III..  .Mr.  .Vilaiiiy  was  married 
to  Miss  Cary,  d.'inghter  of  Dr.  T.  HntTman.and 
live  children  have  blessed  this  uuioii.     Tbcy  have 


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an  elegant  home  at  No.  1200  North  Fifth  Street, 
fiuinoy,  and  are  prominent  in  social  circles.  In 
politics,  our  subject  is  a  decided  Democrat,  and 
soci.ill^-  is  a  prominent  member  in  the  Masonic 
lodge,  having  reached  the  Twenty-second  Degree, 
Knights  Templar.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Royal 
Arcanum.  As  a  business  man,  he  has  few  supe- 
riors, and  as  a  citizen  and  neighbor  he  is  highly  re- 
spected. 


sketch. 


15KAM  BP:NT0N.  One  of  the  most  prom- 
inent among  the  merchants  and  farm- 
ers of  Adams  County  who  have  found  a 
home  in  Mendon  is  the  original  of  this 
His  great-grandfather  was  named  Tim- 
othy Benton,  and  was  one  of  tiiree  brothers 
who  came  from  England  to  Americi  and  then 
scattered,  the  ancestor  of  our  subject  settling 
in  Connecticut.  The  grandfather  was  named  Tim- 
othy Benton,  and  was  a  native  of  (iuilfurd.  Conn., 
being  a  farmer  there,  and  the  father  of  our  Mr. 
Lot  Benton  was  born  in  Guilford  in  1773.  The 
latter  was  one  of  the  strong  supporters  of  the 
Congregational  Church  there,  and  was  noted  for 
his  singing.  Tiic  mother  of  our  subject  was 
Hannah  Ciiittcndcn,  and  was  a  native  of  Guilford; 
she  was  born  in  1877,  and  was  a  daughter  of  .lared 
and  Deborah  (Stone)  Chittenden.  .Tared  was  a  son 
of  William  Chittenden,  who  was  a  son  of  William, 
the  son  of  Thomas,  who  in  turn  was  the  son  of  the 
William  who  came  to  America  from  England  in 
1639,  and  settled  in  Guilford,  Conn.  In  this  old 
town  the  parents  of  our  subject  passed  their  da^'s, 
and  the  aged  mother  lived  until  ISfil,  but  tiie 
father's  life  closed  in  1822.  They  were  the  parents 
of  seven  children:  Raphael,  Daniel,  Erastus,  Julia, 
Delia,  Joel  and  the  subject  of  this  notice,  who  was 
born  November  9,  1814,  at  Guilford,  Conn.,  and  is 
the  only  surviving  member  of  the  family.  He  was 
reared  on  the  farm,  and  brought  up  in  the  prim 
iimuner  of  the  da\-  and  section.     He    was   sent    to 


the  common  school,  and  after  that  to  an  academy. 
He  left  home  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  like 
many  other  young  men  who  are  anxious  to  see 
the  world  for  themselves.  The  record  saj'S  that  he 
came  to  Mendon,  then  Fairfield,  in  1831.  The 
place  had  been  settled  by  people  from  Guilford, 
and  there  was  a  blacksmith-shop  in  what  was  called 
the  town,  but  the  smith  had  to  board  two  miles 
away.  Daniel  Benton,  with  a  small  stock  of  goods, 
had  accompanied  his  young  brother,  and  they 
built  a  double  log  house,  which  was  quite  a  jialace, 
and  the  second  house  in  the  town  limits.  Thus  they 
opened  the  first  store  in  Mendon,  although  the 
stock  was  not  very  extensive.  Daniel  died  in 
1836,  and  Abram  then  took  entire  charge  of  the 
goods,  and  had  the  exclusive  trade  for  a  long  time. 
His  stock  was  valued  at  i5l,.")00,  but  that  was  more 
than  the  actual  capital.  Trade  was  not  very  brisk, 
for  customers  were  rare  and  money  was  scarce, 
and  the  poor  store-keeper  could  not  trade  off  every 
thing  for  honey,  which  was  then  a  great  substi- 
tute for  mone3-.  Three  j-ears  later,  Mr.  Benton 
built  a  frame  building,  but  the  old  log  cabin  still 
stands,  and  has  been  added  to  and  is  now  a  dwell- 
ing. Gradually,  as  the  town  grew,  his  business 
also  increased,  and  he  carried  it  on  at  the  old  lo- 
cation until  twenty  years  ago,  when  he  removed  to 
his  present  place,  and  now  has  the  largest  stock  of 
goods  in  the  village.  For  the  last  score  of  years 
he  has  owned  and  operated  a  farm  also,  and  has 
made  a  good  farmer. 

Mr.  Benton  was  married  in  1837  in  Guilford, 
Conn.,  to  Miss  Sarah  Dudley  Chittenden,  who  was 
an  old  schoolmate.  She  was  born  there  Febru- 
ary 1,  181.5,  and  was  the  daughter  of  David  and 
Lucy  (Fowler)  Chittenden.  Her  father  was  a  son 
of  Simeon  Chittenden,  who  was  the  son  of  Deacon 
Simeon,  who  was  the  son  of  Josiah,  who  was  the 
son  of  Thomas. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benton  are  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Sarah  J.,  born  July  17,  1838,  the  wife  of 
S.  S.  Arnold,  lives  in  this  village.  She  has  two 
bright  children,  Sarah  Louisa  and  Frances  B.  Ruth 
Frances,  born  February  16,  1841,  is  the  widow  of 
A.  J.  Leggett,  and  lives  in  St.  Louis.  Mo.,  and  has 
four  childi  en :  Sarah  M.,  John  B.,  Abram  and  Ruth  F. 

Mr.  Benton   h.is  given  his  children  good  school 


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advantages,  and  lias  always  pi  vcn  his  support  to  all 
pitlilii- institutions  siK-li  as  c'lnin-luvs  and  s«-Ik>oIs.  Ili> 
ftuBily  »i"i-'  consistent  Christian  pooplc.  nieniliors  of 
the  ('oHKrv^atiunal  (  linroh.  and  their  intluenoe  Inis 
cvpr  liecn  for  <ftiod  iu  Ihtir  nfif:lilMirh<Mid.  Mr.  lU-n- 
ton  is  a  ineinU-r  of  the  ludvpeudcni  Order  of  Odd 
I'Vllows.  and  in  his  pollti<'nl  opiuions,  he  favors 
tlie  Hrpulilican  part  v.  lie  «ji.>  ori;;inally  a  .lames 
( '>.  Kirnry  man. 

Our  suliject  is  a  man  of  lar;;e  pioperty  interests' 
lie  owns  a  farm  of  live  hundred  and  forty-seven 
acres  in  .Vdams  (.'ounty,  in  St.  Uiuis  owns  a  very 
fine  residence  pro|>orty  on  Kuclid  and  Itates  Ave 
nue.s,  and  in  the  village  of  .Mendon  he  hn.>  a  large 
double  store  .ind  loUs  on  Collins  .Street  and  also 
two  residences,  lie  also  owns  a  two-thirds  interest 
in  thirty-six  building  lot-s  in  Hastings,  Neb.,  ami 
eighty-four  city  lot-s  in  (iran<l  Haven.  Mich. 

.Mr.  IWnton's   family  and   their  connections  are 
among  the  most  prominent  |>eople  in  the  county. 


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11^^ 


I,.  sTAKKH.  a  wide-awake  and  enterpris- 
ing young  liusiness  man  of  Claytcm.  is  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law  and  the  publi- 
cation of  the  Clayton  Eiitpriiri.tf,  of  which 
he  is  lioth  editor  and  proprietor.  As  he  is  well 
and  favorably  known  in  this  community,  his  per- 
sonal history  will  prove  of  interest  to  many  of  our 
readers,  and  with  pleasure  we  ret-ord  it  in  this  vol- 
ume. 

Mr.  Sluker  was  Imhii  in  I'ike  (ounty.  111.,  .May 
2<'.  I**.'>M,  and  is  a  son  of  W'iliium  and  I'liieU' 
(Davidson)  .Staker.  His  paternal  grandfather  emi- 
grated from  Canada  to  Illinois  in  a  very  earl\ 
day.  and  his  father  was  Uirn  in  the  (Queen's  do- 
minion in  1K32.  Inearlv  life  he  foll(jwed  the  o<-cii- 
palion  of  farming,  but  for  twenty-six  years  has 
been  engaged  in  the  lire  insurance  business  with 
marked  success.  The  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  wiLs  lM>rn  in  Ohio,  and  came  to  this  .State 
with  her  parents.  Rev.  .lames  II.  anil  Sarah  (  Duck- 
wall)  DavidM)n.  when  a  girl  uf  »ixt4.-en,  and  in  the 


Near  lH.'i<!  wa.s  married  to  William  Staker.  Their 
family  numU-reil  only  three  children.  The  sistei-s 
of  our  subject  are  .\ddie,  who  was  born  in  ixti4. 
and  married  .lohn  (}.  Hurge.sser.  by  whom  she  has 
one  chilli;  she  lesides  in  Clayton.  Ilattie,  Immii  in 
IXtil.and  IS  the  wife  of  It.  K.  Woosler.  a  promi- 
nent businessman  in  Jacksonville,  III. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  .•U'c|uired  his  liteniry 
education  in  the  Clayton  gr:ided  scIkkiIs,  and 
when  he  looked  altont  him  for  a  profession  or  oc- 
cup«tiou  wliieli  he  wished  to  follow,  he  chose  that 
of  law.  After  graduating  fi'om  the  law  school  in 
ItliHimiugton  in  18JJ0,  he  liegan  practice  in  the 
home  of  his  childh(x>d  and  youth,  continuing 
in  practice  ever  since.  In  the  year  of  ISMC.  he 
Ijegan  the  publication  of  the  Entfi-jtrinf.  The 
paper  ha.s  Ik-cu  estjiblished  since  IK7'J.  Tlirou<!h 
the  iH-i-severanif  and  ability  of  .Mi-.  Staker.  it  has 
l>ecome  one  of  the  lending  journals  in  this  part  of 
the  State.  The  paper  is  independent  in  politics, 
and  is  devoted  to  the  interests  of  the  l<x*ality  in 
which  it  is  published  and  to  general  news.  It  is  a 
bright,  interesting  six-column  ipnirlo,  well  edited, 
and  its  subsi-riptiun  list  includes  nearly  all  |>ersons 
in  the  vicinity  where  it  is  published  and  is  coii- 
slantly  iinpioving.  .\  liber.-il  patronage  is  cer- 
tainly well  ileserved. 

In  IH7!t.  Mr.  .Slaker  was  united  in  marriage  with 
.Miss  .lenuie  K.  Montgomery,  an  educated  and  ac- 
complished young  lady,  who  wa.s  born  in  Clayton, 
ill  |n.")H.  Two  children  grace  their  union:  Ray 
Montgomery,  aged  nine  years,  and  Fred  Merwyn. 
aged  seven.  Their  home  is  one  of  the  liiiest  resi- 
dences in  Clayton  U-inga  comniodiousand  beauti- 
ful dwelling  built  in  modern  style.  1 1  is  neatly  and 
last<'fully  fuinislied,  :ind  is  situated  on  a  pretty 
lawn,  deeoi-ated  with  shade  and  ornamental  trees, 
ll  i«  also  the  abode  of  hospitality,  and  its  doors 
aie  ever  open  for  the  reception  ol  their  many 
frieiiiN.  Ill  his  sficial  relations,  Mr.  Staker  is  a 
meinlH-r  of  the  ( Idd  Fellows'  siK-iety.  the  Modem 
Woodmen  of  .Vmerica,  the  OiHid  Templai>,  and  is 
a  prominent  Mason,  belonging  to  the  Klue  Lodge, 
Chapter,  F.nslern  Star  and  Commandery.  He  is  a 
faithful  member  of  the  rresliyterian  Church,  and 
is  a  friend  to  all  charitable  and  iH-nevolent  inter- 
ests.     \\\  his  pen  and  personal  effoits   he    exerts  u 


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strong  influence  in  behalf  of  all  that  tends  to  up- 
build or  benefit  the  community.  He  is  a  friend  to 
education,  morality  and  temperance,  and  the  com- 
munity finds  in  him  a  valued  citizen. 


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♦^=«^s* 


K)0DF()KIJ  LAWRENCE,  formerly  occu- 
pying an  important  place  in  the  farming 
^^^  community  of  Payson  Township,  departed 
this  life  in  1879.  He  was  a  native  of  Fauquier 
County,  Va.,  having  been  born  in  1800,  and  was  a 
lad  of  twelve  years  when  he  accompanied  his  par- 
ents on  their  removal  to  Warren  County',  Ky.  Li 
the  Blue  Grass  State,  he  grew  to  mature  years,  and 
was  given  an  excellent  education,  which  fitted  him 
to  teach  school. 

In  1828,  returning  to  his  native  State,  Mr.  Law- 
rence was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Mar}' 
Mewmaw,  wlio  accompanied  him  to  Indiana,  where 
they  resided  for  one  year  and  then,  coming  to 
Adams  County,  they  located  one  mile  east  of 
where  the  flourishing  village  of  Paj'son  now 
stands.  When  first  locating  in  this  vicinity,  the 
land  was  unimproved,  and  it  was  a  very  difficult 
matter  to  clear  away  the  heavy  timber  that  covered 
it.  In  the  year  1832.  he  cut  grass  from  where  is 
now  the  site  of  the  village,  and  taught  the  first 
school  in  Pa\son  Townsliip,  wliich  was  conducted 
in  a  log  schoolhouse,  rudely  constructed,  with 
puncheon  Hotir  and  all  tlie  primitive  furnishings 
so  well  known  to  the  majority  of  our  readers. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lawrence  was  born  a  family- 
of  eight  children:  Louisa,  the  wife  of  George  W. 
Holeman,  of  Richfield  Township,  this  county; 
Susan,  Mrs.  .lames  Ellington,  of  Trenton,  Mo.; 
Alpha,  the  wife  of  .Iiunes  Mack,  also  of  tliat  place; 
Bluford;  Alfred;  liodliam,  who  resides  in  Medicine 
Lodge,  Kan.;  Cliitesler  S.  and  Woodford  ;\I.,  the 
latter  of  whom  resides  in  CarroUton,  Mo.  Tiie  father 
of  our  suljject,  Rodham  Lawrence,  w.as  a  native 
of  Virginia  an<i  a  sohlier  in  the  Revolutionarv 
W.ir.  lu-ing  present  at  tiie  surrejider  of  Cornwallis 


in  1783.     His   five   sons   were  all  born   in   a  log 

shanty  cm  the  claim  where  Chitester  S.  is  at  pres- 
ent residing.  The  last-named  son  was  born  in  the 
year  1837,  and  was  given  an  excellent  education, 
completing  his'  studies  at  Abingdon  College.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-six  years,  he  began  teaching 
school,  which  profession  he  followed  for  seven 
years,  giving  great  satisfaction  wherever  employed. 
The  lady  to  whom  Chitester  S.  Lawrence  was 
married  in  1864  was  Miss  Hester  J.,  daughter  of 
William  D.  Baker.  To  them  was  granted  a  fam- 
il>'  of  six  children,  of  whom  the  following  four 
still  survive:  Alice,  Si ba,  Uoia  and  Ora.  In  1892, 
Siba  and  Dora  were  appointed  delegates  to  the 
Christian  Endeavor  Con  vention  held  in  New  York 
City.  They  are  both  refined  and  intelligent  young 
people,  and  take  an  active  part  in  church  work, 
being  with  their  parents  members  of  the  Christian 
Church.  In  politics,  this  son  is  a  stanch  Democrat, 
and  has  jield  important  offices  in  his  township, 
having  been  School  Trustee  for  fifteen  years.  He 
has  been  industrious,  prudent  and  thrifty,  and  has 
acquired  considerable  properly.  The  first  repre- 
sentative of  the  Lawrence  family  was  AVilliam 
Lawrence,  who  came  from  England  to  America 
and  made  his  home  in  Viririnia  in  1099. 


Ill    I ' 


>  m    i   ^   i  iiL^T*i 


/p?}EORGE    THEO     FEATHERING  ILL.      In 
III  .  this  notice  is  presented  one  of  the  intelli- 

^>^iJJ    gent  old  residents  of  Quincy,  who  has  done 
much  to  make  her  history  what  it  is. 

(ieorge  Theo  Featheriugill,  a  member  of  the 
secret  service  of  the  city  of  (^lincy,  was  liorn  in 
Oldham  County,  Ky.,  near  Louisville,  March  17, 
1845.  His  father,  William,  was  also  born  in  Ken- 
tucky, but  his  grandfather  came  fidiii  England 
and  settled  in  Oldham  County,  and  became  a 
planter  very  many  years  ago.  He  served  in  the 
War  of  1812,  and  died  in  Kentucky.  William 
was  a  farmer  in  Kentucky,  but  came  to  (Quincy  in 
1832;  he  remained  there  a  couple  of  years,  tlien  re- 
turned to  Kentucky,  and  thenee  moved  to  Missouri, 


MADISON    WILLARD. 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RIXORD. 


22.1 


where  lie  farme(l  until  IH.JI.  He  then  l>i'<iu<]flit  his 
family  lu-re  in  a  six-li<ii>e  wajjon,  and  l<K'ated  tii"st 
in  I'rsa  T<»vn>lii|i  nn  a  farm  of  nuv  Ijundit'il  and 
sixty  acres  of  land,  wliicli  lie  luirriiit-ed  and  lin- 
provfd  wi'll.  lie  died  in  IM.'i'.i.  lielonfjinjf  to  the 
Deinoeratic  parly.  His  wife  was  KIK-n  Dale,  Uirn 
in  IJruiiswick,  Mo.,  a  daughter  of  a  fanner  there. 
She  was  ni.-iirieil  a  second  time  to  a  Mr.  Inman, 
and  now  resides  wiili  lier  children.  Her  father  was 
named  Christian  Dale  and  was  formerly  a  resi- 
dent of  \'irginia,  although  of  French  descent.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  William  Featheringill  had  eight  cliililren, 
three  yet  living. 

Our  subject  cam<-  to  Adams  County  when  he 
wa.s  six  years  old.  and  remained  at  home  on  the 
farm,  and  as  his  father  died  when  he  was  fourteen 
years  of  age,  he  took  the  entire  charge,  supporting 
the  family  until  he  was  twenty-one,  when  his 
mother  married  again.  His  step-father,  .lona- 
Ihan  Inman.  was  a  large  farmer  in  KjiU  Creek.  III. 
(ieorge  remained  on  the  I'rsa  farm  and  also  took 
charge  of  his  step-father's  farm.  .Mr.  Inman  wa.s  a 
line  man.  and  as  long  as  he  lived  after  Ins  marriage, 
seven  years,  (ieorge  managed  his  farm  for  him. 

Oiu' sulijecl  was  married,  Kelirnary  l.'i,  1X72.  to 
Mary  (iant.  a  resident  of  (^uincy.  He  continued 
on  the  farm  until  his  wife's  health  failed,  and  in 
IKTf'i  went  to  .San  Antonio,  Tex.,  and  there  en- 
gaged in  the  feed  and  produce  business  and  had  a 
wagon  yard  at  Dallas.  His  wife  died  there  and  he 
returneil  in  1«77.  and  then  engaged  in  hotel  busi- 
ness here,  becoming  the  proprietor  of  the  Missouri 
House  and  then  the  Franklin  Hou.se,  but  in  six 
months  he  sold  out  and  went  to  Kansas  City  and 
engaged  in  the  hotel  business  there  for  six  months: 
he  then  sold  and  returned  here  and  again  became 
pr(»|)rietor  r)f  the  Mi.-souri  House,  where  he  con- 
tinned  for  three  years  and  six  nxinths.  After  this  he 
sold  out  and  became  connected  with  the  police 
force  as  a  regular  ixiliceman,  and  served  seven 
years  and  eight  montlis.  While  engaged  in  his 
duties,  he  showed  such  talent  thai  in  lS!t2  lie  w!x.s 
appointeil  on  secret  detective  work. 

Our  subject  was  married  herein  |H«(I,  to  Miss 
Olive  Summons,  born  in  A<lams  County, a  daughter 
of  Isaac  Sammons.  They  have  three  childien: 
(  hiin  T..  Or:i  .M..  anil  Zolo.     Mr.    Fealheringill    is 


a  nieml)er  of  the  Inde|>endent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, of  the  Mnlual  Aid  .Society  of  Illinois,  of 
the  Christian  Ciiuich,  aiiil  is  a  Democrat,  very 
active  in  politics,  having  been  a  delegate  lo  .Slate 
and  coiinly  eonventions.  While  in  Fall  Creek,  he 
was  Treasurer  of  the  Hoard  of  lligliw:iy  Commis- 
sioners and  School  Diiectur  three  years. 

(»ur  subject  is  an  old  settler  of  Adam>  Cnuiity. 
and  his  varied  experiences  make  him  a  very  pleas- 
anl  person  to  meet. 


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lQV~ 


1^/li  ADISON  WII.I.AKD.  a   pnmiinent   fanner 
of  section  10,  Houston  Township,  is  a  na- 
tive of  Cliiy  County,  Mo.,  born  November 
*  -'.'i.  \x-2».     His  father,  .lames  Willaid.  em- 

igrated with  his  family  from  Tennessee  in  1N20, 
and  settled  in  .Missouri.  The  land  was  so  wild 
that  the  family  was  obliged  to  spend  part  of  the 
lime  in  the  liovernment  fort,  for  protection  from 
the  Indians.  They  sixm  tired  of  the  new  couiilr\ 
and  returned  to  Tennessee.  It  w!i»  while  li\  ing 
in  tlie  wilds  of  Missouri  that  our  subject  wsis 
born. 

When  Madison  was  twelve  years  old.  the  family 
moved  to  Morgan  County.  111.,  in  lM:t2.  He  was 
old  enough  to  see  .•iiul  reiiieiuber  various  incident.s 
of  pioneer  life,  and  is  familiar  with  many  of  the 
hardships  that  pioneei-s  were  made  to  sutler  in  the 
building  up  of  this  vast  State.  His  p.arents,  like 
nearly  all  of  the  eaily  settlers,  were  poor  and  were 
obliged  to  get  along  .-is  best  they  could,  .Madi- 
son's school  advantages  were  limited,  as,  when  he 
could  have  attended  them,  even  the  rude  schools 
that  were  held  in  log  houses,  with  slabs  for  seats, 
were  not  eslnblished,  and  when  the\'  were,  he  was 
obliged  to  keep  steadily  at  work  to  e:irn  hi--  own 
living.  However,  he  did  manage  to  olit.ain  .-i  few 
months' schooling  at  one  of  these.  His  help  was 
needed  on  the  farm  so  badly  thai  it  was  no  easy 
matter  to  get  any  lime  for  self-improvement,  but 
what  Mr.  Willard  lacked  in  (ducatimi  from  books 
he  has  made  up  in  experience.     There  was  a  great 


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deal  of  work  to  be  done  on  that  farm.     Tlie  land 

had  to  be  cleared  and  broken,  and  the  crop 
planted.  The  prairies  were  alive  with  deer  and 
wolves,  and  as  lie  was  fond  of  hunting,  he  killed 
nian3'  a  deer,  and  the  family  were  never  without 
fresh  venison  for  very  long  at  a  time.  He  became 
a  good  marksman,  and  could  kill  a  deer  when  rid- 
ing on  horseback  at  break-neck  speed,  and  there 
was  notliing  lie  enjoyed  better  than  such  sport. 

After  Mr.  Willard  had  grown  to  manhood,  he 
purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land, 
near!}'  all  level  prairie,  in  the  "Big  Neck"  section 
of  Houston  Township.  He  built  a  log  cabin  and 
broke  the  prairie  land  with  five  yoke  of  oxen, 
and  also  broke  considerable  land  for  neighbors.  He 
located  on  his  present  farm  early  in  the  'oOs, 
and  now  owns  Ave  hundred  acres  of  land, all  very 
choice.  He  did  a  great  deal  of  stock-raising  in  his 
younger  days.  He  has  an  interest  in  the  Edison 
Silver  Mine,  near  Aspen,  Colo.,  and  he  is  one  of 
the  original  stockholders  and  developers  of  the 
mine,  which  paj'S  him  a  handsome  income. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1855  to  Lucina  Tay- 
lor, of  New  York,  who  while  young  came  West  with 
her  parents.  She  died  a  few  ^ears  after  her  mar- 
riage, leaving  a  daughter,  Elmyra,  now  the  wife 
of  Laurence  Miller,  a  farmer  of  this  township. 
She  was  quite  young  when  her  mother  died,  but 
her  father  reared  her  and  gave  her  a  good  educa- 
tion. 

Mr.  Willard  is  an  industrious  man  and  has 
earned  all  his  property  himself.  He  is  a  Democrat 
in  politics  and  takes  a  livel_y  interest  in  local 
affairs,  as  well  as  those  of  the  State  and  Nation. 


^•S-S-t-!-' 


+*-S"5-'^ 


I  EV.  LOUIS  VON  RAGUE.  The  advantages 
and  possibilities  of  this  country  are  not, 
under  its  .system  of  free  government  by  the 
^^  people,  open  to  American-born  citizens  ex- 
clusively, but  to  all  nationalities  who  seek  its  citi- 
zenship. No  nation  in  the  world  has  broader,  more 
prolific  and  definite  fields  for  every  class  of  human 


activity  than  the  United  States,  and  all  it  requires 
to  realize  these  advantages  is  the  cultivation  of  the 
gifts  of  nature  in  the  direction  that  taste  or  oppor- 
tunity suggests.  These,  with  the  concentration  of 
perseverance,  faithful  methods  and  high  aims  there- 
with, are  the  requisites  essential  to  secure  success  in 
the  pursuits  of  life. 

This  is  shown  in  the  career  of  Rev.  Louis  von 
Rague,  a  native  of  (lutersloh,  German^',  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1830,  and  at  jjresent  the  popular  pastor 
of  Salem  (German  Evangelical  Church,  Quincy,  111. 
His  parents,  Charles  and  Fredrica  (Schmidt)  von 
Rague,  were  natives  of  (Jermany  and  thei-e  spent 
their  entire  lives.  Our  subject,  the  second  son  of 
a  family  of  five  eliildrcn,  ])assed  his  youthful  days 
in  Gutersloh,  Germany,  and  received  a  good  edu- 
cation in  tiie  schools  of  that  place.  J./ater,  he  entered 
the  University  of  Osnabruck,  at  Munster,  and  pur- 
sued his  studies  faithfully  for  ten  years,  graduat- 
ing in  1864. 

The  same  year,  imbued  with  a  desire  for  a  new 
field  in  which  to  exercise  his  energies,  our  subject 
emigrated  to  the  United  States  and  landed  at  New 
York  City.  From  there  he  went  to  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  and  there  took  charge  of  Trieden's  Church, 
of  which  he  remained  th(!  pastor  for  three  years. 
Leaving  that  city,  he  went  to  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  and 
assumed  charge  of  St.  Paul's  German  Evangelical 
Church  in  1868,  and  ministered  to  the  spiritual 
wants  of  his  fellow-men  in  that  city  for  four  years. 
From  there,  Mr.  von  Rague  moved  to  Hoyleton, 
Washington  County,  III.,  in  1872,  and  after  re- 
maining there  for  six  years  and  doing  much  good 
with  his  earnest,  sincere  words,  he  went  to  New 
Orleans,  La.,  where  he  became  pastor  of  St.  Roasters, 
Church,  continuing  in  the  Sunny  .'^outii  for  three 
years. 

In  the  fall  of  1882.  ISIr.  von  Rague  came  to 
Quincy,  111.,  and  became  pastor  of  Salem  fiernian 
FJvangelical  Church,  and  this  position  he  still  holds, 
having  five  hundred  families  in  his  congregation. 
Since  his  pastorate  here,  he  has  not  allowed  the 
work  of  the  church  to  be  at  a  standstill,  either 
spiritually  or  practically.  He  is  highly  res[)ected 
by  all  classes  in  general,  and  is  deeply  interested 
in  the  good  work  in  which  he  is  engaged.  A  gen- 
tleman of  fine  physique,  he  also  [lossesses  excellent 


PORTRAIT  AM)  IMOORAPIIICAI.    HKCoRD. 


•22.-. 


ijiialities  its  h  inini  of  (■diicatioii  and  refinoinent. 
Me  iiiiptirts  ><iii;;iiliir  pntlms  uiid  niiiiimtioii  to  Wis 
(li'livi'i'V.  .•mil  lii>  elo(|iUMir«'  ami  i'Hriif>tiii'.ss  have 
iK'cn  i^^<t^llllR■lltnl  in  lirinjiini:  iii.tiiy  I"  tin-  feci  of 
(.'hrist. 

In  the  yi'Rv  I  SOU,  Mr.  vcii  Raguo  wiis  uinrricd  to 
Miss  Nicoline  (irabnii,  who  was  iioni  in  Hromcn, 
(icrnmiiv,  inicl  who  is  a  ladv  of  niiicli  rolinuniont 
and  ta.'-to.  The  pleasant  lionii-  wliereiii  the  family 
of  oiir  sniiject  ja^allicr  together  is  located  on  Ninth 
Street,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  State  Street.  In 
the  family  are  seven  children,  six  at  home  and 
one  married. 


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W .  I.INDSKY  is  a  ])rogresi<ive  and  success- 
ful farmer  of  Concord  Township,  resid- 
ini;  on  .section  i;i,  alK)ut  five  miles  from 
Clayton,  lie  claims  Illinois  as  the  .Slate  of 
his  nativity,  having  lK>en  horn  in  Schuyler  County, 
in  1HI3.  lie  comes  of  an  fild  family  of  Virginia. 
Ills  pat^'rnal  jjraiidfather  served  in  the  War  of 
1812.  His  parents  were  .lohn  and  .lane  (Davis) 
Lindsey,  the  former  a  native  of  the  Old  Domin- 
ion, and  the  latter  of  Ohio.  Their  famil\  iium- 
liered  two  sonsan<I  seven  daufthtors.  of  whom  live 
are  now  living. 

Our  suliject,  who  is  the  sixth  in  order  of  liirtli, 
s|>enl  his  entire  life  in  Illinois  and  under  the 
parental  roof  was  reared  to  manhood.  His  educa- 
tion wits  aci|uired  in  the  common  scIkm.Is  of  the 
neighborhood,  but  at  the  age  of  seventeen  he  left 
.<icliooI  and  gave  his  entire  time  to  farm  work.  He 
aided  his  father  until  he  had  attained  iiis  inajt.rity, 
and  then  .assumed  the  management  of  the  home 
farm,  which  he  had  in  charge  until  twenty-eight 
years  of  age.  He  then  began  fanning  for  himself. 
and  purchased  fifty  acres  of  land  in  Brown 
County,  for  which  he  paid  ♦l.OOO.  He  is  a  man 
of  good  business  ability,  enterprising  and  indus- 
trious, and  by  his  well-direct«d  efforts  has  won  suc- 
cess.     I'poii  his  fii-st  farm  he  matlc  his   home   until 


1876,  when  be  rcmovetl  to  this  county  and  pur- 
chased his  present  farm  of  sixty  acres.  His  land  is 
all  iintler  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  from  the 
pleasant  dwelling  to  the  remotest  corner  of  the 
pl.ice.  and  everything  is  neat  and  thrifty  in  appear- 
ance. 

In  1K72,  Mr.  Lindsey  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Mi.ss  A'irginia  1'.,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Sarah  (Miinday)  I'iles.  She  wxs  born  in  IHM. 
Four  children  grace  their  union,  as  f<dlows:  Rosa 
I.ee,  Imu'ii  in  1H74;  Klsie  Heatrice,  in  lK7fi;  ISertlia 
\'iola,  in  1h7H;  and  .lames  .Marcus,  in  I«S(l.  The 
children  are  still  under  the  parental  roof  and  are 
attending  the  jjublic  schools. 

Mr.  I-indscy  is  a  meinlM'r  of  the  .Modern    W I- 

inen's  society,  and,  in  politics,  is  a  supporter  of  the 
Republican  )>arty.  He  is  a  faithful  citizen  and  is 
a  friend  to  all  enterprises  calculated  to  prove  of 
public  benefit.  He  manifested  his  loyally  to  the 
fioverninent  during  the  late  war  by  joining  the 
One  Hundred  and  Nineteenth  Illinois  Infantry  in 
186.3,  but  on  account  of  physical  disability  his 
services  were  not  accepted.  All  social,  educational 
and  moral  interests  find  in  him  a  friend,  and  his 
neigliljors  and  ac<|uaintances  all  speak  <if  Mr. 
Lindsey  in  terms  r>f  praise  and  respect. 


!|  ,>I1.I.IS  llAM'.l.Wool).  li  aflfords  uspleas- 
\       /     lire  to  plaiv  before  our  readers  an  outline 

5  y  of  the  hislt.ry  of  thisgentlemaii.  who  occu- 
pies the  important  position  of  County  Clerk  of 
Adams  County.  He  was  born  in  I'ayson  Town- 
ship, .September  H,  1838,  and  is  tin-  second  son  and 
child  in  the  family  of  eight  children  born  to. lames 
and  Klizaljcth  (Hnskirk)   llaselwood. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  natives  of 
tiiant  County.  Ky..  and  two  years  before  the  birth 
of  Willis,  irame  to  Adams  County  and  made  a  hn-a- 
lion  in  what  is  now  I'ayson  Township,  where  the 
father  carried  on  general  farming  and  spent  his 
last  days,  dying  Septemlter  16.  1867.  The  mother, 
who    is    still     living    in     the   village   of     I'avson. 


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was  born  August  8,  1814,  and  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Buskirk.  The  ancestors  on  both 
sides  of  the  house  originally  came  from  Ire- 
land, but  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  wlio  bore 
the  name  of  John  Ilaselwood,  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky, in  which  State  liis  fatiier  was  one  of  the  early 
settlers. 

Our  subject  passed  his  boyhood  and  early 
school  days  on  the  farm  in  Payson  Township, 
where  he  remained  and  aided  his  father  in  its  cul- 
tivation until  reacliing  his  majority,  wlien  lie  left 
home  and  became  a  student  in  Berean  College, 
Jacksonville,  111.  After  leaving  that  institution, 
he  utilized  his  learning  by  teaching  school  at  in- 
tervals for  a  period  of  ten  years.  This  was  during 
tiie  winter  season,  and  in  the  summer  he  gave  his 
attention  to  agriculture  until  1873. 

The  lady  who  liecame  the  wife  of  onr  sul)ject 
October  14,  1858,  was  jNIiss  Olive  S.  Bean,  of  this 
county,  of  whicii  she  is  a  native.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  John  Bean,  who  located  in  this  sec- 
tion as  early  as  1831.  and  who  was  highly  esteemed 
in  agricultural  circles.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hascl- 
wood  have  been  born  two  children  who  are  living: 
Margaret  Z.,  now  the  wife  of  George  C.  Parkhurst, 
of  Quincy;  and  Willis  II.  Our  subject  takes  an 
intelligent  interest  in  politics,  and  is  a  faithful 
adherent  of  the  Democratic  party,  on  which  ticket 
he  was  elected  County  Clerk  in  187.'5,  for  a  term  of 
four  years,  lie  proved  himself  a  most  etticient 
officer,  and  has  since  held  the  position  by  re-elec- 
tion for  nineteen  years.  While  living  on  his  farm, 
he  was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  also  As- 
sessor and  Collector,  all  of  whicli  offi'ces  he  filled 
with  characteristic  ability. 

Mr.  Haselwood  is  the  proprietor  of  a  valuable 
estate,  comprising  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
land  in  iSIelrose  Township,  which  by  its  neat  and 
finely  improved  apjiearance  betokens  thrift  and 
good  care  on  tiie  pait  of  the  owner.  He  is  very 
prominent  in  business  circles,  and  is  Mce-president 
of  the  Ricker  National  Bank  of  i^uincy,  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Gem  City  Building  ct  Loan  Association, 
and  occupies  the  same  position  in  the  W.  L.  Distin 
Ice  and  Produce  Company.  '  Socially,  he  is  a 
member  of  Payson  Lodge  No.  379,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M.;    Quincy    Chapter   No.    5,   R.    A.    M.;    is    also 


connected  with  llii'  Illinois  Mutual  Aid  and  the 
Firemen's  P>enevolent  Association.  He  occu- 
pies a  beautiful  residence  at  No.  403  South 
Sixteenth  Street,  and  as  cme  of  our  best  citizens  is 
deservedly  pupular  with  all  who  know  him. 


ii^i-i^liM^^ 


^^  HRISTOPHER  WALKER,  one  of  the  exten- 
(l(  sive  lan<l-owners  of  this  county,  who  has  a 

^^7  kigl'lj'  improved  farm  of  four  hundred  and 
ninety  acres  on  section  35,  North  East  Township, 
claims  North  Carolina  as  the  State  of  his  nativity. 
He  was  born  in  1827,  and  is  of  Irish  and  English 
descent.  He  is  one  ol  a  family  of  seven  sons  and 
two  daughters:  Sarah  W..  born  in  North  Carolina, 
became  the  wife  of  John  Moraii,  and  died  in  Kan- 
sas; .1.  P>i-aiison  is  married,  and  resides  in  North 
East  Township;  P^Hzabeth  is  the  wife  of  .Samuel 
Dorsett,  a  farmer  of  Kansas;  Jesse  wedded  Mary 
Davis. 

We  now  take  up  the  pers()nal  history  of  our  sub- 
ject, who  acquired  his  education  in  the  district 
schools  of  North  East  Township,  but  his  privileges 
were  very  limited.  His  father  was  a  cripple,  and 
when  (piite  a  young  man  Christopher  w.as  obliged 
to  tnrn  his  attention  to  the  farm  and  the  suiiport 
of  the  fnmil\-.  He  continued  to  work  for  his  father 
until  twenty-two  years  of  age,  when  he  started 
out  in  life  for  himself.  In  connection  with  his 
brother  James,  he  secured  one  hundred  and  sixtv 
acres  of  land  from  the  (Government,  and  liegau 
the  develoi)ment  of  a  farm.  Since  that  time  he 
has  devoted  his  entire  attention  to  the  develop- 
ment of  agricultural  piirsnits,  and  success  has 
crowned  his  efforts.  He  afterwards  sold  his  first 
farm,  and  has  made  several  other  purchases  of 
land  since.  At  length  he  purchased  two  hundred 
and  forty  acres  of  land,  his  present  homestead,  to 
which  he.  has  added  until  four  lumdied  and  ninety 
acres  of  well-improved  land  yield  to  him  a  golden 
tribute  in  return  for  the  care  and  cultivation  he 
bestows  upon  it.  Glancing  at  his  |)l.ace,  we  see 
good  buildings  in   the  midst    of    well-tilled  fields. 


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KtirrUAIT  AND  BIDCRAl'IIK  AI.    HKCOHD. 


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ftiul  till'  lu'iit  1111(1  thrifty  n|ipi>ai'!iiu'f  of  llii'  plm-i- 
iinlic.'ili's  tin-  supervision  of  n  c-aii'ful  m:in!i<joi-. 

Mr.  Walker  lias  lioi-n  twice  inurricTl.  In  IHI'.i,  he 
wius  joined  in  wedliH-k  witli  Miss  Man  Alexaufier, 
a  native  of  X'irjjinia.  Itv  llioir  union  were  liorn 
nine  eliildren.  seven  of  whom  are  \cl  living.  Af- 
ter the  jleath  of  his  first  wife,  Mr.  Walker  nnirried 
Melissa  A.  Kvans,  liy  wliom   he  hail  two  children. 

In  relifiions  lielicf,  Mr.  Walker  is  a  Presbyte- 
rian, lie  has  been  connected  with  that  ehnreh  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  takes  an  active  inl<'rest  in 
its  upbnildinir  and  pro",'ress.  In  early  life  he  did 
n<»t  follow  in  the  politital  footsteps  of  his  father, 
who  was  :i  Democrat,  but  supported  the  Whi<r 
parly,  and,  on  the  or<;ani/.ation  of  the  Uepublican 
party,  he  joined  its  ranks.  I'ublic-spirited  and 
progressive,  he  takes  an  active  interest  in  all  that 
pertains  to  the  welfare  of  the  community,  and  his 
fellow-townsmen  recognize  in  him  a  valued  citi- 
zen, lie  has  lived  a  (juiet,  unassuming  life,  but 
his  honorable  career  has  won  him  manv  friends. 


r.  ('()I,\'IN.  I'lion  the  line  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  richly  im- 
l)roved  land  on  section  2(1,  I  rsa  Township, 
may  be  found  the  original  of  this  notice. 
the  oldest  living  settler  here,  and  nlu>se  family  is 
one  of  the  most  prominent  in  the  township. 

The  father  of  our  sul)ject  was  (leorgc  C'olvin,  a 
native  of  C'ulpeper  County,  \'a.,  born  in  17S1. 
He  was  reared  in  Kentucky  and  lost  his  parents  at 
an  early  day.  Heing  unable  to  serve  in  the  War 
of  1H12,  he  furnished  a  substitute,  lie  was  mar- 
ried in  Kentucky  and  lived  all  his  life  a  farmer 
and  a  member  of  the  15aptisl  Church.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  was  Nancy  Davis,  who  was  bdrn  in 
1789,  and  was  the  daughter  (jf  (Jeorge  Davis,  who 
emigrated  from  X'irginia  to  Kentucky  and  ilied 
there. 

Of  the  eight  children  born  to  the  parents  of  our 
subject,  only  himself  and   Mrs.  Cyulhia  .\.  Duncan. 


of  I 'rsa,  remain,  lie  was  liorn  in  Tendletiui  Count  \. 
Ky..  February  21,  IHl.'i.  and  was  reared  to  manhood 
on  a  farm,  lie  aftenvard  learned  the  trade  of  a 
I'lHiper,  and  came  to  Illinois  in  Ih;!h.  He  settled 
on  section  2o.  in  ri>a  Township,  where  the  land 
was  all  wilrl,  but  he  was  a  man  of  great  energy  and 
he  soon  had  a  nice  fi-ame  house  built,  which  is  still 
standing.  The  land  was  then  almost  all  wild  prairie, 
and  neigliboi-s  were  few  and  scattered,  while  the 
roads  were  mere  Indian  paths  through  the  woods. 
.Among  the  early  settlers  who  came  herein  \H:Vt  was 
the  f.amily  of  Stephen  Itooth.  who  cinignited  from 
Kentucky.  Ileliroughl  with  him  his  wife,  Kliza- 
beth.and  his  daughter  Kli/alH-lh.and  the  lalter,  who 
was  born  in  l«l'.t.  became  the  beloved  wife  of  our 
subject  in  l«|ii.  They  were  the  parents  of  six 
chililren.  five  of  whom  arc  yet  living:  ISelle  is  the 
wife  of  Dr.  .loseph  Cadwell,  anil  lives  in  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  the  mother  of  one  child;  .losliua  married 
Miss  Newcomer,  .•mil  lives  in  Chariton  Coiinlv. 
.Mu..  ■•iiid  has  live  children.  .S'phreua:  Kinil\  is  the 
wife  of  Milton  Kirk|)atrick  and  lives  in  Chaiiloii 
Counlv.  Mo., and  li.as six  children:  .'iiid  (ieoii;e  mar- 
ried Miss  Brown,  and  lives  in  Ndiiie  Couiit\.  .Mo. 
Oursnbjecl  was  again  married,  in  1h.">I.  .Miss  Sarah 
Kirkpatriek,  a  native  of  this  county,  becoming  his 
wife.  They  had  two  childien:  .lames,  married  to 
.MissShephard,  lives  in  this  township  and  has  three 
children:  and  I.illie  is  the  wife  of  (irant  lirown,  is 
the  mother  of  four  boys,  and  lives  in  Neosha 
County,  Kan.  Our  subject  lost  his  fii-st  wife  in 
1H.")2.  and  his  seconil  in  IHCT.  In  IKfiH,  he  married 
Miss  Mary  I-"..  Hedges,  who  was  born  in  ISourUui 
County,  Ky.,  in  1M2K.  and  wa»  the  daughter  of 
William  Hedges,  an  early  settler. 

Mr.  Colvin  has  livecl  in  this  township  for  llie 
space  of  fifty-four  years  and  h:is  improved  two 
farms.  He  came  to  this  wildernessempty-handi'd, 
but  possessed  a  good  constitution,  a  good  trade, 
and  was  very  industrious,  and  now  has  one  liiiii- 
(Ired  and  sixty  of  the  In-st  acres  in  the  couiil\. 
He  biiill  his  line  brick  house  in  IHt'i,'),  and  luiriied 
the  brick  on  the  farm.  This  is  the  finest  house  in 
the  township,  and  his  other  buildings  match 
it.  He  has  given  his  children  good  ediicntions, 
niid  ha.-  I'carcd  them  to  !«  .self-jtupporting.  Mr. 
Colvin  hits  bei-n  an  t  tdd  Fellow,  and  was  !i  charter 


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meinbiT  of  Lodge  No.  12,  of  <^uinc3'.  He  has  held 
the  office  of  Trustee  of  the  township  for  eighteen 
years  at  one  time,  and  six  at  another.  He  has  been 
School  Director  for  years.  In  his  political  opin- 
ions, he  was  first  a  Whig,  but  later  became  a  Re- 
publican. 

One  son  of  Mr.  C'olvin,  Joshua,  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Civil  War,  a  member  of  the  Seventy-eighth 
Illinois  Infantry,  and  was  shot  three  times,  and  at 
Bentonville,  N.  C,  was  seriously  wounded. 


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■^  OIIN  L.  IMOORE  is  one  of  the  class  of  men 
singled  out  b^-  nature  to  show  what  a  man 
can  do  when  he  sets  his  mind  upon  accom- 
plishing a  certain  object.  He  is  a  self-made 
man,  and  what  he  has  accomplished  in  the  way  of 
this  world's  goods,  and  in  personal  achievement,  is 
wholly  due  to  his  own  good  fighting  qualities 
and  to  his  intelligent  and  practical  views  on 
all  matters  of  importance.  He  keeps  thoroughly 
posted  on  the  general  topics  of  the  day,  and  per- 
sonally is  one  of  the  most  popular  of  men,  his 
generous  and  amiable  disposition,  and  his  kindly 
manner,  winning  him  the  friendship  of  all  who 
are  so  fortunate  as  to  enter  the  wide  circle  of  his 
friendship.  He  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
.January  1.'),  1820,  the  eldest  son  in  a  familj- of 
nine  children,  and  until  iie  attained  the  age  of 
thirteen  years  he  was  a  resident  of  his  native  city. 
In  1833,  he  turned  his  footsteps  in  the  direction 
of  the  setting  sun,  and  eventually  found  himself 
in  Hillsboro,  111.,  where  he  remained  until  Novem- 
ber, 1833,  at  which  time,  as  he  was  desirous  of  ob- 
taining a  good  education,  he  entered  Jacksonville 
College,  where  he  pursued  his  studies  with  dili- 
gence for  eight  months.  In  1834-3.5,  he  came  to 
Quincy,  III.,  and  the  following  year  started  with  a 
company  under  Capt.  Farnsworth  on  a  trip  to 
Oregon,  but  as  the  country  was  in  a  wild  and  un- 
settled condition  at  this  time,  they  only  succeeded 
in  getting  as  far  as  Western  Kansas,  after  which 
they    retuineil    home,    reaching    Quincy    in     the 


month  of  August  of  the  same  year.  The  following 
November,  Mr.  Moore  started  by  steamboat  up 
the  Mississippi  River  to  the  pine  regions  of  Wis- 
consin, but,  on  account  of  an  accident  to  their  boat, 
he  and  the  rest  of  the  party  were  compelled  to  re- 
turn to  (Quincy  the  same  winter,  making  the 
entire  distance  from  Prairie  du  Chien  on  foot,  the 
journey  occupying  thirteen  days. 

To  one  of  his  nature,  this  disappointment  only 
fixed  more  flrml}'  in  his  mind  the  determination 
to  reach  the  luml)er  regions  of  the  North,  and  in 
the  fall  of  1840  he  again  started  for  the  pine  belt, 
this  time  making  the  journey  by  land.  That  win- 
ter was  spent  in  a  sawmill,  and  the  following 
spring  he  came  down  the  river  to  Galena  with  two 
flat-boats  loaded  with  shingles,  which  they  sold 
and  then  came  to  (Quincy.  He  returned  to  the 
farm  on  which  his  father  had  settled,  and  until 
the  spring  of  1843  assisted  him  in  tilling  the  soil, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  began  learning  the 
trade  of  a  rope-maker.  In  1846,  he  started  a  fac- 
tory of  his  own  on  the  Roanoke  River,  and  made 
large  quantities  of  rope  for  use  in  the  mines. 

In  November,  1846,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Ellen  Hague,  a  daughter  of  William  Hague,  of 
Quincj',  111.  In  the  spring  of  1847,  he  started 
a  vinegar  factory  in  Quincy,  but  sold  out 
at  the  end  of  two  years,  and  in  November 
moved  out  to  a  farm  near  t^uincy,  where  he 
tilled  the  soil  for  three  years.  In  July,  1858, 
he  started  with  his  wife  for  a  trip  to  Eu- 
rope, where  they  remained  until  the  following 
January.  On  their  return  trip  they  took  pass- 
age at  Liverpool,  England,  for  New  York  City, 
but  the  voyage  was  a  very  stormy  and  tem- 
pestuous one  and  lasted  twenty-two  days.  Tlie 
fall  of  1860  again  found  them  residents  of  Quincy, 
and  here,  in  1861,  Mr.  Moore  received  his  ap- 
pointment to  the  (Quartermaster's  Department,  in 
which  capacity  he  served  under  Capt.  Newton  Flag 
for  three  years. 

In  November,  1864,  he  lost  his  wife,  and  in  Jan- 
uary. 1866,  he  took  for  his  second  wife  Miss 
Katherine  F.  Booth,  a  daughter  of  Stephen  Booth, 
of  Ulster  Township,  Adams  County,  and  their 
union  has  resulted  in  the  birth  of  a  daughter. 
Two  years  after  his  last  marriage,  Mr.  Moore  pur- 


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rliH^ed  his  |)io|)erty  on  Fawley  I'laci'.  iit  tlic  conicr 
of  'rwciily-fiiiirtli  hikI  I.ikmi^I  Strt-ots,  wliicli  iimki'.«* 
line  iif  llic  li:iiiil^iiMi<->t  privaU-  ivsiiii'iit't"*  in  llio 
city,  'riu-  lioii'**.'  is  II  line  hrii'k  striiftiirt',  ami  ilic 
^roiiiuU  aix-  »'xtfii-ivi' mill  lii'Muiifiilly  kf|il,  (inttcil 
with  sInU'ly  iisitivo  tivt's  nml  li'':iutlful  >liriili'<  of 
V!iriiiu>i  kinds.  The  pniiKTty  on  which  tlic  Churcli 
i>f  Uie  (mkkI  Sli(|i|ii'i(l  is  l(K-»t(>(l  was  diinatcH  hy 
.Mr.  .Mtiiirt'.  ami  wa.-  valiicil  at  it.'K.'ifMi,  and  lu'  w;is 
the  .Hole  huildei'  nf  St.  .Milan's  (Impel  of  l^iiinev 
deedinif  the  property  to  Hi>li<>p  .Mexamler  Huri;e.ss. 
In  nuMieroiis  other  ways  his  life  has  heen  made 
illustrious  hy  kind  <]eeds.and  he  may  with  truth  Ih' 
termed  a  ino<lei  .\nierican  eili/.en.  l'ei>onall_\', 
and  in  ever\'  privat*'  relation  and  <luty  of  life,  loo 
much  can  not  he  sjiid  in  his  praise,  for  he  is  liltcral, 
{feneroiis  and  hi!.'li-niin>h'd.  and  the  soul  of  true 
honor  and  unlMiunded  i^reatness  of  heart. 

lie  i>  inde|)endent  in  his  ptditical  views,  and 
for  the  past  seven  years  he  has  held  the  position 
of  .luslice  of  the  I'e.ace,  and  adjusted  lii>  neighbors' 
differences  with  impartiality  and   <;ood   judgment. 


•*,  AMI'i;!,  A.  I.KK.  The  sjentlenian  whose 
name  appeai-s  at  the  head  of  this  .•uticle  is 
^^  the  pleasant  and  accommodating  Agent  for 
the  .Xmerican  Kxpress  Company,  at  i^uincy. 
III.  If  it  were  our  purpose  tt»  write  an  essay  u|Min 
ancestry,  we  would  come  to  Mr.  l>ee  for  infornui- 
lion.  as  any  man  who  can  trace  his  line  hack  for 
six  generations  might  well  lie  informed  und  inter- 
ested upon  the  subject. 

Samuel  .Mien  I.ee  was  the  father  of  our  -uliject 
and  w'»s  Ixirn  in  l-jist  Hloomlicid,  Ontario  County, 
N.  v.,  .lanuary  1,  IHl  I.  He  was  the  son  of  .lona- 
than  I.ee.  wliose  natal  day  was  .Inly  IH.  ITHI.and 
his  liirthplace  was  I'ittstield.  »Mass.  lie  was  married 
to  Lucy  PIgglesUjn,  who  was  born  in  Shellleld,  Mass. 
.lonRtlian  I.ee  w;is  a  farmer  in  Kast  Hloomtield, 
.\.  v..  liut  died  in  Clarence,  N.  \.,  in  18.'>2.  To 
tills  union  there  were  born  seven  children,  but  one 
of  whom   IS  now   living,  namely.  .lohn  H..  who  re- 


>ides  in  Krie  (ounty.  N.  \..  aged  eighty-three 
yeai>.  The  father  of  .lonathan  was  Dr.  .hmathan 
I.ee,  born  in  Massachusett-.  in  171.').  ,'iml  lii>  fa- 
ther wa-  the  liev.  .lonathan.  also  a  native  of  the 
Hay  StJite.  whose  father  wa>  David  I.ee.  a  native 
of  .Mas-sli-huM-tts  anrl  a  son  of  .lohn  I,ee,  who  wa.s 
born  in  Kngland  ami  caine  to  Maivsaehusetts  in 
1(>:M. 

The  father  of  imr  Subject  wn>  a  valued  employe 
of  the  .\n)cri<"!in  Kxpress  Company  for  many  years, 
!inil  was  the  llrst  money  messenger  that  ran  Im-- 
Iwecn  liulTalo  and  H<K'hester,  N.  Y.  In  a  wreck 
on  this  road,  he  was  ex|Mtsed  and  received  a  heavy 
cold,  from  which  resulted  pneunwinia  and  he  died 
Octolier  t,  1HI«,  iH'fore  the  birth  of  our  subject. 
Ills  wife  wasParitta  M.  Caldwell,  who  was  liorn  in 
Westmoreland  County,  .\.  Y.,  Septemlier  2H.  \><'2'2. 
She  died  Auijust  ■>\.  1HI'.«,  of  the  cholera,  when  her 
balw.  always  fatherlcvs,  was  less  than  a  year  old. 
Thus  were  two  children  left  orphans,  a-*  Saimu-i 
lijid  a  sister;  l>ut  she  too  was  taken  awa\,al  the 
age  of  fourteen  years,  while  un<ler  the  len<Ier  care 
of  an  uncle  and  aunt  in  Kl^'in.  III. 

The  good  uncle  above-mentiinied  was  an  en- 
gineer on  the  Lakes,  and  tn  his  hospitable  home 
went  the  poor  little  orphan>  when  bereft  of  both 
natural  guardians.  .Vt  that  time,  he  was  liviiiL;  in 
HnfTalo,  but  in  \><^i'2  he  moved  his  family  to  KIgin. 
III.,  although  he  still  continued  his  business  a-  a 
Lake  engineer.  This  worthy  man  and  his  kind  wife 
died  in  KIgin. 

The  genlleiiien  of  whom  we  are  writing  attended 
the  public  scliiKiN.  and  when  but  a  lad  U'gan  to 
clerk  in  both  dry-iromls  and  drug  stores,  and  early 
showed  the  courtesy  :ind  aceomniodatiiig  spirit 
that  have  so  di>tiiigui'-lied  him  ever  since.  When 
eighteen  years  old,  he  went  into  the  employ  of  the 
.Vmeriean  Kxpress  Company.  l«'giiiiiiiig  at  the 
bottom  of  the  ladder,  and  climbing  from  driver  to 
clerk.  Then  he  returned  to  KIgin.  when'  he  wa» 
.Vgent  for  about  two  yeai>,  when  In  wa>  made 
lioiite  .\gent  or  Traveling  .\uditor,  which  position 
he  held  for  about  threi-  months,  or  until  March, 
IHMl,  when  he  w;i>  appointed  to  this  agency  at 
l^uincy. 

The  marriage  of   Mr.  I^e  took  place  in  KIgin,  in 
'    ImTO.  to  Miss  Nettie  Fish,  the  daughter  of  (iordon 


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Fisli,  who  wsis  a  farmer  in  Ohio.  That  was  the 
birthplace  of  Mrs.  Lee,  hut  slie  was  educated  and 
married  in  Elgin.  Two  children  have  been  the 
result  of  tiiis  liappy  marriage,  Howard  Gordon  and 
Ernest  Raymond. 

Mr.  Lee  upholils  the  principles  of  the  Republican 
l)arty,  and  is  firm  in  his  faith  that  in  that  part^'  is 
the  salvation  of  the  country'.  The  social  standing 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lee  is  enviable  and  they  are  well- 
known  and  nnich-admircd  members  of  (juincy 
society.  ISIrs.  Lee  is  a  lovely  lady  and  fills  her 
days  with  liind  deeds  and  thoughts  for  others. 


Ing  the  winter  seasons  attended  the  common 
schools,  which  were  held  in  buildings  of  primitive 
construction  and  rudely  funished  with  slab  seats 
and  desks.     At  the  age  of  nineteen,  he  commenced 


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\f|OSKPH  C.  THOMPSON.  The  professions 
are  well  represented  in  (^uincj'  !)}•  men  of 
mental  culture,  and  practical  knowledge 
^^fJ  and  skill  in  their  various  callings.  Among 
those  whose  abilities  are  widely  recognized,  and 
who  are  numbered  among  the  most  prominent  at- 
torneys-at-law  of  the  city,  is  .Joseph  C.  Thomp- 
son. His  professional  skill  is  recognized  b\' 
all  wlio  have  at  any  time  been  his  clients,  as 
well  as  by  the  general  iniblic,  and  has  been 
the  means  of  securing  for  him  a  great  many 
intricate  cases,  vvhere  legal  acumen  and  exten- 
sive knowledge  have  been  necessary  in  order  to 
attain  success. 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  .John  Thompson, 
traced  his  ancestry  to  Scotland,  and  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  War  of  1812.  The  parents  of  our 
subject,  .Joseph  and  Maria  (Culbertson)  Thomp- 
son, were  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  wliere  they 
spent  their  entire  lives,  dying  in  Indiana  County. 
The  father  followed  the  occupation  of  a  carpenter, 
and  was  a  man  of  honor  and  industrious  habits. 
Their  family  consisted  of  eleven  children,  six  sons 
and  five  daughters,  one  of  whom  died  in  infancy 
and  six  still  survive. 

The  fifth  child  in  the  family  is  .Joseph  C,  who 
was  born  in  IMairsville,  Pa.,  September  18,  182(). 
He  passed  his  youth  in  his  native  county, and  dur- 


teaching,  and  was  thus  engaged  for  two  winters. 

Mr.  Thompson  commenced  to  read  law  vvitli 
Lawrence  T.  Smith,  at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  and  con- 
tinued thus  engaged  until  the  fall  of  1847,  when 
he  came  AVest  with  his  uncles,  Samuel  and  Isaac 
Culbertson,  who  had  a  contract  to  build  a  lock- 
dam  across  the  Wabash  River,  two  miles  north  of 
Ml.  Carmel,  Ind.  Our  subject  remained  as  mana- 
ager  and  book-keeper  for  his  uncles,  whom  he 
aided  until  the  completion  of  their  work.  Then  re- 
turning to  Lebanon,  Ohio,  he  attended  school  for 
two  years,  and  afterward  followed  the  profession 
of  teacher  for  one  3'ear  in  Butler  County,  Ohio. 

After  attending  the  law  school  at  Bloomington, 
Monroe  County,  Ind.,  for  two  years,  Mr.  Thomp- 
son was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Anderson,  Ind.,  in 
the  year  1854,  and  oiiened  an  office  for  prac- 
tice there.  One  3ear  later,  he  removed  to  Frank- 
lin, .lohnson  County,  Ind.,  where  he  practiced 
law  for  about  two  years,  removing  thence  to 
•Macomb,  111.,  and  there  followed  his  profession 
until  1868.  In  the  summer  of  that  .year,  he  came 
to  t^uinc^',  where  he  opened  a  law  office  and  con- 
ducted a  general  practice,  at  the  same  time  su[)er- 
in  tend  ing  a  farm  for  ten  years. 

In  local.  State  and  National  politics,  Mr.  Thomp- 
son takes  an  active  part,  and  is  a  pronounced 
Democrat,  at  all  times  giving  his  party  substantial 
support.  He  was  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
to  the  office  of  .Judge  of  Adams  County,  and 
served  in  that  position  for  four  years  to  the  satis- 
faction of  the  people.  In  1862,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  constitutional  convention  which  was  voted 
down  by  the  people,  and,  while  residing  in  Mc- 
Donough  County,  served  as  School  Commissioner 
for  one  term.  In  his  views  he  is  broad  and  sensi- 
ble, and  all  plans  for  fowarding  the  material  inter- 
ests of  the  county  find  favor  with  him. 

The  lady  who  became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Thoniiison 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Emeline  P.  Eells,  and 
was  .at  the  time  of  her  marriage  a  resident  of  Knox 
County,  111.,  though  her  native  State  was  Ver- 
mont.    She    is    the    daughter    of     Truman     Eells, 


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:i  iintivc  of  X'ci'inoiit,  now  ilecensnd.  Three 
children  wito  burn  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  'rhonip- 
sftii,  one  of  wlioni.  H  lovely  yonnj;  Indy  I'V  the 
name  of  llallie.  died  when  eighteen  years  oUJ. 
'riic  others  .'ire  (  iilherlxin  S.  and  .losepli  K.  'I'he 
family  residence  is  >iluated  on  the  i-orner  »>f  .'sixth 
and  Maine  ."streeb;. 

.Mr.  'rhoni|ison  has  •■ittained  a  position  of  prom- 
inence in  the  coniniiinit\  li\  his  nnaided  ener^^y 
and  aliility.  lie  has  ever  Iteen  {jencrons  in  iiis 
dcalin^js.  and  ha.-  <;ivcn  lilicnilly  of  his  means  to 
the  siiffcrini;  and  poor,  llonoralilc  in  his  actions, 
intellificnl  and  conrteous.  he  i>  deservedly  popular 
amonifj  tiie  people  of  the  (Jem  City. 


'TlL^  <'N- ■'••^I'l'll  N.  CAWTKU.  The  profession 
of  law  has  at  all  times  called  to  il.s  prac- 
tice men  of  liroacl  knowled-re.  wide  research 
and  ifreat  aliilities.  In  the  pursuil  of  their 
daily  duties  along  its  varied  lines  they  have 
found  fame  and  fortune;  have  gained  names  ini- 
perislialile  in  the  world's  liistoiy.  and  have  won 
great  wealth.  .Vmoni;  the  niimlH'r  who  have  for 
.some  veal's  |)racticed  this  profession  in  l^uincy, 
and  have  gained  therein  an  enviahle  reputation 
for  legal  knowledge,  may  be  mentioned  the  name 
of  Mr.  Carter,  one  of  the  leailing  attorneys-at-law 
in  Wotern  Illinois.  During  the  (piarter  of  a  cen- 
tury since  he  wa.--  admitted  to  the  liar  tif  the 
Stjite,  he  hit*  labored  indefatigably  .as  counselor, 
and  the  result  is  that  he  is  recognized  !us  one  of 
the  hesl-informed  lawyers  in  lllinoi.s. 

.\  native  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  Carter  w.as  born  in 
llardin  County,  .March  12.  IM1:{,  and  was  the 
third  in  a  family  of  live  children  born  to  Will- 
iam V.  and  Martha  (.Mays)  Caiter.  His  father  was 
the  .son  of  .lames  Carter,  a  \'irginian,  who  traced 
his  ancestry  to  l-jiglan<l.  and  followed  farming 
pursuits  in  the  Old  Dominion.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  .l.arnes  M;i\s  .-ind  was  likewise 
born  In  N'irninia.  They  were  early  settlers  of 
Kentucky,  where  they  engaged  in  farming  purt>uits   i 


for  many  years.  In  18.')7,  they  removed  to  Charles- 
Ion,  Coles  County.  III.,  where  they  became  well- 
known  as  worthy  people  and  prominent  members 
of  the  farming  c<m)inuiiit\.  They  are  now  IhiiIi 
deceased. 

In  reviewing  the  boyhood  of  our  subject,  tin' 
biographer  linds  but  little  to  chronicle  of  an  un- 
usual nature.  His  time  was  alternateil  between 
attendance  at  the  village  s<'hool  and  work  on  the 
farm.  and.  as  he  was  ipiick  to  learn,  he  gained  a 
good  education  even  under  disailvantages.  For 
a  time,  he  studied  in  the  .siOiool  at  Itig  .Springs, 
Ky.  The  year  following  his  removal  to  Illinois, 
he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Douglas  County, 
where  he  was  a  student  in  the  school  at  Tu>cola 
for  foui' years.  He  then  commenced  for  himself 
as  a  teacher  of  a  country  school,  and  W!i.>  thus 
employeil  for  three  terms.  )n  IXd.'t,  he  entered 
the  Illinois  College,  at  .l.acksoiiville.  where  he 
completeil  the  course  of  stinl\  and  was  graduated 
in  IHCC. 

.\t  once.  :ifler  completing  his  literar\-  educ-a- 
lion,  Mr.  Carter  entered  the  law  department 
of  the  I'niversity  of  .Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  the  Cl;i.ss  of 
'{)H.  Keturning  to  Illinois,  he  came  to  (^uincy 
in  .luly,  IH(;;i.  and  was  admitted  to  practice  :it  the 
liar  of  the  State  in  the  November  fcdlowing.  In 
l«7(l,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  William  II. 
(ioveit  and  soon  esliiblished  a  general  law  pnic- 
tiee.  No  change  was  made  in  the  connection 
until  IH88.  when  Theodore  H.  I'ape  was  admitterl 
to  the  partnership  and  the  lirm  name  changed  to 
Carter,  (lovert  A-  Pape.  which  i>  now  one  of  the 
prominent  linns  of  the  city  and  practices  in  .all  the 
court*.  State  and  federal. 

Aside  from  his  profe.ssional  duties,  Mr.  Carter 
has  always  been  intere.-teil  in  the  welfare  of  the 
city  along  philanlliro[iic,  social  and  moral  lines, 
and  perh.aps  no  citi/en  has  dime  more  than  he  to 
aid  its  arlvaneement  in  those  directions.  Ili>  con- 
nection with  public  affair-  li.as  been  long  and  hou- 
orable.and  he  has  lieen  repeatedly  called  u|iimi  to  oc- 
cupy positions  of  responsibility  .anil  trust,  wherein 
abilities  of  a  superior  order  are  needed.  In  1k7k. 
he  w;i.-  eliM'ted  to  llii'  Thirty-lirsI  (lener.al  .Vssem- 
bly.  and  Ui»   services  were  so   satisfactory    to  bis 


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constituents  that  he  was  re-elected  two  years  later. 
He  also  served  in  the  called  session  of  1882,  which 
was  convened  to  re-district  the  State  into  con- 
gressional and  senatorial  districte.  In  1882,  he 
was  the  Republican  candidate  for  Stale  Senator 
in  Adams  County,  and  was  defeated  by  a  majority 
of  only  five  hundred  in  a  district  which  has  a 
majority  of  fifteen  hundred  Democrats. 

The  marriage  of  3Ir.  Carter  to  Miss  Ellen, 
daugliter  of  George  Barrell,  of  Springfield,  III., 
took  place  December  3,  1879,  and  they  now  make 
their  home  in  an  elegant  brick  residence  which 
Mr.  Carter  recently  erected  in  the  eastern  part  of 
the  city.  Three  children  have  been  born  to  them, 
namely:  Henry  B.,  AVilliam  Douglas  and  Jo- 
sephine. 


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\>^r<m^ 


<^  I»1ELIAM  J.  TAPPE.  The  value  of  any 
\/\l/l  specified  branch  of  i)roduction  to  a  city 
\y^  may  be  coininited  in  various  wa3S  and 
from  many  standpoints,  and  among  the  considera- 
tions by  which  its  importance  should  be  estimated, 
two  of  the  most  imiwrlant  are  the  number  of  per- 
sons to  whom  it  affords  tl»e  means  of  living,  and 
the  aggregate  value  of  the  product.  .ludging 
from  these  points,  the  production  of  clothing 
leads  all  others  in  the  Gem  City.  There  has  been 
a  continuous  growth  in  the  business,  and,  although 
l)riees  have  considerably  declined  of  late  years, 
there  is  still  a  steady  increase  in  the  value  of  the 
annual  product,  while  in  the  volume  of  the  output 
the  increase  is  still  more  marked. 

Prominent  among  the  successful  and  euterpri.s- 
ing  business  men  of  <.iuinc3-.  111.,  stands  William 
J.  Tappe,  who  is  the  most  capable  Vice-president 
and  Superintendent  of  the  (^uincy  Shirt  &  Overall 
Company,  of  tliat  thriving  city.  Men  are  to  be 
judged  by  achievements,  and  it  is  always  safe  to 
accept  results  as  a  proof  of  the  possession  of  the 
powers  and  capabilities  which  lead  up  to  them. 
Of  the  successes  in  the  business  world  which  have 
been  earned  by   the  exercise  of  sound  judgment. 


thorough  business  tact  and  indomitable  energy, 
there  is  no  more  eminent  exemplar  in  t^uincy  than 
the  gentleman  mentioned  above.  He  is  a  native 
of  West  Virginia,  born  in  Lewis  County  in  Novem- 
ber, 1859,  and  in  1866  his  parents,  W.  D.  and  Be- 
linda (Shinn)  Tappe,  moved  to  (^uincy.  111.,  where 
the  former  followed  the  occupation  of  a  painter. 
He  is  still  a  resident  of  (Juincy  and  is  a  man  re- 
spected by  all. 

Our  subject's  entire  recollections  are  of  (^uincy, 
and  here  he  received  a  good  practical  education. 
When  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  choose  some 
calling  in  life,  he  first  began  as  a  clerk  in  a  dr3'- 
goods  store,  after  which  he  was  employed  by 
Isaac  Lesem  X'  Co.,  a  piominent  dry-goods  firm, 
and  remained  with  them  for  ten  years.  After  this, 
young  Tappe  embarked  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
business,  under  the  firm  name  of  Thomas  Tripp 
&  .Son,  and  this  partnership  lasted  for  four  years, 
when  our  subject  sold  out  his  interest  to  S.  E. 
Segers  it  Sons.  He  then  began  the  manufac- 
ture of  coats,  pants,  shirts  and  overalls  on  his 
own  account,  beginning  on  limited  means,  but  in 
1890  this  business  was  merged  into  a  stock  com- 
pany, the  name  l)eing  changed  to  The  (^uinc.v 
Shirt  &  Overall  Company,  with  Benjamin  Heckle 
as  President;  W.  ,1.  Tappe,  Vice-president  and 
Superintendent;  and  Robert  I).  Lemley  as  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer. 

The  trade  of  this  house  is  colossal,  and  one 
hundred  girls  and  men  are  emploj'ed  to  sell  direct 
to  the  trade  represented  by  traveling  salesmen  in 
Iowa,  Missouri.  Illinois  and  Kansas.  The  com- 
pany is  well  established  in  business,  their  wares 
being  of  a  superior  quality,  and  for  which  they  find 
a  ready  sale,  and  this  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 
prosperous  industries  of  Quincv.  The  high  com- 
mercial character,  the  discriminating  judgment, 
the  eye  that  sees  and  the  executive  abilitv  that  en- 
ables one  to  improve  opportunities  aie  attributes 
possessed  by  Mr.  Tappe  in  a  marked  degree. 
These,  together  with  a  careful  consideration  of 
the  needs  of  the  public,  have  made  the  great  es- 
tablishment over  which  he  i)resides  a  recognized 
synonym  for  nil  that  is  popular,  (irogrcssive  and 
honest. 

Ml'.  Tap[ie  was    married  on  the  lOth  of  L)ctober, 


POHTKAn    AM)   liKM.irvrMIK  AI.  RKfORD. 


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1881.  to  Mis5  Kninm  Tripp,  dnughU-r  of  'riKinia." 
Tripp,  of  (^iiincv.  Mr.  nnd  Mr*.  Tnppc  :irf  now 
rpsidinj;  Ht  No.  d'A"!  Iliimpsliirp  Strt'Ot.  ninl  aro  r«'- 
coynized  ».••  firsl-cla.v<i  i-iti/.t-iis. 


M-Mt 

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♦+++ 


'j'iKKIIAKI)  SANDKK.      If  a  iplojisint  mitimcr 


and  a(.-('oiiiMio(latiii<:  <li>|H»itioii  Ix-ar  any 
^^^^1  relation  to  success  i ii  life,  then  the  comfort- 
able cirt'iniistaiiocs  in  wlijcli  the  sulijet-l  of  tliis 
sketch  now  liiid.s  hini>elf  fan  easily  l)e  explaineil. 
The  gentleman  i.'?  an  old  settler,  and  has  been  en- 
gaired  in  the  innnufaetiire  of  brick  since  18T.'>. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Henry  Sander, 
and  he  was  born  in  Hanover,  Cierniany,  and  in 
IbaO,  with  his  wife  and  one  child,  came  to  .\mer- 
ica  by  way  of  a  sailiiiff-vcssel  from  Uremen  to  New 
Orleans.  The  trip  wa-s  a  long  and  tiresome  one 
of  over  seven  weeks'  duration,  and  no  doubt  the 
new  country  did  not  seem  very  attractive  to  the 
tired  travelers  in  its  winter  dress,  for  it  was  I)e- 
cemU'r  when  they  arrived  in  <^uiMCy.  However, 
the  honest  (ierman  went  to  work  to  learn  the  brick- 
making  trade,  and  later  he  started  a  yard  of  his 
own  and  continued  in  the  manufacture  of  bricks 
until  his  death  in  IHT'.i.  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight. 
He  had  espoused  the  DennK-ratic  party,  and  wa.s  a 
voter,  if  not  a  worker.  He  found  his  church,  the 
Catholic,  just  the  same  here  as  in  his  old  home, 
and  died  in  the  faith  of  her  promises.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  wa.s  Mary  Ilalla.  who  was  lK)rn  in 
(icrmany.  and  died  there.  Her  only  cliiid  was  oui- 
subject,  although  he  lia.s  two  half-brothers,  his 
father  having  married  three  times. 

The  individual  whose  history  we  now  altenipt 
to  give  wa.sl>orn  and  reared  in  (lermany  up  to  the 
age  of  throe  yeai>,  and  his  first  recollections  of 
•  ^uincy  are  ver3'  vague.  He  was  sent  t<»  St.  IVjni- 
face.  after  a  coiu-se  in  the  par<K-hial  whotil,  but 
when  thirteen  he  began  to  work  for  his  father  at 
the  trade  of  making  brick.  He  continued  at  this 
until  he  was  twenty  live,  when  he  started  out  for 
himself.     From    IHT.'J    to  |m71.   he  w.is  at    \Vai-»aw 


an<i  Carthage,  working  at  his  trade,  but  in  the 
spring  of  1X7.')  he  started  in  this  place,  which  he 
had  bought,  and  hit- continued  here  ever  since.  He 
began  with  a  c^apacity  of  .500,0(10  bricks  .-i  M»ason. 
and  has  so  increased  his  liusiness  that  his  capacity 
now  is  1.200.(10(1  bricksa  seasini.  He  has  two  large 
kilns,  and  each  ha.s  a  capacity  of  2o0.(loo.  His  man- 
ufactiu'c  is  of  regular  brick,  and  he  has  all  theappli- 
ances  for  his  business.  He  is  the  owner  rif  forty 
acres  of  land  in  this  county,  and  from  this  he  sells 
w I  in  winter. 

Our  subject  was  married  herein  ixT.'i  to  .Mi>s 
I'auline  Newman,  who  was  iHirn  in  (Germany  and 
came  here  when  a  child.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sander  have 
eight  children  living:  Henry.  l,i/./.ie.  Kmma.  Frank. 
Clara,  Annie,  (ieorge  and   William. 

.Mr.  Sander  is  a  member  of  St.  .M;iry>  Church. 
and  of  St.  .loseph's  SiK-iety.  connected  with  it.  He 
h.is  served  his  fellow-citizens  on  juries,  and  a.s 
.ludge  of  Flection.  His  political  opinions  incline 
him  to  the  l)ein<K'ralic  party,  although  he  is  not 
radical. 

Mr.   Sander  ha>  seen    [ii;inv  changes    in  the  citv 

I  .  .  .  .  r. 

of  his  choice  since  he  came  here,  and  rejoices  in 
her  prosperity.  He  cairries  on  his  own  business  on 
the  )ilace.  which  was  the  old  fair  ground  and  the 
camp  ground  of  the  soldiers  during  the  war.  His 
J    residence  is  at  No.  1  lO.S  South  Sixth  Street. 

.\t  the  lieginning  of  the  Civil  War.  Mr.  Sander 
desired  to  enlist  for  the  defense  of  the  country, 
but  the  Oovernment  would  not  accept  his  services 
on  accoiuit  of  his  voutli. 


GFOROK  VASFN.  It  is  with  true  interest 
that  the  biographer  ttikes  up  his  [len  to 
-peak  of  those  worthy  citizens  whose  act- 
ive lives  have  ceased  on  earth,  but  whose  inllu- 
ence  extends  still,  and  will  continue  to  extend 
among  all  who  knew  them.  .Ml  people  of  truesen- 
sibilitv  have  a  just  regard  for  the  memory  of  those 
who  have  departed  this  life,  and  cherish  the  details 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


of  the  lii.stoiT  of  those  whose  careers  have  been 
marked  by  uprightness  and  truth,  and  whose  lives 
have  been  filled  up  witli  acts  of  usefulness.  It  is 
therefore  a  jjleasure  to  present  to  our  readers 
a  sketch  of  Mr.  Vasen,  who  was  one  of  tlie  es- 
teemed and  respected  men  of  the  countj-. 

This  gentleman  was  born  iu  German}-,  on  the 
lIHh  of  .September,  1833,  and  liis  parents.  Philli[) 
and  Fredreka  Vasen,  were  natives  of  the  Father- 
land, and  honest,  upright  people.  The  boyliQod  of 
our  subject  was  spent  in  the  common  schools  of  his 
native  couutr}',  and  here  he  remained  until  seven- 
teen years  of  age,  when  he  was  tempted  to  cross 
the  ocean  to  America.  He  made  the  trip  in  18.");'), 
landed  in  New  York  City,  and  went  from  there  to 
Pliiladelphia,  Pa.,  where  he  made  his  home  until 
1861.  While  there,  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  soap,  but  when  the  tocsin  of  war  sounded,  he 
left  everything  and  enlisted  as  Orderly-Sergeant. 
He  was  in  service  for  six  months,  and  after  being 
mustered  out,  went  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  wliere  lie 
emljarked  in  the  retail  shoe  business. 

In  1866,  lie  came  to  Quincy,  111.,  and  engaged  in 
tlie  commission  business,  which  he  carried  on  for 
some  time,  and  was  then  employed  as  traveling- 
salesman  for  a  wiiolesale  licjuor  liouse,  which  posi- 
tion lie  was  holding  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Octol)er 
11,  1888.  In  his  political  attiliations,  he  was  a 
prominent  Democrat,  and  socially  lie  was  a  inenibcr 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  In  the 
year  18.56,  ]Mi-.  Vasen  was  married  to  JMiss  Cath- 
erine Eschner,  daughter  of  Abraham  Eschner,  of 
Austria.  She  was  born  in  Boiieraia,  on  the  1.5tli 
of  April,  1830,  and  there  passed  her  girlhood  and 
youtli.  She  was  fairly  educated  in  the  schools  of 
her  country,  and  in  1853  took  passage  for  America, 
Lauding  in  New  York  a  few  weeks  later.  Ten  chil- 
dren are  the  fruits  of  this  union,  eight  of  whom 
are  still  surviving,  namely:  Benjamin  (i..  Secre- 
tary of  the  (Quincy  Building  iV:  Homestead  Associa- 
tion, also  Secretary  of  tlie  People's  Saving,  Loan 
&  Building  Association;  Aaron,  David,  Nathan, 
Phillip,  and  Sarali.  The  latter,  a  successful  physician 
of  Quinc}-,  graduated  from  Keokuk  Medical  College, 
of  Keokuk,  Iowa.  She  was  born  in  (^)uincy.  III., 
on  the  21st  of  May,  187ii,  and  allciulcd  Ihc  vuiu- 
Hion  schools  until  sixteen   years  of  age,  when   she 


began  reading  medicine  with  Dr.  M.  Knapheide 
Germann,  of  t^uincy,  and  remained  with  her  two 
years.  In  1890,  she  entered  the  Keokuk  Medical 
College,  and  was  graduated  from  that  institution  on 
the  8th  of  March,  18'J2.  She  is  now  carrying  on 
a  successful  practice  in  medicine  aud  surgery.  .She 
is  a  member  of  the  Adams  County  Jledical  Society, 
and  has  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  523  Chestnut 
Street.  The  other  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
\'asen  are  .Jacob  and  Gustave.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vasen 
were  members  in  good  standing  of  the  Ninth  Street 
Hebrew  Church.  Miss  Sarah  Vasen  is  a  member  of 
the  Golden  Daughters  of  Reliecca. 


=^> 


(JIIN  T.  HAVENOH,  a  general  merchant  of 
Plainville,  is  doing  a  large  business  in  the 
village,  where  he  has  a  neatly  fitted-up  es- 
tablishment, his  shelves  being  filled  with 
well-assorted  goods,  in  the  disposal  of  which  lie 
shows  business  tact  and  lionor.  He  is  a  native  of 
Elgin,  Kane  County,  111.,  whence  be  was  taken  by 
his  parents,  when  very  young,  to  Waushara 
County,  A\"is.,  where  he  grew  to  mature  years,  and 
was  given  an  excellent  education,  completing  his 
studies  in  the  Normal  School  at  Olikosh.  For 
eight  years  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  in  Wiscon- 
sin and  Minnesota,  and  in  1873  castinliis  lot  with 
the  people  of  I'lainville,  where,  Ainil  19,  1875,  he 
opened  a  general  mercliandise  store  in  partnership 
with  a  Mr.  Kidder.  This  connection  lasted  until 
1887;  in  the  meantime  they  liad  purch.ased  their 
own  l)uilding,  but  sold  out  the  property  after  hav- 
ing improved  it.  In  1891,  Mr.  Havenor  erected  a 
two-story  building,  40x100  feet  in  dimensions, 
which  has  the  largest  seating  capacity  of  any  build- 
ing in  the  county-  outside  of  Quincy,  it  giving 
ample  accommodation  to  six  hundred  peo]jle. 

The  lady  to  whom  our  subject  was  married,  iu 
1876,  was  Miss  Sabra,  daughter  of  Samuel  Clark, 
one  of  the  eaily  settlers  of  Pike  County.  To 
tliciii  have  liccn  giant('(l  eight  children,  four  of 
whom  were  born  at  one  time,     The   two   who  are 


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JittA-JM^jL^      (p.      /T^X^cry^^ 


livin^j  Iwar    the    ros|)eotive   iiainc>>    of    Mnry    and 

Dfllii.     Our    Mil>j«H-t    i!<    tin-    > f    Sainiu-I   and 

Mary  A.  (  .Mali<iiips  )  llavi'imr.  iiativi'!>  of  Irclaiiil. 
wIhto  tliey  were  inarried.  On  coming;  to  llie 
Cnitcd  Statos.  in  IK  l«.  tlicy  loi-alod  in  Illinois. 
but  at  the  prcM-nt  time  make  tlu-ir  lioini'  in  Wis- 
consin. With  lii!«  wife  our  suliject  is  a  niondter  of 
the  Methodist  K|>is(.-o|)nl  Chnn-h.  and  iiuuiIkms 
ainon;;  his  friends  the  liesi  peojile  of  I'lainvdle. 
whieh  |H>|)u!arity  is  shared  by  his  amiable  wife. 


l-OKTR-MT   AM)   UIOGRAPIUCAL    RKCORU. 

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I'll 


I".  WAI.TO.V.  of  t^uiiiey.  was  born  in 
.Miifsaehusetls.  April  2.">.  IK.'i2,  anil  is  a 
■^  son  of  .lonathan  and  Kliza  (l.<K-ke)  Walton, 
natives  of  the  old  Hay  State,  lie  lielnn>.'-s 
to  a  family  noted  for  eourai;e  and  patriotism,  and 
is  justly  proud  of  the  faet  th:it  ten  n)end)ei-s  of 
the  Walton  family  served  in  the  l\ev(ilutionar\' 
War.  The  lirst  represent.iti ve  of  the  f.-iniily  in 
Ainerita,  the  Rev.  William  Walton,  emi<;rated 
hither  from  Kxeler,  Kn^'land.  as  early  as  IC.'ti, 
and  settled  in  Readiii<,'.  M;iss.  Previous  to  that, 
however,  members  of  the  Locke  family  had  soufjht 
a  home  in  New  Knirlaiid.  haviiii;  made  a  settle- 
ment in  .\rlin;rtoii.  .Mass..  in  \i'>'jx.  The  I.oeke 
homestead,  wliieli  is  the  oldest  house  in  .Vrliiif^tx^m, 
is  still  otriipied  by  this  family,  its  .■iiieient  roof 
havinj:  sheltered  six  irenerations  of  the  l.ockes. 
Our  subject's  (ii'eat'<;randfather  I.oeke  was  a  sol- 
dier diirini:  tln'  War  of  the  Revolution. as  was  also 
lirandfatlier  Keiijamin  Walton,  who  lived  to  the 
advance<l  a}je  of  one  hiindied  and  riiree  \f:ii>. 

Kdmoiid  MonrtK'.  the  <;reat-jiraiiilfather  of  our 
subject  on  his  mother's  sirle.  was  a  i.'i»'!it-f.'r!iiid- 
soii  <if  William  .Monroe,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
who  e  mi -.'rated  to  .Xmeriea  in  1<J.'>2.  and  s<'ltled  in 
l.exiii<.'Ic>ii.  .Mass.  lie  was  the  father  of  fourteen 
children.  Kdniond  .Monroe  enli-tetl  m  tiie  Kinjf's 
uriiiy  at  the  a<;e  of  twent\-oiie  ve.ais  and  served 
in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  licin;;  present  at 
the  cAptiire  of  t^iieU'c,  and  a  participant  in  olhi'r 
ini|x>rtnnt  battles  of  the  war,     Twelve  uars  later. 

11 


he  was  ti^htin^  n-rainst  the  IJritish  at  lA-xin<ftoii 
and  Riiiiker  Hill,  lie  w:ls  present  at  the  capture 
of  RuifioN  lie's  army  at  Saralot;a,  and  later  en- 
listed uiwler  (ieii.  Washington  for  three  years. 
With  the  army,  he  passed  the  winter  at  \'allev 
Koiifc.  where  he  sufTere<i  untold  horroi>  from  cold 
and  hunger.  .Vmon<;  the  treasure<l  possessions  of 
the  Walton  faiiiil\  is  a  letter  writlen  by  him  to 
his  wife  durin^i  that  time.  In  the  .lime  followin-,'. 
he  inarched  i^uit  as  Captain  to  ti^ht  in  the  l*attle 
of  Moiiinoiith.  where  he  served  with  distin^iii-hed 
valor  until  he  was  killed  by  a  cannon-ball,  lie 
li.id  lieen  a  successful  business  man  and  left  his 
family  in  comfortable  circumstances. 

The  boyhooil  days  of  our  subject  were  passed 
in  .Vrlin<.'toii.  .M.-lss..  where  he  received  a  praetical 
ediientioii  in  the  common  scIhmiIs.  In  IMC'.),  he 
lemoved  to  Keiilland,  Newton  ('ouiil_\,  Ind.,  and 
there  eii'^ajjed  in  the  <;rrocerv,  bakery,  restaur- 
ant and  hotel  business,  whic-h  he  conducted 
with  much  eneri;y  .-iiiil  ability,  and  therefore  suc- 
cessfully. I II  1H7;{,  he  came  lotjiiincv.of  which  city 
he  has  since  been  an  honored  resident.  However, 
he  retained  his  business  interests  in  Indiana  until 
l«8(!.  when  he  sohl  out  and  retired.  Since  he  wjis 
twenty-live  years  old.  he  has  eiigaired  in  the  real- 
estate  I  uisin  ess  a  n<l  has  met  with  unvarying  suc- 
ee.ss  in  his  operations  in  that  line. 

The  political  views  of  Mr.  \\'altoii  are  emlMxIicd 
in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
since  ciustiiifj  his  ballot  for  Fremont,  he  has  always 
votnl  with  the  part.N  of  his  choice.  Socially,  he 
ill  a  meiiibcr  of  the  Kiii<:;lit.s  of  Pythias  and  the 
Mtisonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  is  prominent. 
.Vt  the  be<riniiiiii:  of  the  Civil  W:ir  he  enlisted  for 
service  ill  behalf  of  the  I'nion.  but  on  .-iccoiint  of 
physical  di.sabilily  was  not  received.  His  brother 
.loseph  served  three  years  in  the  army,  and  was 
lioniirably  diseliarired  at  the  close   of  the  war. 

Ml.  Walloii  w:i-  m.'iriied  November  l.'t,  1N73, 
to  .Mis»  .Sarah  I-",,  .lackson,  and  they  occupy 
an  attractive  residence  .-it  No.  "il.'i  South  Third 
.Street.  .Mrs.  Wjillun  wa»  biirn  in  jiosioii.  .Mass., 
.\u;.Mist  I,  |M.;|.  ihc  diiui:liter  of  .Samuel  and 
FIImi  II.  .lackson.  Her  father  was  boin  .Mav  8. 
IHOII,  and  died  lebniaiy  ;t,  IM'.JO;  her  inotlier. 
who  was  iMirii  .liuiuary  2.  \xw.  died  .lulv  2,  l>*7l, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RFX'ORR 


Her  ancestors  were  of  English  origin,  and  early 
settlers  of  New  England.  Wlien  nine  months  old, 
she  was  brought  by  her  parents  to  (^uincy,  where 
her  education  was  carried  on  in  the  public  schools. 
Later,  she  was  sent  tu  Waltham,  Mass.,  where  she 
pursued  her  studies  until  graduating, and  returned 
thence  to  her  home  in  tjuincy. 

Soon  after  locating  in  this  city,  Samuel  Jackson 
erected  a  house  and  store  on'  the  south  side  of 
Hampshire  Street,  between  Fifth  and  Sixth  Streets, 
where  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  for  a 
number  of  years.  In  the  progress  and  develop- 
ment of  the  Gem  City,  he  was  quite  prominent, 
and  erected  a  number  of  fine  buildings,  which 
still  stand  as  monuments  tu  his  energy;  he  also 
built  the  west  half  of  the  New  Tremont  House. 
He  w.as  one  of  those  men  whom  it  is  a  privilege  to 
know,  for  his  influence  was  beneficial  in  aiding 
those  who  struggled  along  the  pathway  of  life,  and 
his  sympathy  was  ever  ready  for  all  who  found  that 
pathway  a  weary  one.  A  straightforward,  unassum- 
ing man,  the  good  that  was  said  of  him  during  his 
life  was  s.aid  by  others  rather  than  by  himself,  and 
now  there  are  many  friends  and  relatives  who  are 
ready  to  speak  for  the  lips  that  could  not  if  they 
would,  and  that,  were  they  al)le  to  do  so,  would 
be  very  modest  in  their  claims  for  the  noble  man 
to  whom  we  desire  to  give  due  iionor  in  these 
pages.  His  wife  was  a  lady  of  well-known  ben- 
evolence, and  her  kindness  in  caring  for  the  sick 
and  relieving  the  destitute  won  for  her  a  host  of 
friends  among  all  classes  of  people.  Siie  was  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Unitarian  Church,  to 
which  Mrs.  Walton  also  belongs. 


\Tl  SEYMOUR  CASTLE,  A.  B.,  one  of  the 
most  successful  wholesale  and  retail  hard- 
ware merchants  in  the  city  of  <|iuincy,  w.as 

born  in  Columbus,  Adams  County,  III.,  Felj- 

ruary  6,  1848.     His  father.  T.  II.  Castle,  was  born 
iit  Wilmington,  \'i,,  and    wms  of  English  descent. 


He  came  to  Adams  County  in  1835  and,  locat- 
ing in  Columbus,  helped  to  hu'  out  the  town.  He 
was  a  general  merchant  there,  and  in  18(HI  he  went 
to  the  city  of  (^uincy  and  engaged  in  the  whole- 
sale grocery  business.  Three  years  later,  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  stove  firm  of  Comstock  k 
Co,,  started  in  1848  under  the  above  firm  name. 
After  Mr.  Castle's  entrance  into  the  firm,  it  was 
called  the  Comstock  d'  Castle  Stove  Co,  He  con- 
tinued a  member  of  this  firm  until  his  death  in 
the  year  1880,  aged  sixty-six  years.  He  had  been 
an  elder  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  The  name 
of  our  subject's  mother  was  Julia  A,  Boyd;  she 
was  born  in  Vermont.  Her  father,  James,  was 
a  native  of  A'ermont  and  p.assed  his  life  in  ag- 
ricultural pursuits,  and  located  in  Columbus, 
Adams  County.  Our  subject  lost  his  mother 
at  (^uincy  and  she  left  five  children,  four  of  whom 
are  still  living,  one  boy  having  died.  The  chil- 
dren aie  Henry  A.,  Postmaster  at  St,  Paul,  who 
was  in  the  Seveut3'-third  Regiment  and  was 
wounded  at  Stone  River,  and  later  was  promoted 
to  be  Captain  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
seventh  Regiment;  Chauncy  II.  enlisted  in  the 
Sevent^'-third  Regiment,  was  wounded  four  times 
at  Chickamaugua,  and  later  was  transferred  to 
the  Veteran  Reserve  Corps  and  is  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Comstock,  Castle  &  Co.;  Julia, 
Mrs.  Webster,  resides  in  Chicago,  111,;  Alfred  died  at 
the  age  of  twenty-one;  and  our  subject. 

Our  subject  was  reared  in  Columbus  until  he 
was  twelve  \ears  old,  when  his  father  removed  to 
<iuinc3'.  He  attended  the  old  t^uincy  College  and 
Academy,  and  in  1866,  when  he  was  eighteen  years 
old,  he  went  to  Knox  College,  Galeshurg,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1870  with  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  He  then  studied  law  with  AVheat  &  Mercy 
for  about  one  jear,  but  had  to  give  it  u[)  on  .ac- 
count of  failing  hearing.  He  then  was  traveling 
salesman  for  Comstock,  Castle  it  Co.,  and  traveled 
one  year  in  Kansas  and  one  year  in  ]Minnesota. 
In  1874,  he  started  the  present  business  with  his 
father  and  it  is  run  in  connection  with  the  foundry, 
under  the  firm  name  of  T.  II.  Castle  A"  Co.  In 
1877,  the  father  retired  and  Seymour  took  a  part- 
ner. Mr,  Demeter,  of  Macon.  Messrs.  Castle  A: 
Penieter  continued  in  business  togetlier  for  about 


IXJiaKAll    AM)  BIOr.RAl'IlICAL    KKCOHI). 


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tw<i  yi-nrs,  and  llien  Mr.  Castle  l)Oiiglit  out  the 
iitliPr  <;i>iitlt>iiinii  :iii<l  lia$  i-oiitiiuicd  the  liii!<iiics.s 
alone  t'viT  >incc.  lie  is  lociiteil  Ml  N<>.  I.'in  Main 
Slieet.  and  tlie  liuildin<;  is  2'Jxl2.'i  feet  ami  i>  four 
stories  lii^li  witli  Imsenient:  it  has  an  elevator  and  all 
the  latest  iniproveiiienl.s.  The  liasenient  is  used  for 
storage  and  fiiniai'i-.  Iii>t  and  M'cond  lloors  for  the 
retail  department,  third  for  storage,  and  the  fourtli 
is  used  for  a  tin  shop  ami  inannfarturin;:  room. 
Thev  earrv  on  a  regular  wholesMle  and  ictail  li.-ird- 
wa're  l>nsines>.  nml  Mr.  Castle  makes  a  sperialty  of 
hot-air  furnaces,  also  tin  :in<l  sheet-iron  ii>otln<;.  lie 
is  a  sttH'khohler  in  tin-  llrm  of  Comslock.  (  iislle 
A-  Co. 

Mr.  Castle  was  marrieil  in  tieneseo.  III.,  to  Car- 
rie S.  I  losforil,  and  thev  have  two  lieautiful  chil- 
dren. Amy  ancl  Kfiliert.  The  family  aic  I're.shy- 
terians  and  hiirhly  valued  in  their  church  relation- 
ship. .Mr.  Castle  is  a  Kepulilican.  .'incl  is  a  very 
pleasant.  !;enial  man  and  makes  friends  wherever 
he  ji<H's.  He  is  well  liked  liy  all  who  h.ave  any 
tran>actions  with  him.  'I'lie  family  ranks  high  in 
the  swial  life  fif  the  citv. 


1^-f^i 


^1/  K\\  IS  I..  lIKiH.NrdN  is  en^raixed  in  v'«'n- 
il  {(i>  "'ral  farminji^  and  stoc-k-iaisini;  on  section 
i|L^  I'.i,  Lima  Township.  Ileown^oneof  the 
model  farms  of  this  community,  his  lauils  are 
hi<;hly  cultivated,  and  the  improvenu-nts  upon  his 
place  are  many.  His  eldest  son  is  piopnclor  of  the 
lar<;est  apiary  in  the  county  anil  lie  has  three  hiiii- 
died  stiiiids  of  Italian  liees,  his  liusines-  alonif 
this  line  lieiiii;  very  successful,  lie  tliorou<;hly 
unilerstands  the  culture  of  liees,  and  he  sells  them 
all  over  the  country.  His  hives  are  of  his  own 
manufacture,  heiiifi  especially  adaplerl  to  the  piir- 
|»o.se.  He  has  im|Hirted  <pieen  hecs  from  It.-ily. 
and  his  lari:e  apiary  has  proved  to  him  a  piolitnlile 
investment.  The  product  of  honey  amounts  to 
ten  thoiis.-ind  pounds  annually. 

Mr.   Thornton,   who    is  recouui/.cil   ji-  an  enter- 
|>ri»ing  and  mosjiessivc  citizen,   wa.n  l)(>rn  i(i  l'e»- 


dlcton  County.  Ky..  .laniiary  18.  18.16.  He  eoine.<« 
of  an  old  Virginian  famil,\',  his  j;randfather.  .lohn 
Thornlon,  lieini;  a  native  of  that  State,  whence  he 
emifiialed  to  Kentucky.  His  death  occurred  when 
•lohn  Tlioinloii.  .Ir..  the  father  of  our  snlijeel,  was 
a  yoiiii!;  lad.  'I'lu'  latter  was  horn  in  I'eiidleton 
County,  ii|Hm  a  farm  which  was  his  home  throimh- 
oiil  his  entire  life,  and  his  death  there  occurreil  in 
IMtiT.  He  married  .Miss  Kli/.alietli  Smith,  n  native 
of  that  .State.  Her  ;.'raiidfatlier.  William  Smith,  a 
\'ir!:inian,  .served  in  the  War  of  IH12.  Her  dcMlli 
(K-cnrred  in  lM!t|,  at  the  a<,'e  of  seventy-one  year-. 
She  was  a  life-lonji  memlier  of  the  Baptist  Church. 
The  suhject  of  this  sketch  was  the  elilcst  in  a 
family  of  seven  children,  live  of  whom  are  vet 
liviiis:.  His  education  was  ae<|uired  in  the  lo;; 
.sclioolhonse  with  it.s  puncheon  tloor, slali  seats  and 
liii^e  lircplaci's.  I'nder  the  parenta!  roof  he  ic- 
m.'iined  until  he  had  attained  his  majority,  and 
then  started  <»ut  in  life  for  him.self,  splitting  rails 
at  fifty  cents  per  hundred.  In  this  way  he  earned 
the  money  which  brought  him  to  Illinois.  In  the 
spriiifi  of  I«.'i7,  he  located  in  I'rsa  Township, 
.\dains  County,  lentinj;  land  fora  nurnlierof  \cars. 
.\s  a  companion  and  helpmate  on  life's  journev, 
he  chose  .Miss  Priscilla  Taylor,  of  that  township, 
a  daui;hterof  .Vdam  and  Uarliara  (( ;rime!>)  Taylor, 
hotli  natives  of  Kentucky.  They  are  numhered 
among  the  honored  pioneers  of  ri>a  Township, 
where  they  located  in  IH;!7.  The  union  of  Mr.  and 
Mi-s.  riiornloii  was  celelirated  Novemher  2m,  iM.'i'.t,  ■ 
and  unto  tliciii  have  liecii  Impim  live  children,  three 
yet  living:  .lohn  .\.,  Klizaheth  .V.  and  I.ewi>  A. 
.lames  C.  an<l  Mary  C.  are  deeea.sed. 

Ill  .ViiLrust,  lK(i2.  Mr.Tliointon  hade  ifood-l>\e  to 
his  little  family,  and.  iesp(indiii<;  to  the  i-all  for 
troops,  enlisted  in  ( 'ompaiiy  If,  .Seventy-eighth  I  lli- 
iiois  Ihfaiiliy.  His  scivii'e  was  mostly  in  giuird- 
iiig  prisiMiers  in  Chicago.  He  was  sick  much  of 
the  time,  ainl  for  this  rc:i.»on  was  attached  to  the 
\etcr:in  Kescrvc  Corps.  He  received  his  tliseliarge 
in  Septemlier,  IMlil.  :iml  since  his  retnin  home  has 
devoted  his  attention  exclusively  to  agricultural 
pursuits  and  l>ee  culture.  In  1X71.  he  purchased 
his  present  farm  and  it  has  since  lieeii  his  home. 

The  Democracy  tiiids  in  .Mr.  Thornton  an  ardcnl 
.tdhcient,  and  fof  eight  yeni^  he  fajtlifnlly  scrvcfj 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


as  Justice  of  the  Peace.  He  also  ably  filled  the 
office  of  Town  C'IcrU  for  two  years,  and  is  now  ^ 
serving  as  School  Trustee.  Socially,  lie  is  a  mem- 
ber of  II.  C.  McCreery  Post  No.  567,  (;.  A.  H.,  of 
I.iiua,  and  in  relio-ious  belief  is  a  Free-will  Bap- 
tist.  He  is  a  faithful  worker  in  his  church  and 
serves  as  Trustee.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church.  5Ir.  Thornton  is  a  well-in- 
fornu-d  man,  and  one  of  the  pruminent  and  in- 
fiucntial  citizensof  his  township.  His  life  has  been 
well  and  worthily  spent,  and  his  honorable,  up- 
right career  has  won  him  the  high  regard  of  a  large 
circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances.  Whatever 
success  he  has  achieved  in  life  is  due  entirely  to 
his  own  efforts,  and  for  it  he  deserves  great  credit. 


C.  TURNER.  The  subject  of  the  present 
sketch  is  an  import.ant  man  in  his  neigh- 
borhood, .and  a  farmer,  lie  is  a  son  of  Jo- 
seph Turner,  who  was  born  in  Dedliam,  Mass.,  June 
12,  179i>.  The  latter  was  a  son  of  Ebcneezer  Turner, 
also  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  born  in  1772, 
and  of  Polly  Sumner,  who  w,as  born  in  Dedliam, 
November  9,  177;").  The  mother  of  our  subject 
was  Mary  (Bunker)  Turner,  a  native  of  Fayette, 
Me.,  born  in  18(H).  Her  marriage  with  Mr. 
Turner  took  place  September  27,  1830,  at  Eiver- 
inore.  Me.,  and  in  18.34  they  came  to  Illinois  and 
settled  on  section  ."12,  in  Ursa  Township.  TliispLace 
had  been  improved  and  there  was  a  double  log  cabin 
upon  it.  Our  subject's  father  made  this  a  permanent 
lioine,  cleared  off  the  timber  and  built  a  stone  house 
ill  1844.  His  wife  died  in  August,  1849,  and  he 
married  ISIary  Harris  September  1,  18.5(1,  but  she 
was  left  a  widow  liy  his  death  March  IG,  187("). 
He  had  lieen  married  three  times,  his  first  wife 
being  Nancy  Shaw,  who  died  August  29,  182(), 
and  left  two  children,  Catherine  T.  Scwall  and 
Charles  C.  liy  his  second  marri.age  he  had  five 
children,  four  of  whom  are  now  living.  They  are 
Riifus  H.,  who  lives  at  Kocky  Har.  Idaho;  Joseph 
I'",,  who  lives  in  <j>iiincy,  |||,;  Mary  K.,  who  lives  in    ' 


Quincy,  and  our  subject,  who  has  his  home  on 
section  21,Mendon  Township.  By  the  third  mar- 
riage, there  was  one  child,  (ieorge,  now  deceased. 
]\Ir.  Turner  was  a  pillar  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  .'iiid  held  the  olHces  of  Steward.  Trustee 
and  Class-leader.  He  took  a  great  deal  of  interest 
in  politics,  and  was  formerly-  a  Whig,  "but  a  Re- 
publican since  the  formation  of  the  party.  He 
held  the  position  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  was 
considered  of  enough  importance  to  be  made  a 
candidate  for  Congress  and  for  the  State  Legisla- 
ture, but  was  defeated.  He  was  an  educated  man. 
and  had  been  a  school  te.acher  and  a  surve3or,  and 
took  a  deep  interest  in  all  educational  matters. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Ursa  Township,  May 
17,  1839.  He  attended  the  district  schools  in  this 
county  and  w.as  then  sent  to  Denmark,  Iowa,  for 
two  years,  where  he  took  a  general  course.  He  fol- 
lowed this  with  a  scientific  course  in  (Quincy  Col- 
lege, and  was  there  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil 
War.  He  enlisted  July  15,  1861,  in  Company  L,  Sec- 
ond Illinois  Cavalry,  and  was  mustered  into  the 
United  States  service  August  12.  He  was  sent  from 
Springfield  to  St.  Louis,  the  company  acting  as 
(ien.  Prentice's  Body-guard.  He  w.as  sent  to  Pilot 
Knob  to  do  camp  duty,  and  dining  his  service  he 
took  i)art  in  the  following  battles:  Belmont,  New 
Madrid,  Island  No.  10,  Columbus  and  Paducah. 
He  was  then  sent  to  Memphis  and  Ft.  Pillow,  and 
was  on  the  Smith  and  Grayson  raid,  and  then  to 
Baton  Rouge.  He  served  three  years  and  one 
month,  and  held  the  position  of  Orderly-Sergeant, 
luit  on  account  of  absence  from  sickness  for  a  year, 
and  up  to  the  time  he  was  mustered  out,  the  place 
of  Orderly-Sergeant  had  to  be  filled  b}'  another, 
and  he  vyas  mustered  out  as  First  Duty  Sergeant. 
This  soldier  only  weighed  eighty-flve  pounds  at 
that  time  from  sickness,  and  for  a  year  he  w.as  un- 
able to  do  anything.  He  served  faithfully  under 
(4ens.  Prentice,  (irant,  Pope  and  Sherman.  He 
taught  school  during  the  winter  of  186('),  and  in 
the  spring  was  made  Deputy  County  Surveyor. 
In  1867,  he  went  to  Kansas,  took  a  claim,  improved 
it,  and  after  three  years  sold  out  and  returned  home. 

Our  suliject  w.as  married  December  23.  1869,  to 
Mary  E.  Fletcher,  a  daughter  of  Ephraim  E.  and 
Mary  .lane  (McMurry)    Fletcher.     The  father  of 


POKTHMT  ANU  !tl(«  ;K.M'1IICAI,  RKCORD. 


24: 


.Mi>.  'riiiiit'i'  was  lH*rii  ill  L<ii;nii  Coiiiily,  Ky..  in 
IMI'.),  mill  rniiK-  tii  Adniiis  CounU'  wlieii  n  vniiii^ 
Minn  tiiiH  scttli-il  1)11  this  fnrin,  wlii>ri>  lu>  iiiurriiMl  May 
12,  IHI7.  Ill-  (licil  ill  IHlil.  nflcr  a  rcsidinic  Immc 
of  tliirty-foiii'  years.  Tlii'  niotlior  of  .Mi>.  'I'liriuT 
W.1.S  Ixtin  ill  Saiijianmn  Cnuntv,  111.,  in  l«27.  suul 
still  survives,  mill  is  i\  ilevnteil  ineinltei'  of  the 
Methixlisl  K|iis<-(i|ini  Cliuirh,  iiiio  of  the  .Mntliers 
in  Israel.  Her  hiislinncl  uilh  known  to  lie  lilieriil 
.•«iiil  |>.tl riot ic,  .mill  n  frieiul  to  inipiovenieiit.  .Mi>. 
'I'liriior  w:ts  born  .Vpril  21,  1KI8,  on  this  fariii.  iiiul 
liiui  one  sister,  Loiii.sa,  living. 

.Mr.  anil  Mi>.  Tnrner,  of  this  notioe.  are  tliepar- 
enUs  of  seven  livinjj  children:  John  !•".,  .loseph, 
Frederick.  Ilerliert.  Mary,  Kverett  and  Louisa. 

.Mr.  'ruriicr  has  two  hundred  and  live  acres  of 
land,  all  under  cultivation  except  thirty-live  acres, 
and  lie  carries  on  general  farming.  He  lia.s  many 
interest.s  outside  of  his  farniini;.  as  he  is  an  ardent 
Hepulilicaii  and  has  lieen  a  frcipient  delegate  to 
the  conventions,  and  \\a»  lieen  a  candidate  for 
ollice.  He  h.is  lu'eii  defeated,  as  lieisa  Kepulilican 
in  a  Democratic  di:ilrict,  hut  he  has  made  very 
close  riin.s.  He  is  a  meml)er  of  t!ie  following  orders: 
Hliie  Lodge.  Royal  .\rch  Masons,  is  a  lirotlier  in  the 
Master  Workmen,  a  meiiiher  of  the  American  Order 
of  I'nited  Workmen,  and  ha.s  lieen  \'ice-com- 
inander  of  the  (Irand  .\rniy  of  the  Republic  at 
Mendon. 

.Mrs.  'I'uriier  is  the  right  wife  for  a  priiminent 
man.  genial,  generous  and  kind,  and  is  a  nieiiiher 
of  the  Methodist  K|)iscopal  Churili.  in  which  she 
has  lieen  n  Sundav-i^'hool  teacher. 


Ll\  I;R  (;|".U1{V.  riie  Kmpire  Mate  h.isfui- 
'*'  nished  U>  this  county  a  niimlK'r  of  repres«'ii- 
tative  eiti/.ens.  and  among  them  may  lie 
mentioned  Mr.  ( >liver  (Jerry,  who,  satisfied  that  he 
has  contributed  his  share  toward  the  progress  and 
development  of  the  community,  is  now  retired 
from   the  active   duties   of   life,    and    has   a  g I 


home  at  No.  ;i".'i  Maiden  Jjiiie.  He  has  resided  in 
this  county  for  many  years,  and  his  life  of  indus- 
try and  iisefiilness.as  well  as  his  record  for  honesty 
and  uprighlness,  has  given  him  a  hold  upon  the 
cummuiiity  which  all  might  well  desire  to  share. 
We  are  much  pleaM-d  to  give  his  sketch  among 
the  many  of  the  estimable  citizens  nf    the   county. 

Mr.  (lerry  was  originally  from  the  Slate  of  New 
York,  Uirn  in  Ontflrio  County,  on  the  'M  of  Aug- 
ust, IH2it,  and  was  the  youngest  of  three  childivn 
born  to  .leremiah  and  Klizabcth  (Covert)  (Jerry, 
exemplary  and  worthy  citizens  of  that  State. 
I'litil  sixteen  years  of  age,  our  subject  made  his 
home  ill  (leiiuva,  and  .secured  excellent  scholastic 
training  in  the  scliouls  of  tliat  city.  .\t  that  age 
he  moved  with  his  parents  to  (  levelaiid.  ( )liio, 
where  he  remained  for  two  years  and  further  ad- 
vanced his  schooling  From  there  he  moved  Ui 
I  jiiiney,  1 11..  in  IH.'IS,  and  was  engaged  in  brick- 
making  for  thirty  years.  He  wa.*,  of  coiii-se,  thor- 
oughly familiar  with  every  feature  of  his  business, 
and  is  a  man  nf  sound  judgment  and  marked  exec- 
utive ability. 

In  the  year  18(JK,  he  embarked  in  inerchandi/.- 
iiig,  and  was  ijuite  exteiisivel\-  engaged  in  hand- 
ling china  and  glassware,  until  IBHT,  when  he  re- 
tired. He  has  ever  lieen  a  leading  and  prosperous 
man.  h.ts  assisted  in  every  way  in  the  advancement 
and  progress  of  the  city,  and  is  still  public-spirited 
and  enterprising.  His  patriotic  devotion  to  his 
country  was  shown  during  the  Mexican  War,  when 
he  enlisted  in  the  First  Missouri  \'olunteers,  under 
Col.  A.  W.  Donaphin,  in  IHKi.  He  served  for 
ftiiirteen  months  and  acquitted  himself  with  gal- 
lantry and  bravery.  In  the  year  IH.'i.'J.  .Mr.  (Jerry 
was  appointed  City  Marshal  of  (^uincy.  and  held 
that  trustworthy  position  for  one  ye.-ir.  In  1M(>0 
he  was  re-appointed  to  that  |Mjsitioii  and  served  a 
term  of  one  year.  In  I«(il!,  he  wa.s  appointed 
Chief  of  Police  for  one  year,  and  tilled  that  |Misi- 
tioii  with  the  same  dispatch  and  good  jiidgmeiil 
with  which  he  tilled  other  |Misitions  of  trust. 

In  politics,  he  advcwates  the  interests  of  the 
Democratic  party,  and  lias  ever  supported  its 
mensiires  and  platform.  In  the  year  IMi'i2.  Mr. 
(Jerry  was  united  in  marriaire  to  Miss  .Margaret 
Watt,  and  this  wortliv   i-nupli-    have  livnl    liappiU 


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together  for  forty  _vears  now.  The_v  liave  a  fani- 
ilj-  of  six  chikhen,  all  doing  well,  and  prosperous 
and  successful  citizens.  Mrs.  Gerry  is  a  daughter 
of  George  Watt,  of  Payson,  Adams  County,  Illi- 
nois. 

The  credit  of  a  large  share  of  the  enterprise 
which  helps  to  make  (^uincy  tiie  tiiriving  and 
thrifty  business  point  of  this  portion  of  the  State 
belongs  to  Mr.  Gerry,  who  has  ever  been  active 
in  business  circles.  He  is  not  only  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  the  county,  but  a  man  whose  honesty, 
uprightness  and  sociability'  liave  won  him  the  es- 
teem and  respect  of  all.  He  is  truly  a  representa- 
tive man. 


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x^  OL.  JOHN  B.  LE  SAGE,  who  is  a  resident 
f|(  of  Ci.ayton,  was  born  in   Canada   in    1824, 

^^/  and  is  a  son  of  John  Le  S.age.  The  family 
is  of  French  descent.  Me  had  one  brotiier,  Joseph, 
who  was  born  in  1828.  He  married  Ella  Brown 
and  resides  in  Quincy,  where  he  is  engaged  in  the 
restaurant  l)usiness. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  came  to  tiiis  county 
in  1838.  In  1842  he  enlisted  in  the  regular  army 
in  New  York,  and  the  following  year  liis  regiment 
was  sent  to  the  frontier,  where  lie  saw  much  hard 
service  and  experienced  many  trials  and  privations. 
In  1844,  he  was  sent  to  Ft.  Snelling,  and  on  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Mexican  War  the  troops  were 
sent  to  the  front.  He  served  until  the  expiration 
of  his  term  in  1847  and  was  then  discharged,  but 
again  enlisted  for  three  years.  Returning  to  Mex- 
ico, he  was  placed  in  charge  of  some  troops  and 
served  as  a  non-commissioned  officer.  With  his 
command  he  went  to  Vera  Cruz,  but  after  a  few 
days  he  was  sent  to  Jefferson  liarraeks,  IMo.,  where 
he  was  again  discharged  at  the  expiration  of  his 
term. 

We  next  find  Mr.  Le  Sage  engaged  in  the  pork- 
packing  business  in  Chicago.  After  the  Illinois 
and  Mississippi  Canal  was  built,  he  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  first  bo.Mt  that  ever  went  through  the 


canal  and  "as  thus  employed  until  1849,  when  he 
went  to  (Quincy.  In  tliat  city  he  was  engaged  as 
a  dealer  in  wood  and  was  very  successful.  He  af- 
terward again  went  on  tlie  river  .as  captain  of  a 
steamer,  running  for  two  seasons,  and  then  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  (Quincy 
Railroad,  continuing  with  that  company  for  two 
}'ears.  About  this  time  he  was  instrumental  in 
raising  a  military  company,  known  as  the  Quincy 
Artillery,  and  vvith  the  home  troops  he  did  service 
until  1862,  when  he  enlisted  under  the  old  flag  in 
the  regular  service.  He  was  made  commander  of 
his  compan\-,  which  became  Company  A,  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  First  Illinois  Infantiy.  He  went 
through  Tennessee  and  Kentucky  with  Grant,  and 
during  a  portion  of  the  time  was  captain  on  a  boat 
on  the  Mississippi  used  for  the  transfer  of  prisoners. 
On  one  occasion  he  was  detailed  to  take  charge  of 
eleven  hundred  prisoners,  and  at  another  time  three 
hundred  prisoners  on  his  boat  died  of  small-pox. 
Subsequentl}'  lie  was  ordered  to  repair  to  Vicksburg 
and  was  stationed  at  the  headquarters.  He  par- 
ticipated in  the  battles  of  Lookout  Mountain  and 
Mission  Ridge  and  many  other  important  engage- 
ments and  saw  much  hard  service.  At  length  when 
the  war  was  over,  he  made  his  wa3'  to  W.ashington 
and  after  participating  in  the  (irand  Review  was 
mustered  out  in  that  city. 

Since  his  retui-n  from  the  war,  Mr.  Le  Sage  h.as 
been  enged  in  the  hotel  business.  He  married  Miss 
Amanda  M.  Brown,  daughter  of  Alexander  Brown, 
of  (Quincy.  She  was  born  in  18.32,  and  their  marriage 
was  celebrated  in  1852.  They  became  the  parents 
of  the  following  children:  John,  born  in  1853,  died 
at  the  age  of  three  years;  Josephine,  born  in  1855, 
died  at  the  age  of  seven  years;  Laura,  born  in 
Qiiinc.y  in  1857,  died  at  the  age  of  four  years;  Nel- 
lie, born  in  1859,  is  the  wife  of  S.  J.  JIunn,of 
Clayton,  by  whom  she  has  two  daughters;  Ora,  born 
in  1861,  is  at  home.  Th  •  children  were  educated 
in  the  Clayton  schools  and  those  living  are  gradu- 
ates of  the  State  Normal  School.  The  mother  of 
this  family  died  in  Clayton  in  1891. 

Mr.  LeSage  has  been  connected  with  the  Masonic 
order  for  forty  years,  and  h.as  long  been  connected 
with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
Prior  to  the  war  he  was  a    Democrat    but    now    a 


IH)RTHAIT  AND  HI(M;RAl'inCAL    RKCORD. 


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|iionoiiiicf<l  Kopiihliciiii.  He  is  a  iiii'iiilx-r  of  the 
.M«-tli<i<lisi  Cliiircli.  nil  lioiini'f))  vi-tfran  of  tlie  \nle 
war.  :iiiil  i>  licld  in  Iul'Ii  ioi^miiI  1>V  all  wln>  know 
liini. 


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\Qy^ 


';f,'A((»l5  F.  DAI CIIKirrV.   Tlic(iuini>  (Wan- 
itf    anri    Mailili'    lonijiany.   of    uliicli    Mr- 
.laooli   I-'.   DaugliiMly   i>   tin-   l'io>iilfnl,   is  a 
ivprt'sentativp  cstaltlisliniciil  of    tliis   Hoin- 
i-liin^'  citv.  and  (Ich's  rn-dit  to  its  ollim-s. 

Mr.  Dan^lii-rty  clainis  Pennsylvania  as  liis  native 
Stal*',  his  liirth  (K-currini;  in  Westmoreland  County, 
near  the  eity  of  Pittslinr^Lrh.  on  the  pitii  of  March. 
IMIO;  he  Mioved  with  his  |Hirent>,  Miehael  and 
HIizalteth  (Funk)  Daugiierty,  to  the  I'rairie  State 
in  IS.'il.  The  parent*  settled  on  a  farm  in  Adams 
(  oiinty  and  the  father  UH-nme  one  of  the  most 
siilistantial  and  prosperous  tilleix  of  the  soil  in 
that  section.  lie  owned  four  hundred  acres 
of  excellent  land  and  had  it  all  impioved  and 
in  a  very  high  state  of  cultivation.  lie  whs 
a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  al>ility.  progress- 
ive and  eiiterprisinj(,  and  in  everything  con- 
nected with  his  farm,  he  showed  excellent  jiid^f- 
ment  nn<l  much  sound  sense,  lie  and  his  wife  weie 
natives  of  the  Keystone  State  and  of  .S<-otch  and 
(German  descent  res|K?ctively.  The  mother  was 
born  in  Wasliin^ton  County.  an<l  was  the  dau;;liter 
of  Sjimiiel  Funk.  She  w.as  one  of  the  earliest  settlers 
of  I'rsa  Township,  .\dnms  County,  III.  Mr.  Dau<;h- 
erty  died  August  27,  IH92.  .Mrs.  Dau<;herty 
is  still  living  and  is  well  preserved  liotli  in  mind 
and  l»ody.  She  is  passing  her  declining  years 
in  the  enjoyment  of  the  hard-earned  acvumula- 
tions  of  herself  and  liiisliand  in  former  limes. 
and  is  one  of  the  be$t  and  most  highly  esteeinerl 
citizens  of  the  county. 

.lacoh  F.  Dnu<.'liert\  attained  his  manh<Hiil  in 
Adams  County,  III.,  and  received  the  advantage  of 
a  good  eonimon-sehiM)!  education,  lie  remained 
on  the  farm  until  thirty  years  of  age,  and  then 
came  to  i^uiiicv.  where  he  engaged  in  tlio  livery 
husiness.     This  he  continued  for  some  time,  liiit  in 


IH7)!  he  emiiarked  in  the  undertaking  business 
and  made  a  complete  success  of  tliis.  He  is 
careful  and  consiilenit*-.  and  can  always  lie  re- 
lied upon  with  the  fullest  eontldencc  in  the 
•lischnige  of  his  duties.  Since  beginning  busi- 
ness here,  he  has  buried  over  two  thousand  peo- 
ple, many  of  them  representing  ohl  and  promi- 
nent familii'S,  and  as  an  embalmer  he  has  no 
e<|ual.  lie  bus  resided  in  this  county  nearly  all 
his  life,  is  well  known  throughout  its  length  and 
breadth,  is  highly  esteemed  for  his  many  intrinsic 
i|ualities  and  is  one  of  <^uincy's  icpreseiitative 
citi/en-. 

In  the  seiii  l)sii2  he  was  married  to  Miss  l,om?e 
Turner,  of  .\dains  County,  111.,  the  daughter  of 
.lolin  Turner,  who  was  born  in  the  .State of  Maine. 
Six  ehildien  have  blessed  the  union  of  our  subject 
and  wife.  an<l  are  as  follows:  .\nna  It.,  wife  of  |i. 
F.  Porter;  Nellie  -May,  wife  of  Anson  M.  Itrown, 
who  is  cashier  for  the  Wabash  Railroad  Company; 
Pauline,  wife  of  t  harles  Brown,  of  l\:insas  City; 
(irace,  I^roy,and  Arthurat  home.  .Mr.  Daugherty 
is  a  meml>er  of  the  Royal  .Vrcanum  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Knight>  of  Pythias,  thus  showing 
his  appreciation  of  secret  organizations.  In  poli- 
tics, he  is  rather  conservative  in  National  affairs 
but  generally  votes  with  the  DennK'ratic  party,  lie 
and  wife  hold  nu'inbei>hip  in  the  Itaptist  Church. of 
which  he  is  one  of  the  Trustees,  lie  is  one  of  the 
l)ire<-tors  and  st<K'k holders  of  the  (^iiincy  (iranite  A- 
.Marble  Company,  of  which  he  is  President.  His 
otilce  and  residence  arc  at  No.  Il.'i  North  Six 
Street. 


DR.  .loIlN  W.  Sl.ADK,  proprietor  of  the 
Western  Pension  Claim  .Vgeiicy,  is  one  of 
the  most  successful  |>eiision  attorneys  in  the 
I'nitcd  Stales,  and  is  also  a  very  succe.>sful  pnic- 
licing  physician,  the  duties  of  which  arduous  pro- 
fes-ioii  he  has  proven  himself  eminently  capal>le  of 
filling,  lie  wasUirn  in  Harrison  County,  Ky..  Aug- 
ust 7,  lM2f.asonof  Lemuel  W.  slade.of  Kenluckv 


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and  giandson  of  William  Made,  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia. The  latter  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers 
of  the  Blue  Grass  State,  and  for  some  time  re- 
sided in  Harrison  and  Clark-  Counties,  taking  part 
in  a  number  of  Indian  wars  tiiat  occurred  on  the 
"dark  and  bloody  ground,"  as  well  as  in  the  Wav 
of  1812.  Like  all  the  pioneers  of  tliose  days,  he 
resided  in  a  log-cabin  and  followed  agricultural 
pursuits  and  hunting  for  a  livelihood,  his  taste  for 
the  latter  occupation  being  abundantly  gratified  in 
that  wild  region. 

Lemuel  W.  Slade  was  a  tailor  by  trade,  and  also 
a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal   Church  and 
expounded  the  Gospel  in  Kentucky  and    Oliio,  his 
death  occurring  in  the  latter  State.     His  wife,  Ann 
Slade,  was  born  in  Clark  County,  Ky.,  a   daughter 
of  William  Williams,  who  was  born  in   Charleston, 
S.  C,  and    married    Miss    Anna    Patrick,   also  of 
Chaileston.     They  were    early    settlers    of   Clark 
County,  Ky.,  and  there  the  father  died,  the  mother's 
death  occurring  in  Ohio,  both  being  about  eight.y- 
seven  years  of  age.     Twelve  children  were  bo^^-n  "to 
Lemuel  W.  Slade  and  wife,  ten  of   whom  grew  to 
maturity.      George  was   a    member   of   the   Ohio 
Infantry  and    is    now    residing   at   Ladoga,  Ind.; 
Alexander  was  in  the  Seventh   Ohio  Cavalry  and 
is  now  a  resident  of  Georgetown,  Ky.;  I.  M.  Slade 
was   Captain   in   the  Twenty-third   Kentucky  In- 
fantry, and  resides  in  Lexington,  Ky.;    James  H. 
was  in  a  Louisiana  regiment  during  the  Mexican 
War  and  was  killed  at  Rio  Callobosa. 

Dr.  John  W.  Slade  was  reared  in   Kentucky,  and 
as  his  father  was  a   Methodist  Episcopal   ministei-, 
he  obtained  his  education  in  the  different  localities 
in  which  they  resided,  starting  out  to  fight  life's  bat- 
tle by  himself  at  tlie  age  of  thirteen  years  and  for 
a  time  was  eirand  l)oy  in  a  merchant  tailor's  shoi). 
In  1846  he  went  to  New  Orleans,  La.,  and   in  the 
summer  of  184(;  volunteered  in  the  Eirst  Louisiana 
Regiment,  Company  A,  as  a  soldier  in  the  Mexican 
War,  but  at  the  end  of  three  months  his  legiment 
was  disbanded  on  the  Rio  Grande  River,  after  which 
lie  joined    Capt.    Walker's    Texas    Rangers.     For 
about  twelve  months  thereafter,  he  was  in  Compan  v 
A,  First  Louisiana  Regiment,  with  Capt.  R.  P.  Mace, 
and  was  in  the  engagements  from    the   taking   of 
Vera  Cruz  till  tlie  cajiturc  of  the  city  of  Mexico. 


At  the  capture  of  Matamoras,  he  was  wounded  in 
the  right  leg,  was  off  duty  for  a  time,  and  was  then 
wounded  four  or  five  times  in  the  head  and  at  Rio 
Callobosa  received  a  lance  wound  in  the  right  leg. 
He  won  the  sympathies  of  a  Spaniard,  who  toolc 
him  on  his  horse  to  his  ranche,  where  llecaied  for 
him  for  about  a  mouth.     At  the  end  of  that  time, 
while  attempting  to  make  his  way  to  his  command,' 
he  was  captured  aliout  ten  miles  out  and  was  taken 
to  San  Luis  Potosi,  where  he  was  kept  a  prisoner 
until  exchanged  a  few  months  later.     lie  rejoined 
his  regiment  at   Tampieo,  Mexico,  his  death  hav- 
ing been  publi>hed.     He  was  honorably  discharged 
at  Carrolltoii,  La.     Seventeen  years  later,  he.  was 
stationed  at  the  same  place,  but  as  Surgeon  of  the 
Eleventh  IMissouri  Cavalry  with  the  rank  of  Major. 
He  returned  to  his  home  and  began   the  study   of 
medicine  and  in  18.53  removed   to  Louisiana,  Mo., 
and  took  up  the  study  and   practice  of  dentistry. 
j    He  entered  Keokuk  (Iowa)  College  of    Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  graduating  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
I    in  1857,  after  which  he  became  a  successful  practi- 
I    tioner  of  Marlinsburg.  111.     Later,  he  entered    the 
I    I'nion  army  as  Surgeon  and  on  the    7th  of   July, 
1863,  was  assigned  to  the  Eleventh  Missouri  Cav- 
alry and,  in  time,  with  his  command   reached  New 
Orleans  under  command  of    Gen.    Phil   Sheridan. 
July  27,  186,"),  he  vvas  discharged  at  Carrollton.  He 
returned  to  New  Hartford,  Pike  County,  111.,  where 
he  became  a  very  successful    medical    practitioner 
and  remained  until  .lanuary  1,  188.5,  when  he  came 
to  <^uincy. 

Dr.  Slade  was  brought  into  the  Pension  Claim 
Agency  because  of  his  wide  range  of  acquaintances 
among  soldiers,  having  kept  his  surgeon's  record, 
which  he  has  found  useful  in  his  business.     He  has 
been  so  extensively  engaged  in  this  that  he  had  to 
give  up  his  practice.     He  was  the  first  man   in   his 
line  of   business   to  commence   traveling,  but    he 
has  been  successful  and  found    it  very  profitable. 
His  place  of  business  is  locate.l   on    the   northeast 
corner  of  Sixth  and  Hampshire  Streets,  and  his  is  the 
largest  pension  agency  West  of   Washington  City. 
He  owns  property  on  Sunset  Hill  and    is   in  good 
financial  circumstances.     He  was  married  in  Cler- 
mont County,  Ohio,  to  Mi.ss  C.  Malinda   Hayes,  a 
cousin  of  ex-President  Hayes,  her  death  occurrino 


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in  I'ikf  Comity.nfti'r  sIk-  liad  liefoine  llie  mother  of 
four  oliilflicii:  Newton  is  in  liie  ntu'serv  l)ii!<in<'ss: 
Grant  is  Nijflit  Mnil  Clerk  of  tlie  Tost  Oilier 
«^iiiiiev;S(intee  re-ido  in  li.\v;i.  .-iiid  Olive. Mrs.  ( '. 
I.nken,  of  l^uiney. 

Dr.  Sliide's  seeond  ninrriajre  took  place  in  New 
Hartford,  III.,  Mrs.  Klla  S.  (Fox)  Malliis,  a  native 
of  Wars-iw,  111.,  Iieeoniinur  his  wife.  She  is  a  tinelv 
eilncated  lad\  and  is  ehief  elerk  in  her  husliand's 
aj,'ency.  Dr.  .Slade  was  Master  of  the  Aneient 
Free  and  Aeeepted  Masons  at  New  Hartford  and 
lia.s  lieen  a  delegate  to  the  (iraud  Loilife.  He  is  a 
nienilior  of  .lolin  Wood  Post  No.  '.Mi,  (i.  ,\.  H.. 
and  has  been  .Surjrpon  of  the  same  for  some  fonr 
years.  He  isal.soa  memherof  the  .Mexican  X'cteran 
\'oliiiiteers,  is  a  Hejiulilican  in  politics  and  is  a 
memlier  of  the  Kiirhth  Street  .Methodist  Kpiscopal 
t'htirch. 


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JAMKS  CHASK,  was  horn  Aiijrust  ."..  18l.-|, 
I  in  Adams  (.'oiinty.and  was  a  son  of  .Jona- 
than t'liase.  who  was  also  a  native  of  this 
county.  He  had  two  sistcis  and  one  lirother: 
Klla.  who  was  horn  in  Adams  County,  liecanie  the 
wife  1)1'  Dr.  \.  V.  Chase;  Loni.se,  born  In  the  same 
county,  is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Trilihle.  a  farmer,  l>y 
whom  she  has  live  children. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  (^uincy.  and  after  att^iinins  to 
mature  yeai's  marrieil  .Mina  I.oriuiC,  who  was  l)orn 
in  this  county  in  \H't{'>.  Her  parents  were  O.  J. 
and  Klizabeth  ( .McHroon  )  l.orintr.  The  marriacre  fif 
.Mr.and  Mrs.  Chase  was  celebrated  in  lH72.and  nnto 
them  were  liorn  the  following  children:  Kttn,  boi'n 
in  1h7.'3,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Clayton  HighS'hiKil. 
.She  is  an  artist  of  more  th.an  ordinary  ability,  and 
expects  to  take  a  speci.al  I'ourse  of  study  in  this 
direction.  .M|jheiis,  born  in  1K7.'),  is  attending  the 
high  sch<«>l:  and  l-ibbie,  born  in  1877,  i?  a  student 
in  the  Clayton  schools. 

After  his  marriage.  Mr.  Chase  en^aired  in   farm- 


ing for  a  period  of  ihive  years,  but  at  the  expira- 
tion of  that  time  he  left  his  farm  and  came  to 
Clayton,  where  he  resided  until  his  death.  He 
-served  .a-s  I'ostmaster  of  Clayton  during  President 
Cleveland's  administration,  and  faithfidly  per- 
formed the  duties  of  that  oHIce  for  nearly  four 
years,  when  he  resigned  and  w.-is  succeeded  by  a 
Hepublican  candi<late,  a.s  that  party  ha(l  again 
c(une  in  power.  He  owned  one  hundred  and 
thirty  acres  of  highly  improved  land,  and  contin- 
ued to  oversee  it,  but  his  ill-health  preventeil  his 
iiperating  it.  He  supervised  its  nmnagement  until 
his  death. 

In  addition  to  his  farm,  Mr.  Chase  owned  some 
valuable  town  properly,  and  at  his  death  left  to 
hi>  family  a  comfortable  estate  valued  at  i^ir),(t(M). 
Their  handsome  and  cf>mmodious  residence  in 
Cl.'iyton  is  a  twelve-room  dwelling,  built  in  modern 
.style,  and  surrounded  with  beautiful  shade  tree.s. 
It  is  one  of  the  plea.sant  and  hospitable  homes  of 
the  city,  and  its  doors  arc  ever  open  for  the  recep- 
tion of  the  many  friends  of  the  family.  .Mr.  Chase 
was  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church,  n\u\  held 
menibei-ship  with  the  Modern  Woodmen  Lodge, 
lM?ing  the  (irsl  member  of  the  camp  in  Clayt<ui  to 
Ik'  called  frftm  this  life.  He  died  September  2(1, 
IHiifl,  and  his  death  was  mourned  by  many.  He 
was  a  kind  and  loving  husband  and  father,  a 
faithful  friend,  and  a  consistent  member  of  the 
church  with  which  he  had  long  l»een  connected. 
His  family  ^till  resides  in  Clayton,  and  raiik>  high 
in  it.s  social  circles. 


■IMOTHY  .1.  SCOFIKLD,  A.  H.,  A.  M. 
/=>,  Prominent  among  the  successfid  profes- 
>ional  men  of  tjuincy  may  be  mentioned 
the  name  of  this  gentleman,  who,  although  a  res- 
ident of  the  city  but  a  few  years,  has  already 
^''aincd  an  extensive  and  enviable  reputation  as 
.an  nl)le  counselor  and  public-spirited  citizen.  He 
is  .a  member  of  the  tlrm   of   Herrv,  (fllarra  A-  Si-o- 


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field,  attorneys-at-law,  aud  his  legal  abilities  iiave 
aided  in  soeuring  the  present  iiigli  standing  of  the 
firm. 

The  reader  will  be  interested  in  learning  some- 
thing concerning  the  life  of  Mr.  Scofield.  He  was 
born  in  Carthage,  111.,  March  20,  1856,  and  was 
one  of  a  family  of  tliree  children  born  to  Charles 
R.  and  Klizabeth  (Crawford)  ScoHeld.  The  father 
belonged  to  an  old  Eastern  family  of  Scotcii-Irish 
descent,  and  was  liorn  in  New  York.  Harly  in 
life  he  located  in  Carthage,  wliere  he  was  a  promi- 
nent attorne}- and  inlluential  in  the  public  affairs 
of  the  community,  being  a  standi  supporter  of  the 
principles  of  the  Democratic  part}'.  His  death  oc- 
curred there  in  January,  1857,  when  he  was  about 
fifty-eight  years  old. 

The  maternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was 
Harrison  Crawford,  who  was  ))orn  in  Crab  Orch- 
ard, Ky.,  wliere  he  grew  to  manhood  .and  carried 
on  business  as  a  blacksmitii.  At  an  early  day  he 
removed  to  Carthage,  becoming  (jne  of  its  pioneers, 
and  bought  a  large  tract  of  land  near  the  village, 
where  he  carried  on  farming  o[)erations.  He  was 
a  man  of  the  utmost  probity  and  widely  known 
among  the  early  settlers  of  Hancock  County,  where 
his  death  occurred  in  1871.  at  the  age  of  sixty 
years.  In  his  political  sympathies,  he  was  a  Dem- 
ciat.  In  his  religious  connections,  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Christian  Church  at  Carthage. 

The  family  of  whicii  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
is  a  member  consisted  of  two  otiier  sons:  Charles 
.1.,  who  is  now  Circuit  .Tudge  of  the  Sixth  .Judicial 
District  and  a  prominent  citizen  of  Carthage,  111.; 
and  Harrison,  who  died  in  infancy.  The  mother 
of  these  children  survived  her  husband  many  years, 
passing  aw.ay  ]May  27,  1877,  mourned  by  all  who 
knew  her.  Timothy  J.  attended  the  common  and 
High  Schools  of  liis  native  place,  and  afterward  en- 
tered Carthage  College,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  187()  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  Three 
years  later  the  degree  of  A.  M.  was  conferred  upon 
him.  During  the  Centennial  Year,  he  traveled  ex- 
tensively through  the  East,  and  returning  to  Car- 
thage took  up  the  study  of  law.  In  the  fall  of 
1871),  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Mt.  \'ernon, 
HI.,  and  at  once  formed  a  law  partnership  with  J. 
.1.   AVilliams    (now   of   Kansas  City).     He  shortly 


afterward  withdrew  from  this  connection  in  order 
to  enter  the  firm  of  Hooker,  Scofield  it  Edmunds, 
and  remained  with  them  for  nine  months. 

The  partner  of  his  brother,  the  Judge,  dying, 
our  subject  formed  a  partnership  with  him  under 
the  firm  name  of  Scofield  &  Scofield.  In  1884, 
Apollos  OTIarra  was  admitted  to  the  firm  and  upon 
the  election  of  the  Judge  to  his  present  position, 
in  June,  1885,  the  title  vi  the  firm  became  O'llarra 
ik  Scofield.  In  .Fanuary,  1891,  .Mr.  Hartzell  was 
admitted  into  partnership,  and  the  firm  was  by 
that  time  known  as  one  of  the  strongest  and  most 
successful  in  Hancock  County.  Their  business  in- 
creased to  such  an  extent  that  it  was  found  advis- 
able to  open  an  office  in  (^uincy,  in  order  that 
their  large  practice  in  Adams  County  might  be 
properly  attended  to. 

Upon  removing  to  (iuincy,  in  February,  I8',)l, 
Col.  William  W.  lierry  entered  into  the  firm  as  a 
partner,  and  the  business  is  now  conducted  under 
the  title  of  Berry,  O'llarra  Ar  Scofield.  They  have  the 
leading  practice  of  the  county,  and  as  a  sample  of 
the  important  interests  confided  to  them,  it  may 
be  mentioned  that  they  have  been  retained  for  the 
Water  Works;  the  State  Loan  &  Trust  Company; 
the  Newcoinb  Hotel  Companj';  Weems  Bros.,  and 
the  (.iuincy,  Omaha  ct  Kansas  City  Railroad,  in 
addition  to  which  they  have  charge  of  an  immense 
number  of  important  local  cases. 

In  1888,  Mr.  Scofield  was  the  Elector  in  the 
Eleventh  Congressional  District  on  the  Democratic 
National  ticket,  and  during  the  year  made  seventy- 
five  speeches  in  Illinois.  From  xVugust  until  the 
close  of  the  campaign,  he  traveled  through  the 
Eleventh  District  under  the  direction  of  the  Stale 
Central  Committee,  and  Mr.  Campbell,  Chairman 
of  that  committee,  announced  that  Gov.  Palmer 
was  the  only  man  who  had  made  more  speeches 
than  Mr.  Scofield.  _  In  count}'  and  State  conven- 
tions, Mr.  Scofield  is  very  prominent  and  it  has 
been  a  disappointment  to  his  fellow-citizens  that 
he  will  not  allow  his  name  to  go  before  the  Con- 
vention for  Congressman.  For  six  terms  he  served 
as  Alderman  of  the  Third  Ward  of  Carthage  and 
has  occupied  other  positions  of  trust. 

October  1,  1877,  at  Carthage,  HI.,  Mr.  Scofield 
w.as  married   to   Miss  Georgia,  daughter  of    Hon. 


POirnt.MT  AND   KKH'.Iv'Al'IlKAI,    KF.CORl). 


•2:.-. 


( JiMirge  Kiliimiids,  a  priiiiiiiiciit  !ill<iiiu\\  uf  llaii- 
c'tR'k  Citiiiilv.  Mi-s.  Sfolit'ld  was  Ixuii  in  Naiivoo. 
lull  ac('i)in|iaiii(>(l  lier  paiviils  to  Carlliaj^c  wlii'ii 
i|mlt'  vtiiiiiir.  Six  cliildri'ii  have  Ihmmi  Imrn  to 
lliem:  Cliaiii's  . I.,  .Jessie  I..  \'oln  V..  Cora  K.,  .Iiiiiius 
(.'.  anil  'I'liDMiiLs  K.  Mr.  .Votleld  is  President  c>f 
llie  Independent  Order  of  Mutual  Aid,  of  wliioli 
lie  was  one  of  the  orjfani/.ers  in  Illinois  in  1H7H, 
and  for  several  veai-<i  was  \'iet'-prcsident  an<I  later 
(Jrand  Presiiieiit.  lie  is  a  Kovnl  .Vreli  .Mason  and 
has  served  as  Tliriee  Illustrious  .Master  in  Counsel, 
also  a  Kniifht  Teiniilar.  In  his  aetions  as  well  as 
his  politieal  allinities,  he  is  Deiiiocr.-itie.  lilieral  and 
open-hearted  in  disposition,  of  unfailing  •;enialit\' 
of  manners,  and  it  is  not  straiijje  that  he  is  very 
popular  with  all  classes  of   people. 


>-^.^mm-^^w^^^^ 


tillN  II.  .I.V.MKS.  This  sueeessful  liusiness 
man  i.x  the  only  dealer  in  sfiaiii  in  I'l-sa 
villaj^e.  He  is  al.«o  a  laiul-owiier  and  a  man 
^  much  refiarded  in  the  neitflilMirhood.  He 
wa-s  the  yoiiiifiest  of  the  family  of  four  children 
JMirii  to  his  parents,  and  his  liirth  oc-curred  An- 
y;iist  <;,  IM:\.  in  Hoone  County,  Mo.  His  father 
was  .\dam  .lames,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  horn  in 
I  KOI.  After  his  marriage  there,  he  moved  to 
Missouri,  in  18.'<l,aiid  settled  in  Boone  County, 
where  he  lived  for  eighteen  years.  He  cleared  up 
a  fa'in  there,  hut  left  it  and  moved  to  Illinois  in 
1«IK,  and  settled  in  Mendoii  Township  on  rented 
land  for  a  few  years,  then  liought  a  farm  and  im 
proved  it.  He  and  his  wife  were  pious  [leople, 
having  l>een  membci-s  of  the  Methodist  Kpiseopal 
Church  from  the  age  of  sixteen  years.  He  was  a 
Class-leader  and  active  in  all  religious  work.  He 
died  in  l»<f>7.  having  turned  in  his  latter  days  from 
a  Whig  to  a  Denujcrat.  The  mother  of  our  subject 
was  .Mary,  the  daughter  of  .lames  Richards;  she 
was  iMirii  in  1><0(I,  in  lventu<ky,  and  died  a  Chris- 
tian death  in   ISH2. 

Mr.  .lames  of  this    notice  was  reared  on  a  farm, 
and    attended    the    village   schools,   reiiiainlim  at 


home  until  lii.x  marriage.  This  took  place  in  the 
year  IS.'i'.t.  when  he  married  Mrs.  .Martha  Swartz,  .•( 
daughter  of  Daniel  Taylor,  a  very  old  settler  in 
I'rsa  Township,  where  his  daughter's  liirtli  i«-- 
eiirred  in   \h;\:,. 

After  marringe,  Mr.  .lames  settled  upon  the  old 
.l:tmes  farm  in  Mcndon  Township,  anil  there  he 
lived  until  nine  years  ago.  He  then  moved  lohis 
present  home.  Since  his  residence  in  the  village 
of  I'rsji.  Mr.  .lames  has  lieen  engaged  in  the  coal 
liusiness  and  also  in  the  grain  liusiness  loa  great  ex- 
tent. He  has  the  exclusive  mono|»oly  of  the  latter 
here,  and  handles  one  hundred  and  fifty  thonsund 
liushels  a  year. 

Mr.  and  .Mrs.  .lames  are  the  parents  of  six  cliil- 
clii-ii.  all  of  whom  have  received  good  educations: 
Walter  S..  .\innnda,  Lindsay,  Kdward,  Mary  and 
Charles  A.  Walter  S.  is  an  airent  for  the  .Missouri 
I'acilic  Railroad  at  Foster.  Mo.;  I.ind>ay  is  agent 
for  the  same  road  at  Wellington,  Mo.;  Kdward  is  a 
cattle-buyer  here;  Charles  A.  is  a  student  of  law, 
and  will  attend   college  at  .\nn  .\rlior.  .Mich. 

.Mr. .lames  is  a  DemiK'i'at  in  his  political  convic- 
tions, and  has  filled  theolliccsof  Collector  of  Men- 
don  Township  and  for  the  school  district  for 
eighteen  years.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  line  prop- 
erty in  I'rsa.  and  is  a  genllemau  very  highly  re- 
garded by  his  iieighboi"s.  who  have  known  him  so 
niiinv  vears. 


(»IIN  .1.  M1;T/.<;KR.  in  mentioning  those 
of  foreign  birth  who  have  become  promi- 
nently ideiitilied  with  the  business  interests 
of  t^uincy.  111.,  we  shoiilil  not  fail  to  present 
an  outline  of  the  career  of  .Mr.  .Metzger,  for  he  is 
one  who  has  borne  out  the  reputation  of  that  eln.ss 
of  industrious,  energetic  and  far-seeing  men  of 
(ierman  nativity  who  have  risen  to  prominence 
ill  different  |Mirtioiis  of  this  county.  He  is  at  pre- 
sent a  memlier  of  the  Metzger  I'ork  Packing  Com- 
liaiiy  and   is  the  manager  of  the   enterpri.se.     In- 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


(lustiimis  in  Ins  liahits, and  progressive  in  iiis  ideas, 
Mr.  Metzger  has  met  witli  substantial  results,  and 
is  a  gentleman  well  and  favoralily  known  to  the 
people  of  Adams  County.  His  whole  career  has 
been  marked  by  great  honesty  and  tidelil}'  of  pur- 
pose. 

Mr.  Metzger  was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  (Termany, 
on  the  30tli  of  November,  1«42,  and,  when  but 
three  years  of  age,  was  brought  to  America  by  his 
parents,  jNIarlin  and  IMargaret  Metzger.  Tiiey 
landed  in  New  Oi'leans.  Ijut  went  from  there  to 
Brownsville,  Tex.,  where  tiie  father  was  engaged 
in  business  for  some  time,  and  later  went  to  15ur- 
lington,  Iowa,  settling  on  a  farm.  From  there, 
they  moved  to  a  farm  in  the  Prairie  State  and 
there  the  father  received  his  final  summons.  The 
mother  removed  toQuinc^^  and  died  there  in  1882, 
when  sevent3'-eight  years  of  age.  They  were 
worthy  people,  and  reared  their  ten  children  to 
be  honorable  men  and  women. 

John  J.  Metzger,  the  youngest  of  these  children, 
received  his  education  in  the  different  localities  in 
which  his  parents  resided  and  was  eleven  years  of 
age  when  he  came  to  Quiucy.  After  leaving  the 
schools  of  this  city,  he  began  learning  the  harness- 
maker's  trade  with  Banard  &  Lockwood,  and  was 
with  this  company  for  six  years.  Having  accumu- 
lated some  means,  he  resolved  to  start  out  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  and  opened  a  harness  shop  on 
Hampshire  Street,  where  he  was  actively  engaged 
for  two  years.  Selling  out  his  stock,  he  went  to 
York  Street  and  was  engaged  in  business  there 
from  1869  until  1885,  when  he  turned  the  business 
over  to  his  son,  George  M.  Since  then,  he  has 
been  connected  with  the  pork-packing  business,  and 
took  Christopher  Ward  in  as  partner,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Metzger  ife  Ward.  Later,  he  was  con- 
nected with  Henry  Behrnsmeyer  in  the  packing 
business  and  they  continued  together  until  1891, 
wlien  our  subject  sold  out  to  his  partner  and 
started  the  Metzger  Pork  Packing  Company.  He 
has  met  with  unusual  success  in  all  his  business  ef- 
forts and  is  one  of  the  substantial  men  of  the  city. 
His  business  is  not  only  creditable  and  beneficial 
to  the  city,  but  also  one  that  reflects  credit  on  him- 
self, and  which  bids  fair  to  be  one  of  the  largest 
enterprises  of  the  kind  in  this  section. 


On  the  9th  of  November,  186.5,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Keuter,  of  Quinc3', 
daughter  of  Job  G.  Keuter,  and  six  children  have 
lilessed  this  union,  four  daughters  and  two  sons. 
Mr.  Metzger  was  Chief  of  the  Fire  Department 
three  terms  and  is  now  First  Assistant  Chieftain  of 
the  Fire  Department.  He  is  active  in  all  enter- 
prises worthy  of  notice  and  extends  a  helping  and 
generous  hand  to  further  the  advancement  of  the 
city.  Not  only  is  he  prominent  in  business  circles, 
but  as  a  citizen  he  is  highl.y  esteemed.  He  has  a 
good  home  at  No.  533  York  Street,  Quincy,  and  he 
and  his  family  worship  at  St.  Boniface  Catholic 
Church. 


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AMUEL  S.  INMAN.  This  young  gentle- 
man, who  is  one  of  the  leading  merchants 
of  Plain  ville,  carries  on  a  thriving  trade  in 
the  hardware  liusiness  and  also  deals  ex- 
tensively in  agricultural  implements,  lie  has  been 
very  prosperous  in  his  chosen  calling  and  is  a  man 
whose  many  pleasant  social  qualities  make  him 
popular  in  the  community. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  sketcii  is 
a  native  of  this  county,  having  been  born  in  1859, 
in  Payson,  where  his  parents,  James  and  Harriet 
Inman,  located  in  1852.  His  early  life  was  passed 
amid  the  scenes  of  his  birth  and  he  acquired  a  good 
practical  education  in  the  common  schools,  where 
he  laid  a  solid  foundation  for  his  career  as  a  busi- 
ness man.  His  father  being  a  farmer,  he  aided 
him  in  the  management  of  the  home  estate  until 
1888,  when,  thinking  to  better  his  condition,  he  en- 
gaged in  selling  farm  implements  at  Payson,  which 
line  of  business  he  continued  for  a  twelvemonth- 
At  the  end  of  that  time,  he  became  a  partner  of  J. 
C.  Baker,  at  Plainville,  where  Mr.  Baker  was  a 
prominent  hardware  merchant,  and  six  months 
later,  purchased  his  partner's  interest  in  the  store 
and  has  since  conducted  the  business  prosperously 
alone.  He  is  one  of  those  men  who  can  successfully 
comb.it  the  many  disadvantages  and  trials  that  come 


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iil><)ii  line  ill  the  liiisiiu'*i  world,  and  is  also  the 
li:i|i|i_v  (lux-o.-xir  of  llint  eiii-rirv  that  .-oi'iii.-  soiiie- 
liow  lo  traiisforin  a  poor  iK-fiiiiniiij;  into  a  iinot 
llattcriii);  ending,  lie  lin.s  tin-  lionor  of  lH'iii<;  tlie 
oiilv  man  who  has  cvi-r  made  tho  liaidwaiv  liiisi- 
iH'ss  a  suttTss  ill  lliis  phicf.  ami  liv  strict  iiitoy- 
ritv  and  i^uod  ii)ana<;i'iiient  lie  is  rapidly  coming 
to  tlic  front  amoiiiiihi'  linsiiicss  nu'ii  of  llip  county. 
Miss  irciia,  daujilitcr  of  I.  M.'riionipson,  of  I'ay- 
soii,  iK-canie  the  wife  of  our  subject  in  1X83.  She 
is  a  very  intelliireiit  ainl  cultured  lady  and  liy  her 
union  with  Mr.  Inniaii  lias  lieconic  the  mother  of 
two  children.  l-!<liia  \'.  and  I'llaiuhe.  In  social 
inatti'is,  our  suliject  is  a  ineinl)er  of  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  with  his  wife  is  an 
intluential  nicinlicr  of  the  .Methodist  Kpistcopnl 
Church. 


ID*®!^^^ 


OllN  S.  Kt  IV,  who  follows  general  farming 
on  section  11.  Concord  Town.^liii),  i.s  of 
.Scottish  liirtli.  lie  was  horn  in  Scotland  in 
1K2H.  and  is  a  son  of  .lolin  Hoy,  who  was 
also  a  nativeof  that  land,  lie  had  one  hrotlierand 
two  sisters,  hut  all  are  now  deceased. 

In  the  piililic  schools  of  his  native  land,  .Mr.  Hoy 
aeipiired  his  I'ducatiou  and  at  an  early  age  be 
started  out  in  life  for  himself,  since  which  time  he 
has  lH.'en  dependent  upon  his  own  resources,  and 
the  suci>ess  that  he  has  achieved  st:in<ls  :us  a  monu- 
ment to  his  thrift  and  enterprise.  When  a  youii^ 
man,  he  deleiiiiined  to  cross  the  .\llantii'  and  .seek 
a  home  in  liu-  New  Wmld.  uf  wlnoe  .-id vantages 
and  privileges  he  had  heard  much,  lie  lii-st  iiK-aled 
in  New  .lei>ey,  where  he  enpiged  in  farming  for  a 
time,  hut  in  IK/iG  he  came  to  Adams  County.  For 
fourteen  years  he  has  resided  upon  his  present 
farm,  which  is  a  highly  iiiiproveil  :ind  well-culti- 
vated tract. 

Ill  IMI'.i,  Mr.  |{oy  w:f<  united  in  niarria;:e  with 
.\giies  l.yoii.  who  was  liorii  in  S-otland  in  lK.'t2. 
'riiey  Ix'came  the  parents  of  the  following  children: 
.lohn,  iHirn  in  1^01.  m as  educated  in   the  common 


schools,  and  is  now  practicing  chiropody  in  Omaha, 
Net).;  Mary,  liorn  in  l»<."i:l,  is  the  wife  of  F.  liiirke,  a 
farmer  of  North  F-ast  Township;  .Margan-t,  horn  in 
1855,  is  the  wife  of  .lnhn  l.<'wis:  .lames,  liorn  in 
1H.")7,  resides  in  Missouri:  l)avid  l'.,  horn  in  Ih.'i'.t, 
married  Id.-i  Lyons  and  resiiles  in  Ihiscoiinty ;  Wil- 
lie Thomas,  lx>rn  in  |H(;:i,  i>  at  home;  .losepli,  horn 
in  IH(!t>,  inarried  liianche  .\iisiniis  and  is  a  s«-liool 
teacher:  .Vrtliur,  liorn  in  1871,  is  still  under  the 
parental  riMif. 

During  the  late  war.  .Mr.  l{oy  showed  his  loyalty 
to  his  adopted  country  hy  enlisting  in  the  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-liflh  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which 
he  served  for  six  month'!  and  txveiity  days.  In  his 
political  alliliations  he  is  independent  and  in  his 
social  relations  he  is  a  niemla>r  of  the  ( iran<]  Army 
of  the  Hepulilic.  It  was  a  fortunate  day  for  Mr. 
Roy  when  he  determined  lo  leave  his  native  land 
and  cimie  to  America,  for  here  he  Iiils  found  a  pleas- 
ant home,  won  many  friends  and  secured  a  well- 
deserved  prosperity.  Wy  his  industrious  ami  well- 
directed  efforts  he  has  won  a  handsome  comiK'tence 
and  is  numhered  among  the  leading  and  siilislan- 
tial  fariiiei>  of  the  commuiiitv. 


/ 


•J  DWAHI)  II.  .MKNKF.  is  the  foreman  of  the 
stone-eutting  department  of  the  F.  W. 
^  Meiike  Stone  A-  I.iiiie  Company,  of  ( ^uiiicy, 
III.,  .and  to  this  liiisinevs  his  entire  time  and  atten- 
tion an'  (Icvoti'd.  .Mtliough  a  young  man.  he  has 
already  made  a  repuUition  for  energy,  integrity 
.and  eiitei|irise,  is  popular  in  the  liiisiiieNS  nnd  .s<j- 
cial  circles  in  which  he  moves,  nnd  as  a  stone-ciii- 
l<'r  sustains  a  high  repiitjilion.  and  fiillx'  deserves 
to  do  so.  Ills  hirth  occurred  in  i^iiincy  on  the  .'td 
of  .lul\.  IMtil.andas  he  has  resided  in  this  city 
all  hi>  life,  he  is  well  known  and  highly  esteemed 
for  his  many  esliiiialile  ipialities  of  heart  and  head, 
lie  wiLsthe  second  son  of  Frederick  W.  and  l.oiiisi* 
,  .Nleiike.  the  former  of  whom  is  one  of  the  loading 


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c'Ontiactors  of  (^uiney,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  woik. 

Edward  II.  Menke  received  tlie  advantaa;es  of 
the  schools  of  (Juincy  in  his  youth,  and  had  the 
good  judgment  to  make  the  most  of  his  o|i))<)rtu- 
nities.  Uimn  finishing  his  education,  lie  was  a 
well-informed  yonng  man.  and  phjsically  was  well 
qualified  to  take  upon  himself  the  duties  of  life. 
Heat  once  began  learning  the  stone-cntter's  trade 
under  the  guidance  of  his  father,  who  was  emi- 
nently fitted  to  instruct  him  in  the  details  and  mys- 
teries of  that  business.  After  becoming  i)roficient 
he  at  once  began  to  work  with  his  father,  who 
is  a  very  extensive  contractor  and  builder,  and 
a  heavy  dealer  in  stone  for  building  purposes, 
and  in  connection  with  iiini  has  followed  his 
calling  up  to  the  present  time,  and  is  the 
trusted  and  etticicnt  foreman  of  his  stone-cutting 
dejiartnient.  He  has  shown  a  great  deal  of  tact 
in  the  conduct  of  this  department,  aiid  he  has 
demonstrated  the  fact  that  he  has  executiveability 
of  a  liigh  order,  and  is  eminently  fitted  for  carry- 
ing forward  the  work  over  which   he  has  control. 

In  the  month  of  November.  1891,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Matilda  Dick,  the  accomplished,  intelli- 
gent and  amiable  daughter  of  John  Dick  (de- 
ceased), of  (Juiiicy,  111.,  and  they  are  now  resid- 
ing in  Park  Place,  in  a  new  and  handsome  brick 
residence  of  the  latest  architectural  design.  It  is 
beautifully  finisiicd.  liotii  inside  and  out,  and  is 
fitted  up  with  ail  the  latest  modern  iinproveineiits, 
is  handsomely  furnished,  and  is  a  model  of  con- 
venience and  comfort.  Mv.  Menke  is  genial  and 
hospitable,  and  a  royal  welcome  and  entertain- 
ment are  always  extended  to  his  friends  at  his 
home  at  Park  Place  by  himself  and  his  estimable 
wife.  Mr.  Menke  has  always  been  a  stanch  sup- 
porter of  Republican  principles,  and  he  has  never 
ceased  to  exhibit  the  liveliest  interest  in  the  pub- 
lic questions  of  the  day.  Asa  man,  he  possesses 
very  social  instincts,  and  this  quality  has  won  him 
a  host  of  warm  and  devoted  friends.  His  home 
life  is  singulatl3'  happy,  and  he  is  a  most  agi'ee- 
able  gentleman  to  meet. 

He  is  a  director  and  stockholder  of  the  Jlenkc 
Stone  &  Lime  Company,  of  Quincy,  and  is  othcr- 
Tyise  intecestod  \n  valiiable   propect^y  ji)  this  city. 


He  is  a  wide-awake  man  of  affairs,  but  liis  trans- 
actions are  alwajs  marked  by  the  strictest  integ- 
rity and  by  a  desire  to  d(^  wiiat  is  just  and  right 
by  his  fellows.  His  career  [H'omises  to  l>e  one  of 
usefulness  and  honor. 


■7    ■    I 


I  '     t  '  1^  r<  ^  ^"^ 


^  IlILLIAM  K.  GILLlLANi),  M.  I).,  has  for 
\/iJ//  ^^^'"^"ty  .vesirs  engaged  in  the  jtractice  of 
W^  medicine  in  Coatsburg,  and  is  a  leading 
physician  of  this  section  of  the  county.  He  well 
deserves  representation  in  this  Aolume.  The 
great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Thomas  fiilli- 
land,  was  born  on  the  Atlantic,  while  his  [larents 
were  crossing  the  ocean  from  Ireland.  He  was 
reared  on  the  Ijoundary  line  between  Delaware  and 
Maryland.  Having  married,  he  became  the  father 
of  three  so:  s:  Thomas,  William  and  Robert,  the 
last-named  being  the  grandfather  of  our  subject. 
He  emigrated  to  Kentucky  in  an  early  day  and 
lived  in  a  block-house.  He  was  one  of  Kentucky's 
honored  jiioneers,  and  was  a  warm  friend  of  Daiiiil 
lioone.  In  18-i7,  he  emigrated  with  his  family  to 
Illinois,  locating  in  Morgan  County,  whence  he 
came  to  Adams  County.  He  was  also  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  this  community,  and  during 
his  life  he  participated  in  several  Indian  wars.  He 
lived  almost  entirely  upon  the  frontier  and  did 
much  for  the  advancement  and  upbuilding  of  the 
localities  in  which  he  resided.  His  death  occurred 
in  1854,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six  years. 

The  Doctor's  father,  William  I'.  Gilliland,  was 
born  in  Kentucky,  in  1805,  and  accompanied  his 
jiarents  on  their  emigration  to  tliis  State.  In 
Morgan  County  he  purchased  wild  land,  and  in  a 
log  cabin,  16x18  feet,  made  his  home.  There  he 
imjiroved  and  developed  a  farm,  upon  which  he 
resided  until  the  spring  of  1841,  when  he  came 
to  Meiidou.  For  some  years  he  continued  to  en- 
gage in  agricultural  pursuits,  liut  is  now  living  a 
retired  life.  He  married  Letitia  Curry,  who  was  born 
in  Kentucky,  in  1808,  and  died  on  tiio  4tli  of  Sep- 
toiiiber,  18;)(i.   Like  hey  Imsliniid,  she  >v(is  for  ninny 


TOKIKAir  AM)   I!I«m;KAIMI1(    \I.    i;i:(()RI). 


•-'•;  1 


y»'iii>  !i  fnitlifiil  iik'IiiIht  of  tin-  Mi-tlioili,*!  Clmirli. 
Mr.  (iilliliuid  i>  ii  pi'iuiiiiifiit  hikI  iiilhieiilinU-iti/i-n 
of  this  c'oiniiiiinitv.  nnd  liiis  tilli'rl  tin-  olliccs  of 
.liistiff  of  tin-  I'ciKT,  Su|HTvir<or  nnd  ('•illoflur. 

Dr.  (iillilnnil  >vit>  tlu>  lliiri)  in  oi'dor  of  liirtli  in 
It  fnniilv  of  live  M>ns  anil  fuur  (1itu^litei>.  <if  whom 
four  Min>  iind  one  dHU<;ht4>r  nrc  vet  livin;;.  Mr 
w:is  iMirn  .liinuarv  I.  IH.'t:!.  in  tin-  littU- In;;  niltiii 
ill  Mori;nn  County.  Ills  odn<%'itioii.il  iidvnnt«ge» 
wvn-  vi'iv  in«'!i>^rc,  Iwini;  iici|uirod  in  \i><i  sfliool 
hou!>i-.><  with  sinli  m'iU.s  :in<l  |iniu'hcon,  or  soinetiiiiis 
only  dirt,  tlotir*.  Mis  trainint;  in  farm  Inluir.liow- 
ovt-r.  »!is  not  so  nioa;i;r<'.  'riiosi'  wlio  iovt-d  liuiit- 
Iiijl;  had  uiiipio  o|i|Kirtunity  to  indulge  tht-ir  t:islo, 
nnil  Ihf  DiK'lor  liiinself  lias  killed  insny  dei-r,  linv- 
in;,'  prolialily  killed  llii'  hirjrcsl  one  cvi-r  shot  in 
Adams  County,  l-'or  a  fi'W  terms  he  enga>;ed  in 
teaehin^  siehool,  hut  in  the  earlier  veal's  of  Wis 
manhood  devoted  the  greater  |iart  of  his  atten- 
tion to  farm  work. 

In  the  spring  of  1K,')4,  on  attaining  his  majority, 
the  I>(K-tor  married  Saraii  K.  Mover,  whii  was  horn 
in  rennsylvania,  and  with  her  parent'*  enme  to 
Illinois  in  I8.'>l.  Ilcr  father  died  nt  the  age  of 
si.\ty-six  yeai>, and  her  mother  is  still  living  in  the 
eighty-third  year  of  her  age.  The  Doetor  and  his 
wife  have  had  live  children:  .Vnnie,  wife  of  I'rof. 
William  S.Cray, of  Cojil.-huig:  .lohii  ( >.  aiirl  Henry 
1...  iMilhdeeeased:  Minnie  M..  wife  of  W.  T.  Klliotl, 
of  Madison,  Wis.,  a  traveling  salesman  for  the 
KiK-k  Island  Plow  Coiiipany;  nnd  William  M.,  who 
graduated  from  the  Illinois  State  I'niversily.  and 
is  a  meehanienl  engineer  in  the  pmphiy  of  the 
llnrvey  Steel  Car  Company,  of  Harvey,  one  of  the 
snliurlis  of  Chieago. 

.\fler  his  marriage.  I)i.  Cillilaiid  engaged  in 
farming  in  Cilnier  Township,  where  he  remained 
for  live  yeai>.  In  IH.'i'.l,  he  removed  to  .Vnderson 
County.  Kan.,  where  he  farmed  for  two  yeai>.  In 
the  spring  of  IKli'',  lit-  relumed  [a)  this  eouiit\  and 
again  i-esided  upon  a  farm  in  liilmer  Township 
until  l«7o.  For  the  previous  live  yeni-s  he  had  read 
medieine  anil  in  iMIiH  i-ntered  the  .Medical  College 
of  St.  l.onis,  from  whieli  he  wa>  graduated  in 
IH7().  He  then  eanie  ti>  ( 'iiataliurg.  :ind  for 
tweiity-lwo  yejirs  has  heen  one  of  its  proininciit 
prjieijljoners.     He  Ii:i.s  also  l>eeii  a  inenili'r  of  thu 


.\ilains  County  Medieal  SiK-iety  for  si'veral  \enrs. 
Ill  polities,  he  is  a  l)eni<H-mt,  and  takes  ipiiti-  nn 
aetive  |»«rt  in  promoting  its  interest*.  He  oiiee 
served  as  Su|K'rvisor  and  has  freipieiilly  k-eii  n 
delegate  to  the  eoiinty  and  .stale  I'oiiTentions,  hut 
lifts  never  U-eii  an  aspirant  for  pulilic  ollitr.  Si- 
eially.  he  has  U'eii  a  .Ma-'on  for  twenty  years  and 
Mi-s.  liilliland  is  a  memlier  of  the  .Methodist  Kpis- 
eopal  Chiireli. 

The  Doctor  is  a  si-lf-made  man  who  has  acipiired 
a  eomfortjilile  eoni|H-tenit>  and  made  Iiims4-|f  well 
informed  on  all  ipiestioiis  of  general  interest.  He 
is  well  versed  in  his  profession,  keeps  altreiust  with 
all  the  discoveries  and  theorii-s  |)ertaiiiing  to  the 
s<-ieiice  of  medieine.  and  Ins  recogni/.ed  skill  and 
aliility  have  secured  him  a  large  pr.wlicv. 


lis.  SAKAII  K.  SK(;i;i{.  Affection  h.is 
diettited  the  following  facts  eoiieerning 
the  useful  life  of  one  of  the  old  settlers  of 
this  city.  To  his  liereaved  widow  are  we 
indehted  for  lliese  remiiiiscence.s  of  the  career  of 
Samuel  K.  Seger.  who,  during  life,  conducted  a 
large  griK'ery  husines>  through  the  civil  war,  and 
through  nil  the  panii-s  nnd  market  lliictuatioiis, 
with  such  foresijrlil  jind  iriM)d  maiiagenienl,  that  nt 
his  demise  his  family  were  ahle  to  continue  wilh- 
oiil  any  re-«rraiigeinenl.  This  is  uiiusnnl  in  anv 
Imsiness  and  only  gives  an  instaiioe  of  the  careful 
judgment  of  the  deceased. 

Samuel  .S-ger  was  the  son  of  .\iidrew  ami  .Vim 
(Skinner)  .Si'ger,  natives  of  .New  Vork  and  I'eiiii- 
sylvania,  respectively,  .\iidrew  Seger  hroiiglit 
his  family  here  in  l«:{(i,  hut  his  health  U'canie  (Mior. 
and  lie  died  .Ijiniinry  2.  IXl«.  His  wife  survived 
him  until  ()<-lolier  "J'.i.  IX.'i.'i.  They  were  ic>pccted 
memlM-i-s  of  the  Ibiptist  Church. 

Samuel  was  one  of  live  sons,  and  was  the  oiil\ 
one  who  grew  to  any  nge,  and  whs  lirotight  here 
wlifii  only  eleven  venis.  of  age.  He  had  few  edu- 
cational advantnges  nnd  was  almost  wholh  n  M'lf. 
made  man,     Ue  Liegan  his  life  work  in  the  employ 


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of  S.  and  W.  B.  Thayer,  wholesale  clry-soods  men 
and  gioeers.  He  continued  with  them  foi-  fifteen 
years,  and  became  head  book-keeper  and  manager 
of  their  business.  In  1858,  he  started  a  retail 
groceiv  business  on  Hampshire  Street,  and  later 
made  it  wholesale  also.  All  his  enterprises  proved 
successful  and  he  made  money  rapidly.  In  March, 
1871,  he  bought  a  store  at  Xo.  U!  North  Fourth 
Street,  and  engaged  in  an  exclusive  wholesale  trade. 
His  i)lans  for  future  usefulness  were  dissipated  by 
his  death,  which  occurred  ]March  21,  1882,  He  was 
not  only  prominent  in  commercial  circles,  but  was 
an  important  member  of  the  lodges  of  Knights 
Temjjlar  and  the  Consistory,  and  is  a  Thirty-third 
Degree  Mason,  and  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
and  w,as  an  organizer  of  the  Mutual  Aid  of  Illinois, 
of  winch  he  was  Grand  Treasurer  when  he  died.  He 
was  a  strong  supporter  of  tlie  i)rincii)les  of  the 
Republican  jiart}'. 

Mr.  Seger  was  married  here,  April  25,  1818,  to 
the  faithful  woman  who  now  treasures  his  memory 
so  fondly.  Her  name  was  Sarah  E.  Thomp- 
son, and  her  birthplace  was  New  York  City.  Her 
father,  Samuel  Thompson,  was  a  stove  dealer  in 
New  York,  and  in  July,  1845,  he  brought  his 
family  to  (Juincy,  where  he  lived  quietly  until  his 
death,  in  185.'i.  The  mother  of  ISIrs.  Seger  was  a 
native  of  New  York  also,  but  she  ended  her  life 
here,  August  26,  1851. 

Mrs.  Seger  was  reared  in  the  State  of  her  Itirth 
until  her  thirteenth  year,  and  in  1813  she  came  to 
Burlington,  Iowa,  and  on  .lidy  2,  1845,  slie 
reached  (^uincy,  which  was  then  a  verj'  small 
place,  where  there  was  very  primitive  living. 
She  has  taken  great  comfort  in  her  three  line  sons. 
(See  sketch  of  Ciiarles,  Frank  and  Elmer  Seger.) 
After  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  Seger  bravely 
took  up  his  work,  and  with  the  assistance  of  her 
sons  has  continueil  the  business  in  a  very  etticient 
manner.  The  firm  name  now  is  S.  E.  Seger's 
Sons,  and  is  composed  of  Mrs.  Seger  and  lier  three 
boys. 

The  business  of  this  firm  is  very  large,  and  in 
1877  they  erected  a  new  building  on  Olive  Street 
and  Broadwa}-,  and  occupied  it  in  1888.  The}' 
use  two  buildings,  one  one  luijidred  ai)d  nfty-ciglit 


feet  on  Broadway,  and  the  other  one  hundred 
feet  on  Olive  Street.  I'lie}'  are  three  stories  high 
and  there'are  two  steam  elevators  in  the  buildings, 
which  are  heated  by  steam.  A  special  feature 
of  tlieir  business  is  the  grinding  of  si)ices  and  the 
roasting  of  coffee  for  the  trade.  They  deal  m  all 
the  staple  and  fancy  groceries,  and  in  tobacco  and 
cigars.  They  reserve  the  ground  Hoor  for  stowing 
and  shipping,  the  second  floor  for  sample  rooms 
and  oftice,  and  the  thiid  floor  for  storage.  They 
have  the  best  of  shipping  facilities,  and  all  their 
arrangements  are  calculated  to  carr}' on  the  largest 
business  of  their  kind  in  the  city  with  prompt- 
ness and  accuracy. 

The  home  of  Mrs.  Seger  is  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  in  the  city,  and  there  this  lad}-  of  culture 
m.ay  take  her  hours  of  ease  among  her  delightful 
surroundings,  after  her  seasons  of  tiresome  business 
care.  She  claims  her  right,  as  a  woman  of  luisiness, 
to  have  an  opinion  upon  political  (piestions,  and 
when  tlie  subject  of  suffrage  is  favorablj'  decided, 
she  will  give  her  vote  for  the  Republican  party. 


■^y^OHN  J.  DKUMMON,  one  of  the  extensive 
land-owners  of  Adams  County,  who  carries 
on  farming  and  stock-raising  on  a  large 
J  scale  on  sections  19  and  30,  Beverly  Tftwn- 
ship,  is  a  native  of  the  Keystone  State,  born  in 
1825.  His  parents,  Arthur  and  Ann  (Jones)  l^runi- 
mon,  were  natives  of  New  Jersey  and  Pennsyl- 
vania, respectively.  The  father  served  in  the  War 
of   1812. 

Our  subject  is  one  of  a  family  of  five  children, 
four  of  whom  are  now  li  ving.  No  event  of  special  im- 
portance occurred  during  his  bo3hood  da3s.  His 
education  was  acquired  in  the  common  schools  and 
he  began  earning  his  own  livelihood  in  Penu- 
.sylvania,  where  he  worked  until  the  spring  of  1855. 
That  j'ear  witnessed  his  emigration  to  Pike  County, 
]il..  where  he  made  his  home  for  seven  years.  In 
18U1,  he  purchiised  fV  tcact  of  eighty)-  acres  of  land 


SAMUEL  G.    BLIVEN 


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ill  lii'vcilv  Townsliip,  Ai]niii>  County.  Siil>.-.i'- 
i|iiciitly,  he  liou^flil  aiu>tlu-r  oi!,'lil y-i«i'n'  trni-t  niul 
from  tiiiH-  t<i  tiiiii-  lias  sim.'<'fxU'ii(k'(l  tlu-  lii>iiii(l:ir- 
io  )•(  lii>  fnriii  until  it  now  foiniiriM-s  m-vimi  Iiuii- 
(Ircil  mill  t\v<>iit\  Mcre.sof  nrnblc  laiiil.  This  i:)  one 
of  till'  valiiiililf  ami  Hi'siralilc  lioinestoails  in  Adam.'- 
(oiiiity.  anil  is  i-las.scil  anions  tin-  inoili'l  farms. 
Tlif  rich  mill  fcrlilo  tielils  aiv  niulcr  a  lii;;h  state 
of  i-iiltivatioii  and  lit-  lias  niaih'  many  impiovo- 
iiiciit.«  ii|Miii  till-  place.  Ills  Itarnsaiiil  oilllinililiiij.:)) 
are  inoilels  of  eoiivenieiiw  anil  there  seems  to  be 
iiotliin;;  laekiii;;.  The  slock  which  lie  raises  is  of 
j;uimI  ■;ia<li->. 

Ill  ixt'.i.  ill  l'ittsliiir;;h.  I'a..  Mr.  Itriimmon  was 
united  in  iiiarria;;e  with  Mis,-  Matilda  Sjh'iicc, 
who  was  born  in  that  city  in  \h->h.  .Seven  chil- 
dren fjraeed  their  union,  of  whom  four  are  yet 
livini;.  as  follows:  Mary  A.  is  luiw  the  wife  of 
Al  Wheatiiif;.  a  resident  of  Hichlield;  James  II. 
wedded  Mary  McLean  and  makes  his  home  in 
IJeverly:  William  married  Miss  Mary  liiiiton  and 
is  a  resilient  of  Kl  Keiio, I  Iklahuiiia;  Abraham,  who 
eonipleles  the  family ,  resides  al  liuiiie.  The  chil- 
dren were  all  educated  in  the  coiiiiiion  schools,  ex- 
cept Abraham,  who  pursued  lii>  -liidii-  at  Camp 
I'uint,  Itiishnell  and  .Sprini>lield. 

Mr.  Driimiiion  is  a  piil>lic->pii  itcd  and  |)iui;res- 
sivecili/eii,  who  manifests  a  i-uninieiidable  interest 
in  all  that  {lertains  to  the  welfare  of  the  commu- 
nity ami  is  ever  found  in  the  front  rank  in  support 
of  worlhy  public  measures.  Like  e\  ery  true 
.\meric'an  citizen  should,  he  feels  an  iiitere>>t  in 
|)olitical  affaii>.  Ileexereises  his  ri;;li'  of  franehiM' 
in  >iipport  of  the  Kepubliean  party  and  is  a  stal- 
wart sup|>orter  of  its  principles,  which  he  warmly 
advocates.  However,  he  has  never  been  an  otliee- 
seeker.  His  wife  is  a  liiember  of  the  Itapti-t 
Church  and  he  contributes  liberally  to  its  support. 
Mr.  nriiiiinion  i»  a  plea-ant,  i^enial  •feiitleman, 
who  is  held  in  hifih  e.«leeiii  tliroui;hoiit  the  enm- 
miinity  for  his  many  excellencies  of  character. 
He  has  U-en  very  successful  in  life  and  his  pros- 
perity is  well  ik"s<-rved.  lie  is  now  niinilK'red 
amonfi;  the  siibsUtntnil  citizens  of  the  community, 
mid  altlioii^ili  he  U'^i.in  life  enipty-lianded,  he  i- 
now  Mirroiiiided  with  all  the  eomforl'-  and  |ii\iirie> 
which  make  life  worth  living. 

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^c^A.Ml  Kl.  (..  IILIXIN.  Oil.  I.\  ui.e  the 
^^^  old  s«'ltlers  of  the  county  are  departiufj: 
\.^_^  to  the  bourne  whence  no  traveler  returns, 
li-avins;  behind  llieni  records  worthy  of 
study  and  examples  worthy  of  imitation.  One  of 
tlii-  iiiimlier  is  the  late  Samuel  liliveii,  who  is 
Weil  remeiiibercd  by  all  who  knew  him  as  a  man 
of  ;;real  industry,  good  judgment  and  a  |H-rsonal 
eharaeter  which  won  him  a  liiirli  degree  of  re- 
spect from  tlio.-e  with  whom  he  associated.  Fi- 
nancially s|)eaking,  he  wa-  a  self-made  man, 
having  Ik'^iiii  his  career  in  life  with  no  other 
capital  than  that  embraced  in  his  bniiii,  his  will 
power  and  his  physical  ability.  When  removed 
by  death,  .lime  ."III.  IXDI.  he  was  tjie  owner  of  a 
line  estilte  of  nvi  r  twi.lvi.  Iiiiiidred  acres  in  .\dams 
County. 

lie  (if  whom  H.-  Hiiie  was  born  in  New  Vork 
.State  in  ISo'.i.  the  son  of  .lames  Kliveii.  In  his 
native  Slate  he  ■;rcw  to  mature  years,  pursuing 
his  studies  in  the  district  s«-liool.  When  eslabli>h- 
ing  a  home  of  hi-  own,  he  was  married  in  New 
York  to  Miss  Maria,  daughter  of  Henry  Wheeler. 
.She  came  to  this  Stale  as  early  as  IH.'l.'i,  in  coiii- 
paiiy  with  her  husband  and  three  children,  who 
bore  the  respective  names  of  Mary  .1.,  Alliert  and 
Harrison.  To  that  niiinlM-r  were  added  seven 
more,  who  were  Ikm-ii  after  coming  to  this  county, 
and  all  of  whom,  with  one  e\ce]jtion.  are  living. 
The  mother  also  still  -iirvives  (  \H'J->) 

Three  sons  of  oiir  subject,  .Mbert,  llarri.-oii  and 
.lefTerson,  served  during  the  late  war  as  inemlH-rs 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Kiirhteeiitli,  .Seveiitv- 
eiglitli  and  Kiglily-foiii th  lllinoi-  Infantry  re- 
spectively and  tin-  two  latter  gave  up  their  lives 
ill  defense  of  llieir  eoiintry.  Mr.  IJIiven  was 
|iroiiiiiient  in  varioii-  affairs  in  hi-  township,  and, 
iK'iii'j  iinii-iially  keen-witted,  wa."!  able  at  a  glance 
to  place  the  correct  valuation  upon  men  and 
things.  He  I'a.-t  his  ballot  and  ii»cd  his  intlueiiee 
in  liehalf  of  the  Kepubliean  party  anil  wa-  a  man 
of  i.'ood  mental  endowment-.  Frank  and  -traiylil- 
forwiird,  he  wa-  lii;'hl\'  regarded  by  all  who  knew 
him  or  had  special  dealings  with  him. 

Cliarle- T.  ISIiveii.  who,  with  his  brnther  lliiiim, 
I-  the  oiil.\  meiiiU'r  of  the  family  re>iding  in  this 
County,  w:i.-  here  born  in    I^H!.. -11111  was  given  :\ 


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good  education.  In  October,  1867,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  L11C3'  Cavolt,  and  to  them  were  born 
eleven  children,  two  of  whom  are  deceased.  So 
cialty,  Charles  T.  is  a  member  in  good  standing 
of  the  Odd  Fellows'  lodge  at  Burton,  and  is  a 
stanch  Repuljlican  in  politics.  His  home  is  pleas- 
antly located  on  section  21,  Burton  Township, 
and  bears  every  indication  of  careful  cultivation. 


H.  WILLIAMSON.  In  carefulh-  reviewing 
the  general  business  interests  of  Quincy, 
^i^''  the  interesting  and  instructive  fact  is  re- 
vealed that  not  one  is  of  more  importance  than 
that  devoted  to  the  handling  of  fruits  and  vege- 
tables. The  transactions  in  these  lines  are  upon  a 
large  scale  daily,  and  Mr.  "Williamson  ships  large 
consignments  to  retailers  in  Illinois,  Iowa  and 
Missouri.  His  house  is  one  of  the  leading,  best- 
known  and  most  reliable  of  the  kind  in  the  city, 
maintains  a  high  reputation  for  fair  dealing,  and 
few,  if  any,  enjoy  a  larger  measure  of  recognition. 
The  business  was  established  in  1889,  and  in  its 
management  Mr.  Williamson  has  demonstrated  the 
fact  that  he  is  a  keen,  intelligent  man  of  business, 
thoroughly  conversant  with  all  the  requirements 
of  the  trade  and  eminently  popular  in  meeting  all 
its  demands. 

Mr.  "Williamson  was  born  in  Quincy  SeiJtember 
1,  1862,  and  as  he  lias  made  this  place  liis  home 
tliroughout  life,  the  citizens  have  had  every  op- 
))ortunity  to  judge  of  his  character  and  business 
iiualilications,  and  naught  has  ever  been  said  de- 
rogatory to  either.  He  inherits  Scotch,  Irish  and 
fxerman  blood  from  his  parents,  and  a  sufficient 
number  of  the  sterling  attributes  of  each  to  maiie 
him  a  successful  financier  and  a  useful  citizen. 
His  father,  Henry  A.  AVilliamson.  emigrated  to 
(Quincy,  1 11.,  from  Pennsylvania,  and  in  this  city 
became  a  wholesale  dealer  in  oil  and  salt,  a  calling 
he  followed  from  the  time  of  his  location  in  185!*. 
C.  II.  Williamson  is  the  eldest  of  his  parents' 
three  children,  and  up  to  the  .age  of  twelve  years 


he  was  educated  in  a  private  school  at  Quincy. 
He  then  entered  the  Quincy  High  School,  where  he 
fitted  himself  for  college,  and  at  the  youthful 
age  of  sixteen  jears  he  entered  Racine  College,  of 
Racine,  Wis.,  graduating  in  the  classical  course  in 
1882  as  a  Bachelor  of  Arts  and  being  the  valedic- 
torian of  Ills  class.  Upon  ftnishing  his  collegiate 
course,  he  was  offered  the  chair  of  Latin,  and  one 
year  later  the  chair  of  mathematics  in  his  alma 
mater,  but  preferred  to  enter  at  once  upon  the 
active  scenes  of  business  life,  and  for  two  years 
after  his  graduation  he  was  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  salt  and  oil  business.  At  the  end  of 
this  time,  he  went  to  New  York  City  and  took  a 
post-graduate  course  in  Columbia  College,  where 
he  earnestly  pursued  the  study  of  theology  and 
social  science  for  four  years,  and  during  that  time 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  upon 
him. 

AVhile  in  that  institution,  he  received  an  offer  of 
the  chair  of  Greek  in  an  Eastern  college,  but.  not 
desiring  a  professorship,  he  again  returned  to  the 
scenes  of  his  boyhood,  and  was  again  associated 
with  his  father  for  two  years.  In  1889,  he  em- 
barked in  the  produce  business  on  his  own  account 

1 

I   in  (Quincy,  in   the   management   of   which,  as   has 

j  been  seen  above,  he  has  shown  remarkable  busi- 
ness sagacity  and  has  won  a  liigli  reputation  in 
trade  circles.  He  lias  won  the  entire  confidence  of 
his  numerous  customers,  and  once  to  form  business 
relations  with  him  is  to  be  a  permanent  customer. 
In  May,  1891,  Mr.  Williamson,  in  partnership  with 
N.  G.  Gibson,  of  Chicago,  established  the  firm  of 
Gibson   A:  Williamson,  of  Chicago,  and  embarked 

!  in  the  fruit  and  produce  business,  making  a  spe- 
cialty of  apples,  and  in  that  specialty  they  r.ank 
second  in  the  metropolis  of  the  West,  and  among 
the  first  ten  of  the  United  States. 

]Mr.  Williamson  has  alw.iys  supported  the  men  and 
measures  <)f  the  Democratic  party,  and  socially,  is 
:i  member  of  Lambert  Lodge,  A.  F.  it  A.  M.; 
the  Iroquois  Club,  of  Chicago,  111.,  and  while  at 
college  was  a  member  of  tiie  Phi  (iamma  Delta.  He 
has  been  President  of  the  (^Uiiiicy  Humane  Society 
three  years  and  is  one  of  the  Trustees  of  Wood- 
land Home.  He  keejis  in  constant  toucli  with  the 
current  issues  of  the  day,  all  measures  of  iflorality 


POHTKAir   AM)   r.Kii.i; APIUCAL   RKfORD. 


•>fi7 


tiiid  in  liini  mi  oiitliiisia^tic  Mi|i|>i>rU'i'.  niid  liciiii; 
kiiiillv  ill  dispo^'ititiii,  i-ordi.-il.  \v:u'iii-liciu'ti-<l  mid 
syiii|iatlii'tic,  lie  is  rc.>'|)ec'U'd  nmi  adiniifd  in  tlic 
!<<K-iai,  n*  well  a>  llii'  duiiiestic.  ciivi*'. 

Ill  NovenilKT,  18«T,  liis  ii):irria^e  willi  Miss 
Kmily  (ilovi-r  was  c-clfltraU-d,  >\\v  Itein;;  the  dnii<;li- 
li'i-  of  11(111.  .Inliii  M.  ( ;  lover,  i>f  Lewis  Count  v.  Mo. 
Mr.  aiul  Mi's.  Willimiison  have  two  eliildieii.  .lolin 
(i.  mid  Cnlheriiic  M.,  two  lniiflil  and  interesting 
little  ones.  Mrs.  Williamson  is  a  ineiiil)er  of  the 
rnitjirian  ('liuirh  of  (jiiiiiey,  while  .Mr.  William- 
son supports  the  faith  of  the  K]ii$oupal  Chtirc-li, 
althoui;h  he  pives  lilieially  of  his  means  to  all  de- 
nomiiialioiis.  'I'licy  have  a  veiv  home-like  resi- 
dence at  No.  ItiliT  ^'oik  street,  where  tliev  di.«- 
penso  a  liher.-il,  vi't  relineil.  hos|iilalily. 


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J|()S1:P11  1  1,1;1(  IIKU.  .M.  D..  a  prominent 
I  practicinj;  physician  and  a  leadinjf  farmer 
I  of  Honey  ("rpek  'I'ownship.  resfdiiiir  on  .<ec- 
'  tion  I.  was  Uini  in  ('lerinont  County.  Ohio, 
Fehruarv  <>,  1831,  and  eomes  of  an  old  \ira:inin 
family  of  Knfrlish  desteul.  'I'lie  ;;reat-piaiidfallier 
of  our  siilijeet  emiirrated  from  N'iririnia  to  Ohio, 
and  was  aecideii tally  shot  while  out  on  a  surveying 
expedition,  lie  left  a  wife  an<l  three  children, 
one  of  whom.  .Ies.se.  was  the  ■iraiidfather  of  our 
suhjeet.  lie,  too,  wa*  a  native  of  the  Old  Domin- 
ion, and  in  IK.'iO  moved  to  .\dams  County.  III., 
where  he  died  at  the  ajje  of  seventy-four  years. 
He  liei-aine  a  well-t<i-do  citizen  and  for  many  years 
was  a  nienilier  of  the  .Methodist  Kpis<'o|(al  Church. 
Charles  Fletcher,  father  of  our  suliject,  was  horn 
in  Clermont  County,  Ohio,  Novemln'i-  I.  1H12.  •■ind 
»■«.«  one  of  nine  ehildrcii.  seven  of  whom  are  \  el 
liviii;;.  lie  married  Kmeliiie  .Moore,  who  was 
horn  in  Cincinnati  in  1^<|:{.  With  his  wife  and 
four  children  he  came  to  Illinois,  reaching  Honey 
Creek  'rowiiship  on  the  id  of  Novemlter,  \Xi'2. 
He  piircliii.s«-d  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of 
land  on  section  ■\.  improved  only  with  a  lo<>  caliiii. 
Tlieconiilrv  was   new  am)    wihl    and  all  kinds  of 


;,'ame  was  plentiful.  In  connection  with  fann- 
inu;.  .Mr.  Kletclu'r  liou>;ht  a  sjiwmill  on  Hear  Creek, 
which  he  repaired  and  operated  some  yeai-s.  In  1 8-18, 
he  Ixiilt  a  sUmni  llouring-mill  iie,-ir  liy,  prolialilv 
the  fii-st  ill  the  county  outsi<le  of  (^uiiicy.  He  op- 
erated his  sawmill  for  twenty  years,  aii<l  in  IHti'.l 
the  tlourini,'-mill  was  nioveil  to  Coatsl>uri.'h,  where 
it  was  liiiiiicd  two  years  later.  On  leaviiij;  this 
county,  Mr.  Klet<-her  spent  live  years  in  .MinneMita, 
and  Ml  l«7K  removed  to  Warsaw,  llanoH-k  County, 
111.,  where  he  is  now  living  in  his  eightieth  year. 
He  liecnnie  widely  known  in  this  community  and 
wa.s  one  of  it.s  highly  respected  citizens.  His  wife, 
who  was  long  a  memlH-r  of  the  liaplisl  Church, 
died  .laniiary  25,  18512. 

The  Doctor  is  the  eldest  of  their  eight  children, 
live  of  whom  are  yet  living.  He  was  a  lad  of 
eight  veal's  when  he  came  with  his  parents  to  Illi- 
nois. He  began  his  education  in  Clermont  County. 
Ohio,  and  after  coming  West  was  educated  in  the 
subscription  schools.  The  liuilding  was  of  logs, 
with  slali  seat.s,  and  the  teachers  hoarded  around. 
Dr.  Fletcher  rem.-iined  with  his  father  until  alioiil 
thirty  yeni-s  of  age,  s|)ending  his  time  in  farm 
work  and  in  the  mill.  In  18.5.'i.he  went  to  (^uincy. 
and  for  two  years  engaged  in  inerchaiidising  and 
during  that  |>eriod  read  medicine.  He  then  le- 
liirned  home  and  devoted  his  energies  to  milling, 
at  the  sjiine  time  keeping  up  his  medical  rcadiiiLT. 
Ill  18()l,  he  went  to  St.  l.ouisand  entered  the  med- 
ical college  of  that  city,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  l8(iT.  He  again  returned  to  the 
old  honiesti-ad.  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
his  (irofession,  which  he  has  carried  on  for  twentx- 
live  yeai-s  with  excellent  suci-ess.  His  skill  and 
ability  have  won  him  a  large  and  lucrative  practice 
and  gained  him  !i  place  in  the  forenuist  ranks  of 
his  professional  brethren.  He  is  a  memlH-r  of  iHitli 
the  .Vdams  County  and. State  Medical  .Sicieties. 

(Ill  the  .Mil  of.laiiuary,  18.">l,the  Doctor  wedded 
.Mis>  Flizjil«'th    Hardy,  who  was   Ihuii  within  three 
j    miles  of  her   present    home,    and   is  a  daughter  of 
'    Uaplist  and  Tamer   (Taltt-rson)  Hardy,  the  former 
'    a  native  of    .Mis>i>sippi,   and    the    latter    of  .North 
Carolina.     They    moved   from    Tennessee    to  Illi- 
nois   in    a   very  early  day,  liM-ating  in  Sangamon 
Count\.  bill   after  a    few   iiioiillis  c.niiie  to  Adunis 


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Coinit^v.  Both  have  since  died.  Their  family 
numbered  nine  children,  all  yet  living.  I'nto  the 
Doctor  and  his  wife  were  horn  five  children: 
Mary  Ellen,  wife  of  Thoina.s  Hayes,  a  farmer.  l\v 
whom  she  has  two  children;  George  AV.,  engaged 
in  farming,  is  married  and  has  two  children;  Jos- 
eph AV.,  who  is  also  married  and  has  two  children, 
was  graduated  from  the  Keokuk  Medical  College 
.■\nd  IS  now  practicing  in  Ursa,  this  county.  The 
other  children  are  deceased. 

The  Doctor  is  a  supporter  of  the  Democratic 
party.  He  served  as  Tax  Collector  one  term,  was 
.Supervisor  two  terms  and  for  twenty-four  consecu- 
tive years  lias  been  School  Director.  He  has  al-  | 
ways  taken  a  deep  interest  in  educational  matters  j 
and  no  worthy  enterprise  seeks  his  aid  in  vain.  \ 
In  connection  with  his  medical  practice  he  has  en- 
gaged extensively  m  farming.  He  owned  five  hun- 
dred  and  sixty  acres  of  valuable  land  on  Bear  Creek, 
but  has  given  some  of  it  to  his  children.  He  raised 
all  kinds  of  stock  of  good  grades,  but  for  several 
years  has  made  a  specialty  of  the  breeding  of  Cots- 
wold  sheep.  He  started  out  in  life  in  limited  cir- 
cumstances, but  has  made  the  most  of  his  oppor- 
tunities, and  by  his  industrious  and  well-directed 
efforts  has  steadly  worked  his  way  upward  to  a 
position  of  wealth  and  afHuence.  He  is  a  well- 
read  and  successful  physician,  a  progressive  and 
enterprising  farmer,  and  tlie  success  which  he  has 
achieved  is  well  deserved. 


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-^^TLBERT  F.  SWOPK.  Tlic  subject  of  this 
(@/lII!  sketch  is  a  retired  farmer  living  m  (.^iiincy, 
who  has  rented  his  fine  farm,  which  is  lo- 
cated on  sections  27  and  2.S,  Clayton  Town- 
ship. He  is  a  man  of  wealth  and  infiuence  in  the 
county,  and  is  one  of  the  best  representatives  of 
tlie  superior,  intelligent  agriculturists  of  the  .State. 
The  grandfather  of  (lur  subject  was  born  in  Ger- 
many, where  he  married  before  coming  to  this 
country.  He  was  the  Rev.  (let)rge  Swoop,  a 
jninister  in  the  (iern)aj)   Evang-elical  Church,  and 


he  settled  in  Virginia,  and  there  carried  on  a 
saddler.y  business.  He  then  became  an  early  settler 
of  Kentucky,  and  there  ministered  to  the  people 
in  his  office  of  si)iritual  teacher.  He  lived  to  the 
unusual  age  of  one  hundred  and  seven  years. 
His  wife  also  passed  her  century  birthday. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Michael  Swope, 
born  on  Dick's  River,  in  Virginia.  He  was  a  manu- 
facturer of  shoes  and  also  a  farmer,  and  m.ovcd  tn 
Indiana  in  1838  and  carried  on  farmingthere;  he  al- 
so served  as  Postmaster  under  President  \t\u  Buren. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-five.  He  had  been  a 
Henry  Clay  Whig,  and  was  a  man  of  influence  in 
his  neighborhood,  and  was  a  Deacon  in  the  Baptist 
Ciiurcli.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  named 
Jane  Ringold,  and  w.as  born  in  Virginia,  a  daughter 
of  John  Ringold.  who  .served  in  the  Revolutionary 
War  under  Washington,  and  was  one  of  the  first 
who  made  a  settlement  on  Salt  River,  in  Kentucky. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  ninety-eight  years,  and  the 
mother  of  Mr.  Swope,  of  our  notice,  lived  to  be 
eighty-three  years  old  and  ended  her  days  in  Indi- 
ana. 

The  subject  of  this  biography  was  the  eldest  of 
eight  children,  three  of  whom  are  living,  and  was 
born  in  Shell)y  County,  Ky.,  IMarch  10.  1819. 
He  was  reared  on  the  farm  and  early  learned  to 
care  for  stock  and  attend  to  the  various  duties 
which  demand  such  constant  work  in  an  agricul- 
tural life.  His  school  privileges  were  limited  to 
fifteen  months  of  attendance  at  the  district  seat  of 
learning.  He  came  to  Indiana  in  1838  and  remain- 
ed at  home  until  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age, 
helping  on  the  farm.  When  twenty-six,  he  became 
the  possessor  of  one  hundred  and  twent\'  acres  of 
laud  in  Scott  County,  on  the  Pigeon  Roost  fork  of 
the  Musciittae  of  the  Wabash,  and  resided  on  it 
and  managed  it  a  few  years.  He  then  located 
in  Aienna,  Ind.,  and  engaged  in  merchandising  for 
five  \ears,  Ijut  in  1857  he  came  to  Adams  County. 
Here  he  bought  a  farm  of  one  hundred  acres  on  sec- 
tion 30,  Clayton  Township,  and  continued  upon  it 
until  1868.  He  then  Ijought  a  hay  press  and  ran 
it  ad  vant.ageously  for  fifteen  years  and  also  engaged 
in  the  raising  of  hay.  sometimes  shipping  as 
much  as  three  thousand  tons  to  .St.  Louis.  In  the 
meantime  he  sold  his  first  farm  and  bought  one 


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liundroil  mikI  .sixty  ncn-s  niul  IiiUt  adilcil  i'i(jlilv 
ricn'.s  U>  it.  He  Imiiillcd  a  ijicat  iiuinUM'  of  cnttU" 
.'(■III  TimI  iiiiiiiv  li<><r>,  ■tiid  slii|i|ifd  tnii.'iiid  tliruf  i-nr- 
li>:id<  111  (  liicnj^oat  h  tinii'.  lie  iimdc  iiiativ  iniprnvo- 
iiiciit.s  on  his  Iniid.  I<iiildiiii;ii  ini'<;i-  luick  linii.'-i- iiiid 
liHiii!!,  mil)  now  lin.-  tlio  lai^'c-t  liaiii  in  tin- t'oiiiitv. 
lie  is  tend  of  faiu'V  ^tol'k  and  inkvs  )iicH.-nr('  in 
raiiint;  tlii-in.  Ilo  fiii'iiR'rly  had  the  iv|iutatiiiii  of 
iai>ini:  thi-  lu'.«t  stock,  cattle,  lioi;>  niid  shccji  in  thi- 
county,  lie  has  taken  lii^t  |)reniiiims  on  hi.s  line 
horses  at  the  fairs.  He  continued  f«rinin;r  until 
IX'.Ml,  when  he  rented  his  land  and  moved  into 
l^iiiney.  lie  iis  n  Inr^e  land-owner  now,  linviii^ 
seveiity-tive  acres  of  linilK-r  jii.st  outside  of  (^uincv. 
thirty-live  of  it  included  in  tlie  re.sorl  called  Twin 
S|»riiip«,  which  is  a  very  pretty  grove.  lie  nls<) 
owns  twenty  acres  adjoinin<;  Wheoliiiy;.  l.iviiiirstoii 
County.  .Mo. 

Mr.  Swope  was  ninrried  S<'ptenil)er  2(1,  1842,  to 
Miss  Caroline  T.  Sullivan,  a  native  of  .Ieffeif<oii 
County,  Ind.,  and  a  dau<;hter  of  .lo.seph  Sullivan, 
who  was  iKirn  in  Stuilli  Carolina,  of  .Scotch  parent- 
age, lie  became  a  pioneer  farmer  of  .lefTerson 
County,  Ind.,  where  he  ix-ttled  after  takini;  part  in 
the  War  of  1H12.  He  w.-u*  a  member  of  the  I're-by- 
terian  Church,  and  lived  a  most  exemplary  life, 
lie  U'lieved  in  tiie  principles  of  the  Deinoeralic 
|iarty.  The  mother  of  Mrs.  .Swope  was  .Su.saii 
Henderson,  bom  in  Tennes,see,  a  daughter  of  .John 
Henderson,  who  was  born  in  .Si-otland  and  becaniv 
a  farmer  in  Tennessee.  The  latter  t<M>k  part  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  and  fought  under  Washington. 
In  his  later  years  he   became  a   farmer  in    Indiana. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Swo|(e  are  the  proud  parenLs  of  a 
family  of  line  children,  .lohii  has  beoiiie  a  large 
farmer  and  stock-dealer  in  Cl:i\  ton.  this  coiintv; 
.losepli  M..  a  graduate  of  the  lx>uisville  .Medical 
College,  is  a  physician  in  .\ren/.ville.  Cass  County, 
III.:  Homer  is  City  Att4)rney.at  tiiiincy;  William  is 
a  graduate  of  the  Louisville  College  and  is  a  pli\- 
sician  in  Wiieeliiig.  Mo;  Charlotte  K..  now  .Mrs. 
Koremnn.  resides  at  Hutte  City,  Monl. 

While  living  in  Clayton,  .Mr.  .Swo|h'  was  made 
Township  Trustee,  and  served  his  county  by  JK-ing 
upon  the  grand  and  |M-tit  juries.  He  is  a  menili(>r  of 
tlie  .Masonic  fniternity.lHMiiga  Knight  Templar.  He 
is  a   member  of  the  I'resbvteriaii  Church,  in  which 


he  alwavk  doeii  his  duty.  He  has  been  a  delegate  to 
the  vanoU'  county  and  Stati- conventions  from  the 
Democratic  party,  of  which  he  is  an  old  niemlx-r. 

In  I  HI)  I.  .Mr.  .Swope  t^Mik  his  wife  and  iiiade  a  fmir- 
inunths  trip  through  the  West,  sjiending  live  weuks 
in  the  liiicst  part  of  the  National  I'aik,  where  he 
renewe<l  his  youth,  hunting  and  lishitig,  in  which 
accomplishments  he  was  renowned  as  a  young  man. 

(In  the  2(ith  of  Se|.teiiiber.  1H'.I2.  .Mr.  and  .Mrs. 
Swo|)e  celebrated  their  golden  wediling  at  the  Fre- 
mont Hoii.sc  of  this  city,  at  which  time  all  the  chil- 
dren of  their  family  as  well  as  their  many  friends 
congratulated  them  on  their  long  and  happy  mar- 
ried life.  This  isone  of  the  line.'jt  families  among  the 
retired  farmei>  in  (/iiiiicv,  and  we  have  taken  pleas- 
lire  ill  giving  this  brief  record  of  it. 


=^':3- 


>=^)KN.  .lAMKS  I).  .MiiRtJAN.  The  record  of 
III  _ —   the  life  of  this  gentleman  affords  a  striking 

XSi^  illu.stratioii  of  the  results  of  decision  of 
purpose,  .is  well  as  the  inlliience  which  an  honor- 
able character  exert.s  ii|k>ii  others.  Well  dowered 
with  stability  an<I  llrmness,  the.se  attributes,  to- 
gether with  persistent  labor,  have  Imh-u  instrumental 
in  bringing  about  his  pres«'nt  pros|)erous  circiim- 
.stanccs.  Chief  among  his  characteristics  is  his  pa- 
triotism, which  led  him  to  offer  his  services  to  his 
country  in  lier  hour  of  |H-ril,  ami  made  him  deem 
no  sacrilice  tiM>  great  when  made  on  her  In-lialf. 

The  trite  saying  that  "truth  is  stranger  than  lic- 
tion"  is  nowhere  U-tter  exemplilieil  than  in  the 
life  of  (ieu.  .Morgan,  who  arose  from  an  humble 
position  ill  IhivIi I  to  an  honorable  and  promi- 
nent place  in  his  manhood.  His  life  Uiw  l>eeii 
varied  by  thrilling  incidents,  and  often  he  has 
Itcen  in  perils  both  by  land  and  sea.  by  lire  and  by 
sword,  but  lie  ever  maintained  tlie  calm  and  un- 
wavering courage  which  were  his  by  nature  and  in- 
heritanie. 

The  Morgan  family  was  founded  in  .\iiicri<-a  by 
three  brothers,  who  came  hither  from  Wales  and  .S4't- 
tled   respectively   in  Mavsjicluisetts,  New  York  and 


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POnTEAlT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


Virginia.  Tim  father  of  our  subject,  James  Mor- 
gan, wlio  was  horn  in  Uriinfield,  Mass.,  in  1780, 
was  a  sea-captain  and  a  foreiijfn  trader  in  tlie  East 
Indies.  Uurinj;  the  AVar  of  1812,  lie  held  a 
Captain's  commission  and  was  captured  hy  llie 
Spanish  authorities  and  impiisoned  for  a  time.  He 
married  Miss  Margaret  Patch,  whose  ancestors  were 
of  English  origin,  and  who  was  a  native  of  Dulilin. 
Mass.,  born  in  1  782. 

Gen.  Morgan  was  t)orn  m  Uoston,  Mass.,  August 
1,  1810,  and  there  attended  school  a  short  time  in 
his  early  ehildiiood.  Ills  schooling  ceased  at  the 
age  of  nine  years,  when  he  went  out  to  work 
bj'  the  day  among  strangers.  When  sixteen  years 
old,  he  commenced  to  learn  the  trade  of  a  cooper, 
which  he  followed  for  several  years.  In  the  year 
of  1826.  he  went  to  sea  on  hoard  the  sailing- 
vessel  "Beverly,"  which  was  liurned  Octolior  17. 
1826,  about  fifteen  hundred  miles  from  land.  With 
others  of  the  crew,  he  took  refuge  in  a  common 
l)oat,  and  for  fourteen  days  drifted  helplessly  on 
the  water,  subsisting  ii|)on  a  daily  allowance  of 
one-half  gill  of  water  and  one  and  one-half  bis- 
cuits. At  the  end  of  that  time,  they  reached  the 
coast  of  South  America  to  the  leeward  of  Cape  St. 
Roche. 

In  1834,  accompanied  bv  his  family,  our  subject 
removed  to  Quincy,  where  he  soon  afterward 
opened  a  cooper-shop  in  partnership  with  Edward 
Wells  and  followed  his  trade  for  five  j'ears.  In 
1839,  he  opened  a  confectionery  and  bakery,  which 
he  carried  on  for  a  short  time,  and  then  eng.aged 
in  the  general  grocery  business.  Afterward,  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  firm  of  C.  M.  Pomroy  &  Co., 
pork-packers,  in  which  business  he  remained  for 
twenty-five  years,  until  the  partnership  was  dis- 
solved when  he  retired  from  business. 

Early  in  life,  our  subject  leaned  toward  military 
matters,  and  as  early  as  1837  we  find  hira  con- 
nected with  the  Quincy  Grays,  a  famous  military 
compan}'  of  that  day.  In  1845,  he  w.as  Com- 
mander of  a  corps  of  fift}'  mounted  riflemen  and 
served  .as  militarj'  police  in  Hancock  County  dur- 
ing the  Mormon  AVar.  In  1846,  he  participated  in 
the  Mexican  AVar,  commanding  a  company  of  one 
hundred  men,  which  afterward  became  Company 
A.  First  Illinois  Infantry,  .John  .T.  Hardin,  Colonel 


commanding.  By  order  of  Gen.  AA^ool,  Companies 
E  and  A  formed  an  i  ndependent  battalion,  which 
our  subject  cnmmaniled  during  his  term  of  service. 
He  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Biiena  A'ista  and 
took  a  prumiiieiit  part  in  other  conflicts. 

When  the  War  of  the  Helicllion  broke  out.  Gen. 
Morgan  w.as  suffering  from  a  broken  leg,  hut  as 
sot>n  as  he  recovered  siitliciently,  he  entered  the 
service  of  his  country.  I  n  1861.  he  was  appointed 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Tenth  Illinois  Infantry, 
and  in  August,  1862,  was  made  Brigadier-(;eneral. 
For  gallant  conduct  during  the  great  battle  of 
Bentonville,  X.  C.,  he  was  promoted  to  be  Brevet 
Major-General  of  X'olunteers.  He  served  under 
(iens.  I'ope,  Rosecrans.  Thomas  and  Sherman,  and 
among  the  eng.agements  in  which  he  participated 
were  the  battles  of  Island  Xo.  10,  New  Madrid, 
Corinth, and  those  <>{  the  .Atlanta  campaign, accom- 
panying (ien.  Sherman  on  the  march  to  the  sea. 
He  entered  the  service  in  April.  186  1,  and  was  mus- 
tered out  in  August.  1865.  having  never  received  a 
furlough  during  the  entire  time.  At  the  battle  of 
Bentonville,  N.  C,  he  was  in  command  of  the  Sec- 
ond Division  of  the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps,  and 
in  that  position  displayed  tact  .as  a  military  com- 
mander, and  it  is  a  well-settled  historical  fact  that 
this  division  .saved  the  left  wing  of  Sherman's 
army.  After  being  honorably  discharged  at  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  he  returned  to  his  home,  which  during 
those  four  long  years  of  peril  he  had  never  seen. 

The  first  wife  of  Gen.  Morgan  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  .lane  Strachan.  She  became  his  wife  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  and  died  in  185.5,  leaving  two  sons: 
AVilliam,  a  resident  of  Quinc^',  and  James,  of  Ever- 
ett, Mass.  June  14,  1869.  Gen.  Morgan  was  uni- 
ted in  marriage  with  Miss  Harriet,  the  youngest 
daughter  of  Cai)t.  Robert  Evans,  and  a  native  of 
Massachusetts. 

AV'itli  many  of  the  public  enterprises  of  (^uinc_y, 
Gen.  Morgan  has  for  years  been  closely  connected. 
He  is  A'ice-president  of  the  First  Xational  Bank, 
of  which  he  has  been  Director  for  many  years. 
He  is  Vice-president  of  the  society  of  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland  of  Illinois.  He  has  served 
as  Treasurer  of  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home 
at  Quincy  since  its  organization.  In  addition 
to  these  positions,  he    has    also  served    .as   Direc- 


IH)irrK\lT  AND  Bl(K;RAIMnCAL    KKCoHD. 


27;» 


tor  of  till-  Whilnrv  A-  llolnips  ( irKnn  Compmiv. 
the  Oniiilia  .V  Kansjis  City  Knilroiiil  ('oin|iiiii\  Jiiul 
tlic  Newcumli  llot«-l  Compnnv,  In-iii;;  a  >tofkliol(ler 
ill  till*  iitst-iiAiDiM).  He  was  one  of  the  inenrp<iru- 
topi  of  the  i^iiiiK-y  t  Jnx  I.iyhl  iV  Coke  (oiniiniiN ,  for 
many  yeiii->  its  TreaMirer,  niul  Mil>M;c|iieiilly  I're.Hi- 
denl  ft)ra  iiiiiiiIk'I'  of  years.  He  is  a  Direetor  in  thi- 
t^iiiney  Klectric  l.i^;ht  X-  I'ower  Company.  In 
polilii'ji,  lie  i!i  independent,  preferring  to  east  his 
Itallot  for  the  man  whom  he  deem.'^  best  qiialifled 
to  till  the  olllce  in  i|iiestiiiii.  ratlier  than  to  blindly' 
follow  aii\  party  refjardless  of  the  desir:il>iliiy  of 
the  candidate. 


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I  <;.  l-(  U.I.I  N.  .M.  I).  The  Mlbjecl  of  the 
following  brief  biography  lia.-i  gained  emi- 
nence in  the  humane  profession  to  which  lie 
_  has  devoted  his  life.  He  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  physicians  and  surgeons  of  t/uincy, 
III.,  and  was  lioni  in  Mansfield,  Kirhland  County, 
Ohio,  October  7.  IHl'.'t.  Ili>  father.  Daniel,  was 
liorn  in  \'irginia.  and  his  graiidfatlicr  was  also 
liorn  there.  The  latter  was  in  the  navy  duiiiig 
the  Kevolutionary  War.  was  one  of  the  captains 
made  prisoner,  and  was  taken  to  Kngland,  where 
he  was  kept  for  four  years,  lie  endured  terrible 
sufTering,  but  finally  returned  to  \'irginia  and  en- 
gaged in  farming,  and  <lied  there  at  the  age  of 
eighty-four  years,  lie  was  descended  from  (lerman 
ancestors.  The  father  of  our  subject  was  a  fanner, 
and  came  to  Ohio  in  \X'2'.^.  liK-ating  near  .Mans- 
field. Here  be  cleared  a  farm  from  the  forest,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  had  three  hundred  and 
twenty  acres,  lie  died  at  the  age  of  eighty  years, 
and  was  an  old-line  Whig,  and  a  Kepublican  e\  er 
since  the  formation  of  the  party.  His  wife  was 
Hannah  Kwcr>.  born  in  N'irginiu.  a  daughter  of 
.lonathan  Kwers,  a  <junker  who  locateil  in  Knox 
County  on  a  farm.  Her  mother  was  also  a  < Quaker, 
who  died  at  llie  age  of  eighty-live  veal's. 

Our  subject  was   the  second  of  eight  chihlren, 
and  wa»  rai'M-il  im  the  farm  and  remained   at  home 


until  he  was  twenty-one.  He  obtained  such  school 
advant.'iges  as  Imivs  had  in  tlio>*e  day-,  but  in  the 
spring  of  IHI.'ihe  alt<'iided  the  .Manslield  .Vcad- 
emy.  taught  by  .loseph  lluity.  He  attended  there 
two  yeai's.  ami  then  went  to  the  N'ermillioii  Insti- 
tute, at  Ilayesville,  now  called  llic  Woo?.ter  I'ni- 
vei-sity.  He  c<mtiiiiied  here  until  within  three 
niontli'-  of  graduating.  In  the  ineantinie.  he  taught 
-cliool  and  also  read  mc<iicine  with  I  )r.  Tcaganlen, 
and  attended  a  course  at  Willoiighby  College,  at 
Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  was  graduated  in  IXIM.  with 
his  degree.  In  1H1:»,  he  went  to  ISowliiig  (ireen. 
Ky.,  an<l  remained  there  until  he  had  taught  two 
live-month  s«'ssioiis.  In  IH.'id,  he  went  to  Itoou- 
ville,  .Mo.,  and  engaged  in  teaching,  and  then  went 
to  Carroll  ton.  Mo.,  and  remained  there  three  years, 
practicing  medicine  and  teaching.  He  did  very 
well  here,  but  in  1861  he  start<'d  for  Texas.  He 
was  to  have  a  situation  in  an  academy  in  Austin, 
but  never  reacheil  there.  His  brother,  who  was 
with  him,  had  U-en  sick,  and  stopped  in  Neosho, 
Newton  County,  .Mo.,  .-ii  three  i-.  m., Saturday.  He 
went  into  the  hotel  to  jt-k  what  chance  there  was 
for  a  scIkmiI  there,  and  he  was  leferred  to  a  I'resby- 
terian  minister,  to  whom  he  told  his  circumstances, 
anil  through  him  he  was  employed  in  the  Neosho 
.Male  Academy,  as  they  desired  some  one  to  t<-.acli 
the  languages. 

In  August.  IHol.  our  subject  was  taken  very 
sick,  but  his  brother  filled  his  place  until  he  was 
able  to  fill  it  himself.  In  18.').'),  he  taught  a  school, 
called  the  Farmers"  Cnion  School,  which  he 
worked  up  from  a  log  building  into  a  good  struc- 
ture. He  remained  there  live  months,  lectured,  and 
raised  mtuiev  enough  to  build  a  tO.IHMl  brick  build- 
ing, which  was  burnt  during  the  war,  but  was  re- 
built, and  is  now  known  as  Newton  College.  In 
the  fall  of  IH."),"i,  he  returned  to  Howling  i;reen. 
and  in  .\pril.  IH.'iti,  he  returned  to  his  old  home  in 
<  lliio,  via  (  hi<-ago,  and  then  went  to  Keokuk  to 
practice  medicine.  He  attended  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  .Surgeons  at  Keokuk,  and  in  the 
spring  t)f  1HJ7  it  gave  him  his  degree  of  .M.  |). 
He  then  located  at  Ktna,  in  S«-otlaiid  County.  He 
has  never  needed  to  practice  until  now.  but  Ix'gan 
in  the  spring  of  I8(>l  and  practiced  until  IHRi, 
and  then  went  to  Allen.  Mo.,  which  was  a  iiiilitarv 


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post.  He  practiced  there  until  the  fall  of  1864, 
when  he  came  to  Illinois,  located  at  Plymouth, 
Hancock  C'ount\',  and  i)racticed  thereuntil  the  fall 
of  188.5.  He  was  Cit.y  Pliysician,  School  Director 
and  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  In  1885, 
became  to.Quincj".  and  has  practiced  here  ever 
since.  He  is  also  obliged  to  go  back  through  Han- 
cock County,  and  even  into  Alissouri,  to  see  old 
patients.  His  location  is  at  No.  332  Maiden 
Lane.  He  has  been  a  member  of  tlie  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows  since  18n4,  and  is  now 
Past  Master  of  Bodley  Lodge  No.  1,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.; 
he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  Templar, 
Knights  of  Malta.  York  Right  Masons;  and  is 
Worthj-  Patron  of  the  Eastern  Star.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber and  organizer  of  the  Hancock  Medical  Soci- 
ety; and  has  long  been  Examiner  for  different 
Life  Insurance  Companies.  He  is  a  Democrat, 
and  has  been  a  delegate  to  county  and  State 
conventions. 

Dr.FoUin  was  married  in  184'J,  to  Miss  Emma 
FoUin,  of  Kentucky.  They  have  five  children  liv- 
ing: Mary,  now  Mrs.  Romick,  residing  in  Hancock 
County;  Julia,  now  Mrs.  Metzger,  residing  in  Ply- 
mouth; Birdee,  now  Mrs.  Walton, residing  in  Han- 
cock County;  James  and  Ernest  are  both  at  home. 
Dr.  FoUin  and  family  enjoy  the  high  regard  of  the 
best  people  of  Quincy,  and  the  Doctor,  from  his 
travel  and  varied  experiences,  has  become  not  only 
a  skillful  physician,  but  an  entertaining  compan- 
ion and  friend. 


*>  ICHAEL  FARRELL.     No   better   citizens 
have  come  to    Adams    County,    111.,  than 


those  who  emigrated  from  the  Emerald 
Isle  and  brought  as  their  inheritance  from 
their  native  shore  the  traits  of  character  and  life 
which  have  ever  distinguished  that  race.'  Promi- 
nent among  these  may  be  mentioned  Mr.  Fan-ell, 
who  first  saw  the  light  of  day  in  County  Cork, 
Ireland,  in  June,  1834,  the  first  eighteen  years  of 
liis  life  being  spent  in  th.e  land  of  hislijrth,  where 


he  obtained  sufficient  education  in  the  common 
schools  to  lit  him  for  the  practical  duties  of  life. 
His  vacations  and  spnre  moments  were  spent  in 
useful  and  healtliful  employment,  so  that  upon 
starting  out  to  tight  the  battle  of  life  for  himself, 
he  vvas  well-equipped,  both  mentally  and  physically, 
to  gain  a  substantial  foothold  upon  the  ladder  of 
success. 

He  was  next  to  the  youngest  in  a  family  of  six 
children  born  to  the  mai'riage  of  AVilliam  Fanell 
and  Catherine  Hagerty,  from  whom  he  inherited 
man}'  of  his  worthy  traits  of  character.  In  18;V2,he 
determined  to  seek  a  home  and  new  associations  in 
America,  and  first  set  foot  ui)on  American  soil  in 
the  city  of  New  Orleans,  at  which  place  he  landed 
after  a  prosperous  voyage.  He  at  once  came 
by  boat  to  (Quincy,  but  after  one  year  spent 
in  this  city  he  went  to  Ottawa,  111.,  and  there 
successful!}'  followed  the  carpenter's  trade  for 
several  years.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Toledo  &  Quincy  Railroad  in  the  capacity 
of  carpenter,  but  after  a  very  short  time  his  skill 
and  ability  were  recognized  and  he  was  promoted 
to  the  position  of  A.ssistant  Master  Mechanic, 
which  position  he  held  and  filled  in  a  very  satis- 
factory manner  for  about  fifteen  years,  his  liead- 
quarters  being  at  (Quincy. 

Mr.  Farrell  next  opened  a  general  store  at  the 
corner  of  Twelfth  and  ]\Iaine  Streets,  which  business 
he  conducted  with  satisfactory  financial  results  for 
twelve  years,  and  won  a  reputation  for  honesty  and 
fair  dealing,  which  he  in  every  respect  deserved, 
and  which  has  remained  by  him  to  the  present 
time.  After  disposing  of  his  stock  of  goods,  he 
entered  the  political  arena  and  was  elected  by  his 
numerous  friends  to  the  position  of  Alderman 
from  the  P'ifth  Ward,  and  ably  discharged  the  re- 
sponsible duties  of  this  position  for  eight  consecu- 
tive 3'ears.  Following  this  he  was  elected  to  the 
position  of  Supervisor-at-large,  which  he  held  one 
year,  and  after  again  filling  the  position  of  Alder- 
man for  some  time  he  was  once  more  elected  to  be 
Supervisor-at-large,  continuing  as  such  for  the 
long  period  of  seven  years.  The  marked  ability 
which  he  displayed  in  all  these  trying  positions  was 
very  pleasing  to  his  constituents,  as  well  as  those 
who  differed  from  him  politically,  and  was  an  evi- 


y' 


2^'\M-   /MM/^On/r^^^ 


POIiTUM  I'   AND  It|(»(;l;Arill(  AI.  uF.roRn. 


ili'iitf  o(  till"  li!i|i|>y  fnrulty  hi- iKi»i<«<M'cl  of  winiiiii;; 
nnd  k<>f|iiii^  rrifiiiU,  no  iiinttcr  wlint  tlicii'  |><ilii- 
iiiil  cri'fd  iiii>ilit  Ik-.  Ill  IK'.M.  Iir  wiis  luuiiii-i-il 
liy  ln'iiiff  oltH'U'd  III  llu-  iitlU-i-  nf  I'ulioo  Mn<;is- 
triito  fill' a  toriii  iif  rmir  yrars  <>ii  llic  Dciiiiicnitu* 
tickol,  wliicli  lie  liii>  tilway-i  Miiiimrtci),  and  the 
pi-iii<-i|)le>  iif  wliicJi  he  liit>  ever  uplicld.  Iwitli  liy  liii* 
viil<>  uiid  inlliii-iicc. 

Ill'  »«>  niai'i  ii'd  in  IH.'i;!,  to  Mi^s  .M:ir\  Ann  IK- 
Aix'N .  of  t^iiinc.\ ,  lull  in  INXi!  Iii'  wnsi-nlli>d  upon  to 
nioiiiii  her  di'atli,  >li«'  Ifaviim  liiiii  willioiil  j>sii«'. 
lie  lia>  Ih'i'ii  fairly  Miri'i'.-vsfiil  in  tli<>  Mccninulatiini 
of  worldly  goo<]s,and  is  the  owner  of  a  ft-rlile  farm 
on  tlic  Mis-i>sippi  Kivcr  liotloiii>,  wliii-li  is  very  rich 
nnd  pioiliirlivi'  and  wi-ll  .-idapli-d  for  growing 
wlu-at.  Ill-  is  a  nu-niliiM'  of  St.  Peter's  Calluiiie 
Chnivli. 


r.NKY  tiKJ.MM  i»  Siinlaiy  and  Treasurer 
■  if  the  <^uinev  Hoiler  Company  of  <^nincy. 
In  skelehinj;  tlie  life  of  this  •rentleinnn  it  is 
liiit  just  tosjiy  that  his  {i^oixl  name  is  aliove 
repioHcli,  and  that  he  has  won  the  conlldenee  and 
respeel  of  all  who  know  him.  lie  need.s  no  special 
introdiK-tion  to  the  people  of  this  >eelioii,  for  in 
the  city  of  i^uiiicy  he  was  ixirn  April  1'.*.  I8:)(i.and 
here  lie  has  resided  the  jrreater  portion  of  his  life. 
lie  possesses  in  a  more  than  ordinary  dej;ree  the 
natural  attriliutes  eiiscntial  to  a  sucee.ssful  enreer 
in  any  ealliiiu;.  and  is  especially  adapted  to  dis- 
(■liar<;e  the  duties  of  his  present  posilion  in  a 
liiKlily  satisfactory  nnd  iiit4-lli>;eiit  ninniier. 

The  father  of  our  subject.  Henry  (irimni.was 
Ixirn  near  Sli-!i>liurn.  <ierinan.\,  and  there  he 
)irc\\  to  manhood  and  was  married  to  .Mi»  liosine 
Huff,  with  whom  he  emigraled  to  the  rnit«'d 
States  in  IH.U.  landing'  at  New  York  City.  The 
followin>;  year  they  removed  tot^uiney.  III.,  where 
the  father  followed  the  carpeiitc-r's  and  joiner's 
trade  for  n  iium)H-r  of  years  anil  afterward  be;;an 
o|icratinK  "  """'  mid  planing  niill,  and  was  at  one 
time  interested    in  the    WfLshillL'toii   Hiewerv.      lie 


has  always  U-eii  strictly  holiornlile  in  his  liu.siness 
tr.nn-^.'iclioiis  and  i-  a  man  whom  lo  know  is  to 
honor,  lie  is  still  living  and  has  attained  to  the 
ndvnnced  nge  of  oighty-niiie  yeai>.  His  wife  dii-d 
in  i^iiincv,  after  hnving  liecome  the  mother  of 
eight  children,  of  whom  the  ^illicit  of  llii«  -kctih 
was  the  eldest. 

Henry  (oiniiii  wa.s educated  in  the  piiMic  mIhm.N 
of  i^iiincy  and  in  hisi^rly  inanliood  lM>gan  leainin<: 
the  cnriienler's  nnd  millwright's  trade,  after  which 
he  condui  ted  a  millwright's  shop  of  his  own  in 
connection  with  the  hoiler  works.  After  follow- 
ing iMith  these  oo(.ni|mtions  for  otiine  time,  he 
turned  his  attention  wliollx  to  the  latter  luisines^ 
and  manufactured  an  excellent  line  of  Iniilers  and 
a  dilTerent  line  of  nrliclirs  of  .sheia  iron,  a.s  well  a.s 
iron  shutter*.  'I'lie  manufactory  is  located  on  Coiii- 
niercinl  .MIey.  hetween  Hampshire  and  \eriiionl 
.Streets,  i.s  a  commodious  nnd  suhstaiitinl  hrick  liiiild- 
ing.  Ml  which  are  employed  the  year  round  from 
fourteen  to  twenty-live  men.  This  e>tatilishment 
is  one  of  the  inowt  noteworth3'  and  reprewntative 
houses  in  •^iiincy.  and  all  order* are  sure  of  receiv- 
ing careful  attention,  itesido  having  a  large  lo- 
cal trade,  shipment.s  are  made  to  diffeivnt  points 
and  a  giMid  deal  of  ivpairiiig  for  manufacturers  i« 
done.  The  rating  of  this  estnlilishment  is  high, 
its  output  constantly  increasing  with  the  demninl, 
nnd  <iuiiicv  is  to  U'  congratulated  upon  ihe 
possession  of  such  an  impoitjiiit  .'iiiil  llniiri'-hliii; 
enterprise. 

In  l8t;o,  .Mr.  lirimin  wils  married  to  .\li.v  I  aro- 
liiie  lU'lhy,  of  (^iiincy,  a  native  of  tiermany,  and 
their  union  has  resulted  in  the  hirtli  of  six  children, 
all  of  whom  give  excellent  promise  of  U'coniiiig 
Useful  and  siilistaiitial  citixeiis.  Mr.  (•riniin  is  in- 
terested ill  poliiicnl  matters,  liotli  local  and 
National,  his  vote  always  being  cnst  for  Dem- 
ocratic eandiilales  and  principles.  Socially,  In-  i* 
n  member  of  Herman  l.oilge  No.  .lit,  !•".  and  A.  M.. 
in  which  honorable  oriler  he  Iiil-  attaiiiecl  to  the 
Thirty-second  Degree,  JK-iiig  n  S«-oltish  Kite  .Mason. 
Ilei>  a  niemlMM'  of  the  .Mutual  .Vid  Society  of 
<^uiiic\  ,  and  i>  otherwi«e  interested  in  enti-rprisi-s 
of  a  worthy  nature.  He  has  a  very  pleasant  resi- 
dence at  No.  111(5  State  Street  ami  is  enjoy- 
ing a  coni|M'tency  which  is  the  result  of   hi«  own 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD, 


lalior.  His  son.  Ilenrv  .J.,  is  tbe  efficient  &ni\ 
tiuslwortliy  manager  of  tiie(;iiincv  Boiler  Com- 
pany; Oscar  E.  is  President  of  the  company; 
Frederick  B.  is  Vice-president  of  tlie  same;  Will- 
iam T.  and  I^ouis  assist  tlieir  father;  Ella  is  her 
father's  housekeeper,  and  an  intelligent  and  re- 
fined young  lady. 


^^ 


TEPHEN  GROVES.  One  of  the  finest 
farms  on  what  is  known  as  Big  Neck 
Prairie  is  that  owned  by  the  gentleman 
whose  name  heads  this  article.  It  is  located 
on  section  30,  Houston  Township.  His  father, 
Joseph  Groves,  was  born  in  .lefferson  Count}',  ^'a., 
and  he  was  the  son  of  .lacob,  a  native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject, 
John,  came  from  Prussia  and  settled  with  William 
Penn,  and  received  from  him  a  grant  of  land. 
He  settled  on  what  is  known  as  Graf's  Run,  in 
Pennsylvania.  Here  he  lived  the  quiet  and  peace- 
able life  of  the  (Quaker  colonist,  and  died  at  his 
home. 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject  removed  to  Vir- 
ginia, and  made  weaving  the  business  of  his  life. 
He  died  at  Wheeling,  in  the  above  State.  The 
father  of  our  subject  was  one  of  seven  children, 
and  was  reared  in  Cabell  County,  W.  Va.,  and 
resided  there  until  1828,  whence  he  removed  to 
Sangamon  County.  111.  Here  he  remained  for 
three  years  and  then  came  to  Brown  County, 
where  he  purchased  land  and  became  a  pioneer 
farmer.  Upon  this  place  he  passed  his  last  j'ears, 
and  died  in  his  seventy-third  year.  The  maiden 
name  of  the  mother  of  our  subject  was  Catherine 
Staley,  and  she  was  born  in  Jefferson  County,  Va. 
Her  ancestors  were  Pennsylvanians.  She  died  at 
the  age  of  fifty  years,  and  left  a  family  of  ten 
children. 

Stephen  Groves  is  the  third  of  his  parents' 
children,  and  was  born  in  Cabell  County,  W.  Va., 
February  22,  1818,  and  was  ten  years  old  when 
his  parents  came    to   Illinois.     The    removal    was 


jnade  with  teams  and  the  far-famed  prairie  schoon- 
ers, in  which  were  all  their  household  goods.  His 
school  advantages  were  very  limited,  and  the 
schoolhouse  was  a  log  cabin,  with  a  chimney  of 
sticks  and  clay,  and  the  fireplace  occupied  nearly 
one  end  of  the  building.  The  seats  were  of  slabs 
and  were  not  cushioned.  He  was  of  a  very  studi- 
ous nature,  and  early  began  to  work,  so  that  he 
could  obtain  means  to  paj'  board  and  attend  school 
in  Brown  County.  However,  he  was  only  able  to 
go  one  month,  but  he  was  more  fortunate  than 
some  in  his  home  education.  An  old  gentleman 
who  lived  with  his  parents  for  a  while  kindly 
assisted  the  ambitious  youth  and  gave  him  a  good 
ground-work  for  future  learning.  There  was  good 
material  in  this  pionner  lad,  and  he  soon  wished 
to  make  a  beginning  in  the  carving  of  his  fortune. 
He  was  given  his  time  from  his  eighteenth  year, 
on  condition  that  his  parents  should  never  be 
called  upon  to  assist  him.  The  youth  hired  out  to 
an  uncle  about  fifteen  miles  from  Springfield,  111., 
and  worked  in  a  distillery  for  two  years.  He  then 
became  a  farmer,  and  in  a  very  short  time  received 
$25  per  month.  In  1837,  he  returned  to  Brown 
County,  and  entered  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  land.  Upon  this  he  built  a  cabin  and 
made  other  improvements,  and  then,  leaving  the 
place  in  the  hands  of  his  brother-in-law,  he  went 
on  a  trapping  expedition.  The  party  followed  the 
Illinois  River  and  wintered  on  Duck  Island. 
They  met  with  success,  and  in  the  spring  they 
made  a  raft  and  took  their  furs  to  St.  Louis,  and 
there  sold  them  to  the  American  Fur  Company. 
A  few  years  later,  he  exchanged  his  land  for  a 
farm  in  Houston  Township,  Adams  County.  He 
then  sold  his  interest  to  his  brother-in-law  and 
purchased  land  in  the  same  township.  Here  he 
settled  down  and  began  improving  his  land,  his 
first  step  being  to  build  a  log  cabin,  and  the  next 
to  find  a  companion  to  occupy  it  with  him.  This 
he  found  in  the  person  of  Mrs.  Nancy  Strickler, 
whom  he  married  December  28, 1846.  Her  maiden 
name  was  Nancy  Witt,  and  she  became  the  wife  of 
Abram  Strickler,  who  died  a  few  months  after 
their  marriage.  Her  father,  Daniel  Witt,  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  in  this  section.  This  good 
woman  died  June  20.  1850.     Her  two  children  are 


l^OKTHAI  I     \M>   I;I«m:I!A1'III(  Ah    IM'.C  ( )1{I). 


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(IpccaMMl :  llicv  were  .Incoli.  and  Mnitli.'i,  who  w:is 
tlif  wife  iif  Kiilicil  I..  |):i\i-.  i>f  Ainlrcw  Couiilv. 
M... 

Mr.  (iriivf?-  WM>  :i  M'coiid  (inn-  inurriL-il  nfii-r  ii 
loni'lv  lift'  iif  ciirlit  year-.  Tlu'  iiniiu'  of  lii>  wifi- 
\v!i>  .Mar\  .1.  (  miii|iIh-II.  a  native  of  'rrinu'.v.tf.  Mic 
wn."  Ijtkcn  fnun  liiiii  Mh\  2".  ImxI.  Si-vrn  cliil- 
■  Ircii  wfi'f  hiini  to  tlirni:  Kinina,  .lo->c|i|i.  .loliii. 
Sti-|ilu-ii.  Daniel  an<l  Attiine>a,  wlio  i>  the  wife  of 
(•«>rge  S.  l<i\viiold>,  .Ii..  who  i.-  a  furnier  in  thi> 
to\vn!-hi|i.     One  died  in  infancy. 

Mr.  (irove!- does  not  ehiiin  alh-^ianee  to  either 
pulitleal  party.  Imt  |>r<'fer>  to  l>e  inde|H-ndent  in 
hif  idea>. 

In  liK-«l  affairs. onrMil>jeet  lia»  >erved  his  >eelion 
!L»  Coinniis^ioiier  of  lliiiliways.  lie  now  oeenpies 
his  pleasant  home  on  soelion  :U>.  owns  six  hun- 
dred and  forty-four  acres  of  land  all  in  one 
lH>dy.  anil  ha>  m  farm  of  forty  acres  in  Andrew 
County.  Mo.  lie  eniraiies  in  the  raisin;;  of  I'oland- 
Cliina  ho>;s  and  s«'lls  iheni  f<M'  lireedini;.  lie  j;en- 
erally  sells  nlN)ut  two  car-loads  every  winter. 

Mr.  firoves  is  a  .self-made  man,  and  h.as  carried 
the  determined  spirit  of  his  youth  with  him.  and 
it  has  enabled  him  to  overif>ine  many  olistacle,s. 


J^'  AMES  C.  OKK.  The  orijjinal  of  this  .sketch 
I  is  now  enjoy  ill}!  the  well-earned  rest  from 
I  the  labor  and  responsibility  to  which  for 
^_J'  years  he  had  lK>en  accustomed.  Probably 
there  would  have  been  no  occa.-ion  for  thisdeclara- 
titm  in  his  bio<rrapliy  if  ill  health  had  not  over- 
taken him  live  years  a}rt>  and  compelled  him  to 
;;ive  up  active  labor.  IIi'  was  liorn  near  (iallatin. 
Tenn..  February  \'J.  IK2-1.  His  father, (;reenl)erry, 
iMirn  in  N'irninia,  of  I'rote>tjint-lrish  descent,  was  a 
saddlerby  trade, and  located  in  'renne,s.>.ce.  where  la- 
married.  In  IH21i,  he  came  to  Illinois  by  team  and 
prairie  schooner  and  settled  in  .Morp»n  County,  but 
there  he  remained  only  one  year,  and  then  moved 
to  Krown  County,  near  Mt. Sterling,  lie  improved 
a  farm  there,  and  ncipiirerl  one  hundred  ami  sixt\ 


ai-rc>.  Hi-  death  occurred  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
live  \ears.  He  wa>  a  veteran  of  the  War  of  1«I2, 
and  fouifht  undi-r  ( ien.  .laik.-on.  His  last  wife  was 
Mary  Itrown.  :i  native  of  North  Carolina,  and  she 
died  leaviliL.'  six  children.  The  >ecoiid  marriage 
i'i"<iilted  in  live  <-hildren. 

t  till-  Mibject  was  live  years  of  age  when  he  came 
to  ll|inoi>.  Thi-  was  in  \H'2'.>.  He  grew  up  on  the 
farm  and  n-m.'iined  there  until  he  was  twenty-two 
years  of  age.  He  received  only  limited  school  ad- 
vantages. !i»  he  wa«  early  >et  to  work.  This,  how- 
ever, did  not  salisfv  him,  an<l  he  later  attended  the 
Ml  >>terling  school.  In  l«lfi,  having  *2..'ill,  he 
I'.Miiic  to  (hiincv  to  learn  a  tratle,  as  he  recognir.ed 
\i\-  liandines'i  with  tools.  He  was  apprenticed  nn- 
dci  II.  l..siinoii>.  He  .Koon  found  that  he  had  made 
no  nii-take,  and  the  s«'cond  year  he  had  Iwcome 
Mich  a  practiced  workman  that  he  wii.-  put  in  as 
foreman.  His  wages  at  this  time  were  ♦."»ii  for  his 
lir«t  \ear.  fT.'i  for  his  second,  and  ♦Kill  for  his 
third.  He  continued  as  foreman  until  IM.'iil,  when 
lie,  with  others,  was  seized  with  the  Western  fever, 
and,  providing  themselves  with  four  mules  and 
three  iiorses.  they  started  for  California.  They 
drove  to  Council  HlufTs,  and  following  the  North 
I'latte,  reached  Salt  Uke  City.  He  left  the 
party  he  was  with,  and  started  on  alone  on 
horseback.  The  third  day  he  wils  fortunate  to 
come  acros.0  a  party  of  his  old  comrades  from 
Hrown  County.  He  reached  Sacramento  just  at  the 
time  when  carpenters  were  in  great  demand;  and 
he  worked  there  for  a  month  at  ♦Ml  a  day,  and 
then  went  to  the  mines  in  Nevada.  He  found  he 
could  not  do  as  well  there  as  by  working  at  his 
traile,  theiefore  he  returned  to  Sacrament«»,  but 
was  unfortunately  taken  sick,  an<l  was  obliged  to 
return  home.  He  went  to  .San  Francisoo  and  took 
the  steanu-r  "( Jolden  (Jate,"  and  came,  via  Pan- 
ama, to  New  York.  He  reached  home  in  the  fall 
of    1H.-.2. 

Mr.  Orr  was  married  in  Decemlier  of  the  same 
year,  to  .Miss  Saroh  IJrown.born  in  .lerwy  County, 
III.  Tlie\  have  two  children:  Charles,  who  is  lo- 
cated in  Wichita,  Kan.,  and  KIwood  K.,  who  is  at 
home. 

After  his  marriage,  Mr.  <  trr  U-gan  contracting 
and  building,  and  tiMik  contracts   for  all   kincis  of 


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work.  He  built  the  0|)era  house,  the  Congrega- 
tional church  aud  business  block,  and  a  great  many 
residences  and  business  liouses  in  the  city,  and 
lias  been  very  successful  in  all  his  undertakings. 

Mr.  ()rr  bought  the  old  Baptist  church  on  Fourth 
Street  and  converted  it  into  a  carpenter  shop  and 
planing-mill,  where  he  Tnanufactured  everything 
connected  with  his  business,  employing  forty  men. 
He  continued  until  1886,  when  a  terrible  fire  con- 
sumed his  mill.  His  loss  w.as  812,000,  and  he  has 
never  engaged  in  business  since  then. 

In  1870,  he  bought  iiis  present  place  of  resi- 
dence, No.  721  Broadway,  whicli  he  has  improved 
and  converted  into  one  of  the  handsomest  places 
in  the  city.  He  owns  considerable  real  estate,  aud 
also  three  liouses  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and  Spring 
Streets,  and  the  brick  block  on  M.Tine  Street,  be- 
tween Third  and  Fourth.  He  built  the  gas-works 
here,  and  is  a  stockholder  in  them.  He  has  done 
more  building  than  any  other  firm  in  Quincy,  and 
since  he  has  lived  here  tiie  city  has  grown  from 
three  thousand  to  thirt^'-two  thousand.  He  was 
formerly  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Indepen- 
dent Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  has  been  Trustee 
for  the  Vermont  Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
for  years,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Sunday-school. 
He  was  a  Democrat  until  the  war,  and  tlien  was  a 
Republican  until  1888,  but  is  now  a  Prohibitionist. 
He  has  not  sought  any  office,  but  has  served  ac- 
ceptably on  the  grand  and  petit  juries. 


R.  J(JEL  G.  WILLIAMS  is  one  jimong  the 
foremost  of  the  professional  men  of 
Adams  County,  111.,  and  as  a  practi- 
tioner of  the  healing  art  he  has  won  an 
enviable  reputation.  His  cheerful  countenance, 
encouraging  words  and  advice,  and  his  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  profession,  which  only  a  long 
and  continued  practice  can  give,  has  placed  him 
upon  the  pinnacle  of  success,  and  his  services  are 
sougiit  over  a  large  scope  of  territory.  As  medi- 
cine is  the  most   important  science   liearing   upon 


our  happiness  and  welfare,  we  feel  a  great  rever- 
ence for  those  who  have  spent  years  of  their  lives 
in  its  successful  practice. 

Like  many  of  the  active  and  enterprising  resi- 
dents of  this  county,  Dr.  Williams  is  a  native  of 
Adams  Count.y,  111.,  and  has  here  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life.  In  these  native-born 
residents  we  find  men  of  true  loyalty  to  the  inter- 
ests of  this  part  of  the  State,  who  understand,  as 
it  were  by  instinct,  the  needs,  social  and  other- 
wise, of  this  vicinity,  and  have  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  its  resources.  The  Doctor  was  born 
on  the  5tli  of  August,  1834,  and  is  a  descendant 
of  Blue-grass  stock  on  both  the  paternal  aud  ma- 
ternal sides,  his  father,  Joel  (i.  Williams,  being  a 
native  of  Kentucky,  born  in  1804.  Up  to  the  time 
()f  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1882,  tiie  elder  Mr. 
Williams  was  a  member  of  the  Old-school  Baptist 
Churcli.  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Williams,  who 
was  also  a  native  of  Kentucky,  of  English-Scotch 
descent.  Tiie  maiden  name  of  our  subject's  motiier 
was  Temperance  Headington,  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky, and  a  daughter  of  Laban  Headington,  .ilso 
of  Kentucky."  Slie  was  of  English  descent,  and 
died  in  18.3(). 

Dr.  AVilliams,  the  youngest  of  three  children, 
was  reared  amid  the  familiar  scenes  of  Adams 
County,  111.,  and  on  tiie  farm  where  his  father 
passed  much  of  his  life.  He  attended  the  district 
school,  and  later  the  High  School  in  (Quincy.  Fol- 
lowing this,  he  began  reading  medicine  with  Dr. 
J,  R.  L.  Clarkson,  of  Adams  County,  and  then  en- 
tered the  medical  department  of  the  State  I'ni- 
versity  of  Missouri,  McDowell  College,  from  whicli 
he  was  graduated  in  18.')fi.  Returning  to  Adams 
County,  he  entered  actively  upon  the  practice  of 
his  profession,  and  in  1889  removed  to  Ouincy, 
where  he  still  conducts  a  large  and  i)a\ing  prac- 
tice. 

Dr  Williams  has  not  escaped  tiie  matrimoiiial 
lot  and  in  1856  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Mildred  J.  Clarkson,  a  sister  of  his  preceptor.  She 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  and  is  the  daughter  of 
Dr.  J.  M.  Clarkson.  To  oui' subject  and  wife  have 
been  born  two  children,  as  follows:  Lee  C,  a 
student  at  the  LTniversity  of  Michigan,  at  Ann 
Arbor;  and  .Julius  .1.,  attending  tlie  High  Sclif)ol 


I'OIMKAIT   AM)   HKKlRArilH  Al.    i;i:((ii;i). 


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of  t^llilirv.  1*1'.  \\  illi:iiii>  i«  ;i  iiuihiki  hI  [■•wlfl 
l.odf^e.  A.  F.  iV  A.  M.,  ami  i^  iilso  a  iiumiiIht  of  tlic 
liiiU'|>i'iiilciil  ( IriU'i-  of  Odd  l-'cllows,  nl  Fowlor. 
III.  \\v  \>  II  iiu'IiiImt  of  A<l«nis  {.'omilv  Mcdiral 
SiKMutv,  Jiiid  ill  |Hilili(>,  is  n  l*roliiliiti(piii>l.  Dur- 
ing the  War.  Iii'  wa«  a|i|ioiiited  Assiflaiit  Surficon 
of  tlio  Second  Illinois  Cavalry,  anil  served  in  thai 
eajmcilv  for  <nu'  \»'nr. 


IK  lll.M.U)i:.s  .\.  Sl'K  I:K.  who  owns  and 
ii|K'ralcs  one  hundrod  and  sixty  acres  of 
laii<l  on  section  10,  Kccnc  Township,  ha.s 
the  luuior  of  IxMn;^  a  native  of  this 
county,  whore  he  was  horn  Deceinhcr  (5.  1815. 
He  is  the  youiiiiest  son  in  a  family  of  live  sons 
and  live  daufrhtci-s,  whose  parents  were  Kawser  and 
Maria  (Tarr)  Spicer,  the  former  a  native  of  Hoiir- 
Imiii  ( Oiiiity,  Ky..and  the  latter  of  Nicholas  Ctninly, 
that  .State.  The  paternal  grandfather  was  a  na- 
tive of  N'ir'jinia.  and  lielonired  to  one  of  the  lirst 
f.ninilie.s  of  that  Slate.  In  18;tl,  Hawser  Spicer 
emijji-ate<l  to  Illinois.  liH-ating  near  .Marcelline. 
The  following  year,  he  removed  Ut  Keeiie  Town- 
ship, lieiiig  one  of  its  lirst  settlei-s.  I'lirchasing 
land  on  .section  18.  he  built  a  log  caliiii.and  l>cgaii 
the  development  of  his  farm,  in  I8i'i!),  he  re- 
moved to  the  northern  part  of  the  towiisliip.and 
two  years  later  went  to  Hancock  County,  where  he 
died  in  1878.  at  the  age  of  seventy-three  yeni-s. 
He  wa.s  one  of  the  honored  pioneers  of  .\daiiis 
C«ninty,  having  here  made  his  home  when  the 
country  wa.s  almost  entirely  iiiiimproved,  when 
<lcer  and  wolves  were  very  numerous,  and  when 
Indians  were  still  frei|ueiit  visitors.  He  had  to 
go  over  thirty  miles  to  mill,  aii<l  iiiaiiy  other 
hardships  and  trials  he  experienced  in  those  early 
days.  IJeing  in  very  limited  circunisUinccs  on 
his  arrival,  he  made  rails  for  thirty-seven  and  a- 
half  cents  per  hundred.  Imt  liecaiiie  a  »uccessfiil 
and  prosperous  farmer.  Mr.  .Spicer  wits  a  man  of 
prominence,  aud    held  various  puhlic  otilces.     He 


Wii>  a  iiiaii  '"1  ^ti«»ii^  I  i'ii\  n  ii>'ii-.  .Mii'i  *s  a^  a  l.ailh- 
fiil  meinlier  of  the  Christian  Church.  He  voted 
for  Henry  Clay  when  only  one  other  man  in  Keenc 
Township  supported  that  ticket.  His  wife  died  in 
18*;7,  and  he  afterward  married  Sarah  Tanner.  Ii.\ 
whom  he  had  two  daughters,  iMitli  yet  living.  ( (f 
the  lirst  faniih.  one  son  and  the  dntightei-s  yet 
survive. 

A.  N.  .Spicer,  whose  name  heads  this  record,  was 
reared  as  a  farmer  lad,  and  remained  under  the 
paternal  roof  until  .lanuary.  186.'),  when,  at  the 
age  of  nineteen,  he  enlisted  for  the  l«lt!  war  in 
Com]inny  l,(>ne  Hundred  and  Fifty-lifth  Illinois 
Infantry,  .-erving  until  .Septeinher.  He  was  on  ile- 
t.'icheil  duty  mostly,  guarding  railroad  from  Nash- 
ville to  ChattAiiooga.  Three  of  his  lirothers  were 
also  in  the  service.  Francis  M.  w.is  a  memlx-r  of 
Company  F.  Third  Illinois  Cavalry,  and  wrved 
two  ycai-s.  His  death  occurred  soon  after  he  re- 
turned home.  Charles  and  .lame.s  joined  the  iMiys 
in  l>luc  of  Coiii]iany  H.  .Seventy-eighth  Illinois  In- 
fantry, in  18(i2,  and  remained  in  the  service  until 
the  close  of  the  war. 

On  receiving  his  discharge, our  siiliject  returned 
home,  and  remained  with  his  father  until  18G!). 
He  then  continued  to  operate  a  portion  of  the  old 
homestead  until  1871,  when  he  went  to  Kans.ns 
and  spent  a  year  in  Lyon  County.  Ketiirning,  he 
purcha.scil  land  on  section  Id.  Keenc  Township, 
and  has  since  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits. 
His  line  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sLxty-.H^ven 
acres  is  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  and  well 
i  I  proved  with  all  the  appointments  of  a  model 
farm.  He  devoted  his  attention  exclusively  to  it.s 
operation  until  18!II.  when  he  emiiarked  in  the 
grain  liiisincss  in  l.oraine.  In  the  spring  of  |8'.I2, 
he  admitted  to  partnci>hip  Herman  Fppy.  iind  the 
linn  is  now  doing  an  excellent  business. 

On  the  iMlh  of  February.  Ik7.'>,  Mr.  Spicei  was 
joined  in  wedl<K.-k  with  IsaU-l  Norman,  who  was 
iMirii  in  Coshoct(Hi  County,  Ohio.  Her  father  wa.n 
a  soldier,  and  gave  his  life  in  ilefense  of  his  country 
at  the  battle  of  N.ishvillc  .she  canu-  West  with 
her  mother,  who  died  in  this  county  in  1887. 
Mrs.  .Spicer,  prior  to  her  marriage,  was  a  suwessful 
teacher  in  this  State,  having  taught  two  yeai-s  in 
Champaiijn    County    and    nine   years    in   Aduiu;t 


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County.  Six  children  have  been  horn  unto  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Spicer:  Grace,  Lou,  Kawser,  Annie  L., 
.Tabez  and  AValter  <;.  Deatli  has  not  entered 
the  family,  and  the  circle  remains  unbroken. 

Mr.  Spicer  takes  an  active  interest  in  political 
affairs,  and  is  a  stalwart  supporter  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  promote  its 
interests.  He  has  freijuently  been  chosen  as  a 
delegate  to  its  conventions,  and  has  been  honored 
with  several  offices.  He  served  for  one  year  as 
Collector  of  the  township,  and  for  six  years  has 
been  elected  Supervisor  in  a  Democratic  district, 
which  fact  indicates  his  personal  popularity  and 
the  confidence  reposed  in  him.  Socially,  he  is  a 
member  of  the  United  Workmen  Society,  the 
Modern  Woodmen,  and  is  Commander  of  Loraine 
Post  No.  .380,  G.  A.  R.  His  wife  holds  member- 
ship with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Mr. 
Spicer  is  a  worthy  representative  of  an  honored 
pioneer  family,  and  is  a  leading  and  influential 
citizen  of  the  community.  He  is  well  informed, 
has  the  high  regard  of  his  many  friends  and  ac- 
iiuaintances,  and  his  success  in  his  business  deal- 
ings has  won  liim  a  place  among  the  substantial 
citizens  of  the  count}'. 


(I? W.  GERKE  is  the  able  President  and  Man- 
ager of  the  Riverside  Ice  Company,  and 
Superintendent  of  the  Qui ncy  Pressed  Brick 
Company,  of  Quincy,  111.,  and  has  been  fa- 
miliar with  the  manufacture  of  ice  since  1874,  hav- 
ing a  thorough  and  ])ra(  tical  knowledge  of  it.  He 
is  a  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  boin  in  .Inly.  18.")2, 
to  H.  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Meyer)  Gerke,  the  former 
of  whom  was  a  (ierniau  by  descent  and  a  merchant 
by  occupation.  He  was  a  man  of  sound  piinciples, 
and  his  worthy  attributes  of  heart  and  head  en- 
deared him  to  a  wide  circle  of  fiiends. 

When  II.  W.  Gerke  was  a  small  lad,  he  w.as  taken 
by  his  parents  to  Evansvillc,  Ind.,  and  in  lliatcity 
his  boyhood  days  were  spent,  and  there  ho  ob- 
tained a  practical  and  useful  cducaljon  in  the  com- 


'  men  schools.  When  he  became  a  resident  of  the 
city  of  St.  Louis.  Mo.,  in  1874,  he  at  once  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  ice,  a  business  which  me  t 
with  universal  approval  and  patronage  by  the  in- 
haltitanls  of  that  sultry  city,   and   in    addition  to 

j  this  he  was  connected  with  the  sprinkling  of  the 
city  streets  of  that  place.  To  these  occupations  he 
devoted  his  time  and  attention  until  18!t().  At 
this  time  he  decided  to  locate  in  Quiucy,  and  at 
once  became  President  and  Manager  of  the  River- 
side Ice  Company,  in  the  conduct  and  management 
of  which  his  former  expeiience  was  of  material 
benefit  to  him.  This  well-known  company  deals  in 
both     natural  and  artificial   ice,   is    well  supplied 

I  with  both  and  can  accommodate  the  public  to  al- 
most any  amount.  They  have  a  complete  equip- 
ment of  ice  and  refrigerating  machinery,  and    are 

'  prepared  to  furnish  ice  by  the  car-load,  or  in  any 
quantity  to  suit  puichasers.  and  upon  short  no- 
tice. 

In  addition  to  this  extensive  and  profitable  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Gerke  is  connected  with  the  Quincy 
Pressed  P>rick  Company,  in  the  capacity  of  Super- 
intendent. The  woiks  are  spacious  and  fully 
supplied  with  modern  appliances  and  m.ichinery. 
Every  care  is  taken  in  the  manufacture  of  the 
brick,  and  all  processes  of  manufacture  are  sys- 
tematized and  achieved  with  the  greatest  economy 
of  time  and  laboi'.  j\lr.  Gerke  has  proven  himself 
a  model  Suiierintendent,  is  well  qualified  for  the 
discharge  of  his  duties,  .and  under  his  management 
the  product  of  the  company  is  permanently  main- 
tained at  the  highest  standard  of  excellence. 

Mr.  (ierke  has  always  been  independent  in  poli- 
tics, and  always  votes  for  the  man  winim  he  con- 
siders liest  fitted  for  the  office.  He  himself  does 
not  desire  office,  but  i)refcrs  to  pui'sue  the  business 
affairs  of  life,  undisturbed  by  the  strife  and  tur- 
moil of  politics.  In  the  month  of  May.  1874,  he  was 
married  to  Miss  IJertha  Asman,  a  daughter  of 
Henry  Asman,  of  Evansville,  Ind.  Mrs.  (ierke 
was  born  and  reared  in  that  city  of  gaiety  and 
fashion,  Paris,  France,  and  received  her  musical 
education  in  the  Paris  Conservatory  of  Music. 
She  is  a  very  line  |)iauist.  and  in  other  ways  is 
talented  and  exceptionally  intelligent,  and  well 
lilted  to  shiiie  in  any  social  circle,  She  has  borne  her 


I'olM  U.M  I     \Mi   l!l<'<.IC  \rilICAL   IlECORD. 


2H3 


hiisHnnil   -ix    si(n>:    Williitiii    II..    (nil    II..    Il;iii\. 
Kn'di'rick.  .MN-it  and  Moriix. 

In  \\i»  plen-sant  home  at  No.  1425  Vormont  Street, 
our  ,<iul>j<'i-l  hikI  his  estiinnlile  ami  ni'i-oiii|ilislie(l 
wife  |MT|i«'timlo  the  lH'>t  sfx-ial  iii!>tiiiet.'',  Kiiil  dis- 
|iensc«  bo!i|)itAlity  and  jfood  clieerto  thedelijrht  of 
their  own  ireiieroiis  henrt-'^.  and  to  the  rich  enjoy- 
ment of  tiieir  inniinieralile  friends. 


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AMES  C.VMI'MKI.I..  an  enterprising  and 
progressive  farmer  and  >toek-raiser  residniir 
'■  en  seetion  i\.  (layttm  rowri>|ii|).  wa."  liorn 
in  Kentucky  in  \X'2i>.  The  family  is  of 
Sofitc'li  origin.  The  paternal  <;randfatlier,  who 
was  a  native  of  N'irginia,  served  in  the  War  of 
1812.  The  parents  of  our  subject.  Joseph  and 
.loanna  Catnitliell.  were  natives  of  Kentucky. 
They  had  a  family  of  six  sons  and  two  daughten*, 
as  follows:  Thomn.«.  l)orn  in  Kentucky,  in  1 8211, 
married  Harriet  Stewart,  by  whom  he  had  eight 
children,  and  followed  farming  in  Illinois.  His 
death  occurred  in  Kansas,  in  1872.  William,  Ixirn 
in  1M22.  died  in  infancy;  David  I,..  iMirn  in  April. 
1824.  married  Martha  Truitt.  and  they  have  four 
children.  He  wa.s  a  school  teacher  for  many  years 
in  .\dams  County,  after  which  he  removed  to  Kan- 
sas. He  w.as  elected  Treasurer  of  Klk  County  in 
1R8(».  and  served  four  years.  In  1878,  he  was 
elected  t4i  the  Stale  Legislature,  and  is  a  pri>ininenl 
and  intluential  citi/.en.  Kdwanl.  born  in  IK2*.). 
married  Martha  .Mcllatten.  and  his  death  resulted 
from  a  stroke  of  lightning  in  I8(>8.  in  Kansas. 
Sarah  .lane.  Ixjrn  in  IX.'ll.died  in  IK,12.  She  was 
the  first  pers<in  born  in  Clayton  Township.  |{iil>erl. 
Iiorii  in  IH.'M.  tiled  in  infancy.  Charles,  born  in 
18.'i6.  married  IsmIk-I  Clifton,  and  is  an  extensive 
farmer  and  st(M-k-raiM'r  of  I. inn  County.  Kan.  He 
repre.-^nled  his  district  in  the  .Stntc  lA'gi.slature  in 
1877.  .Margaret,  iMini  in  IH.ji).  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Lyons,  a  resident  of  U'a>hiiigtoii. 

The  father  of  this    famil\    cmigrateil    to    .Vd.'iin." 
t'ountv   in    IMl,  and   from   tlje  (Government  cii- 


lfre<I  a  tract  of  land  of  four  hundred  acres,  which 
he  impriived  and  placed  iimier  a  high  stale  of  cul- 
tivation, making  it  one  of  the  valuable  farms  of 
the  community.  He  aided  gn-atly  in  the  upbuild- 
ing and  development  of  Clayton  Township,  and 
his  name  is  inseparably  connct'ted  with  it«  his- 
tory. For  a  niimlK-r  of  years,  lie  kept  a  l.averii  in 
the  old  home  and  entcrt.niiied  many  well-known 
persons.  In  IM.'ti!.  he  removed  to  Clayton  anci 
kept  the  lii>t  hotel  in  that  place.  Kor  live  yeai>. 
he  iiirried  on  business  in  that  line,  and  then  re- 
turned to  his  farm.  His  wife  died  in  18(i2,  and  lii> 
dcflth  (K'ciirrcd  twenty  years  lat<'r.  They  were  iiiini- 
iM-red  among  the  honored  pioneers  of  Clayton 
Township,  were  prominent  and  highly  re»|K'cted 
people,  and  well  deserve  mention   in   this   volume. 

In  the  usual  manner  of  farmer  lads,  our  subject 
was  reared  to  manh<jiKl,  and  remained  under  the 
parental  roof  until  bis  marri:i<;e.  In  |8l!l.  |u-  was 
joined  in  wcilltH'k  with  Kli/abeth  .\.  Kradiiey,  of 
Hr<)W!i  County.  The  following  year  he  went  to 
California,  where  he  remained  until  ix.'i.'<.  While 
on  the  I'acilic  Slope,  he  was  engaged  in  farming 
and  in  merchandising,  and  he  ran  the  first  thre.sh- 
ing-machine  in  the  .San  .lose  Valley.  On  his  if- 
turn.  he  purcha-sed  a  tract  of  land  of  one  hundred 
and  sixteen  acrctt,  for  which  he  paid  ^040.  and 
since  that  time  has  engaged  exclusively  in  farming 
an<l  st«K-k-raising.  In  1«72.  he  built  a  live-room 
residence,  which  lia.s  since  lieen  replaced  by  a 
more  commodious  dwelling  of  eight  riHinis.  two 
sttiries  in  height,  which  wa.-  erected  at  a  cost  of 
>f2,.'»0o.  He  now  lia.s  a  well-improved  farm  of 
three  hundred  acres,  and  in  addition  to  tins,  owns 
two  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  .Mi.ssouri.  His 
(ields  are  well  tilled,  ami  the  neat  appearance  of 
the  plai-c  indicates  his  thrift  and  enterprise.  He 
also  raises  line  grades  of  sl<H-k. 

Into  Mr.and  .Mrs.  CamplN'll  have  In-en  iHirn  the 
following  children:  .lohii  I..,lHirii  in  1 8.'iO.  married 
.Mat tie  Ha/.lett.  T.  A..  lM)rn  in  \Hi,:\.  married  Liz- 
zie Oilier,  and  after  her  death  wedded  Marie  (takes, 
who  ilieil  ill  IKK.'i.  He  re-iiles  in  .MiNsouri.  .Julia, 
iMirii  in  1H,")4,  is  the  wife  of  .lohn  M.  (Earner,  of 
ll:inc<K-k  County,  (icorgc  A.,  Iiorn  in  |M.')ri.  mar- 
ried .leiinic  Omcr,  who  ri-sides  in  llrowii  County. 
.Mien,  born  in  IH.'iK.  married  .liilia  Hriggs,  and  %(• 


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ter  her  death  wedded  Ollie  Wright.  He  follows 
fnrming  in  Concord  Towusiiip.  Ella,  horn  in 
1860,  is  at  home;  H.  B.,  born  in  18(i2,  is  a  farmer; 
James  E.,  born  in  1864,  i.n  at  iiomc;  IMinnie.  born 
in  1867,  is  the  wife  of  ,1.  II.  Smith,  of  Clayton; 
()ra,  born  in  1871,  completes  the  family. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Chnreh,  with  which  he  and  his  wife  have  been  con- 
nected for  for'ty  years.  He  has  been  Class-leader  and 
Steward  for  many  years,  has  ever  been  an  earnest 
worker  in  the  interests  of  the  church,  and  is  one  of 
its  members.  In  politics,  he  is  a  Republican,  and 
has  held  a  number  of  school  offices.  The  cause  of 
education  lias  found  in  him  a  warm  friend,  and  he 
is  a  public-spirited  and  progressive  man,  ever 
ready  to  aid  in  the  advancement  of  cnteii)rises 
calculated  to  promote  tlie  general  welfare. 


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^^^EORGE  HARDY,  a  hardware  merchant  of 
I'lj  ,— ,  Loraine,  is  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  the 
'^s^  county  now  residing  here.  He  was  born 
in  Overton  County,  Teun.,  December  13,  1822. 
His  grandfather.  Thomas  Hardy,  was  a  native  of 
Scotland.  Emigrating  to  America,  ue  located  in 
Maryland  and  thence  removed  to  Mrginia,  wiicre 
he  died  at  a  ripe  old  age. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Tliomas  Hardy,  .Ir., 
was  born  in  JNIaryland  in  1777.  While  residing 
in  Virginia,  he  married  Elizabetli  Crawford,  a  na- 
tive of  tiiat  State.  She  is  a  cousin  of  Col.  William 
Crawford,  who  was  liurned  to  deatli  liy  tiic  In- 
dians in  Wyandot  County,  Ohio.  Emigrating  to 
Tennessee,  Mr.  Hard}"  became  a  farmer  of  Overton 
County,  where  he  resided  until  18:50,  when  he  came 
with  his  wife  and  seven  cliildrcn  to  Illinois,  The 
long  trip  was  made  in  wagons  drawn  liy  horses, 
they  arriving  at  their  destination  after  four  weeks 
of  travel.  The  family  first  located  on  Mendon 
Prairie,  and  the  following  j'car  made  one  of  the  first 
settlements  in  Keene  Township.  The  father  entered 
land,  built  a  log  cabin  and  in  true  pioneer  st\ie 
the  family  began  life  on  the  frontier,  Deer  and  wild 


fowls  were  plentiful,  wolves  were  numerous  and  a 
few  Indians  still  lingereil  along  the  creeks.  The 
father  died  in  1844,  and  the  mother  in  18.37.  Both 
were  members  of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  their  up- 
right lives  made  them  highly  respected  people. 
Their  family  numbered  eight  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters, but  our  subject  is  now  the  only  survivor,  al- 
though all  lived  to  mature  years.  The  eldest  sister 
died  in  Tennessee  at  the  age  of  ninety-two. 

(ieorge  Hardy  was  a  lad  of  eight  summers  when 
he  came  with  his  parents  to  this  count\'.  He  well 
remembers  how  barren  the  country  looked  in  those 
early  days.  Few  indeed  were  the  settlements, 
t^uincy  was  a  mere  hamlet,  and  many  of  the  now 
nourishing  towns  had  not  yet  s})rung  into  exis- 
tence. There  were  many  hardships  and  [)rivations 
to  be  borne.  It  was  a  long  distance  to  market  and 
mill,  and  had  it  u<jt  been  for  the  wild  game  the  suj)- 
ply  in  the  larder  would  often  have  been  meagre 
indeed.  The  development  of  the  farm  was  an  ar- 
duous task,  and  the  educational  privileges  were 
very  poor.  He  conned  his  lessons  in  the  log 
schoolhouse,  with  slab  seats  and  old-fashioned  fire 
place,  but  with   no  windows. 

Mr.  Hardy  was  married  March  10,  1842,  to  Mary 
Fredeiick,  a  native  of  New  York,  who  witli  friends 
had  come  to  the  West  expecting  to  return,  liiit 
fate  willed  otherwise.  They  resided  for  a  few 
years  on  !Mendon  Prairie  and  then  removed  to  sec- 
tion 1 7,  Keciie  Township,  where  they  have  since 
made  their  home.  For  more  than  fifty  year.-,  they 
have  traveled  life's  journey  together,  sharing  with 
j  each  other  its  joys  and  soriows,  its  adv^crsity 
'  and  prosperity.  Seven  ciiildren  were  bt)rn  of  their 
union,  of  whom  four  are  yet  living:  .lames,  who 
IS  married  and  is  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Knox 
County,  Mo.;  William,  who  is  also  married  and  is 
a  well-to-do  farmer  of  Knox  County;  Stephen 
A.,  a  conductor  on  the  Santa  Fe  Hailroad,  who  is 
married  and  reside*  in  Las  ^'egas,  N.  M.,  and  .les- 
sie  A.,  at  home. 

The  land  on  whirli  Mr.  Hardy  settled  in  Keene 
Township  was  new  and  unimproved,  but  he  began 
its  development  and  transformed  it  into  one  of 
the  fuiesl  farms  of  this  section.  He  now  owns  al- 
together four  hundred  and  ten  acres  of  land  on 
sections   17,  18.  I'J    and  20,       In  ISr^l),  he  built  a 


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lirick  re^ick'iuv,  one  of  the  lirsl  in  this  liK-ftlity, 
nn«l  iti  it  lias  sim-r  livc<l,  luit  exid'cl.-*  s<Hm  U»  re- 
move to  l.oniiiio,  in  onlfr  t«i  lii-tt«'i-  ntt<>n<l  to  liis 
liiisint'!*.*  intwe.>.t>.  He  »Mijinj,'»'<l  .■.iicvessfiiily  in 
fnrniin^  iin<l  >t<Kk-rni>in;;  until  IhX".  wlion  In- 
roinit'il  11  |i:irtii<-i>lii|i  willi  l>.  D.  Ki<)<lle  in  Imyini; 
:i  lianltvHic  >tor)>.  In  ]X'MK  \iv  Itoiiglit  out  his 
liartii»'i'>  int*'io>t  and  lias  sinoi-  roiitiniUMl  the  liiis- 
ine!vs  aloiii'.  lie  lias  an  exi'i'lU-iit  trad*-  ami  well 
(1e.serv09*  lii.s  liljcrai  |iatrona<;f.  In  connection  will) 
tlic  Iianlwai'c.  lie  has  a  tinware  ilepartnieiit  in  the 
store,  in  eliarije  of  his  ^riaiulsoii.  .loliii  15.  Kolev. 
wlio  is  now  a  (lartner  in  the  firiii. 

In  |iolilies.  Mr.  Ilanlvis  a  Demoerat  amiiusl  his 
lii>t  I'resiilential  vote  for  .lames  K.  I'olk,  luit  has 
never  l»een  an  aspirant  for  olliee.  His  wife  is  • 
meiiilM-r  of  the  Baptist  Cliiin-h.  Mr.  Hardy  has 
inherited  the  U-sl  eharaeleristiesof  his  S<'ottisli  aii- 
ecstors,  and  although  he  started  c»ut  in  life  empty- 
handed,  he  has  won  through  his  enterprise,  thrift 
and  -{ooil  niaiia;.;eriieiit  :i  h.andsome  i-oinpeteney. 
He  had  iiiiich  to  {onlciid  with  in  the  early  days, 
hut  he  oveivanie  the  olistaeles  in  lii>  path, and  he 
is  now  enjoyinj;  a  well-deserved  pros|KTity.  He 
has  witnessed  the  entiix-  growth  of  the  county,  is 
one  of  it.s  honored  pioneei-s,  :iiid  well  deserves 
representation  in  this  volume. 


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H.I.IAM  II.  HKNNKSO.N.  No  nainesUinds 
f'  hi<;her  in  the  annals  of  the  law  in  (^uincy 
than  that  of  William  H.  lU-nneson  who  is 
one  of  the  prominent  men  of  the  county.  His 
suwess  iL-i  a  lawyer  is  due  as  much  to  his  stnui;; 
IHTs^mnlity  as  to  his  unipiestioned  aliility.  His 
friends  are  amoiii^all  I'l.'isses.  and  thoahlest  serviii's 
he  has  ever  rendered  have  Im-cii  tlio>e  where  he 
e»|>oil!M'd  tliecaus*'  of  the  |H>or  anil  oppressed.  maii\ 
times  without  com|MMis-ition.  His  lione!<ty  and  iii- 
tejfrity  are  well  known  throu<;hout  the  county,  ami 
his  name  is  ever  mentioneil  with  res|K>cl.  The  l^ai 
of  t^iiiney  is  specially  indeliled  to  .Mr.  li«-nnesoii,.'is 
one  of    its    lenders,  for   a  standjinl  of   excellence 

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which,  ns  long  as  it  may  be  maintained,  will  always 
luvsiire  to  it-s  niemlH-rs  the  very  hifihi-st  standing; 
ainoiiir  the  legal  fraternity  of  the  West. 

( )iir  subject  was  liorn  in  .Newark.  Del.,  on  the 
;Ust  tif  DecemlKT.  I«IK,  and  wa.-  the  youngest  of 
nine  children,  live  daughtei>  and  four  sons,  iKirn 
to  Thomas  t'.  and  .lane  (C'nrlyle)  Uenncson,  iMith 
natives  of  the  Kmerald  Isle,  the  former  of  Irish 
and  l-Jiglish  and  the  latl<'r  of  S-olcli  descent.  The 
father  was  a  linen  manufacturer  in  early  life  hut 
later  engaged  in  tilling  the  soil.  He  was  a  mini.st4>r 
of  the  I'resliyterian  faith  and  was  a  man  whose 
many  excellent  traits  of  character  were  well  known. 
In  the  year  IKtiO.  he  came  to  the  I'nited  Stj»t*'s 
and  settled  in  Delaware,  where  he  passed  the  re- 
mainder of  his  days. 

The  youthful  days  of  \oiiiig  Keiiiie>4iii  were 
passed  in  his  native  place,  and,  in  addition  to  a 
good  practical  education,  rei'eived  in  the  private 
and  suhsci'iptioii  scIkmiIs  of  his  initive  (^ounty,  he 
entered  Delawar*'  College,  where  he  laid  a  goo<l 
foundation  for  his  suh.«equenl  prosperou.s  career. 
He  remained  in  that  institution  for  live  years  and 
was  i^raduated  in  l«lii.  Ih-  then  liegaii  teaching 
school  and  studying  law  at  the  same  time  in  the 
Old  Dominion,  and  remained  in  that  State  for 
three  yeai>.  From  there  he  moved  to  (^uiiicy  in 
184.'),  o|H-ned  up  a  law  otiice,  and  his  first  partner 
wa.s  Ste|)lien  .\.  Douglas.  Afteiwanl  he  had  three 
or  four  other  pailneis. 

During  the  great  gold  fever  excitement  in  ISI'.t. 
our  subject  went  U)  California,  and  remained  there 
three  years,  meeting  with  good  success  as  a  miner. 
Returning  to  (^uincy,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law 
Miiil  has  continued  this  until  the  present  time,  ex- 
cept for  a  fi'w  years  spent  in  the  army.  Duringthe 
struggle  betwei-n  the  North  and  South.  Mr.  Ilennr- 
son  was  a  Colonel  of  the  S'venty-eiglith  Illinois  In- 
fantry, receiving  that  rank  iindi-r  the  authority  of 
the  (iovernur,  Richard  M.  ^ates.  He  wasM'iitto 
Louisville,  Ky.,  then  to  .Nashville,  Tenii..  where  he 
was  on  garrison  iliity  for  one  year,  and  then  wa.< 
obliged  t«i  resign  on  a<-count  of  ill  health. 

Returning  to  (^uiiicy.  III.,  Mr.  Itenneson  entered 
.'titively  on  the  practice  of  his  profi-ssion  in  the 
liM-id,  Slate  and  federal  courts.  He  st«nds  pre- 
emiiienl  in  lh<>  branches  of  the  law.andamong  the 


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members  of  the  Bar  of  Adams  Count}'  his  opinions 
are  accepled  as  unimpeachable.  !Mr.  Benneson  has 
been  twice  married,  first  to  Miss  Eliza  Bradle\',  of 
Delaware,  daughter  of  Andrew  Bradley.  She  died 
in  18.54,  leaving  three  daughters:  (Teorgiaua,  a 
music  teacher  in  the  South;  Mary  A.,  book-keeper 
and  typewriter  in  Cliicago:  and  Addie  E.,  book- 
keeper. Mr.  Benneson 's  second  marriage  occurred 
in  18.57  and  united  him  with  Miss  Caroline, 
daughter  of  Levi  Wells,  an  old  resident  of  Quincj-. 
One  child  has  blessed  tliis  union,  a  daughter,  Lucy, 
who  became  the  wife  of  E.  W.  Trowbridge,  a  coal 
dealer  of  (Juincy.  In  his  political  views,  Mr. Ben- 
neson is  a  stalwart  Democrat  and  has  lield  a  number 
of  local  positions  in  the  county.  He  was  appointed 
Postmaster  at  (^uincy  under  President  Johnson's 
administration,  and  held  that  position  during  his 
term  of  office,  lie  resides  at  No.  1,116  North  Fifth 
Street. 


BRAHAM  CHITTENDEN.  The  fine  farm 
on  section  36  owned  by  the  gentleman 
whose  name  opens  this  notice,  tells  the 
traveler  without  words  the  manner  of  man 
our  subject  is.  The  fine  state  of  cultivation,  the 
excellent  Iniildiugs.  and  the  air  of  thrift  every- 
where apparent,  bespeak  the  good  manager  and  suc- 
cessful man. 

Mr.  Chittenden  is  the  youngest  living  son  of 
the  well-known  Col.  .lohn  B.  Chittenden,  and  was 
born  in  Ouilford,  Conn.,  December  15.  1824.  The 
mother,  whose  name  was  P>lizabeth  Robin.son,  was 
also  of  G  uilford.  Our  subject  was  seven  years  of  age 
the  day  his  father's  family  reached  Quincy,  111.  He 
was  taught  in  Connecticut  In-  Miss  Betsey  Burgess, 
who  accompanied  the  family  of  Col.  Chittenden 
when  they  came  West,  and  here  continued  teaching 
until  her  marriage  with  Willard  Keyes,  of  (Quincy. 
Later  our  subject  attended  the  iniblic  schools  of 
iMendon.  and  remained  at  home  until  he  was  twenty- 
eight  years  old.  liefore  leaving  Connecticut  the 
grandfather  gave  each  of  the  boys  of  this  family 
■■s-'  to  be  investeil   for   them,  so    that  tlie\-    woulil 


never  l)e  without  property,  and  their  father 
invested  it  in  calves.  Our  subject  was  nat- 
urally handy  with  tools,  and  he  found  this  very 
convenient  when  he  wished  to  build  his  lio\ise,  as 
he  was  able  to  do  so  much  of  the  work  himself. 
He  bought  his  farm  in  1850,  and  went  right  to 
work,  splitting  rails,  breaking  ground  and  doing 
all  himself.  He  decided  in  1852  that  he  was  able 
to  su|)port  a  family  and  so  was  married  to  Lelitia 
Barclay,  who  was  born  at  Lyons,  N.  Y.,  November 
9,  1836.  Her  father  was  Daniel  Barclay,  who  was 
a  native  of  New  York  City,  who  came  to  Illi- 
nois at  an  early  day,  and  settled  on  an  improved 
farm  in  this  township.  Hedied  there  May  1,  1888, 
aged  ninety-six  years.  The  mother  of  ^Irs.  Chit- 
tenden was  named  Phcebe  Perrine  and  her  birth- 
place was  in  Lj-ons.  N.  Y.  She  lived  to  a  good 
old  age  and  died  in  1881,  in  her  eight3-eighth 
year.  She  had  been  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Churcli,  while  her  husband  had  held  to  the  faith  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopals.  They  were  the  parents 
of  eleven  children,  six  of  whom  are  now  living. 

After  marriage  Mr.  Chittenden  continued  im- 
provements on  his  farm  and  has  passed  his  life 
there.  He  now  owns  one  hundred  and  fifty -two 
acres  of  land  and  has  given  liberally  to  his  boys. 
He  has  been  a  general  farmer,  but  now  devotes  his 
attention  to  fine  stock,  principally  hogs. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chittenden  arc  the  parents  of  three 
children:  Henry  F,  married  to  Ella  Mills,  lives  in 
this  section,  and  has  five  children;  Sarah  E.  is  the 
wife  of  George  W.  Shupe,  and  lives  in  Peabody, 
Kan.  and  has  two  children;  and  Abraham  I,  married 
Laura  E.  Eaton,  and  lives  at  Peabody,  Kan.,  and  has 
one  child. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chittenden  have  their  church  con- 
nection with  the  Congregational,  in  which  he  has 
been  a  Deacon  for  fifteen  year*.  He  wasa  memtjer 
of  the  Independent  Orderof  Odd  Fellows  for  many 
years  and  held  the  minor  otHces,  being  at  one 
time  deputy  lustuUiug  ollicer.  In  politics  iMr. 
Chittenden  has  been  a  very  zealous  Republican, 
and  wasa  conductor  on  the  Underground  Railroad, 
but  since  the  formation  of  the  Prohibition  party 
he  has  been  a  strong suppf>rter  of  its  principles. 

Mr.  Chittenden  has  given  his  children  fine  edu- 
cational advantages,  and  his  eldest  son  taught  sue- 


1H)RTH.\I1    AM)   I'.|(m;|{A1'I|J(  AI.    HIK  (I|{I>. 


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t-es.«fully  for  m'vch  veni>.  His  itnii;;litfr  is  piftcd 
in  iniisit'iiMil  ha.*  Iwi-n  :\  flioii-lpiiilcr.  His  yiuiiim'.-l 
Mill  liii-  l>c<Miiin'  kiiunii  to  tin'  iiiimtrv  «s  II  U-iuliii^ 

ttuflllilll  of   KnilMlS.  Kllll  ILo  till' (IWIII'I'of  tllP  fnllKIIIS 

tnitliiig  stallion,  ",loc  Yoiiiij',"  whirli  Uiv^n  rivonl 
of  2.1'.'/.  It  is  a  U-Hutiful  aniiniil.  Iiliick.  liftccn 
ami  oiif-linlf  liainls  liijfh,  siit-il  liy  "Star  of  llif 
\V  est,  "i  lain  "|jnl\  ( Jifiron,"  liv  (•riH'ii*>"lla.-linw." 
This  aiiiinnl  was  lioii;,'lil  for  i<l.iiil<),  and  Altralitiin  I. 
C'liittfiKk'n  is  tlu-  sole  owiu-r. 


li.^ 


\V.  sen  \V  A  l{/.  in  in;.  Ilu' jiintlonmn 
« lioM'  naiiii'  a|i|H'ars  at  liu-  o|i('nini;  of  tiiis 
article  is  tin-  ollicient  SecietaiT,  Treasurer 
an<l  (Jenoral  Manaf^er  of  tiie  II.  (I.  S-iiwarz- 
liiii-f;  l'a|ier  and  ('ij,'ar  ISox  Coiniianv,  and  Seiie- 
lary  and  Treasurer  of  ilic  <^iiiii('y  linliii>;  Pre-ss 
('oiii|iaiiy.  ni.-inufarturers  of  the  Noxall  Hay  I'ress, 
and  »'a>  Uirn  in  Itallinioie,  Md.,  .Vii^ust  2)>,  IH.'il. 
Henry  C  SfliwBrzluirjr.  the  father  of  our  siilijei-t, 
was  liorn  in  l*rus.->ia,  where  he  learned  the  tmde  of 
eAliiiiet-iualier,  and.  coining  to  .\ineriea  in  IK17,  lo- 
eatod  ill  Rnltiinore,  Md.,  but  eniiie  to  <juiney.  III  , 
ill  18.">7.  He  was  a  fine  ineclmnii-.  and  wjls  enjjaged 
hy  the  F.  \V.  .lan^eii  Kiirnitnie  ('oiii|iany,  here.  In 
IHfiy.  he  removed  to  LilnTty,  III.  He  ran  a  factory 
for  .s<jine  tiine,  on  the  corner  of  Ki;;litli  and  Main 
Streets.  In  IMtl!!,  he  started  in  the  fiiriiiliire 
business,  cunnectiii^  it  with  an  uiidertakiii<j!'  busi- 
ness, and  continued  in  thi.-  for  eighteen  months. 
He  then  letiirned  here  to  the  employ  of  the  .l:ins«-n 
Furnitui-e  Company,  and  after  that  engaged  with 
a  planing-inill  <'oinpany.  In  1X7  |.  he  starteil  a 
paper  liox  f:iclor\  on  Sixth  and  .Main  Street.-,  and 
soon  after  he  added  a  cigar  Ikix  liiisiness,  in 
which  he  w.as  obliged  to  oi-ciip_\  two  floors  in 
Moiilden  Hall.  He  then  moved  int<i  the  third 
building  from  his  present  ItK-atioii  and  continued 
there  until  burned  out.  when  he  was  obliged  to 
iM'gin  again  al  the  bottoni.  In  IHH2,  he  t<Mik  Im> 
foil,  H.  W.,  into  iMirtiici-ship,  and  in  IKM.'i  the 
business  was  i!icor|K)ratod  lu-  the   H.  (;.  S'hwarz- 


burg  Taper  and  (  igar  l5ox  Coiiipany,  l'1.'i,(KMi 
capital.  He  continued  a>  President  until  |KK|. 
when  III-  retired,  on  account  of  h  stroke  of  apo- 
plexy. Ill'  was  then  sixty-two  years  of  age.  and 
had  been  a  Kepiiblican  in  |Hilitics,  but  not  a 
seeker  for  ollice.  He  wa>  an  active  member  of  St. 
.lolin's  Lutheran  ('hiircli,  of  which  he  was  an 
ollicial.  Ili>  wifi'  was  l-lva  Kc»lcr,  Ixnii  in  Kni- 
hcN-cn,  (iermany.  They  have  live  livingchildreii, 
as  follows:  Our  subject;  Kli/alM-th.  now  Mi>. 
^'ollbl■a^•ht.  re-iding  in  Clayton:  Uicka,  now  .Mrs. 
I.inlz,  roiding  here;  Fri-d  A.,  I're.-idcnt  of  the  H. 
(1.  .Schwarzbiirg  Company:  (iii-l:iv,  a  incinber  of 
this  firm. 

Henry  W.  was  raised  here  from  the  age  of  four 
years  and  attended  the  public  schools,  and  when 
thirteen  year>  of  age  began  cabinet-makiiiLr  under 
his  father.  Afterward  he  worked  al  the  carpenter 
trade  for  three  years,  under  William  Winkclinan. 
Soon  after  his  father  starteil  the  factory,  he  was 
employed  in  the  pa|HM-  box  department.  .\fter 
the  jireseut  business  wa-  incor|>orated,  he  iK-camea 
stiK'kholder,nnd  he  lin>  since  held  the  above  ollices. 
He  now  owns  the  iiiiinen>e  brick  building  located 
on  .Main  Strict,  Xax.  303  and  3(1.').  It  is  ."idxHO 
feel,  three  stories  and  ba.sement.  with  elevator  nnil 
all  improvements.  It  is  the  largest  inaniifactory 
of  its  kind  and  is  now  doing  a  very  successful 
business.  In  \HHH,  he  took  Mr.  ISIank  a.- a  partner, 
and  invented  and  patented  the  Nnxall  Hay  I're.xs, 
an<]  liegaii  manufacturing  it  here.  It  li:i-  been  a 
great  success  and  now  two  men  are  on  the  road. 
It  is  run  by  hiir>e  power.  The  ijuincy  llaling 
Press  Coiiipaiiy  was  incor|>omtcd,  :ind  our  subji-ct 
i>  Secretary  and  TreaMirer.  and  Henry  F.  Blank  is 
I'loidciit.  Il  i-  the  largest  inaniifactory  of  its 
kind  here.  Our  subject  is  a  stockholder  and 
Diicclor  ill  the  People's  Itiiilding  and  Loan 
.Vs.sociatioii,  and  a  stockholder  and  Kirector  in  the 
Inter-State  Kxcui-sion  Conipaiiy.  which  runs  a 
huge  steamboat  aiirl  barge,  the  ".losephine"  and 
the  ••  .Mamie  L."  He  has  always  been  very  liU-ial 
and  has  started  several  other  iin|HirtAnt  enter- 
prises. 

.^Ir.  S«-liwar/.burg  was  married  here  in  1«77,  to 
I.ouisa  Iv'kert,  born  in  <^uincy.  They  have  six  chil- 
dren, all  of  whom  are  still  at  liomc:  Kiiiinn  K..  Kva 


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L.,  Louisa,  Henry  AV^.,  Jr.,  Freddie  and  Elmer.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Turners'  society  and  is  inde- 
pendent in  politics.  He  has  served  on  the  |)etit 
juries  and  has  been  unite  an  inventor.  He  and 
wife  are  very  worthy  people,  and  they  move  in 
the  best  society  of  the  city  of  Quincy. 


^  ANIKL  G.  CAMPBELL,  of  the  firm  of 
Campbell  Brotliers,  manufacturers  of  lime 
and  contracting  stone  masons,  is  one  of 
the  most  practical  and  successful  of  the 
business  men  of  C^uincy,  111.  This  house  is  con- 
sidered one  of  the  most  popular  and  enterprising 
in  its  line  in  the  city,  and  under  the  present  ener- 
getic management  the  trade  of  this  already  popular 
concern  is  bound  to  assume  much  larger  propor- 
tions, and  that  in  a  very  short  length  of  lime.  Mr. 
Campbell  is  a  native  of  Ciuincy,  and  was  born  Aug- 
ust 24, 1846, his  father,  James, being  born  in  the  Isle 
of  Erin.  The  paternal  grandfather,  Felix,  was  a 
farmer  of  that  country  and  died  there.  James  came 
to  America  when  a  young  man  and  was  married  in 
Phila(leli)hia,  Pa.,  to  Elizabeth  Grant,  a  native  of 
Ireland.  He  obtained  employment  in  a  cotton  fac- 
tory, in  which  he  worked  until  1837,  when  he  took 
up  his  residence  in  (Quincy,  III,  and  became  a  con- 
tractor for  excavating  for  building.  He  showed 
himself  to  be  quite  a  successful  financier  and  became 
the  owner  of  considerable  valualile  real  estate.  He 
died  in  1882.  His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  John 
Grant,  a  general  merchant  and  farmer.  She  died 
in  < Quincy,  an  earnest  member  of  the  Catholic 
Church,  of  which  her  husband  was  also  a  member. 
Their  union  resulted  in  the  birth  of  four  sons  and 
one  daughter:  John,  who  died  in  1879;  William, 
who  is  associated  in  business  with  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  James,  who  is  also  a  business  man  of 
(Quincy;  Daniel  G.,  and  Mar3',  who  died  in  this  city. 
In  the  public  sciiools  of  (juincy,  Daniel  G.  Camji- 
bell  obtained  his  first  knowledge  of  books,  but  he 
;iftvi  wards  graduated  at  Bryant  iV  .Stratton's(now 


the  (iem  City)  Business  College.  Succeeding  this, 
he  entered  upon  the  harness  business  in  part- 
nership with  his  three  brothers,  their  place  of 
business  being  at  Eighth  and  Main  Streets  and 
later  at  Fifth  and  Hampshire  Streets.  The}-  are  now 
doing  a  ver)' prosperous  business,  and  until  1881 
were  quite  extensively  engaged  in  dealing  in  real 
estate.  In  that  year  Daniel  G.  withdrew  and  began 
the  manufacture  of  lime,  the  same  year  purchasing 
fifteen  acres  of  laud  one  mile  north  of  Quincy  on 
Quincy  Bay,  where  he  built  a  stone  kiln,  which  he 
operated  for  one  year.  In  1882,  his  brothers  joined 
him  and  built  an  iron  kiln,  both  of  which  have  been 
in  successful  and  almost  constant  operation.  They 
have  an  extended  trade  in  Nebaska,  Iowa,  Illinois, 
and  Missouri,  and  their  establishment  has  a  capacity 
of  fourteen  hundied  barrels  jier  week.  They  have 
a  cooper  shop  of  their  own,  in  which  four  men 
are  constantly  employed,  but  in  the  various  depart- 
ments of  their  work  furnish  about  forty  men  with 
employment.  In  1885,  the}-  became  stone-mason 
contractors  of  Quincy,  and  furnished  cut  stone  for 
brick  work,  of  a  very  fine  quality,  tiieir  stone  quarry 
having  a  frontage  of  one  thousand  feet.  During 
the  winter,  a  large  number  of  men  are  employed  in 
getting  out  wood  for  their  kiln,  eight  hundred  cords 
being  used  every  season.  They  own  a  large  amount 
of  woodland  and  make  a  specialty  of  dealing  in  this 
kind  of  real  estate.  The  land  where  he  and  his 
brothers  are  so  successfully  conducting  their  kiln 
was  condemned  by  others  as  worthless,  but  Mr. 
Campbell  has  found  it  very  profitable,  although  he 
at  first  had  a  hard  struggle  to  gain  a  foothold.  B3- 
his  upright  business  methods  and  the  superiority 
of  his  goods,  he  soon  had  a  paying  trade  and  has 
been  constantly  increasing  his  connection.  He 
went  on  the  road  himself,  and  by  his  genial  and  up- 
right manners  won  the  confidence  of  those  he  de- 
sired to  make  his  patrons,  and  they  have  never 
found  their  confidence  misplaced.  His  main  places 
of  disti'ibution  are  Lincoln  and  Omaha,  Neb. 
Since  1888,  he  has  looked  after  their  local  trade, 
and  as  he  and  his  brothers  accumulate  means  they 
invest  their  money  judiciously  in  real  estate  and 
in  the  improvement  of  property  in  various  parts 
of  l^uincy. 

.^lucli  of  Mr.  Campbell's  attention   is  given  to 


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stono-nmson  foiitractiiig,  the  sidt-  track  of  the  Chi- 
f!Hr">.  Hiii'lin>;tiiii  a-  i^iiiiK-y  Unilroiid  p.i'^siiij;  l)y 
Ihi'ir  stoiu-  VMid  and  Ihrir  liiiu'  shnls.  On  the  I2lli 
of  Septoinl>er,  ISX'.t.  Mr.  (  iiiii|iIk1I  wii.-;  maiiicd  t<> 
.Miss  Katie  Cnmiei-.  n  ihiii^'hter  of  William  (lainer.  a 
well-known  eitizen  of  i^iiiney.  .Mi-.  ('ain|>l>ell  was 
elected  Alderman  from  the  I'ifih  \\:\i<\  in  1889 
on  the  Denioeijitic  tieket.  wa.t  re-elect«'d  in  IM'.M 
.•111(1  was  made  Clmirman  of  the  , "street  and  Alley 
Committee,  the  llarhor  Committee  and  the  Ordl- 
nanee  Committee.  He  is  very  pnlilie-spirited.  is  a 
genial,  wliole-sonled  •jentleinan  and  fully  deserves 
tlie  generous  measure  of  siicce-HS  that  has  been  me- 
ted out  (o  him.  He  is  a  DenuK-rat  in  his  political 
proclivities  and  is  a  menilier  of  .St.  I'eter's 
Catholic  Clmrcli,  in  which  he  was  rearcil. 


*^— 


^'l)llN  ().  r.KUNAKI).  who  for  several  years 
was  extensively  en<;aj;ed  in  agrieiiltiu'al 
pursuits  in  I'ayson  Township,  i.s  now  liv- 
iiii;  in  retirement  in  one  of  the  most  at- 
tractive homes  of  I'ayMiii.  He  was  l)orn  in  Ixjgan 
County,  Ky.,  in  l«17,and  when  sixteen  j'ears  of 
ajjc  came  with  an  older  hrother  to  this  conntv. 
landiuir  in  l^uincy  in  !«;?  I,  and,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  two  years'  residence  in  Iowa,  \\sii  since 
made  his  home  in  this  county. 

Our  sulijecl  was  one  in  a  famiJN  of  thirteen 
children,  all  of  whom,  with  one  exception,  grew 
to  mature  years.  His  parents,  .Ies.se  li.  and  Mil- 
dred A.  (Crewdson)  IJernard,  were  natives  of 
Virginia,  and  tlie  father  departed  this  life  in 
Logan  County,  Ky.  lie  of  whom  we  write  was 
given  an  excellent  education,  completing  a  jire- 
jmratory  coui-se  in  .Shurtleflf  College  at  Alton,  prior 
to  which  time,  however,  he  clerked  for  one  year, 
and  thus  gained  a  good  insight  inl(j  business 
affairs.  When  ready  to  establish  a  home  of  his 
own.  lie  was  married,  November  21.  I><l<t,  to  Miss 
.Susan  Harwell,  who  wits  born  in  Davidson  County, 
Tenn.,  in  IHIK.  and  was  brought  to  this  county 
by  an  uncle  in  18:i8. 


To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  lleninrd  have  been  born  s<>veii 
chihlren,  three  of  whom  grew  to  mature  years, 
nanu'ly:  Heiirietia,  now  .Mrs.  Henry  V.  Lewis,  of 
.Vshlnnd.  Neb.;  Horace,  who  is  a  prominent  farmer 
of  I'ayson  Township:  and  Helle  \'..  the  wife  of 
.lames  H.  I'ope,  who  resides  on  the  old  homestead. 
The  wife  of  our  subject  was  the  daughter  of 
Krederick  and  .Susan  (Yates)  Harwell,  who,  it  is 
suppos(><l,  were  natives  of  North  Carolina.  Her 
imrents  dying  when  she  was  an  infant.  Mix.  Itern- 
ard  was  taken  into  the  home  of  an  aunt,  whose 
husband  was  a  distant    relative  of  our  subject. 

He  of  whom  we  write  In-gan  life  with  limited 
means,  and  in  the  acquirement  of  his  valuable 
property  has  shown  more  than  ordinary  skill  in 
his  calling  as  a  farmer  and  business  man.  He  still 
has  in  his  possession  a  valuable  estate  comprising 
one  hundred  an<l  forty-seven  acres  of  land,  on 
which  are  placed  a  siiljstantial  residence  and  all 
the  latest  conveniences  for  carrying  on  agricul- 
ture. He  has  l»eeii  connected  with  the  Missionary 
Baptist  Church  since  1H4ii,  and  has  ever  made  it 
his  aim  to  ])resent  an  example  of  true  piety  and 
due  honor  to  the  professions  he  made  in  his  youth. 

Mr.  liernard  has  been  active  as  a  |K>liticlan,  and 
has  always  been  an  unfaltering  Republican.  I'er- 
.sonally,  he  is  a  clever,  genial  and  whole-souled 
man,  whose  popularity  is  well  grounded.  Kor 
seventeen  yeai-s.  he  w.as  Secretary  of  the  Taystin 
l*"armers'  Mutual  Fire  insurance  Company,  and 
)irior  to  his  resignation  in  1891  had  succeeded  in 
making  it  the  fourth  l>est  of  its  kiinl  in  the  entire 
.State.  His  son  Horace,  a  popular  an<l  elllcient 
young  business  man,  succeeded  him  to  that  olllce. 


\^r^- 


(s_ 


IRA>r  N.  WHRF.I.KR.  A  successful  news- 
paper is  generally  representative  <if  the 
^y/^  |H'ople  of  the  place  in  which  it  is  located, 
and  il.s  value  lo  a  comniuuily  is  U'Nond 
estimate.  In  (^uiney  there  aie  a  numlier  of  papers, 
daily  ami  weekly,  which  have  aided  in  no  small 
degree  in    pronioling    the    interests    of  the  cily  in 


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every  useful  way.  Prominent  among  these  is  the 
Daily  Jovrnal,  the  foremost  newspaper  In  the 
State  outside  of  C'liieago.  The  establisliment  is 
fitted  up  tliroughout  willi  metropolitan  macliin- 
ery  and  appliances.  The  paper  is  printed  from 
stereotyped  plates  and  upon  as  fine  a  perfecting 
press  as  is  manufactured  in  tlie  country,  while  its 
circulation  is  larger  than  that  of  any  otlier  journal 
in  the  State  except  those  of  Chicago. 

Not  only  in  (^uincy  is  the  Daily  Journal  &  favor- 
ite, but  throughout  the  central  portion  of  Illinois 
and  North  Missouri  it  circulates  largely  and  exer- 
cises a  potent  influence  in  all  matters  pertaining 
to  these  sections.  In  every  respect  a  thoroughlj' 
wide-awake,  independent  and  progressive  journal, 
its  zealous  advocacy'  of  local  interests  has  made  it 
popular  with  the  citizens  of  Quincy,  whose  progress 
it  has  materiall\-  aided.  Its  success  is  partially 
due  to  its  editor,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  is 
an  interesting  and  forceful  writer,  and  intelligent 
advocate  of  all  progressive  measures,  and  whose 
journalistic  religion  is  to  treat  all  political  parties 
with  impartial  candoi-  and  to  give  every  man  a 
fair  show. 

The  tliird  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  six 
children  born  to  James  T.  and  .Jerusha  (Young) 
Wheeler,  our  subject  was  born  on  his  father's  faim 
in  St.  Cliarles,  Kane  County,  III.,  March  30,  1844. 
In  the  seventeenth  year  of  his  age,  he  entered  the 
Fifty-second  Illinois  Infantry  as  a  member  of 
Company  (I,  to  do  service  for  the  Stars  and 
Stripes.  He  served  three  years  and  four  months, 
or  until  mustered  out  in  1864,  being  in  tlie  Depart- 
ment of  the  West  under  Gen.  Grant  at  Ft.  McIIenry, 
Ft.  Donelson  and  Shiloh;  under  Gen.  Hallock  at 
the  siege  of  Corinth;  under  Gen.  Rosecrans  at  the 
battle  of  Corinth;  under  Gen.  Ord  at  the  battle 
of  luka;  in  the  Sixteenth  (Gen.  Dodge's)  Corps;  in 
the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  Gen.  McPherson  com- 
manding, this  forming  a  part  of  Gen.  Sherman's 
grand  army;  in  the  campaign  from  Chattanooga 
to  Atlanta,  and  in  Logan's  division  of  Sherman's 
army  in  the  march  from  Atlanta  to  the  sea. 

Since  boyhood,  Mr.  Wheeler  has  been  engaged 
in  the  newspaper  business,  printing  his  first  paper 
in  St.  Charles,  this  State.  He  removed  his  print- 
ing plant  fioni   tlust  i)lace  to  Elgin,  where  he  cf>n- 


ducted  a  daily  and  weekly'  paper.  He  came  to 
(Quincy  in  the  spring  of  1881,  and  purchased  the 
Hpi-alfl,  but  this  he  sold,  after  publishing  it  for  a 
year  anda-half.  Ills  next  venture  was  to  found  the 
Quincy  Journal,  the  first  issue  of  which  was  j)rinted 
September  II,  1883.  From  the  inception  of  the 
paper  it  has  been  successful  and  receives  from  the 
people  abundant  evidence  of  its  popularit}^  and 
worth.  It  is  the  truth  to  say  that  the  Journal  is  a 
credit  to  journalism,  to  Quincy  and  to  the  State. 


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^^'LUERr  M.  FOSTER.  The  following  is  a 
'^JLJ  I     brief  sketch  of  Mr.   Foster,  whose   present 

///  ii  substantial  position  has  been  reached  en- 
^'  tirely  through  his  own  ^lerseverance,  and 

whose  life  shows  what  can  be  accomplished  by  a 
person  of  courage  and  enlightened  views.  Not- 
withstanding discouragement,  he  has  jjushed  ahead 
and  the  result  proves  the  wisdom  of  his  I'ourse. 

Mr.  Foster  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  New 
.lersey  in  180r),  and  was  the  eldest  in  a  family  of 
eleven  children  born  to  IJernard  V>.  and  Sarah 
(Baldwin)  Foster,  natives  <>f  Long  Island.  Albert 
I\I.  grew  to  mature  years  in  his  native  [ilace  .and 
when  old  enough  engaged  to  work  in  a  jewelry 
manufactory,  where  he  remained  for  seven  years, 
his  duties  being  to  operate  the  engraving  machine. 

In  1834,  Mr.  Foster  was  married  in  New  York 
City  to  Miss  Mary  Griswold.  who  is  still  living 
and  who  has  borne  her  husband  seven  children, 
five  still  living.  His  estate  comprises  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  well-improved  land,  wliich  he 
has  pLaced  under  excellent  cultivation,  and  from  his 
highly  productive  fields  reaps  rich  harvests  in  com- 
pensation for  the  toil  and  care  expended.  He  is  very 
hale  and  hearty  for  one  of  his  years,  never  having 
been  sick  but  two  d.ays  in  his  life,  and  has  watched 
thegi'owth  of  his  township  with  pleasure,  promoting 
it  in  his  capacity  of  an  energetic  agriculturist.  A 
.leffersonian  Democrat  in  early  life,  he  now  votes 
with  the  Republican  party,  using  his   influence  to 


I*OKTU.\lT  AM)  HI(K;ii.\PHICAL  KKCORI). 


i'jr, 


promote  it.-  iiitore^Ut.  A  rarf  old  iimii  i.s  uiir:iul>- 
jecl;  his  iiicinoi  v  i- ricli  willi  onrly  i'X|)eiifiico,  iiiiil 
III'  reiiiciiil>ei-5  well  Imviii;;  .-linkcii  IiuikN  with  |ji- 
favi'tti'.  lie  mill  his  fjoml  wife  Iwar  their  years 
lightly,  nithiiii-rli  lifty-six  winters  have  cinne  hihI 
gone  siiK'f  their  iiiarriii;;e.  Their  heart*  nre  a* 
green  as  mi  thnt  morning  when  she  |iiit  lirr  liaml 
in  his  :iii<l  they  went  out  into  the  woriil    lngetluT. 


ON.  i;i)\VIN  .1.  riloMl'MiN.  Nm  visitor 
to  (jiiincy  would  Ik-  long  iinfainilinr  with 
the  name  :»nd  persoiuility  of  the  gentleman 
yj  aliove  named,  who  was  twice  Mayor  of 
the  eity  and  has  htcn  for  many  years  one  of 
its  most  proniinent  Imsiness  men.  His  estalilish- 
menl  is  located  at  No.  12t;  North  Fifth  Street, 
and  the  store,  which  is  2'ixl3*>  feet  in  dimensions. 
Is  stiK'ked  with  a  full  line  tif  clothing  and  gents' 
furnishing  goods.  .Sie|»  liy  step,  through  single- 
ne.ss  of  purpose  and  the  practice  of  strict  inl^-grily, 
he  has  climltod,  niiind  by  round,  the  ladder  of  suc- 
ces.s,  and  now  <K-cnpies  a  position  among  the 
most  successful  and  inlluential  citizens  of  i^uincy. 

The  reader  will  Ih-  interested  in  learning  more 
ooiicerning  Mr.  Thompson  :ts  a  man  of  liu>iness 
and  public  affairs,  as  well  as  a  few  facts  of  im- 
portance in  regard  to  his  ancestry.  His  father,  a 
man  of  unusual  ability,  Thomas  K.  Thompson,  was 
Itorn  in  N'irginia.  and  Iwcame  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Missouri,  locating  in  Italls  County  in 
IS.'JC,  Afterward,  he  remoNcd  to  Marion  County, 
and  there  aided  in  organizing  the  Marion  County 
.Savings  Itank,  in  which  he  held  the  |)osition  of 
I'resiiient  from  the  time  of  its  organisation  until 
his  death,  which  f)cc-nrivd  in  1M74.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  was  .Margaret,  daughter  of  Capl. 
Notley  Williams,  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1HI2, 
and  he  in  turn  was  the  son  of  Notley  Williams, 
a  Captain  in  the  Kevolutionary  War. 

In  Italls  County.  Mo.,  near  the  city  of  llnnni- 
l«l,  the  subject  of  this  skett-h  was  Intrn  (>ctoli»"r 
27,  |K41.      lie  was  ediii-jited  nl    St.  Paul- College. 


at  I'alniyra.  .Mn.  When  eighteen  yeai>  old,  he 
c.nme  to  f^iiincy.  where  for  two  years  lie  engaged  a.- 
ch-rk  ill  the  -tore  of  Henry  Hoot.  After  the  Civil 
War  commenced,  he  returned  to  .Missouri  and  lo- 
cated in  ralmyra,  where  he  engaged  in  the  cloth- 
ing business  for  twelve  years  with  considerable 
success.  Keturning  to  t^nincy,  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  .lames  B.  Howies,  under  the  linn  name 
of  Tliom|ison  A-  Itowles,  a  partnership  which  con- 
tinued for  eight  years  an<l  was  then  dissolved  by 
mutual  consent.  Mr.  Thompson  has  since  con- 
ducted business  alone  and  is  ranked  amoiii;  the 
most  progressiTe  mercliantii  of  the  city. 

A  sket<-h  of  the  life  of  Mr.  Thompson  would 
lie  incomplete  were  not  mention  made  of  his  valu- 
able service  in  In-half  of  his  fellow-i-itizens.  In 
\XXH.  he  w.-L-*  elected  Mayor  of  (jiiincy  on  the 
l)emoci-atic  ticket  by  a  majority  of  two  thousiind 
and  forty-five  out  of  three  thou.sand  two  hundred 
and  one  votes.  His  service  was  so  .-atisfaclorx 
that  he  svas  again  elected  in  l«'.M>.  During  his  ad- 
ministration many  valuable  improvements  were 
added  to  (^iiincy,  among  them  the  buildiiiu  of 
sewers  and  paving  of  street.-.  He  was  instrumental 
in  organizing  what  is  known  as  the  People's 
Ferry,  and  also  t<Mik  an  active  part  in  building  a 
wagon  road  leading  into  .Marion  County.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  Mayoralty,  he  has  held  other  posi- 
tions of  less  importance,  in  all  of  which  his  -er- 
vices  have  been  valuable. 

In  IKG4.  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Thompson  and 
Miss  .liilia  IJroadwatcr,  of  St.  Ixiuis,  .Mo.,  took 
jilace.  .Mis.  Thompson  is  the  daughter  of  the  late 
Charles- 11.  Broadwater,  a  former  prominent  citi- 
zen of  Missouri,  and  the  sister  of  Col.C.  .\.  Itroad- 
wjiter,  decen.s<-d.of  Helena,  .Mont.,  who  was  largely 
interested  in  ranches,  banks,  mines  and  railroads 
in  that  section  of  country.  Four  children  have 
been  born  to  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Thompson,  as  follows: 
Annie  H.,  wife  of  .Xlfred  II.  .Sililey,  a  capitalist  re- 
siding in  .St.  Paul,  .Minn..  an<l  the  son  of  (ien. 
Sibley;  Tlioniius  K.,  who  assists  his  father  in  the 
store;  Notley  and  Henry  It.  Sicially.  .Mr.  Tliomp- 
»vi\  is  a  prominent  .Ma-son,  iM-ing  a  memlier  of 
•  ^uiney  I.o<lge  No.  21>6,  F.  iV  A.  .M..  al-<i  of  i^uincv 
Chapter  and  .Maska  Coinmandery,  K.  T. 

llulli  a-  an  olllcial    and  :i  inerchaiil    .Mr.  Tliomp- 


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sou  is  an  illnstiioiis  example  of  what  has  l)eeii  and 
may  be  aceomi)lisherl  in  (^uincv,  and  to  his  credit 
be  it  said  that  his  dealings,  whether  of  an  olHcial 
or  commercial  nature,  are  at  all  times  strictly 
honorable  in  all  that  the  term  implies.  Personally, 
he  is  a  verj-  pleasant  and  companionable  gentle- 
man of  a  refined  disposition.  Enterprise  is  a  part 
of  his  character,  and  there  is  no  one  in  this  city 
who  has  the  interests  of  the  place  more  at  heart 
than  he.  At  all  times,  he  is  willing  and  anxious 
to  contribute  to  all  matters  of  interest  and  bene- 
fit to  Q.uincy,  and  this  fact  alone  has  placed  him 
pre-eminently  in  the  front  rank  of  popular  men 
in  this  city. 


JOSEPH  P.  HARDY  is  one  of  the  county's 
I  most  influential  and  enterprising  farmers. 
He  was  born  on  the  old  Hardy  homestead, 
on  section  31,  Keene  Township,  June  6,1837, 
and  there  makes  his  home.  He  conies  of  an  old 
Virginia  family.  His  great-grandfather  removed 
from  that  State  to  Tennessee  when  Thomas 
Hardy,  the  grandfather,  was  quite  young.  The 
latter  was  a  life-long  farmer  and  died  at  the  home 
of  his  son  Baptist,  at  the  age  of  sixt3'-eight 
j'ears. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Baptist  Hardy,  was 
born  in  Overton  Count}',  Tenn.,  July  .5,  1808,  and 
married  Tamer  Patterson,  who  was  born  in  North 
Carolina,  but  was  reared  in  Tennessee.  Soon  after 
their  marriage,  he  emigrated  with  his  young  wife 
to  Illinois,  locating  in  Sangamon  County  in  1829, 
where  he  spent  the  succeeding  winter.  In  the 
spring  he  came  to  Adams  County  and  settled  near 
JIarcelline,  where  he  remained  one  year.  In  the 
spring  of  1831,  he  purchased  a  claim  in  Keene 
Township,  on  section  31,  which  be  afterward 
entered  from  the  Government.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  in  this  locality.  Building  a  log 
cabin,  he  began  life  in  the  pioneer  style  and 
experienced  many  of  the   hardships  and   trials  of 


frontier  life.  Deer  and  other  wild  game  were 
found  in  abundance,  and  Mr.  Hardy  often  indulged 
his  love  of  hunting.  Quinc}',  then  a  small  collec- 
tion of  log  cabins,  was  tiie  nearest  market.  Upon 
his  land  not  a  furrow  had  been  turned,  or  an 
improvement  made,  but  he  develoi)ed  a  valuable 
farm,  residing  thereon  from  1831  until  1873. 
His  death  occurred  on  liie  22d  of  July  of  that 
year.  Mr.  Hardy  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  history  of  this  community.  He  aided  in  the 
organization  of  the  township,  was  its  first  Super- 
visor, and  served  for  six  j'ears.  He  was  also 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  School  Trustee  and  School 
Director  for  several  years.  His  name  was  an  index 
to  his  religious  faith,  and  for  many  j-ears  he  was 
one  of  the  prominent  members  and  served  as 
Deacon  of  the  Baptist  Church.  Always  a  hard- 
working man,  by  his  untiring  industry  he  accumu- 
lated considerable  propert}-.  His  wife,  who  also 
belonged  to  the  Baptist  Church,  was  called  to  her 
final  rest  in  1876.  They  lived  to  see  all  of  their 
nine  children  grown  and  married. 

Our  subject,  the  fifth  in  order  of  birth,  was 
educated  in  the  primitive  schools  of  the  frontier, 
and  amid  the  wild  scenes  of  frontier  life  was 
reared  to  manhood,  remaining  at  home  until 
twenty-one  j'ears  of  age.  In  the  spring  of  1807, 
he  went  to  Hancock  County  to  improve  a  small 
tract  of  land.  On  the  22d  of  December  of  the 
following  year,  he  married  Cassandria  McClung,  a 
native  of  Preble  County,  Ohio,  where  her  father 
died  during  her  early  girlhood.  With  her  brother 
she  came  to  Illinois  in  the  spring  of  1851. 

In  the  fall  of  18.t9,  Mr.  Hardy  located  on  his 
farm  in  Rock  Creek  Township,  where  he  resided 
for  five  j'ears;  he  then  sold  and  removed  to 
Walker  Township,  in  tiie  same  county.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1873,  after  the  death  of  his  father,  he 
returned  to  Adams  County,  and  took  up  his  resi- 
dence on  the  old  homestead,  where  he  has  since 
resided.  He  owns  one  hundred  and  forty-five 
acres  of  land,  well  improved  and  highly  cultivated. 
He  also  devotes  considerable  attention  to  stock- 
raising,  making  a  specialty  of  Short-horn  cattle. 
Aside  from  his  business  interests,  although  he  has 
led  a  busy  life,  he  has  found  time  to  serve  his 
fellow-townsmen  in  pulilic  offices.     He  was  Super- 


OLIVER    HOWES. 


P(»RTRAIT  AM)  niOfJRAI'inCAI.   RECORD. 


2;tfl 


visor  of  Kcone  Townsliip  fur  tliii-i'  ve!ii>,  wjt-  Coin- 
mis-sioiior  of  Highways,  .'umI  whs  VIiooI  Trustee 
for  six  yt'His,  niid  ill  llaiu'ock  Comity  lie  served 
as 'rowMslil|i  Clerk  miiiI  ('oinnii»ioiHM'.  In  politics. 
lie  is  a  DeiiKiorat. 

I'lito  Mr.  .and  Mrs.  Ihirdy  liave  been  liorii  seven 
cliiidreii.  live  yet  livinir:  .I<h'I  I).,  Kinmii  A.. 
Iteptist  N..  ll.>sic  I!.,  iiiid  Willinni  !..  Tnmer  K. 
and  Saimiel  I",  are  now  d('cea>ed.  The  faniilv  is 
one  of  proinineiice  in  the  coniiniinity  and  ranks 
liilfli  in  soeial  eireles.  Mr.  Hardy  i*  a  worthy 
repiesentative  of  an  honored  pioneer  family,  liiil 
his  own  merit  is  what  has  won  him  his  excellent 
stjindinir  and  made  him  a  progres.sive  farmer,  and  a 
siilistautial  and  valiiecl  citizen. 


•H* 


LI\KU     IIUWKS     w!is     born     in     Franklin 
County,  Mn.ss.,  in  1799,  and    ti-aecd   his   an- 


eestry  to  an  old  family  of  the  Bay  .State. 
His  grandfather  was  horn  on  Cape  (  od  and  his 
wife  was  a  native  of  .Massachusetts.  The  parents 
of  our  sulijeet,  .Foseph  and  Kiiniee  (Shnrtleff) 
Howes,  iiad  a  family  of  eight  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter. John,  lK)rn  in  Mas.sachusetU<  in  1796,  mar- 
ried Kate  Pringle.  hv  whom  he  had  eight  children; 
■lo.seph,  horn  in  MassachuselLs  in  1797,  married 
Hepsebali  Shurtleff,  by  whom  he  had  seven  children, 
and  died  in  N'irginia  in  1M91:  Hiram,  born  in 
M.i.ssachusett>  in  l»t(l,  died  in  ^'irginia  in  IH2(!; 
and  Sila-s,  born  in  18((4,  married  .Mis,s  Tinncy. 

'["he  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in 
.Mas,sjiehusetts,  and  as  he  w.is  one  of  a  large  family 
and  his  parents  were  in  limited  circumstances,  he 
was  early  thrown  upon  his  own  resources.  He 
worked  in  the  cotton  mills  of  the  Hay  .State  until 
1H2I,  when  he  removed  to  Virginia  and  served  an 
apprenticeship  to  his  father-in-law.  learning  the 
tanner's  trade,  which  he  followed  until  IM.id.  In 
that  year,  he  emigrated  to  Schuyler  County,  III., 
and,  purchasing  land  from  the  (Jovernnient,  en- 
gaged in  farming.  He  afterward  bought  a  (xirtion 
of  what  was  known  as   a  military   tract,  this  farm 


being  located  three  and  a-lialf  miles  ea«t  of  Clay- 
ton, in  Brown  County.  He  continued  to  improve 
it,  erected  excellent  buildings  and  placed  the  llelds 
under  a  high  stale  of  cultivation,  there  making  his 
home  until  1H(>9,  when,  on  account  of  failing 
health,  he  retired  from  businos  and  became  !i  resi- 
dent of  Clavtoii.  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of 
Ills  days. 

In  1M22.  .Mr.  Ilowei  married  Nancy.  dau;.'hler  of 
.Varoii  and  I.ydi.-i  (!oiild.  The  (iould  family  was 
f(uiiided  in  .\merica  by  ancestors  who  cros.sed  in 
the  ••  .Ma\  llower."  They  became  prominent  in 
.New  Kngland,  and  the  grandfather  was  one  of  the 
heroes  of  the  Revolution.  The  family  of  which 
,Mr>.  Howes  was  a  meml)er  numliered  the  following 
children:  Samuel,  born  in  I7K2,  married  Kslher 
Weeks  and  died  in  Virginia  in  1H27:  .lames,  U^rii 
in  I  7h;!.  married  Khoda  Bot.sworth  and  died  in 
(Jhio;  Hannah,  born  in  17M.'i,  b<'came  the  wife  of 
Joshua  Morgan  and  died  in  Virginia  in  1806; 
Daniel,  born  in  I7KK,  married  Rebecca  Strange  and 
died  ill  N'irginia  in  lH2.'i;  Kbenezer,  Ixirn  in  17X9, 
married  Klizalieth  Meeks  and  died  in  Illinois  in 
184."i;  .\aron,  born  in  Ma.s.sai-husett.>i,  in  1792.  mar- 
ried Nicey  \'incenl  and  died  in  Virginia  in  I«71; 
Lydia,  Iwrn  in  .Massachusetts  in  1791,  became  the 
wife  of  William  Daris  and  died  in  lH.");t;  Isabel, 
born  in  179fi,  liecame  the  wife  of  David  Bush  and 
died  in  184,3;  Mehitable,  born  In  1799.  wedded 
William  I'hillps  and  died  in  N'irginia  in  1M72; 
.Sarah.  Imiiii  in  18ii2,  became  the  wife  of  K.  Ward 
and  died  in  Illinois  in  1849. 

.Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ilowe>  had  a  family  of  four  chil- 
dren: .Mary  Olive,  born  in  Lewis  County,  \'a..  in 
1H2.'J,  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  re- 
mained with  her  father  until  his  death,  when  she 
inherited  his  property.  For  lifty-five  yeai>,  she 
ha-<  been  a  mcinl»er  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and 
has  been  an  fxctive  worker  in  the  church  and  Suii- 
dav-.school.  Rlioda  <i.,  iKirii  in  N'irginia,  in  lS2t!, 
died  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years.  Amy.  born  in 
Niiginia  in  1H29.  died  in  \x:W. 

For  forty  years.  .NIr.  Howes  held  meniliership 
with  the  I'resbyleriHii  Church  and  was  Klder  in  the 
church  of  Clavton  from  its  organization  until  his 
death.  He  contribute<l  lil>erally  to  its  support, 
was  a  charitable  ami  benevolent  man,  and  the  poor 


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and  needy  ever  found  in  him  a  friend.  In  politics, 
lie  was  a  Whig  and  afterward  became  a  Republican, 
lie  passed  away  in  1876,  and  his  wife  departed 
this  life  in  1883.  This  wortin'  couple  were  higlily 
respected  citizens  and  well  deserve  representation 
in  this  volume. 


A,^^^^ 


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r'*-n-+F 


ENRY  S.  WHITFORI).  who  is  engaged  in 
11  farming  on  section  7,  Clayton  Township, 
is  numbered  among  the  honored  pioneers 
of  this  county,  for  since  an  early  day  he 
has  been  prominently  identified  with  the  history 
of  the  community.  He  was  born  in  Kent  County,  R. 
I.,  December  C,  1808,  and  his  early  life  was  spent  in 
the  State  of  his  nativity,  where  he  acquired  his 
education  in  the  common  schools. 

October  20,  1829,  Mr.  Whitford  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Mary  .Tames.  The  result  of 
this  union  was  one  daughter,  Mary,  who  was 
born  in  the  year  1831.  Mr.  Whitford  cho.se  for  his 
second  wife  Miss  Sarah  Ann  Downing,  their  union 
being  celebrated  in  1840.  They  became  parents 
of  nine  children:  Albert,  born  in  1840,  married 
Pauline  Curry,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Denver, 
Colo.,  in  1891;  .lames,  born  in  1841,  wedded  Mary 
Reams,  and  is  a  farmer  of  Missouri;  Asenath,  born 
in  1843,  died  in  infancy;  Lydia,  born  in  1844,  is 
the  wife  of  Albert  Peden,  and  resides  in  Missouri; 
Charles  O.,  born  in  184(),  died  in  1864;  Edward 
C,  born  in  1848,  married  Emma  Strickler,  and 
makes  his  home  in  Missouri;  .Tohn  S.,  born  in  18,50, 
is  married  and  resides  in  Denver,  Colo.;  Harriet, 
horn  in  18.52,  died  in  1870;  Nancy,  born  in  1854, 
died  in  18,57.  The  mother  of  this  family  was 
called  to  her  final  rest  in  18;56,  and  in  1861  I\Ir. 
Whitford  was  married  to  Miss  Myra  C.  Clark. 
Five  children  grace  this  union:  Henry,  born 
in  1861,  is  at  home;  Alice,  born  in  1862,  is 
the  wife  of  .lohn  Wallace;  Dora  A.,  born  in  1863, 
is  at  home;  Fannie  C,  born  in  186.5,  married 
Charles  Downing,  and  resides  in  Hancock  Coiintv, 
111.;  ami  Daniel,  born  in  1867.  is  at  home. 


The  year  1833  witnessed  the  arrival  of  Mr. 
Whitford  in  this  county.  He  located  in  Clayton 
Township,  purchasing  one  hundred  .and  forty 
acres  of  land  from  the  Government  at  $1.25  per 
acre.  AVith  characteristic  energy,  he  began  the  de- 
velopment of  his  farm,  transformed  the  wild 
prairie  into  rich  and  fertile  fields  and  made  many 
excellent  improvements,  and  now  has  one  of  the 
finest  farms  of  the  community.  It  comprises 
three  hundred  and  thirty  acres  of  land  valued  at 
160  per  acre.  He  also  raises  fine  stock,  making  a 
specialty  of  cattle. 

Mr.  AVhitford  and  a  portion  of  his  familj'  are 
members  of  the  Methodist  Church,  with  which  he 
has  been  connected  for  forty  years.  In  politics, 
he  was  an  old-liue  AVhig,  but  since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Republican  party  has  been  one  of  its 
stanch  supporters.  He  came  to  Adams  County 
when  there  were  but  few  families  in  Clayton 
Township,  and  for  the  long  period  of  sixty  years 
h.as  been  identified  with  the  growth  and  upbuild- 
ing of  this  communit}-,  and  has  aided  in  its  best 
interests.  He  has  proved  himself  a  valued  citizen, 
.and  is  numbered  among  the  honored  pioneers  jjf 
the  countv. 


•^^  LISHA  .1.  VINSON  was  born  on  the 
im  30th  of  September,  1838,  on  the  old  Mnson 
/i — ^  homestead  on  section  7,  Lima  Township, 
where  he  now  makes  his  home.  He  was  seventh 
in  order  of  birth  in  a  faniil3-  of  ten  children,  eight 
of  whom  are  still  living.  His  parents,  Isaac  D. 
and  Catharine  (Orr)  Vinson,  were  natives  of  Ken- 
tucky. In  an  early  day,  they  determined  to  try 
their  fortune  in  the  West,  and  emigrated  to  Adams 
County,  111.  They  cast  in  their  lot  with  tlie  early 
settlers  of  Lima  Township,  and  are  numl)ered 
among  the  honored  pioneers.  Mr.  Vinson  iiur- 
chascd  land,  liuilt  a  log  cabin,  and  made  many 
substantial  improvements  upon  his  farm  prior  to 
his  <lenlli,  which  occurred  in    1844,  at   the   age   of 


POKTHAir  AM)  BIOr.KAl'IlICAL   IMTORD. 


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fortv-M'vcii  vt'ai>.  llis  wife  Mirvivcd  liiiii  i'Ilt'i- 
toen  yoai-s,  iinsvsiiit,'  away  in  I8fi'<i.  'I'liev  wi'iv 
Imtli  c-iiiisistout  iiuMiilivi'^  of  tlie  lliiptisl  Cliiircli 
:iii(l  wt-ro  highly  ic.s|u'cti'<l  pvopli-. 

Ill  till-  ii>iial  inaniifr  of  fanner  \iuh.  tlic  sulijwt 
of  lliis  ski'tcli  was  reared  to  muiiliooil,  and  liis 
education  was  ae<|iiii'ed  in  a  lo>i  ("cliool  house,  fur- 
nished with  slab  scat*.  The  sehoot  was  eonthicted 
on  tlie  sul>sei'i|ition  plan.  Me  remained  at  home 
untd  he  was  twenty-three  years  of  n«fe.  and  in 
|.S(!1  sinrted  out  in  life  for  himself.  The  oeeiiim- 
tion  to  which  lie  was  reared  he  hiis  since  followed. 
lie  purchased  a  small  farm  in  Lima  Township  and 
upi  rated  it  for  five  years,  and  then  l>oiii;lit  the 
old  homestead,  one  half  of  which  lies  within  the 
coriwration  limits  of  Lima.  It  lias  since  lieen  his 
home,  and  the  well-improved  farm  attests  the 
su])ervision  of  a  careful  manar;er.  Within  its 
houndaru^'*  are  comprised  two  hundred  and  seventy 
acres  of  arable  and  valualilc  land  under  a  liiirh 
.«tate  of  cidtivation.  In  connection  with  {fcneral 
farming.  Mr.  X'inson  has  been  interested  in  stock, 
and  each  year  raises  eonsideralilo  cattle  and  hogs. 
He  is  a  man  of  good  business  ability  and  e.\cellent 
judgment,  and  the  Vinson  homestead  is  considered 
one  of  the  model  farms  of  .Vdams  County. 

On  the  2d  of  .lanuary,  IHCl,  Mr.  \'inson  mar- 
ried Mi.ss  Achsah  Ormsbee.  a  native  of  Indiana, 
and  a  daughter  of  Robert  and  Klizabelli  (Cherry) 
Ornijbee.  Her  father  wjis  born  in  Indiana  and 
her  mother  in  Kentucky.  They  emigrated  t4i 
Adams  C  <iiinty.  III.,  in  18."i!t,liut  the  father  was  not 
long  permitted  to  enjoy  his  new  home,  his  death 
(Kturringa  few  weeks  later.  His  wife  longsurvived 
him.  passing  away  in  February.  IK'.tl.  They  had 
four  children,  but  only  two  arc  now  living.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  N'inson  have  a  family  of  three  children: 
Isaac  N.,  who  is  married  ami  lives  on  a  farm  iic'ir 
by;  .Millie  and  .lames  S.,  at  home. 

.Mr.  X'inson  takes  an  active  interest  in  political 
.•itTaii>.  and  is  one  of  the  prominent  supporters  of 
the  Democracy  in  this  community.  He  has  held 
a  number  of  local  offlces,  the  duties  of  which  were 
ever  promptly  and  favorably  performed,  and  has 
been  an  earnest  worker  for  the  sujiporl  of  his 
party.  .Socially,  he  is  a  member  of  Lima  Lodge 
No.  i:»o,  A.,  y.  A-  A.  M.      Although  he  .storted  out 


ill  life  in  limitt'd  cireumstances,  he  is  now  one  of 
the  well-to-do  and  (trosperous  farmer*  of  Lima 
Township,  and  throughout  the  community  he  is 
held  in  high  esteem. 


e-^Hi-^-g= 


t,  KV.  ANSKLMIS  MCKLLEH,  President  of 
St.  Francis  College,  t^uincy,  w.is  born  in 
I$onn,  (lermany,  November  22,  \H:\H,  and 
\@  even  in  boyhood  won  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion for  brilliancy  and  faithfulness,  which  placed 
him  on  the  high  road  to  success.  He  was  the 
eldest  son  of  an  old-fashioned  family  of  nine  chil- 
dren b(»rn  to  Charles  and  (iertrudc  ( I'rolittlich) 
Mueller,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  the  Father- 
land. They  passed  their  entire  lives  in  (iermany, 
and  were  highly  esteemed  as  cili/ens  and  neigh- 
bors. 

The  boyhood  and  early  school  days  of  our  subject 
were  spent  at  Bonn,  and  when  only  ten  veal's  of 
ago  he  entered  the  (gymnasium  there,  displaying 
an  avidity  for  learning  and  a  willingness  to  adapt 
himself  to  circumstances  which  were  distin- 
guishing traits  of  his  character.  He  left  college  in 
18.")",  subsequently  joined  the  order  of  Francis- 
(;ans,  and  there  completed  his  studies.  |{y  his 
superiors  he  was  sent,  in  1H62.  to  the  I'nited 
Stales.  He  to()k  pas-age  at  Hamburg  on  the 
st<.'ainer  "  .Saxonia,"  and  landed  in  New  York  City 
May  1()  of  the  same  year. 

From  the  F.mpire  City  our  subject  went  to  Tcn- 
topolis,  Llllngham  County,  III.,  and  at  that  place 
he  was  ordained  a  priest,  in  IHr>2,  by  Hishup 
llfiiiy  I).  .Iiiiiker.  Following  this,  he  spent  one 
year  as  a  teacher  in  Teutopolis  College,  and  in 
lKt;:Jcame  to  (jiiincy,  III.,  where  he  lx>came  Presi- 
dent of  St.  Francis  College.  He  has  developed 
the  highest  (pialities  as  an  educator.  His  ripe  cul- 
ture, his  enthiisiastie,  stimulating  mind,  his  hearty 
convictions,  combined  with  attractive  methods  of 
instruction,  have  made  him  one  of  the  successful 
and  inlluential  educators.  In  the  enthusiastic  pur- 
suit of  his  profession.  Father  Mueller  has  awakened 


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public  sentiment  to  a  higher  appreciation  of  the 
benefits  of  a  thorough  education,  that  will  bring 
renown  to  his  memory  as  well  as  satisfaction  to 
his  highest  aspirations.  The  college  has  made 
continuous  and  permanent  progi'ess  since  he  ac- 
cepted his  position,  it  l)eing  at  that  time  only 
a  da\-school  witii  eighteen  scholars.  However, 
after  a  struggle  for  several  years,  it  obtained  a 
solid  footing  and  is  now  a  thriving  institution. 
The  present  buildings,  wliicli  are  (piite  extensive, 
were  colnpleted  in  1871,  and  the  college  proper 
commenced.  It  now  has  an  enrollment  of  two 
hundred  and  twenty-flve  advanced  scholars,  and 
here  Father  Mueller's  peculiar  capabilities  shine 
forth  ill  their  brightest  splendor. 

The  commercial  course  of  this  institution  is 
completed  in  four  years,  the  classical  course  in 
six  years,  and  the  ])hilosophical  in  two  years. 
The  college  consists  of  a  large  brick  building  lo- 
cated on  Vine  Street,  between  Eighteenth  and 
Twentieth  Streets.  Father  Mueller's  many  gradu- 
ates never  forget  the  impress  of  his  teachings  or 
the  versatility  of  his  genius,  while  his  teachers 
.and  assistants  repose  implicit  reliance  on  his  supe- 
rior judgment,  untlagging  zeal,  and  the  ceaseless 
devotion  he  manifests  for  the  promotion  of  edu- 
cational inipiii\'i'inent  and  progress  of  social  re- 
forms. 


ARTIN  HEIDERICH.  Among  those  who 
\  were  the  architects  of  their  own  for- 
tune and  who  carved  out  a  home  for 
themselves  on  a  foreign  soil  and  among  a 
strange  pcoiilc,  may  lie  mentioned  Mr.  Heiderich, 
wlio  tirsl  saw  tlie  light  of  day  in  the  kingdom  of 
Prussia,  (Germany,  January  24,  1830,  being  the 
youngest  in  a  family  of  four  sons.  Up  to  the  age 
of  fourteen  years,  he  resided  in  the  place  of  his  na- 
tivity, then  went  to  tiie  city  of  Meinz,  where  he 
learned  the  art  of  paper-hanging  and  upholster- 
ing, and  being  thoroughly  familiar  with  these  very 
necessary  occupations,  he  came  to  America  in  1848, 


landing  at  the  Crescent  City,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  contracting  for  house  furnishing  through- 
out until  185(),  when  he  became  a  resident  of 
t^uincy. 

In  this  city  he  at  once  began  buying  and  sell- 
ing grain,  but  soon  discontinued  this  business  to 
engage  in  the  manufacture  of  smoking  tobacco. 
After  disposing  of  this  stock  of  goods,  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Col.  Rawlins  and  began  manu- 
facturing plug  tobacco,  liut  later  sold  out  this 
stock  also.  Succeeding  this,  he  associated  himself 
with  John  Dick,  under  the  firm  name  of  Dick  A 
Heiderich,  and  for  two  years  thereafter  they  were 
extensively  engaged  in  pork-packing.  Afterward, 
he  returned  to  his  former  occupation  of  man- 
ufacturing plug  tobacco,  being  associated  in  busi- 
ness with  T.  H.  Collins,  and  was  thus  connected 
until  1887.  In  1881,  he  associated  himself  with 
John  11.  ]5rinkop,  and  manufactured  plug  toliacco 
machines  until  1886,  two  years  later  becoming 
President  of  the  l^uincy  Metal  Wheel  Company, 
which  position  he  held  until  called  from  life  in 
18'.»0. 

Mr.  Heiderich  was  President  of  the  German  Insur- 
ance Company,  of  (.^uincy ;  was  Director  of  the  Mul- 
linerBox  and  Planing  Company,  of  Quincy;a  Di- 
rector of  the  Newcomb  Hotel;  a  Director  of  the  Col- 
lins Plow  Company  ;President  of  the  Quincy  Pressed 
Brick  Company;  a  Director  of  the  Quincj'  Loan, 
Savings  and  Building  Association;  a  Director  of 
the  Quincy  Turner  Society;  a  Director  of  the 
Highland  Park  Company,  and  socially  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Herman  Lodge  No.  39,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  and  a 
member  of  Pride  of  the  West  Lodge  No.  94,  A.  O. 
U.  W.  In  every  respect  he  was  a  most  estimable 
citizen,  and  when  called  upon  to  do  good  he  re- 
sponded for  the  sake  of  doing  good.  In  every 
enterprise  in  which  he  engaged,  he  manifested 
keen  business  instincts  and  was  ever  the  soul  of 
honesty,  and  possessed  unbounded  greatness  of 
heart.  He  thoroughly  identified  himself  with 
American  interests,  and  as  a  citizen  of  this  great 
Republic  he  was  loyal  and  true.  He  was  filled 
with  the  "  milk  of  human  kindness,"  and  where 
he  professed  friendship  he  was  lo^-alty  itself. 
His  business  affairs  were  ever  conducted  upon 
honorable  principles,  and  the  esteem    and    respect 


rOHTRAIT  AM)  nUMiHAl'IIK  Al.    |{i:(<lRI). 


.Sd.'i 


in  wliicli  liP  wius  liehl  l>y  all  who  knew  liini  wen- 
nn  I'xrelU'nt  tt'iirt*'  lo  Uix  many  worthy  altriliutt's 
of  hfiirt  nnil  head. 

In  May,  1861),  he  wm>  united  in  inari'ia<;e 
to  Mis!i  (lertiiide  Sehhij;,  ihiuf;hter  of  .lohn 
and  KlizaU'th  Schlag.  of  <^uinev.  and  liy  her 
he  bt'ciinic  tlic  father  of  live  eliihlren.  four  of 
whom  are  livini;:  Aiine."  K..  Stn-retury  »>f  the 
t^iiiney  l're.s-<ed  Hriek  C'om|iany;  U.  M.  Walter, 
F^mma  and  Martin  Henry.  His  widow  and  family 
are  residing  at  No.  :VMi  .S)Uth  'I'welftli  Street. 


V. 

/  ■ 


♦iizl-nrt  / 


\  M  I  K  I.  V  .  It  .\  I.  I)  W  I  N  i>  a  member 
of  the  lirni  of  iSaldwin  IJros..  of  (^uine\', 
and  IS  eng^iged  in  the  nianufaetiire  of  hal- 
~^  loons  and  parachutes,  whieh  he  has  found 
to  lie  a  iirolilalile  liusine,s.«.  Mr.  lialdwin  lias  heen 
a  ivsideiil  of  <iiiiiiev  all  his  life,  and  was  here  horn 
()et<ilier  II,  IN.'jT.  His  honorahle  and  upright 
eonduet  has  won  him  not  only  the  respeet  luit 
the  sineere  liking  of  a  wide  circle  of  aci|uaiul!Uices. 
He  was  the  eldest  in  a  family  of  four  children 
born  to  the  inarriage  of  .Samuel  Y.  Italdwin  and 
.lennie  SydLMithem,  and  in  the  town  of  his  birth 
his  initiatory  training  was  ulKnined  in  the  coni- 
moll-schools.  which  he  attended  until  he  attained 
his  lifleenth  \ear.  He  was  a  bright  and  indiistri- 
uus  pupil  while  in  school,  made  fair  progress  in 
his  studies,  and  linisheil  his  literary  education  in 
the  (Jem  City  |{u>iiiess  College  of  (^uincv.  where 
he  earnestly  pursued  his  studies  for  two  \cais, 
and    was   graduated  in   lK7(i. 

I'MMiig  a  young  man  of  rather  advriituii>u>  ami 
ruving  disiKisition.  Mi.  Haldwin  came  to  the  cmi- 
elusion  that  as  a  inemlier  of  a  circus  troup  he 
eoulii  gain  considerable  experience  and  knowh'dge 
of  the  world,  as  well  as  see  a  great  deal  of  the 
country,  and  for  three  yeai>  he  traveled  with 
a  circus.  In  1871).  he  In-gan  giving  street  ex- 
hibitions of  rojie  walking  and  general  gyninaittic 
performances,  in    which    he    was    very    prolicieut. 


and  conducted  these  exhibitions  in  every  State 
and  Territory  of  the  Tnion.  The  life,  though 
hard,  was  full  of  adventure  and  interest.  In 
I8r<7,  Mr.  Iliddwin  determined  to  add  to  his  other 
ha/.ardous  undertiikings  the  callini,'  of  the  aero- 
naut, and,  becoming  thoroughly  familiar  with 
every  part  of  the  hydrogen  gas  ItalhHUi,  he  made 
a  series  of  successful  ascensions.  It  was  diirin;; 
this  time  that  Mr.  Italdwin  conceived  the  idea  of 
jumping  from  his  balloon  and  descendii.g  to  the 
earth  by  incaii>  of  a  parachute,  and  no  sooner  was 
the  idea  conceived  then  he  U-gaii  making  prejiar- 
atioiis  to  put  it  in  execution,  and  his  trial  leap 
was  made  at  i^uincy,  at  an  elevation  of  ten  thou- 
sand feet,  which  was  the   longest    jump  on  recoril. 

To  one  who  pos.se,v-.ed  less  courage,  nerve  and 
cool-heailediievs  than  Mr.  Italdwin,  such  a  life 
would  have  lieen  impossible,  but  with  him  it  wa.s 
a  inatt«r  of  course,  and  although  he  always  took 
the  greatest  care  in  completing  and  perfecting  his 
arrangeiiienls,  he  was  fearless  and  daring,  .\fter 
his  lirst  successful  leap  he  traveled  tlirouglioul 
the  country  and  gave  exhibitions  in  many  of  the 
largest  cities  of  the  I'liited  Stales.  This  life  be- 
came irksome  to  him  after  a  while  ami  lit-  deildrd 
to  settle  ijuietly  down  in  some  business,  and  in 
18K'.),  in  parlnei'ship  with  his  brother  'I'homas.  he 
embarked  in  the  manufacture  of  Imlloons  and  par- 
.•ichiit«'s.  his  long  experience  with  each  tinineiitly 
titting  him  for  this  (Kviipation.  Their  works  are 
located  on  Hampshire  Street,  between  Fifth  and 
Sixth  Streets,  ami  have  a  capacity  of  forty  balloons 
per  season,  which  are  of  a  very  superior  ipiality, 
and  are  prolltably  sohl  throughout  .America  and 
Kiiropc. 

Ill  politics,  Mr.  Italdwin  ha>  always  Ih-cii  a 
stanch  DenuH'iat,  is  an  admirer  of  Cleveland, 
•ind  strongly  opposes  a  protective  tariff.  He  is  a 
llieliiber     of  |todle\    Lodge  No.    I.  .\.  I'".  A'    .\.  M..  ill 

which  worthy  order  he  is  a  Knight  Templar,  be- 
longs to  Lodge  No.  t  L  K.  I'.,  and  is  a  mem- 
lier  of  the  Turiiei>'.and  the  Kiremeirs  Ilenevolent 
.S<iciet\ .  ill  all  of  which  he  i>  a  >\oilh.\  and  useful 
nienilxM'. 

In  the  fall  of  1^78.  Ml.  Ituldwin  w:l>  united 
in  inarriage  with  Miss  EliiudM-lh.  dautihter  «if 
John    Wheeler,   of   (^uiney.  and   their  union  has 


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resulted  in  the  birtli  of  four  children,  one  of 
whom.  Charley,  is  deceased.  Those  living  are 
Samuel  Y.,  Florence  and  Car}-.  Mr.  Baldwin 
has  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  1217  Vermont  Street, 
where  he  and  his  wife  warmly  welcome  their  nu- 
merous friends.  His  reputation  as  a  man  of  honor 
has  always  been  of  the  best,  and  in  the  town 
where  he  has  always  lived  and  where  the  people 
have  had  every  opportunity  to  form  their  opinion 
as  to  his  character,  nothing  has  ever  been  said 
derogatory  to  his  good  name.  He  is  sincere  in 
his  friendships,  and  is  a  kind  and  considerate  hus- 
liand  and  father. 


^^EORGE  R.  REYNOLDS.  The  gentleman 
'II  J-—,  whose  name  introduces  this  sketch  is  now 
^^^  living  on  section  .33,  Houston  Township, 
and  is  a  prominent  and  successful  farmer,  having 
a  large  and  excellent  farm,  lying  on  both  sides  of 
the  road  between  Camp  Point  and  Houston  Town- 
ship, which  shows  good  cultivation.  He  was  born 
in  Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  March  6,  1834,  and 
his  father,  Horace  Reynolds,  was  horn  in  East 
Ilaitford,  Conn.,  January  27,  1790;  the  grand- 
father, Charles  Reynolds,  was  also  a  native  of  this 
State.  The  latter  served  for  seven  years  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary War,  and  after  the  war  was  over  settled 
down  to  his  trade  of  blacksmith.  His  son,  Horace, 
the  father  of  our  subject,  was  one  of  four  daugh- 
ters and  four  sons,  only  one  now  living.  He  fol- 
lowed in  his  father's  footsteps  in  the  choice  of  a 
trade,  becoming  a  blaeksmitli.  which  business  he 
followed  for  fifty  years. 

AVhen  fieorge  was  but  a  year  old,  his  father  re- 
moved from  Winsted,  Conn.,  to  Houston,  Adams 
County,  III.,  where  he  i)urchased  land  and  settled, 
being  one  of  the  lirsl  settlers  of  Houston,  Town- 
ship. The  land  on  which  he  settled  was  wild 
prairie,  but  he  built  a  log  house  and  iinpioved 
two  hunrlrcd  acres  of  land.  The  land  w.ns  full 
of  game  of  all  kinds — deer,  wolves  and  differ- 
ent varieties  of  birds,      He  died  Eel.>ruary  'j,  1883, 


aged  ninety-three  years.  His  wife,  to  whom  he 
was  married  October  11,  1815,  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Lyman  Beeeher,  was  a  Miss  Annie  Culver,  born  in 
1792,  at  Litchfield,  Litchfield  County,  Conn.  She 
survived  her  husband  two  years.  Their  happy 
married  life  lasted  sixt3'-eight  years.  Mrs.  Horace 
Reynolds  was  a  Congregationalist  in  religion.  Her 
husband  had  no  means  when  he  came  to  this  State, 
but  by  hard  work,  both  on  his  farm  and  in  the 
little  blacksmith  shop  that  he  had  on  the  farm,  he 
accumulated  a  large  .amount  of  property,  and  was  of 
great  service  to  his  neighbors  in  those  early  days, 
as  he  did  a  large  and  successfvd  busine.ss  in  the 
shop,  and  was  ever  read}*  to  attend  to  their  wants. 
They  had  ten  children,  seven  now  living. 

George  Ro3-nolds  was  the  youngest  of  the  chil- 
dren, and  was  a  mere  babe  when  brought  to 
this  State.  He  attended  school  in  the  old  pioneer 
log  house  during  the  winter  months.  This  prim- 
itive schoolhouse  w.as  replaced  in  time,  by  a  neat 
frame  one.  .  He  followed  the  .same  trade  as  his 
father  and  grandfather,  working  in  the  shoi)  in 
the  winter  months  and  on  the  farm  in  the  summer. 
In  the  spring  of  18.')/),  he  and  his  brother  Henry 
took  the  old  shop  in  partnership  for  five  3'ears,  and 
in  1860  Henry  went  to  California,  but  George  re- 
mained at  home  in  the  shop  for  three  years  longer. 
In  1863,  he  went  to  Hancock  County  and  en- 
gaged in  farming,  having  bought  one  hundred 
and  ninety  acres  of  land  and  there  he  remained  until 
March,  1865,  when  he  removed  to  this  count}-, 
settling  near  Mendon,  remaining  four  yeais.  In 
1870,  he  removed  to  Houston  Township. 

Mr.  Reynolds  was  married,  January  K!,  1862,  to 
Margaret  Simpson,  of  Rushville,  Schuyler  County, 
111.,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  (McComb) 
Simpson,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  fanner,  who 
came  from  Ireland  vvlien  ayoung  man, and  the  latter 
was  from  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reynolds 
have  had  six  children:  Annie  M.,  George  S.,  Henry 
G.,  Horace,  John  O.,  and  Elodie,  but  Horace  is  de- 
ceased. Mr.  Reynolds  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
believing  that  in  that  party  is  the  hope  of  the 
Nation.  The  family  are  good  and  conscientious 
members  of  the  Fnited  Brethren  Church. 

Mr.  Reynolds  has  four  hundred  and  thirty  acres 
of  l.'Uid  in  one   body,   in   scctio)!    4,  Camp    Point, 


I-OKIKAIT   AM)   l(l(»(.KAl'iri(  AI.    I{K(  <)R1>. 


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and  tlircp  IiiiiuIiihI  niiil  thirty-five  acres  <if  land  in 
llonston  'rowii.sliiii.  lie  lias  raised  >l<n'k.  i-altle 
and  lii>p>  in  jjreat  nuinln-rs. 

Tlie  family  i>  an  olrl  one,  liavinp  oonie  over  in 
the  "Mayllowcr."  Mr.  Heynolds  is  a  worthy  citizen 
and  a  giMid,  hard-working  man.  who  is  an  honor 
and  civdit  to  the  county  in  which  he  lives. 


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©~  A  STAR  FKKim  |{(;.  There  are  many 
(ierman  re>i(U'nt«  in  t^uincy.and  prominenl 
among  them  is  the  siilijecl  of  our  sketch- 
lie  is  a  nu-nibcr  of  the  firm  of  Freiliuri.'iV  Schutleis, 
dealers  in  boots  and  shoes.  lie  was  Ixirn  in 
Westphalia,  (iermany,  March  2,  1847.  His  fa- 
ther, named  Christopher,  was  horn  in  the  same 
place  and  wa.s  a  farmei.  lie  was  in  the  war  with 
Napoleon  and  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-se>ien. 
The  name  of  his  wife  was  ( lertrude  Koeniir,  and 
she  died  in  .hine,  1K»8.  ajjed  sevinty-four  ycai-s. 
These  parent*  left  eight  children,  all  of  whom  are 
living.  They  are.  Mary,  now  Mrs.  Krner.  of 
t^uincy;  .loseph.  a  retired  grocer  of  (^uincy; 
(Jertrude,  living  in  Westphalia,  flermany;  .lohn, 
who  served  in  the  (lerman  army  against  the 
French  and  lost  a  leg,  live?  in  the  Fatherland  he 
has  served  so  well;  Catherine,  now  Mrs.  Hrunii- 
well,  lives  in  <;uincy:  Tiiercsa.  Mrs.  Freiliurg,  re- 
mains in  (iermany:  and  Henry,  who  i>  in  tlie 
empltiy  of  our  subject. 

C.i.>ipar  Freiliuig  received  a  coniMion-school  edu- 
cation in  (iermany,  and  when  fourteen  3eai>  old 
wa«  apprenticed  to  aslioi*maker  until  he  was  seven- 
teen, when  he  concluded  to  come  to  .Vmerica.  "the 
land  of  the  frc*-."'  He  very  naturall\'  wished  to 
csca|)o  militjiry  oppr(>ssion,  and  so  in  .Vpril,  IH6'i, 
he  left  Itremen  in  the  sti-:im>liip  "  Ilansn,"  and 
landed  in  .New  Yoik,  May  'i.  and  came  on  to 
(^uinoy.  lie  secured  employment  in  this  place 
with  liis  brother-in-law,  Mr.  I'"rner.  lie  worked 
steadily  at  hi^  trade  until  the  year  lt<7'.i,  when 
Mr.  Krner  retiretl.  lie  remained  with  the  llrm 
until    |M8i),  when   he  Ijought  a    one-half    interest, 


and  the  (irm  liecame  Met/ger  iV  Freibiiri;.  This 
was  carried  on  with  sutves.s  until  the  rieatli  of  .Mr. 
.Met/ger,  .lune '.t,  IHHN.  Then  Mr.  Schutleis  c.ime 
in  as  a  partner,  and  now  the  lirm  is .i.>^ (riven  in  the 
o|)ening  of  this  article.  They  carry  lUi  the  hirge>t 
hou.se  of  their  kind  in  the  cit\,  and  their  building 
is  211x100  feet. 

Mr.  Freiburg  has  paid  cIom-  and  careful  atten- 
tion to  his  work,  and  although  he  started  in  life 
with  a  <lcbl  of  fllO,  he  now  owns  valuable  real 
estate  in  the  city.  I>e»ide  his  nice  residen<'e,  No.  ."i2o 
S«'veiith  Street. 

Our  subject  w.i>  married  liere  in  1881,  to  Miss 
Kate  Kiefer,  a  daughter  of  Frank  Kiefcr.  who 
resides  here.  Their  home  ha.*  l>eeii  lilessfd  with 
five  children,  Frank,  Mary,  Katie,  Clam,  and  .Max. 

Mr.  Freiburg  is  a  memlier  of  St.  I'eter's  Western 
Catholic  rnion,  and  wasone  of  iLs  organizei-s.  He 
wa.s  first  tenor  in  the  .St.  Itonifacc  Chuivli  in  186.'), 
and  was  a  iiieii:lier  of  the  Mannechoir  for  yeai>. 
He  is  a  HenuK-rat,  out  and  out,  and  Iuls  l>een 
several  times  a  |ietit  juror.  His  merry  disposition 
makes  him  many  friends,  and  those  made  he  never 
loses. 


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KoUt.K  W.  (  VKI  s.  Tliis  geiitlcnmn  is 
-  prominent  in  the  public,  s<K-ial  and  literary 
life  of  this  county,  as  the  well-known  pa|K-r. 
the  ('<iiiiji  1*1)11)1  Jiturnal,  has  this  talented  imlivid- 
ual  i\»  its  editor. 

Tennessee  luis  contributed  very  largel\  to  the 
population  of  this  M-ction.  and  the  father  of  our 
subject  was  a  native  of  that  State.  The  lirst 
memlH'i'sof  the  family  in  this  (.oiintry  are  suppi>s«-d 
to  have  come  over  to  .Vmerica  from  Walo  and 
settled  in  the  .State  of  Nrw  .lei>ey.  and  from  there 
.Matthew  Cyrus,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
came  to  Illinois  in  the  'iOs  mid  settled  near 
.lacksonville.  which  wa.<  then  the  principa'l  city  in 
the  West.  He  wils  a  pioneer  farmer  there,  and  liveil 
ill  .leiX'X  County  a  while  and  (hen  went  to 
Montgomery  Ctuinty.  where  he  dieil  .-il  an  ad- 
vanced age. 


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The  father  of  our  subject  was  a  boy  when  his 
parents  came  to  Illinois,  and  his  education  was 
all  obtained  in  the  district  school  until  be  came 
to  Jacksonville,  where  he  attended  the  college.  He 
then  went  to  Rushville  and  became  a  clerk  in 
a  store  for  a  few  years,  and  wlijle  there  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Athaliah  Ruddle,  of  Kentucky. 
After  the  death  of  her  parents,  she  came  to  stay 
with  her  sister  at  Rusiiville,  and  in  1836  she  mar- 
ried Henry  A.  Cyrus.  The  young  people  moved 
to  Adams  County  and  located  in  Houston  Town- 
shi]),  where  he  purchased  a  (juarter-seetion  of  good 
land.  He  then  went  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Ben- 
ton, and  laid  out  the  town  of  Houston,  but  this 
never  prospered.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  settle 
in  this  township,  but  his  life  was  a  short  one,  as 
he  died  in  1847,  much  lamented,  as  he  was  widely 
and  very  favorably  known,  and  was  a  faithful 
meraberof  the  Christian  denomination.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  was  married  again,  to  .John  Gault, 
but  had  no  children  and  died  in  1888,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-two  years.  She  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church. 

Mr.  Cyrus,  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Adams 
County,  111.,  March  l,o,  1842.  He  received  a  com- 
mon-school education,  and  it  was  obtained  in  the 
old  pioneer  log  house  with  the  slab  benches,  and 
probably  he  enjoyed  it  more,  and  was  no  doubt 
healthier  than  the  lads  of  the  present  day  in  their 
gas  and  steam  heated  rooms,  with  the  patent  venti- 
lation which  keeps  the  sewer  poison  in  the  ele- 
gantly fitted  schoolrooms  as  effectually  as  it  keeps 
the  fresh  air  out.  However,  there  was  too  little  in- 
struction to  suit  the  ambition  of  ]\Ir.  Cyrus,  and  at 
the  age  of  eighteen  he  became  a  teacher  himself, 
and  for  eight  winters  taught  tiie  district  school. 

Desiring  a  wider  lield,  Mr.  Cyrus  went  as  far  as 
Kansas  City  in  18.')8,  and  made  that  stirring  capi- 
tal his  home,  and  engaged  in  v.-nious  employments. 
In  18()1,  he  returned  to  this  county  and  recom- 
menced farming  in  Houston  Township,  and  in  1867 
he  moved  into  Camp  Point  and  engaged  in  the 
drug  business,  which  lieconlinued  for  several  years. 
In  1873.  lie  and  TlinniMs  l!;iil(y  purchased  the  ma- 
terial which  had  been  used  for  the  printing  of  a 
paper,  and  they  started  the  Canqj  Point  JnuriutL 
In  1877,  Mr.  Cyrus  purchased  the  entire  office,  and 


has  since  been  editor  and  proprietor.  The  Journal 
is  a  six  colnnm  (piarto,  and  is  a  fine  local  paper. 
Mr.  Cvrus  now  has  the  best  equipped  newspaper 
office  in  the  State,  for  any  town  of  this  size.  The 
paper  has  attained  a  large  circulation,  and  has  a 
wide  influence. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1863.  to  Miss  Emily 
C.  Strickler,  of  Adams  County.  Mrs.  Cyrus  is  a 
devout  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  the  whole  family  is  prominent  in  the  social 
circles  of  Camp  Point.  They  have  two  children, 
Annie,  who  has  attended  tlie  University  of  Illinois 
at  Ciiampaign.  where  she  p.aid  special  attention  to 
art.  and  from  wiiich  department  she  was  graduated 
in  18SMI.  and  .Jessie,  who  is  the  accomplished  wife  of 
Prof.  .J.  W.  Creekmur,  the  Principal  of  the  IMaple- 
wood  School  of  Cam|)  Point. 

]\Ir.  Cvrus  has  been  called  upon  to  serve  his 
county  in  the  office  of  Supervisor,  and  he  is  now 
serving  his  seventh  term.  He  h.as  belonged  to  the 
order  of  INIasons  since  his  youth,  is  a  Knight  Temp- 
lar, a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  and  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  is  highly  re- 
garded in  .all.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  nice  farm  of 
two  hundred  acres,  one  bundled  of  which  are  com- 
prised in  the  old  Cyrus  homestead,  section  34,  Hous- 
ton Township. 


^|LBERT  W.  SCHEIPERING.  One  of  the 
^O  most  enterprising  young  merchants  of  the 
Gem  City  is  the  subject  of  the  following 
sketch.  He  is  located  at  No.  536  South 
Twelfth  Street,  and  <leals  in  stoves  and  hardware. 
The  father  of  our  subject  was  born  in(;erniany 
and  came  to  (^uincy  when  but  a  young  man, 
starting  the  business  which  his  son  now  carries 
on.  The  father,  Conrad,  was  a  man  who  lived  a 
ipiiet  life,  attending  to  his  business,  and  before 
his  death  in  188X  lie  had  bec<ime  very  firmly  es- 
tal)lislied  here.  The  Lutheran  Church  lost  in  him 
a  valued    member,     He   was  a  Republican   in  his 


"^ 


POKTHAIT   AM)   UK  •( .  i;  \  n  1 1(  Al.   KKCORD. 


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politicnl  upinioiis.  Tbe  mother  of  our  subject 
wa.s  iiitnicd  llniinnli  llngeiiinii,  nml  t-nnic  from  nii 
old  fiiiiiily  in  (•oriiitiiiv  of  tlint  nniiie. 

Our  t^ulijfct  wft.'i  till-  foiirtli  in  orik-r  of  birth  of 
»ix  oliiUlri-ii  niul  lind  the  advaiitag<?!>  of  the  public 
scIkm)!,-*  until  lii.-i  liftfentli  year,  wlicii  lii-  was 
plat-od  al  the  trade  of  tiiisuiitii.  utitU-i'  his  father, 
where  lie  remained  until  lie  was  his  father's  suc- 
cessor. He  has  conducted  the  liusiness  very  suc- 
cessfully, and  supplies  the  Ir:nie  with  a  tine  article 
of  sheet-irtm  roothifjr. 

Mr.  Scheipcrins,'  is  a  valued  uiemher  of  the  Free 
and  .Accepted  Masons,  and  is  Kecording  Secreljiry 
of  the  Mutual  Aid  Society  of  Illinois,  lie  i>  u 
stiuieh  Kepuhlican  in  politics,  and  is  a  youn^'  man 
who  will  prohahly  be  heard  from  in  the  future 
commercial  life  of  this  city. 


— N- 


l{«i.  C.  C.  MII.I.EK.  M.  I).  The  Held  of 
science  is  ably  represented  by  the  lady 
ill  A  whose  name  heads  this  sketch,  for  in  the 
discharge  of  her  professional  duties  she 
has  shown  herself  to  be  thoroughly  \ersed  in 
medical  lore,  and  that  she  possesses  a  natural  apti- 
tude for  the  callingcnn  no  Uniger  be  doubted  when 
one  has  once  employed  herscrvices.  She  posses.'-es 
that  sympathetic  and  soothing  manner  that  is  so 
essential  in  a  sick-room,  has  the  faculty  of  gaining 
the  conlidenc-e  of  her  patients,  ■md  never  fails  to 
correctly  diagnose  a  ca.se. 

Dr.  Miller  was  born  in  Ireland,  her  natjil  cnuiily 
lieing  Donegal,  where  she  first  .saw  the  light  of  <lav 
June  24,  18-l(i.  .She  was  the  only  daughter  in  a 
family  of  five  children  born  to  .lames  II.  and  Susjin 
(.McCioskey )  llealey,  who.  in  1H|(),  sought  a  home 
for  theni.selves  on  a  foreign  shore  and  in  a  strange 
lan<l.  They  landed  at  New  YoikCity.  where  thev 
reniaiued  a  short  time;  then  the  father,  who  was  a 
practicing  physician,  sought  a  new  field  in  Chicago, 
where  he  was  in  the  active  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion for  eight  yeai>.  From  that  city,  they  re- 
moved to  I'eoria.  III.. and  placed  their  daughter  in 


.1  -<l<ct  school  of  that  place,  which  she  attended 
with  pidlil  up  to  the  age  of  fourteen  years.  .She 
was  very  ambitious  to  obtain  a  line  ediieation.  and 
to  this  end  she,  in  IM.'iM,  .sjiiled  for  Kngland  and 
entered  (Gregory  College,  London,  where  she  pur- 
sued her  studies  with  the  l>est  results  for  six  years, 
gr.aduating  in  18(il.  She  then  returned  to  the 
home  of  her  adoption  anil  at  once  entered  upon 
the  practice  <»f  medicine  in  I'eoria,  111.,  and  so 
sucressfnl  has  she  been  as  a  clisciple  of  the  "  heal- 
ing art."  thai  her  name  has  become  a  familiar 
household  wortl  wherever  she  h.a.s  opened  an  olllcc. 
During  a  residence  in  <^iiincv  for  many  years. 
Dr.  Miller  has  built  up  a  reputation  that  is  an 
iiiinnr  to  her  determination  :ind  push  as  well  :ls 
to  her  sex.  She  h.-ts  ably  demonstrated  the  fact 
that  women  can  reaji  rich  rewards  in  whatever 
field  of  labor  they  may  choose  to  enter,  and  her 
example  is  worthy  of  emulation  by  many  ytiuiig 
women  who  are  eking  out  a  scanty  existence  in 
the  large  cities  of  the  I'nited  States.  .'sepl»'ml)er 
1.3,  ISCti.  she  wius  married  to  Lawrence  Lockrag, 
and  by  him  became  the  mother  of  three  children. 
She  was  left  a  widow  in  1K77.  and  on  the  IKth  of 
.May.  lMy.'>.  was  unite<l  in  marriage  with  Kiehard 
Miller.  The  Doctor  is  still  conducting  a  general 
practice,  which  amply  occupies  her  time.  .She  and 
her  husband  have  a  very  cozy  and  comforUible 
home  at  No.  217  \'erinoiil  .Street,  where  numerous 
personal.  a.s  well  as  professional,  friendsare  warmly 
welcomed. 


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OlIN  W  <  il.l'l!.  .\ii  avured  pcoition  among 
the  farmers  of  this  eoniity  is  that  held  by 
.Mr.  Wolfe,  who  is  successfully  prost-eiilinsi 
his  calling  on  section  1m.  Liberty  Town- 
ship. His  esUite.  which  furnishes  to  him  the 
means  with  which  to  secure  all  the  comfort.'^  of  life 
and  to  make  provision  for  his declinitigyears.  con- 
sists of  two  huiitlred  acres.  It*  owner  has  erect»'d 
theieon  all  the  necessary  tuitbiiildings.  together 
with  a  comfortable  residence,  and  supplied  it  with 


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good  improvements  and  the  minor  conveniences 
and  attractions  of  a  farm  liome.  On  every  part 
of  tlie  estate  the  evidences  of  intelligent  manage- 
ment may  be  seen,  and  the  surroundings  of  the 
residence  indicate  tlie  presence  of  refined  woman- 
hood and  her  controlling  hand  in  the  household 
economy. 

The  birth  of  ]Mr.  AVolfe  took  [Jace  in  I'nion 
County,  this  State,  August  6,  1811,  and  thus  he  is 
one  of  the  oldest  living  residents  of  Adams 
County.  His  parents,  George  and  Annie  (Hun- 
suker)  Wolfe,  were  natives  of  Lancaster  County, 
Pa.,  and  Morgantown,  AV.Ya.,  respectively.  They 
were  both  born  in  the  year  1780,  and  when  a  lad 
of  seven  years,  the  father  of  our  subject  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Favette  County',  Pa.  In 
1800,  they  located  in  Logan  Count}',  Ky.,  wliere 
his  marriage  with  ]\Iiss  Ilunsuker  occurred  three 
years  later. 

John  Wolfe  of  this  sketch  was  the  fifth  in  order 
of  birth  in  the  parental  family  of  eight  children, 
three  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Those  who  grew  to 
mature  years  are:  Mary,  who  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky, and  married  Eli  Everett,  in  this  county,  in 
1832;  Jacob,  who  was  also  born  in  the  Blue  Grass 
State,  is  now  deceased;  David  died  in  Adams 
County,  leaving  one  son  and  two  daughters;  our 
subject,  and  Barbara,  who  married  John  McClin- 
tock,  in  1835;  the  latter,  together  with  her  hus- 
band, is  also  deceased. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  on  coming  to  this 
State  located  in  what  is  now  Union  County,  in 
1808,  where  they  followed  farming.  His  paternal 
grandparents,  George  and  Catherine  (Schrower) 
\\'olfe,  were  born  in  Pennsylvania,  while  their 
parents  came  from  Germany  and  made  their  home 
in  Maryland.  The  maternal  grandparents  of  our 
subject,  Jacob  and  Catherine  (Bowman)  Ilunsuker, 
were  l)oni  in  the  Fatherland,  where  they  were 
farmers  by  occupation. 

lie  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  came  to  Adams 
C()\nity  in  August,  1831,  and  made  his  home  on 
section  18,  Liberty  Township,  where  he  has  since 
resided,  lie  was  al.so  accompanied  on  the  journey 
liitlierby  his  i)arents,  who  after  living  here  for  a 
nuinbi!r  of  years  died.  The  lady  to  whom  ]Mr. 
\V(i|fe   was  married,   in    IMJl,   was  Miss  Amanda, 


daughter  of  George  F.  Wheeler,  and  was  born  in 
Grant  County,  Ky.  Her  father  took  up  his  abode 
in  this  country  as  early  as  1833.  He  was  one  of 
the  sulist-antial  residents  of  this  section,  was 
interested  in  all  worthy  enterprises,  and  kind  in 
his  intercourse  with  his  fellow-men. 

To  our  subject  and  his  wife  have  been  born 
eight  children,  two  of  whom  are  deceased,  Eliza- 
beth, and  one  who  died  unnamed.  Those  living 
are  William  A.,  who  makes  his  home  in  Indian 
Territory;  Annie,  who  is  at  home;  George  W., 
who  is  farming  in  this  county;  Louie  C,  who 
married  B.  F.  Brett,  of  Loraine,  this  State;  Pamelia 
F.,  who  is  the  wife  of  John  Metz;  and  Prudence 
E.,  who  married  John  Jackson. 

In  his  political  affiliations,  our  subject  voted 
with  the  Democratic  party  till  1888,  at  which 
time  he  allied  himself  with  the  Prohibitionists. 
With  his  wife,  he  is  a  consistent  member  of  the 
German  Baptist  Church,  in  which  denomination 
Grandfather  Wolfe  and  his  brother  David  were 
ministers. 


"^  OSEPII  FREIBURG.  This  gentleman  is  the 
leading  undertaker  of  Quincy.  He  has  the 
finest  funeral  decorations,  rooms  and  turn- 
out in  this  city.  Notwithstanding  his 
solemn  business,  he  is  a  very  genial,  pleasant  and 
accommodating  man.  He  was  born  in  the  city  of 
Allendorf,  Westphalia,  Prussia,  May  11,  1840. 
His  father,  Joseph,  was  also  born  there,  and  his 
grandfather,  Joseph,  was  a  farmer  of  the  same 
place.  The  I'atiier  was  an  architect  and  engaged 
in  building  and  contracting  on  a  large  scale. 
He  died  there  in  the  Catholic  faith,  in  1868, 
aged  seventy-two.  His  wife,  Margaret  Schulte, 
was  born  in  the  same  place,  and  died  there,  aged 
seventy-six.  They  left  five  children,  all  of  whom 
are  living,  two  in  Germany  and  three  in  l^iuincy, 
111.  They  are  Anton,  who  is  a  farmer  in  Germany, 
where  his  sister  Katherine  also  resides;  Henry  is  in 


I'OUTRAIT  AMI  HKN'.KAl'IIKAL    KKCOUI). 


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tllP  .■>lM>f    III. Ill  III  :iii  III  111^    liii~iln»>;    .ll>)»Oph    livi'>    ill 

(^iiincv.  aiwi  Kred  is  t'lij.'njji'il    in    tin-   iniiiiiifnctiir*- 
of  Collins  Ml  tlip  sniiu-  city. 

•lowpli  wjL-i  r:UM'd  in  (Icriiiaiiv  and  ediu-aU'cl 
tliiTo  !il  llic  i-iiiiiiiion  sfli(Hil>.  Wlii'ii  lifU'i'ii  yt'nrs 
old,  in-  wa-s  ii|)|iiviitii-cd  jus  n  cnltinot-inakor  for 
tliri'c  veal's,  lie  continued  lus  a  journeyman  for 
two  yeai-s  more  and  then  entered  llie  (Jernian 
army  in  tlie  Wesi|ilialia  Artillery,  and  served 
three  years,  from  l.sf.l  to  ISC:?.  In  l«tM,  war 
broke  oiil  in  Schleswiir-llolslein.  lie  again  enliste<I. 
and  si'rved  in  the  artilieiv  through  the  war.  lie 
was  wounded  in  the  .-kiill,  hut  he  eoiitinued  light- 
ing until  the  eh>se  of  the  luittle.  lie  was  in  every 
Iwttle  for  (Hie  year  and  ii-eeived  four  medals  for 
meritorious  service  in  the  war.  They  are  very 
Hne  pieces  of  workinansiiip  and  serve  to  show 
that  his  services  were  appreciated  liy  his  com- 
manding ollicers.  lie  returned  home  and  worked 
at  his  trade  until  .hine,  1M(!(>,  when  he  came  l>y 
steamer  to  New  York.  He  reached  Ohio  .Iiine  29, 
and  thereentered  the  service  of  Mr.  .htsper.i-aliiiiet- 
maker.  From  there  he  went  to  the  linn  of  IJoston 
iV  Fallue  as  cahiuet-maker.  .\ftcr  that  lie  went 
into  the  furniture  factory  of  Mr.  .lamseii,  and  re- 
mained there  alKuit  ten  years,  the  last  year  a.s 
foreman  in  thc>  shipping  department.  In  IK7(!, 
he  stjirted  in  tlie  undertaking  and  retail  furni- 
ture husines,-.,  and  also  doe.s  his  manufacturing. 
Like  the  sensible  man  that  he  is,  he  U'gan  on  a 
small  scale,  hut  iiis  business  h.as  so  grown  that  he 
has  the  largest  stoi-k  in  the  city,  and  runs  his  own 
lior&es  and  liearse».  He  has  the  tiiiesi  span  of  full 
black  horses,  and  the  finest  two  hearses  with 
drajiories  in  the  county. 

Mr.  Freiburg  owns  the  prf)|>erly  at  No.  Kll 
Main  .Street,  in  which  he  has  one  s|>ecial  room  for 
funeral  decorations,  which  are  very  elaborate. 
He  ha>  also  started  in  the  embalming  biisiiics.- 
:ind  doe*  lirst-cla.ss  work  in  this  department,  hav- 
ing the  licst  trade  in  the  city.  In  l«'.t2,  Mr.  I'lci- 
liiirg  took  his  two  sons,  .loseph  and  lleiiiN ,  iiiln 
partnei>liip.  They  are  practicjil  undertaker.-  and 
understand  the  business  thoroughly. 

Mr.  Freiburg  wa-^  married  in  (Jerniany,  in  l«ri('i, 
to  Miss  Kliza  t^uenkcrt,  Imrn  in  (iermany.  They 
liave  had  six  children,   whose  names  are,  Joseph, 


lltiiik,  Annie,  ncrnniil,  ll> 
lively. 

.Mr.  Freiburg  is  a  iueinl>er  of  the  We-tern 
Catholic  riiioii  and  .St.  Nicholas  Hrotherhood.  He 
w:us  a  charter  memlier  ami  helped  to  organi/e  the 
union.  He  Itelongs  to  the  St.  Boniface  Church,  aixl 
prefei-s  the  principles  of  the  Denutcratic   party. 


*^-^HK-i 


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f  I-FXANDKU  (  .\K11.M  (.11  wa>  U.rn  on 
the  2.">th  of  October,  IH.JO,  in  Ohio,  and  is 
one   of   a   family  of  three  sons  and    two 

/'  daughters.  who>e   parents   were  .lohli  and 

Margaret  Carbaugh.  In  the  cummon  s<-h(Nils  of 
Adams  County,  he  .icipiired  his  ediiciition.  He 
received  no  s|>ecial  advantages  in  his  youth,  r.nd 
when  he  stnrted  out  to  earn  his  own  livelihood 
he  was  empty-handed,  but  he  possessed  a  young 
man's  briglit  hope  of  the  future  an<I  a  strong 
determination  to  succeed,  ami  by  his  enterprising 
and  well-directed  efforts  acipiired  a  handsome 
property. 

In  Irti'iO,  he  married  Klizalieth  Farmer,  who  died 
in  l«.')l.  Two  children  were  lM>rn  of  this  union, 
but  both  are  now  decea.sed. 

In  IK.">(i,  Mr.  ('arl)augli  wa.-  united  in  marriage 
with  .Miss  Kli/.Hl)etli  Wells,  a  native  of  Adani> 
County.  (Mini  in  IHUG.  Seven  children  were  Immii 
of  their  union,  and  all  are  yet  living,  \>  ith  one 
exi-eption.  They  began  their  domestic  life  upon 
a  farm  in  lirowii  County,  and  afterward  moved 
to  .\ilani>  County,  locating  in  lU-veiiy  Township, 
where  .Mr.  Carbaugh  luirchased  three  hundred  and 
forty  acres  of  valuable  land.  .\t  the  time  of  his 
de.'ith.  he  lia  I  placed  it  all  under  a  high  state  of 
I'liltivation,  had  erected  good  buildings,  and  made 
many  other  excellent  improvements  upon  it.  He 
po.v.e.s.sed  good  liUMiiess  ability,  was  melhodic'il 
and  systematic,  enterprising  and  pi<i"ii—.lv  i.  and 
won  a  comfortable  com|K'tenit«. 

Socially.  .Mr.  Carbaugh  wa.»  a  l{o.\ai  .Vuli  .Mason, 
and  was  freijuciitly  honored  with  the  ofiice  of 
\Voi>hipful  Master   in   liis   lo<Ige.     In  |>olitii>,  lie 


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was  a  Democrat,  but  was  never  an  office-seeker, 
preferring  to  devote  his  time  and  attention  to 
other  interests.  Mrs.  C'arbaugli  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church,  to  whose  supi)ort  Mr.  Carbaugh 
contributed  liberally.  He  aided  in  the  advance- 
ment of  all  social,  educational  and  moral  interests. 
Pleasant  and  genial  by  nature,  he  was  popular  and 
had  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances. 
His  honorable,  upright  life  won  him  high  regard, 
and  he  had  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  entire 
community.  He  was  called  to  liis  final  rest  Oct- 
tober  14,  1891,  and  that  his  friends  were  many  is 
shown  by  the  large  number  who  came  to  pay  their 
last  tribute  of  respect,  the  funeral  being  one  of  the 
largest  ever  held  in  this  localitj-. 


\I/  -  ^  ENRY  S.  OSBORN    is   a    well-known    and 

^    influential    citizen    of    Quincy,    in    whose 

affairs  he  bears  a  prominent  part,  occupy- 

^)  ing  at  the  present  time  the  position  of 
president  of  the  Quinc}'  Coal  Company.  He  is 
social,  benevolent  and  energetic,  and  lias  an 
established  reputation  as  a  business  man.  He  dis- 
charges the  duties  of  citizenship  in  a  reliable  man- 
ner, and  to  whatever  position  he  is  called  brings  a 
determination  to  faithfully  serve  his  fellow-men 
and  deal  honorably  in  every  particular. 

He  of  whom  we  write  is  a  native  of  London, 
England,  his  natal  day  being  June  G,  1814.  He 
received  good  educational  advantages  in  his  native 
land  preparatory  to  business  life,  but  did  not  have 
the  opportunity  of  completing  his  schooling,  as 
his  father  died  when  he  was  quite  young  and  he 
was  thrown  upon  his  own  resources.  When  seven- 
teen years  of  age,  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  miller, 
which  business  he  followed  with  success  in  Essex 
County,  England,  until  1834,  when,  having  de- 
termined to  try  his  fortune  in  the  New  World,  he 
emigrated  to  the  L'nited  .States,  and  landing  in 
New  York  City,  immediatel}^  located  in  Steuben 
County,  that  State.  There  he  engaged  in  milling 
for  a  time,  and  later,  going  to  Waverly,  Oliio,  was 


identified  with  its  business  interests  until  1846, 
the  dale  of  his  advent  into  the  Gem  City. 

Soon  after  locating  in  Quincy,  Mr.  Osborn 
formed  a  partnership  with  .James  E.  Jones  and 
John  Wheeler,  under  the  firm  name  of  Jones, 
AVheeler  it  Co.,  and  with  them  carried  on  a  thriv- 
ing business  as  millers  for  about  forty  years.  Later, 
our  subject  acquired  an  interest  in  the  Eagle 
Mills  with  his  former  partner,  with  whom  he  was 
connected  for  forty  years,  when  the  mills  were 
burned  in  1887,  and  the  site  is  now  occupied  by 
the  Segcr  Wholesale  Grocery  House. 

Mr.  Osborn  has  always  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  local  affairs,  and  in  1880  was  appointed  by  Gov. 
Cullom  to  represent  the  State  of  Illinois  with  the 
members  of  the  Jlississippi  Valley  Commission  at 
the  annual  meeting  held  at  St.  Louis.  He  is  a  man 
of  much  decision  of  character,  with  intelligent  and 
pronounced  views  on  all  subjects,  particularly'  in 
the  matter  of  politics,  acting  with  the  Republican 
party.  He  has  served  two  terms  in  the  City  Coun- 
cil, representing  the  First  Ward,  and  has  con- 
tributed largely  of  his  means  toward  the  upholding 
of  Quincy  and  its  general  improvement,  and  has 
thus  proved  a  valuable  acquisition  to  the  citizen- 
ship of  this  locality.  His  prompt  and  methodical 
business  habits,  good  financial  talent  and  tact  in 
management  of  affairs,  have  placed  him  in  the 
foremost  rank  among  the  prominent  business  men 
who  have  contributed  largely  to  the  financial 
prosperity  of  this  portion  of  the  State.  At  the 
present  writing  he  is  President  of  the  Blessing  Hos- 
pital Association,  Trustee  of  the  AVoodland  Home, 
Director  of  the  First  National  Bank,  Director  of 
the  <.iuincy  Gas  Light  and  Coke  Company,  holds 
a  similar  position  in  the  (Quincy  Paper  Company- 
and  is  President  of  the  Quincy  Coal  Compan\'. 

The  lady  who  became  the  wife  of  our  subject  in 
1833  was  born  in  Essex  County,  England,  and 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary  Smith.  She 
was  a  very  intelligent  and  cultured  lady  and  at  her 
death,  which  occurred  in  1849,  left  two  children: 
William,  who  was  the  elder,  is  now  deceased,  and 
Charles,  who  is  the  Superintendent  of  the  Quincy 
Coal  Company.  In  1850,  Mr.  Osborn  chose  as  his 
second  wife  Miss  Sarah  Carter,  of  this  city,  and  to 
them  have  been  born  a    daughter  .and  son,    Alice 


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P(1RTHAIT  AND  HIf)r;iJAlMI'(  AI.    liKCoHI). 


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C,  defeased.  «iii  I  llariv  (".,  Treasurer  of  the  (.^uincj- 
("oal  Coinpaiiy.  Mr.  ()slH)rii  and  wife  are  inniieii- 
tial  nu'iiiliorsof  llie  Nerniont  Street  Itaptist  Cliiircli, 
ill  wliicli  denoniination  he  lias  U-eii  Clerk  and 
Deacon  for  many  .veai-s.  Thi-ir  attraetive  residence 
IS  a  large  fi-anie  .structure,  surrounded  by  well  laid 
out  lawns  and  is  |)lea.saiitl,v  located  at  the  corner 
of  Second  and  Spring  Streets. 


J!  n.irs  V.  C'HDCKKK.  .M.  D.  It  is  undoul.t- 
i  ediy  true  that  Dr.  Crocker,  of  I'ayson,  is 
;  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  successful 
physicians  in  Adams  County.  He  is  thor- 
oughly schooled  in  professional  knowledge,  and. 
iK'sides  being  a  close  student  of  books,  is  an  e(|ually 
acute  observer  of  the  effect  of  remedial  agencies, 
and  endeavors  to  keep  pace  with  the  discoveries 
that  are  being  made  in  the  science  of  medicine.  He 
was  horn  in  this  city,  in  December,  18.J4,  and  here 
received  his  primary  education  in  the  common 
scIkmiIs.  IJeing  a  great  lover  of  music  and  ex- 
hibiting marked  talent  in  that  art.  he  began  its 
study  when  fifteen  yeai-s  of  age.  When  attaining 
his  eighteenth  year,  he  organized  and  was  ap- 
jiointed  director  of  a  band  at  lii>  home,  and  at  the 
same  time  taught  |)iaiu).  organ  and  violin  music. 
The  father  of  our  subject  being  a  prominent 
physician,  Julius  F.  thus  had  access  to  medical 
l)Ooks  from  the  time  he  was  a  small  boy,  and  when 
determining  to  follow  that  profession,  read  under 
the  instruction  of  his  father  and  later  under  the 
tutelage  of  Dr.  K.  C.  King.  In  1H7H.  he  entered 
the  Keokuk  Medical  College,  from  which  institu- 
tion he  was  graduated  in  March.  l«K(i.  In  the 
fall  of  that  year,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Ilattie  15. 
'iregg.  a  well-educated  and  refined  lady,  who  com- 
pleted her  studies  at  Chaddock  College  in  (iuiiicy. 
She  is  also  an  accomplished  musician,  and  during 
her  younger  years  was  a  pupil  under  her  husband 
and  I'rof.  Wilinot.  of  (^iiincy. 

To  Dr.aiid  Mi-s.  (  roikiT  have  Ik-cii  Immii  the  fol- 


lowing tiix  children:  .luliiis  \  .  I',  i:.  .1.  |;..  Na|Hile<in 
n.  W.  K.  .S.  1'.  .1.  (  ..  Ilutlie  K.  A.  L.  C.  K.  U.  .1.  A.. 
.Mo7Jiit  I!.  H.  H.  T.  T.  A.  »;.  T..  Heitie  A.  L.  N.  11. 
K.  II.  It.  It.,  di-cejued:  and  I.iira  V.  It.  It.  .1.  I,.  K.  A. 
M.  W.  The  children  all  being  natural  inu.'«ieaiis. 
the  Doctor  organized  a  banil  out  of  his  family, 
which  he  named  Dr.  .1.  F.  ('r<K-ker's  Star  Hand. 
The  Doctor  himself  received  bis  instruction  in  mu- 
sic under  an  aunt,  Mrs.  .Minnie  Scott,  ami  l'rf>fs. 
George  I{.  I'feifer  and  K.  It.  I.eib.  and  also  studied 
under  I'rof.  Storandt.  a  prominent  IwincI  instructor. 
The  Doctor  is  a  remarkably  energetic  man  ami  what- 
ever he  undertakes  docs  it  with  a  will.  As  a  phy- 
sician and  surgeon,  he  is  asucceiss  and  is  skillful  in 
'  the  treatment  of  disea.scs  of  various  natures.  Al- 
though he  takes  no  active  part  in  politics,  during 
elections  he  casts  a  licpublican  vote.  His  plca-sant 
home  in  the  midst  of  agreeable  surroundings  is 
one  of  the  notable  centers  of  the  social  life  of  the 
cultured  society  at  Payson. 

Dr.  Henry  A.  Crocker,  the  father  of  our  subject, 
j    was  born  in  Dartmouth.  Ma.ss.,  where  he  spent  the 
!    first  eight  years  of  his  life.    He  later  removed  with 
I    his    parents,   the    Rev.     Petei     and    .lane    (Kwcr) 
,    CnK'ker.  to  Killingworth.  where  he  was  given    an 
excellent   education.     His   father  was  Inirn  in  the 
Itay  State  and  was  given    a  line  education  at    New 
Hedford.     He  was  a  minister  in  the  Congregational 
Church  and  died   very  suddenly    while    thus   en- 
gaged in  Richmond,  Iiid. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  educated  for  the 
calling  of  a  physician  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  having 
been  given  the  liest  advantages  for  obtaining 
knowledge  at  Hanover,  Iiid.,  where  he  took  a 
scientific  course.  After  attending  inetlical  lectures, 
the  Doctor  practiced  in  the  alxive  place  for  aUuit 
two  yeai-s  and  there  he  built  up  a  large  and  luci-a- 
ti  ve  practice.  His  marriage,  which  was  solemnizei] 
in  lH3',t,  was  with  Miss  Lucy  Krandt,  and  soon  af- 
ter their  union  they  removed  to  Hannilml.  .Mo., 
which  at  that  time  was  a  small  place.  There  the 
father  of  t>ur  subject  was  engagc<l  in  siicci>ssful 
practice  for  ten  years,  and  at  the  expiration  of  that 
time,  on  coming  to  Tayson,  followed  his  profe.s.sion 
for  seven  years,  when  he  engaged  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness and  has  at  the  present  lime  one  of  the  lK>»t- 
eipiipped  stores  in  the  city,    where   he  is  earrviiig 


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fin  a  thriving  trade.  The  five  children  born  to 
himself  and  wife  arc  Felix,  who  is  residing  in 
Council  Bluffs,  Iowa;  Alice,  Mrs.  AV.  D.  Thomas; 
Frank,  who  is  a  veterinary  surgeon  of  Paj'son; 
Omer,  a  resident  of  tliis  cit3-,  and  our  subject. 

Dr.  Henry  A.  Crocker  and  his  wife  are  influential 
members  of  the  Methodist  I^jiscopal  Churcli.  which 
denomination  they  have  aided  in  upl)uilding  in  this 
county.  In  politics,  tlie  former  is  a  Republican,  hav- 
ing become  a  stanch  adherent  of  that  party  after 
the  firing  on  Ft.  Snmter.  In  188S(,  with  his  wife, 
he  celebrated  his  golden  wedding,  at  which  time 
they  were  remembered  by  hosts  of  warm  friends. 
Altliough  seventy-six  ^-ears  of  age,  the  fatlier  is 
lialc  and  hearty  and  has  become  financiall\'  inde- 
pendent. 


?   I  '  I  '     1  I    I 


1^^  EORGE  E.  BENNETT.     Tliis  name  wil 
•    ill  ,=,  recognized   by  many  of  our  readers  as 
^^s4)    of  a  gentleman   who  has  borne  an  \\w\ 


^  EORGE  E.  BENNETT.     Tliis  name  will  be 

that 
1  port- 
ant  part  in  the  agricultural  resources  of  that  por- 
tion of  the  Prairie  State  surrounding  Payson 
Township,  Adams  County,  but  who  is  now  living 
retired  in  the  village  of  Payson.  He  is  a  good 
manager,  is  keen  in  his  calculations,  possesses  a 
good  degree  of  foresight,  and  has  his  interests  un- 
der good  control.  We  always  find  him  favoring 
all  things  that  will  in  anjwise  benefit  his  township 
and  county,  and  for  two  terms  he  served  in  the 
ollice  of  Township  Trustee. 

Our  subject,  who  was  born  in  Crawford  County, 
Pa.,  in  1841,  came  to  Adams  County,  this  State,  in 
18G4  from  Shelby  County,  i\Io.,  whence  he  had  gone 
with  his  parents  in  1857.  There  the  latter  passed 
the  remainder  of  their  lives  and  were  classed 
among  its  best  citizens.  During  the  late  war, 
George  E.  served  in  the  State  militia,  in  which  he 
enlisted  in  1862,  and  was  a  member  until  the  close 
of  liostilities.  He  participated  in  many  hard- 
fought  engagements  and  skirmishes,  and  on  his 
honorable  discharge  in  1865  relumed  to  this 
county,  intending  to    make    it    liis    future  home. 


AVishing  to  add  to  his  knowledge  gained  in  the 
common  schools,  he  became  a  student  in  the  High 
School  at  Payson  for  two  years,  and  later,  on  go- 
ing to  Pike  County,  taught  school  for  a  twelve- 
mon  th. 

Mr.  Bennett  of  this  sketi-h  and  ^Miss  Delilah 
v.,  daughter  of  George  Baker,  were  united  in 
marriage  in  1868,  and  of  their  union  have  been 
born  three  children,  viz.:  Edgar  E.,  at  present 
residing  in  (ireen  Castle,  Mo.;  Olive,  Blrs.  Hull 
Spencer,  of  Pike  County,  this  State;  and  Hester  A., 
who  still  resides  with  her  parents. 

Esby  and  Ether  (Logan)  Bennett,  the  parents  of 
our  subject,  were  born  and  reared  in  Crawford 
County,  Pa.,  where  thej'  were  held  in  high  re[nite 
and  had  many  good  friends  in  their  vicinity. 
Grandfather  Henry  Bennett,  who  was  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  was  a  Soldier  in  the  AVar  of  1812. 
He  of  whom  we  write  began  fanning  on  his  own 
responsibility  in  1869,  at  which  time  he  purchased 
a  farm  comprising  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
which  is  still  in  his  possession  and  under  the  best 
methods  of  cultivation.  In  1884,  he  removed  to 
the  village  of  Payson,  where  he  owns  a  pleasant 
home  and  is  still  residing.  His  wife  dying  in 
December,  1875,  he,  two  years  later,  was  married 
to  Miss  Mary  E.  AA^illiams.  They  are  lioth  mem- 
bers of  the  iSIethodist  Episcopal  Church,  wherein 
they  have  good  standing,  while  throughout  the 
community  they  are  respected  for  their  upright- 
ness of  life  and  friendliness  of  disposition.  In 
politics.  Mr.  Bennett  gives  his  allegiance  to  the 
Democratic  party  and  always  stands  by  his  colors. 


—5— 


^=^>^^<^^-J- 


\|^;RED  GUENTHER,  who  is  engaged  in  gen- 
llp^gi;  eral  farming  on  section  24,  Honey  Creek 
'•^  Township,  is  a  native  of  Germany.  He 
was  born  in  Aldenburg,  on  the  18th  of  May,  1833, 
and  is  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of 
five  children  whose  parents  were  Charles  and 
Christina  (Reuscliel)  Guenther.  who  were  also 
natives    of    Aldenlnirg.     His    father    was  a  mill- 


PORTRAIT  AND  ni«X:RAlMn(  AL   RKCORI). 


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wri<;lit  iiikI  iiiillpr  liy  Iradc,  .-iihI  fullowiMl  his 
clioscii  <H-('U|iiitiiiii  until  IN.j.'i.  wlion  he  luiile 
};<>iiil-livo  to  lii>.  ntitivc  IiiikI,  and  with  his  fnni- 
ily  iMiik-d  for  AniPiii-a.  Loi-fttinf^  in  this  county, 
ho  |>ui'('hax>()  huid  in  Honey  C'rcfk  Townsliip 
— tht>  luvM-nl  farm  of  our  suhjit-t —  !ind  car- 
ricil  on  afiricnituial  |iui>uits  until  his  Heath, 
which  occurred  in  18H'i,  at  the  advanced  a^re  of 
eij^hty-ei^rlit  years.  Mis  wife  p.vksefl  away  in  1X01, 
and  one  of  the  ehililrcn  is  also  dM'ensed. 

Mr.  (iuenthcr,  whose  name  heads  this  record,  in 
ac-eordance  with  the  law.«  of  hi«i  native  land, 
att«>nded  (lulilie  schools  l)6tween  the  ages  of  six  and 
fourteen  years.  Ilis  f:ither owned  a  llourinfr-mill  in 
<iermany.aiiil  with  him  he  learner!  the  trade  of  mill- 
in«j.  When  a  yonnjr  man  of  eighteen  years,  he  deter- 
mined to  try  his  fortune  in  America,  and  in  IH.j."} 
eros.sed  the  broad  .\tlantic.  sjiiliny  from  Bremen  to 
New  Orleans,  where  he  ."irrived  after  a  long  vo^'- 
age  of  seventy-two  days,  durin<;  wliidi  time  the 
vessel  encountered  some  severe  storms.  lie  con- 
eluded  to  learn  another  trade,  and  for  nine  monllis 
Worked  at  carpentering  in  New  Orleans,  when  the 
yellow  fever  liroke  out  and  he  left  for  St.  l.<»uis. 
In  that  city  he  worked  from  August  until  the 
following  .Vpril  at  the  c:u  penter's  trade,  and  then 
joined  hi>  father,  who  had  just  arrived  in  this 
country.  Together  they  develoiH-d  ainl  operated 
the  farm  in  Honey  Creek  Township,  and  since  that 
tinu'  our  suliject  h;is  resided  upon  the  old  home- 
stead. 

In  IM.5'.(.  Mr.  ( iiiciillier  was  united  in  m:irriage 
with  Anuiotein  Keusi-hel,  a  native  of  Oermany, 
who  came  with  her  parents  to  America.  She  died 
in  l«rt.">.  leaving  four  children  to  mourn  her  loss, 
namely:   Helena.  Kmma,  Annie  and  Charles. 

Mr.  Gnenther  exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in 
support  of  the  I)emi^<-racy.  hut  has  never  lieen  an 
otiice-seeker,  preferring  to  <ievote  his  entire  time 
and  attention  to  his  business  interests,  liesjdes 
the  home  farm  of  one  hundred  and  >i\tv 
acres  on  secli<m  21,  Honey  Creek  Township, 
he  owns  a  ninety-acre  trac-t  of  land  an<l  another 
farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  .acre>  in  Keeiie 
'I'ownship.  He  raises  a  good  grade  of  stock, 
and  his  land  is  all  under  a  high  state  of 
cultivation.      The    homestead    i>  one  of   the    liiieh- 


improved  farin>  of  .\daiiis  Cuuiity.  It  has  four 
miles  of  hedge  fciue  upon  it.  In-ing  nearlv 
surrounded.  The  improvement.-  are  many  and 
everything  is  in  keeping  with  a  model  farm  of  the 
!  nineteenth  century.  Mr.  Oueiilher  has  led  a  busy 
and  useful  life,  and  his  good  manageinent  has  se- 
cured him  a  handsome  properly.  His  iHis-scssions 
havealll>een  aopiirerl  through  his  own  efTort.s.  and 
he  is  now  classed  among  the  well-to-do  farmers 
of  Adams  Connlv. 


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^^EORC.K    II.    STAIIl..       This    ltio..ii,viMi!.  ai. 
,=—   Uki  "iii>  of  .\<lams  C"oiiiity    would    not   l>e 
^j5I    complete  without  a  sketch  of  this  enterpris- 
ing young  manufacturer. 

.Ml.  Stahl  wa>  born  in  Virginia  City,  Nev.,  Feb- 
ruary 2D,  18iil.  He  is  the  son  of  .Solomon  Stahl, 
a  native  of  fJermany,  who  came  to  America 
when  fourteen  vears  old,  and  started  a  furni- 
ture busincifis,  which  he  continued  until  it  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire  in  \H*U'>.  He  then  came  to  (^uincv 
and  engaged  in  the  grocery  business,  and  later 
commenced  a  business  in  wholesale  feed  and  pro- 
<luce.     This  he  continued  until  his  retirement.    He 

!  now  lives  upon  a  farm  near  the  city.  He  has  Itcen 
very    active    in    the    Republican    ranks,    and    has 

!  serve<l  the  township  as  School  Director.  His  wife 
was  Loui>a  Flavin,  and  she  was  born  in  Italtimore. 
but  w!L-i  raised  in  Terre  Haute,  Ind..  where  her 
m(»ther  still  resides.  She  was  one  of  four  chil- 
dren. 

Our  subject  was  reared  and  educated  here  until 
1KH2,  when  he  enlerid  Mu>M-lman's  ISii>iness  Col- 
lege, and  then  became  inlcrested  with  his  father 
and  brother  in  the  wholesale  fruit  business. 
While  here  he  made  his  liiNt  invention.  He  iie.\t 
invented  his  incubator,  and  after  nveyeai>'  exper- 
ience he  completed  it  and  received  a  patent.  This 
wiLS  in  1KK7.  He  was  the  ni>t  tti  place  upon  the 
market  a  low-priced  hatcher.  He  U-gan  il,s  manu- 
facture in  IXXiI.  and  every  year  ha.s  shown  an  in- 
crease of  one  huiKlred  per  cent,  in  sale".      He  d«jes 


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all  his  business  by  advertising  and  correspondence. 
He  is  located  at  Nos.  119-121  North  Fourth  Street 
and  Nos.  319-323  Third  Street.  In  1892,  he 
formed  the  company  of  Cowen  &  Stahl,  liandiing 
electrical  supplies,  jobbing  and  retail. 

Mr.  Stahl  chose  for  his  wife  Miss  Marie  J.  Bar- 
bour, who  was  born  in  Quincy,  and  is  the  daugh- 
ter of  William  ,J.  Barbour;  she  was  educated  at  the 
Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart  in  St.  Louis.  They 
have  one  child,  Marie  L. 

Our  subject  is  a  member  of  Lambert  Lodge  No. 
659,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  of  Quincy  Consistory,  A.  & 
A.  S.  Rite;  and  Medina  Temple,  Chicago  Nobles 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  Republican  and  a 
member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 


fEV.  FATHER    ANDREW  BUTZKUEBEN, 

pastor  of  St.  Francis  Catholic  Church,  of 
Quincy,  has  since  1883  been  identified 
with  the  religious  history  of  this  city, 
whose  annals  will  bear  testimony  to  the  integrity 
of  his  character  and  the  brillianc}'  of  his  intellect. 
He  was  born  in  Poppensdorf,  near  Coeslin,Germany, 
November  19,  1846,  to  Henry  and  Gertrude 
(Koll)  Butzkueben.  Until  he  attained  his  eleventh 
year,  he  resided  in  the  vicinity  of  his  birthplace 
and  was  an  attendant  at  the  parochial  schools.  At 
that  early  age,  he  entered  college  at  Bergheim, 
Germany,  after  which  he  spent  several  years  in 
pursuing  his  studies  in  a  fine  educational  institu- 
tion at  Julich,  but  in  the  meantime  his  health 
became  impaired  and  he  was  compelled  to  leave 
school.  At  the  end  of  three  years,  he  had  re- 
covered sufficiently  to  again  lake  up  his  studies, 
and  for  some  time  thereafter  he  was  at  Waren- 
dorf,  and  still  later  at  Wiedenbruck. 

Succeeding  this,  our  subject  entered  the  F"ran- 
ciscan  order,  and  subsequently  was  sent  to  Dus- 
seldorf,  where,  as  in  all  former  institutions,  he 
made  a  good  record  for  himself  .as  a  student  and 
showed  that  he  possessed  an    original    and  active 


mind.  In  1875,  he  was  sent  by  his  superiors  to 
the  United  States,  landing  at  New  York  City, 
from  which  place  he  went  direct  to  St.  Louis, 
where  he  w.is  ordained  a  priest.  Three  years  after, 
he  was  sent  to  Teutopolis,  EflSngham  County, 
111.,  where  lie  discharged  his  priestly  duties  in  a 
most  efficient  and  dignified  manner.  Since  1883, 
he  has  been  a  resident  of  (^lincy,  and  has  had 
charge  of  the  St.  Francis  Church.  The  present 
fine  edifice  was  begun  in  1884,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Father  Butzkueben,  and  was  finished  in 
1886,  having  cost  $75,000.  It  is  a  brick  and 
stone  structure  of  modern  make  and  is  a  credit 
not  only  to  the  city  but  to  the  Catholic  citizens 
of  Quincy,  to  whose  generosity  and  zeal  it  stands 
as  a  monument. 

Father  Butzkueben  now  has  in  process  of  con- 
struction a  large  parochial  school  liuilding,  which 
will  be  an  ornament  to  the  neighborhood  and  an 
evidence  of  Christian  co-operation  between  pas- 
tor and  people.  Father  Butzkueljen  possesses  ex- 
cellent qualifications  as  a  man  of  education  and 
refinement,  is  highly  respected  by  all  classes  in 
general,  and  especially  by  the  members  of  his  con- 
gregation, which  numbers  four  hundred  and  fifty 
families.  Since  coming  to  Quincy,  his  career  has 
been  marked  by  earnest  effort,  self-forgetfulness 
and  a  conscientious  discharge  of  his  duties,  and 
that  he  is  popular  with  the  members  of  his  flock 
can  be  discerned  at  a  glance.  His  residence  is  at 
St.  Francis  Monastery,  located  at  No.  1721  Vine 
Street. 


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"iflAMEST.  .SAWYER.  The  pleasant  gentle- 
man whose  well-known  name  opens  this 
sketch  is  one  of  the  prominent  pork  buj'- 
y  ers  and  shippers  in  the  cit}'  of  Quincy.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  S.  Farlow  &  Co.  and 
Sawyer  &  Co.  Our  subject  is  familiarly  known  as 
Capt.  Sawyer,  and  was  born  on  the  Cumberland 
River,  in  Montgomery  County,  Tenn.  He  is  the 
son  of  Robert  Sawyer,  who  was  a  A'irginian  and 


ronTRAiT  ANH  r,ior;R.\rnTfAi,  imtot?!) 


•^^>^ 


who  iiKivoil  i<»  North  C'nroliiin.  ami  from  Iht-ri- 
to  Tomiesspc,"  mid  U'canic  oiio  of  tlio  old  set- 
Ici-s.  He  l>oii<;lit  !i  faini  on  the  hniiks  of  the 
('iiiiilM-rliiiid.  on  tlie  fei-tih>  iiplnnds,  mid  eiifjajjed 
in  !;eiu'ial  farininjj,  and  died  nt  that  |ilaee.  lie 
was  a  Itaptisl  in  his  reliifioiis  U'lief.  The  mo- 
ther of  ovir  sniijeel  was  named  Callu'rine  Trice: 
she  was  horn  in  Moiitiioinery  I'ounty.  and 
was  tlie  danjrhter  of  Kdward  Trice,  who  was  liorn 
in  Knjrhiiid.  mid  cjime  to  Nortli  Carolina  from 
there;  later  he  moved  into  Tennessee,  and  was  a 
farmer  Iheiv  and  also  a  carpenter.  He  died 
at  the  aire  of  eight v-ei^dit  years.  The  lamented 
mother  of  our  siil>jecl  was  removed  when  he  was 
only  live  years  old,  mid  of  the  live  children  which 
she  had  iKiriie,  all  ^rew  to  maturity.  Lena  is  the 
only  siirvivin};  sister  of  Mr.  Sawyer,  and  is  now  .Mrs. 
L.V.  Shepherd. and  livesnear  the  C'umlierland  River. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  reared  in  Tennessee 
until  lie  was  past  twenty-one,  and  it  was  alKtut 
1844  when  he  went  over  to  Kentucky. to  Hopkins- 
ville.and  there  enjiaired.as  a  clerk.  In  .lune,  1K47, 
lie  reached  (^uincy  and  ensjaged  with  Rohcrt 
Tandy,  on  the  north  side  of  the  scpiare,  in  thedry- 
g<x)ds  business,  hut  this  did  not  la-st  long,  because 
the  partner's  health  gave  out;  the  firm  name 
w.Hs  then  changed  to  Sawyer  it  Graves,  when  Mr. 
(Iraves  wime  in.  This  was  a  well-known  firm.  In 
!»<<>.■{.  .Mr.  Sawyer  saw  that  money  could  lie  made 
l>y  the  proper  packing  of  pork,  and  he  engaged  in 
a  partnership  with  .lohn  V.  Mikcsell,  the  present 
Mayor  of  (^umcy.  under  the  firm  name  of  Sawyer  A- 
Mikesell.  packers  of  pork,  on  Third  Street.  This 
lasted  one  year,  when  Mr.  Adams  became  a  partner, 
and  the  name  lieoame  Adams.  .Sawyer  A:  Co.;  a 
slaughter  house  wa.s  added  and  the  business  in- 
creased. This  partnership  lasted  about  ten  yeare. 
and  then  was  dissolved  in  regard  to  the  pack- 
ing business,  but  the  slaughter  house  is  still 
running.  Then  Mr.  .Sawyer  and  .Mr.  .\dams  en- 
gaged in  dealing  in  pork;  but  later  the  partnership 
was  dissolved,  and  Mr.  .Sawyer  formed  the  present 
partnei-sliip  in  IHK.'i.  Now  the  firm  deals  princi- 
pally in  the  buying  and  curing  of  meat,  anil  has 
the  largest  capital  for  the  business  in  the  city. 

At  one  time  Mr.  Sawyer  was  one  of  thecompaii  v 
of  twentv-fivc  that  undert<K)k   to   builrl   what    is 


now  the  O.  iV  K.  line,  from  t^uincy  to  Hrownsvijle. 
Neb.,  then  known  as  the  (^uiiicy.  Mis.<muri  A-  Pa- 
cific Railroad,  and  he  was  a  director  for  four 
years.  He  was  one  of  the  original  nicii  to  build 
it  complete  as  far  .as  Trenton.  Mo. 

We  can  not  close  this  too  brief  sketch  of  a  very 
popular  man  without  mentioning  that  he  is  a 
Republican  of  the  Henry  Clay  teaching,  and 
is  one  of  the  most  genial,  pleasant  men  one  could 
expect  to  meet,  even  in  the  City  of  (^uincy.  which 
has  the  reputation  of  pos,<icssing  some  of  the  most 
courteous  gentlemen  in  Adams  Countv. 


\17  IKK  KIMMONS.  There  are  few  men  at 
l{  (^,  the  present  day  more  successful  or  more 
'J;^^  worthy  of  honorable  mention  than  the  sub- 
ject of  our  sketch.  A  record  of  his  life  fully  illus- 
trates what  may  be  nccomplishcd  by  determined 
will  and  perseverance,  for  through  his  own  efforts 
he  h.os  risen  to  the  |x>sition  of  a  leading  farmer 
and  stwk-raiser  in  Iturton  Township  and  is  well 
and  favorably  known  throughout  the  county. 

Mr.  Kimmons  is  n  native  of  Washington  County, 
I'a.,  his  birth  tK'curring  December  26,  IH^.'l.  When 
a  lad  of  twelve  years,  he  came  to  this  county  with 
his  parents,  who  located  in  l,il>erty  Township, 
where  they  were  numbered  among  its  respected 
residents.  Luke  was  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth 
of  eight  children.  com|)rised  in  the  family  of 
Thomas  and  Reticcca  (Kniow)  Kimmons.  who  were 
also  born  and  reared  in  I'ennsylvania.  His  broth- 
ers and  sisters  bear  the  respective  names  of  Ira, 
.\inos.  .Samuel,  .lane,  Ruth,  KelK-cca,  and  .lohn. 
Ruth  married  W.  T.  Wheeler,  of  t^uincy;  .lane  lie- 
came  tlie  wife  of  \.  R.  I'otter,  of  Texas;  Rebecca 
niiuried  Russcl  Dewey,  and  .John  is  at  present  resid- 
ing at  Westport,  Mo. 

The  parents  of  oui  subject  came  t<i  this  county 
with  but  little  of  this  world's  goods,  but  by  the 
jiractice  of  industry  and  economy  accumulated  a 
comfortable  property. so  that  whi-n  their  sons  were 
rendv  tti  start  out    in    life    tlicv    were  iibic  to  uive 


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them  each  a  quarter-section  of  land.  The  young- 
est in  the  family,  Joiin,  enlistefl  during  tiie  late 
war  as  :i  memlier  of  an  Iowa  regiment,  and  served 
his  country  faithfully  and  well  for  one  year. 

The  lad\-  to  whom  Luke  Kimmons  was  married 
in  1847  was  Miss  Amy  L.,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Titus,  who  came  from  New  York  to  this  count3^  in 
an  early  day.  Their  union  has  been  blessed  by  the 
birth  of  four  daughters,  who  are  living,  viz.:  Emma, 
now  Mrs.  James  R.  Ferguson;  Viola,  Mrs.  S.  W. 
Hinckley,  residing  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  Ollie  S., 
the  wife  of  A.  R.  Strawbridge,  of  Mary  ville,  Mo., 
and  Florence  51.,  the  wife  of  Ezra  Best,  of 
Quinc}'. 

Lie  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  is  the  proprie- 
tor of  four  hundred  and'  eighty  acres  of  valuable 
land,  which  is  located  in  Buiton  and  Liberty 
Townships,  all  of  which  has  been  the  result  of  his 
own  labors,  with  the  exception  of  the  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  given  him  by  his  father.  He  is  a 
careful  manager,  a  good  financier  and  stands  well 
in  the  business  world.  He  has  been  a  ver}'  impor- 
tant factor  in  advancing  the  stock-raising  interests 
of  this  county,  as  well  as  in  promoting  its  advance- 
ment in  other  directions,  and  holds  a  prominent 
position  among  the  leading  members  of  his  class  in 
this  portion  of  Illinois.  He  takes  especial  interest 
in  breeding  blooded  horses  and  has  at  the  pres- 
ent time  on  his  farm  some  very  fine  roadsters.  Mr; 
Kimmons  is  a  man  of  broad  mind  and  has  decided 
opinions  of  his  own,  especially  regarding  politics, 
and  always  votes  with  the  Republican  party.  He 
is  a  tiioroughh'  moral  man  and  with  his  wife  is  an 
influential  member  of  the  Christian  Church  at 
Liberty,  with  which  denomination  he  has  been  con- 
nected since  1862.  He  has  one  of  the  most  beauti- 
ful homes  in  the  township  and  numbers  his  friends 
among  the  best  residents  of  this  section. 

The  eldest  brother  of  our  sul)ject,  Ira  Kimmons, 
was  born  in  Washington  County,  Pa.,  in  1812. 
He  was  given  u  good  education  and  when  ready_ 
to  establish  a  home  of  his  own  was  married  to  Miss 
Susannah  AVheelcr,  by  whom  he  became  the  father 
of  five  children:  Rebecca,  who  married  John  Ruth, 
of  Maryville,  Mo.;  Amanda,  who  became  Mrs. 
John  Schnur,  of  this  county;  Sarah,  who  married 
H.  J.    \ickers,  of    Burton   Township;   George  T. 


and  Otis  B.,  also  residing  in  Maryville,  Mo.  Like 
his  brother,  Ira  Kimmons  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church  and  is  one  whose  honorable  car- 
eer has  gained  for  him  many  friends. 


UGH  A.  CAMPBELL,  chief  engineer  of  the 
Quincy  Water  Works,  is  a  practical  and 
competent  engineer,  and  has  exhibited  in 
the  incumbency  of  his  office  the  most 
prudent,  careful  and  efficient  management.  Lie 
is  a  native  of  Ohio,  having  been  born  in  Cin- 
cinnati on  the  26th  of  April,  1831,  and  is  a  son  of 
Hugh  Campbell,  who  was  born  in  Belfast,  Ire- 
land, of  Scotch  descent,  his  ancestors  being  of  the 
Scottish  clan  of  Campbells. 

The  father  was  a  mason  by  trade  and  followed 
that  in  his  native  country  for  some  time  before 
coming  to  America.  He  was  married  in  Paisley-, 
Scotland,  to  Miss  Jane  Allen,  a  native  of  that 
country-,  and  afterward  this  j'oung  couple  came  to 
the  "land  of  the  free"  and  located  in  Cincinnati. 
There  Mr.  Campbell  worked  at  his  trade  until 
1836,  when  he  located  in  Lawrenceburgh.  Ind., 
and  followed  his  trade  on  the  cannl  at  that  place. 
L>om  there  he  went  to  Madison,  Ind.,  where 
he  was  employed  in  contracting.  In  1844,  he 
decided  to  make  his  home  in  Illinois  and  settled  in 
Quincy,  wliere  he  carried  on  the  stone  mason's  trade 
until  his  death  in  1845.  He  was  an  old-line 
Whig  in  politics  and  was  one  of  twelve  delegates 
who  escorted  W.  LI.  Harrison  at  Lawrenceburgh, 
Ind.,  in  1840.  Lie  was  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  His  wife  survived  him  until  1885, 
and  died  when  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  Seven 
children  were  born  to  them,  but  only  three  are 
now  living. 

Hugh  A.  Campbell,  the  eldest  child  born  to  the 
above-mentioned  couple,  remained  with  his  parents 
in  Cincinnati  until  five  years  of  age,  and  then 
accompanied  them  to  Lawrenceburgh,  Ind.,  and 
jNIadison,  at  which  latter  place  he  remained    until 


PflRTRAIT  AND  IIKKJUAI'IIKAI.    HF/dUD. 


.12:. 


tliirtvcii  vt'iii's  of  iijjiM'CPfiviu;;  n  fair  ediicntioii  in 
the  ('oiniiiiiii  scliiMils.  In  IHI  I,  hp  (iiiiu*  to  I  juiiicv. 
nt  n  time  wlu'ii  ilu' |io|iiiliitioii  \v!i>  nlioiit  furty-Civc 
liiiiidri'il  niKl  !ittoii(loil  si-liool  licrc  until  liftocn 
Vo:»i>  olil.  lie  was  onilv  M't  to  work  and  lh>t 
Ifariifil  the  luikerV  trade  at  tlie  Cracker  Institute. 
Ill'  followed  this  trade  in  the  cilv  until  IH.'d.  and 
then  removed  to  Canton.  Mo.,  where  he  stjirted  a 
shop  and  carried  it  on  for  one  year.  lie  wiu<  nat- 
urally of  a  niechnnical  turn  of  mind,  displaying 
eon>idci:ilile  <renius  in  that  direction  when  ipiite 
.sniMll,  and  he  was  lii-sl  assistant  eni;ineer  on  the 
"llerlrand,"  where  he  remaineil  two  seasons,  thus 
aliandonin<r  the  liaker"s  tiade. 

After  this  he  was  on  the  "Mary  Sea'"  two  sea- 
sons, then  on  the  "Annie"  the  same  length  of  time, 
and  linally  ipiit  the  liver,  eniiajiinj;  .as  enjiineer  in 
the  distillery  at  Warsaw,  111.,  where  he  reinaiiied  un- 
til I8.")(i.  lie  w.ns  suKseiiuently  in  llannihal.  Mo., and 
•issisted  in  liuildins  a  distillery.  lie  was  nindeen- 
srineer  and  carried  it  on  until  IHCti,  when  he  l<)<ik 
it  apart,  brou<{lit  it  to  t^uincy.and  later  ship|K?d  it 
to  I'eoria.  It  is  there  now  and  is  one  of  the 
larjiest  distilleries  in  the  city.  Afterward,  Mr. 
('ainpl)ell  was  engineer  in  the  Hour  mills  in  Ilanni- 
lial.  .Mo.,  until  IHCiil.  and  while  there  he  was  in  the 
Missouri  State  Militia. 

I  n  IMGG,  he  came  to  i/uincv  and  w.is  engaged  in 
the  Kxcelsior  Stove  Works  for  four  years  as  chief 
engineer,  and  later  lilled  the  same  capacity  in  the 
city  mills  until  they  were  burned.  This  wasahoiit 
IM7;l,and  he  afterward  went  to  St.  .U)seph,  Mo.,  with 
a  company  to  lit  up  a  mill  and  start  it.  He  stjiid 
in  that  city  for  about  a  year  and  then  returned 
to  (^uiney.  where,  in  187;'),  he  was  appointed  chief 
engineer  of  the  Water  Works  that  had  been  started 
in  the  fall  of  1874  with  only  a  small  engine.  This 
l>osition  lie  has  held  ever  since  and  he  now  has 
control  of  four  complete  new  engines,  that  he 
erected  and  took  charge  of  himself.  One  has  n 
capacity  of  live  million  galU>ns:  another,  six  mil- 
lion galbiiis;  another,  three  million  gallons:  and 
the  fourth  of  two  million  gallons,  reservoir  sys- 
tem. He  always  has  them  running,  and  the  city  is 
supplied  in  high  or  low  water.  .Mr.  Campliell 
deserves  the  highest  rei-ogiiition  for  eminent  ser- 
vice in  behalf  of  the  supreme  interests  of  <^uiiicy, 


and  especially  in  his  present  relation,  in  which  he 
I  has  achieved  the  most  meritorious  ili>tineti<in.  He 
'  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  ino«t  >killfiil  eiiirineers  in 
I    the  city. 

!  Mr.  Campbell  was  first  ni.-iiiied  in  l.a  *  M.-iiige. 
.Mo.,  to  Miss  Missouri  Mcl>oiinell.  a  native  of 
I  Kentucky,  who  died  in  1«7I.  Four  children  were 
-liorn  to  this  union:  David  •!..  in  Chicago,  111.: 
Charles,  a  traveling  man;  .leiinie,  at  home;  and 
Kva.  in  Chic-ago.  Mr.  Campliell's  second  marriage 
(Weill  red  in  <^uincv,  and  he  selected  as  his  com- 
panion Mi's.  Lucy  l.inthiciiin,  a  native  of  Illinois. 
Our  subject  is  a  memlK>r  of  Ix)dgc  No.  12,  I.  <  >.  ( ). 
F.,  and  is  I'jist  (Jrand.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Kncampment.  In  his  religious  preferment-he  is 
n  Methodist.  He  is  a  Trustee  and  Class-lender 
and  w.Hs  a  member  of  the  committee  to  remodel 
and  rebuild.  Iii  politii-s,  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Kngincei-s'  Lyceum  of  (^uiiicy,  was 
organizer  and  has  lipcii  chief  engineer  since. 


=l^-f^-P=- 


(IIIN  W.sllKHKK  K.  Hidden  away  among 
the  beautiful  homes  of  our  now  peaceful 
country  live  the  veterans  of  the  stormy 
5£i/  years  of  the  Civil  War,  and  their  piust  is 
almost  forgotten  by  their  companions  unless  it  is 
drawn  from  them  by  some  faithful  biographer  who 
wishes  to  keep  the  memory  of  those  days  and  the 
heroes  of  them  from  oblivion.  One  of  these  mod- 
est veterans  may  be  found  in  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

.lohn  W.  Sherriek,  a  prominent  retired  farmer  tif 
Camp  Point,  and  large  land-owner,  was  born  in 
Fayette  Comity.  I'a.,  April  .1.  I«I2.  His  father, 
Martin  Sherriek,  wiis  born  in  IHI.'),  and  his  grand- 
father was  a  native  of  (iermany,  who  came  to  the 
I'nited  States  many  years  ago  and  settled  in  the 
Keystone  State.  .Martin  Sherriek  was  a  farmer  of 
IVnnsylvania,  and  emigrated  t«i  Illinois  in  1K|I>, 
settling  in  Houston  Township,  Adams  County. 
The  journey  was  made  by  steamer  to  (^tiincv,  anil 
Mr.  .Sherriek.  Sr..  bought  a  large  but   unimproved 


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farm  in  the  then  new  country,  and  thej'  began 
their  pioneer  life.  Wild  game  was  plentiful,  and 
he  was  the  only  one  of  the  farmers  who  settled  on 
land  away  from  the  timber,  the  nearest  neighbor 
being  one  and  one-half  miles  away  when  they  first 
settled  on  the  farm.  Mr.  Sherrick,  Sr.,  was  at  one 
time  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  before 
his  death  in  1875.  He  became  quite  an  extensive 
farmer,  although  he  came  to  this  county  with 
limited  means.  His  capital  was  good  health,  and 
he  met  with  success,  as  he  was  an  industrious  and 
a  hard-working  man.  Our  subject's  mother  bore 
the  name  of  Susanna  Strickler,  and  is  still  living, 
in  her  seventy-fourth  year.  She  has  been  a  mem 
ber  of  the  IMethodist  Episcopal  Church  all  her  life. 
She  bore  her  husband  eight  children,  but  only  two 
are  now  living,  Joel  D.  and  our  subject,  the  former 
being  an  old  farmer  in  Houston  Township. 

Our  subject  attended  the  common  Schools,  and 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  Quiney  College, 
where  he  spent  several  terms.  He  enlisted  on  the 
25th  of  July,  1862,  in  Comi)any  H,  Seventy-third 
Illinois  Regiment,  under  Col.  Jaquess,  who  was 
President  of  Quincy  College.  This  regiment  was 
known  as  the  Preachers'  Regiment.  He  was  in 
Sheridan's  Division  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumber- 
land and  participated  in  the  following  battles: 
Perryville,  Stone  River,  Chickamauga,  Rocky 
Face,  Resaca,  Calhoun,  Adairsville,  Dallas,  Lost 
Mountain,  Burnt  Hickory,  Kenesaw  Mountain, 
Nickajack  Creek,  Crossing  of  the  Chattahoochie, 
Peach  Tree  Creek,  Atlanta,  Jonesboro,  Lovejo}-, 
Spring  Hill,  Franklin  and  Nashville.  He  was 
mustered  in  as  Sergeant,  but  was  promoted  to  be 
Second  Lieutenant  a  }'ear  after.  He  was  given  a 
furlough  on  account  of  a  wound  in  the  leg,  re- 
ceived at  Cliickamauga.  He  returned  lo  his  regi- 
ment as  soon  as  he  could,  and  was  mustered  out 
in  July,  1865.  He  returned  home  and  purchased 
land  in  Houston  Township  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. He  lived  on  the  farm  until  1887,  but  had 
not  done  hard  work  for  several  years.  In  1889, 
he  moved  to  Camp  Point,  where  he  has  a  beauti- 
ful residence,  with  a  large  lawn  ornamented  with 
flowers  and  shrubbery. 

Mr.  Sherrick   w.as  inairied    in    1862  to  America 


Woods,  born  in  Adaras  County,  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  Woods,  a  Kentuekian.  Her  parents  came 
to  Illinois  and  located  in  Morgan  County  in  its 
earl.y  days.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  died  about 
1882>  Mrs.  Woods  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  also, 
and  died  soon  after  husband. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sherrick  have  two  children,  Susie 
and  Lucy.  He  is  a  Republican  in  his  political 
convictions,  and  an  influential  member  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  is  the  present 
Commander  of  Joseph  P.  Lassley  Post  No.  542,  of 
Camp  Point. 

jNIr.  Sherrick  has  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres 
in  his  home  farm,  on  sections  10  and  11  in  Houston 
Township,  and  thirty  acres  in  timber,  and  his  land 
is  finely  improved.  He  started  out  with  limited 
means,  but  has  been  very  successful  because  he 
took  the  right  road  to  gain  success. 


ENRY  A.  OENNING,  of  the  firm  of  Oen- 
ning  &  Co.,  has  been  a  resident  here  since 
1856.  He  was  born  in  AVestphalia,  Prussia, 

g>;  in  May,  1834.  His  father,  a  farmer,  was 
also  born  there  and  served  in  the  war  with  the 
French  under  Napoleon,  in  1813  and  1814.  His  fa- 
ther before  him  was  a  farmer.  The  father  of  our 
subject  died  in  Germany,  aged  seventy-four  years. 
His  wife  was  named  Mary  Gesina  Koppers.  They 
had  eight  children,  five  of  whom  are  j'et  living. 

Our  subject  was  the  fifth  child  and  received  a 
common-school  education.  When  he  was  sixteen 
years  of  age,  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  carpenter 
and  served  for  three  years  and  then  worked  at  the 
trade  until  1856,  when  he  came  to  America,  taking- 
passage  in  a  sailing-vessel  from  Bremen  to  New 
Orleans.  After  a  nine-weeks  voyage,  he  reached 
his  destination  and  worked  at  his  trade  for  some 
years.  In  1860,  he  engaged  in  teaching  at  the  St. 
Boniface  School.  In  1866,  he  started  in  business. 
He  gradually  increased  it  and  does  a  good  busi- 
ness in  books,  picture  irames,  window  and  plate 
glass.     In   1891,  he  formed  a  company  and  took 


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ill  (Jeorgf  Wcwcr  iind  Alfred  Kurtz,  nnil  they  are 
now  KH'ati'il  at  Nn.  6:12  Maine  Street.  Mr.  Oeii- 
iiiii^  owns  the  building  and  i.-*  also  iiit<Te>ted  in 
v.irious  >ttK-k  companies,  ainoiiu  which  are  the 
Menke  .V  (iriinin  I'laniii^'  Mill,  the  (iennaii  liiMir- 
aiuv  ('<>ni|iatiy.  and  the  Kieiliuiir  l5ool  and  Shot' 
Manufacturing  C'onipnny. 

Our  >ulije(l  wa.<  married  there  in  18)>T  to  Kliza- 
Ik'IIi  lleuer.  wlio  wiu*  lK>rii  in  Wc-stiilialin.  lie  ha-s 
been  Supreme  Treasurer  of  the  Western  t'atholic 
l"nion  anil  he  has  heen  'l'ie:i.-uier  of  the  St.  Nich- 
olas nranch  Nt».  1,  W.  t'.  l'.,  at  t^uiiicy,  ever  since 
it  .itart^d  in  1878. 


^,  R.  .JOSKIMI  ROUHINS,  whose  sketch  we  pre- 
sent to  the  i-eaders  of  the  Rkcohd,  is  promin- 
ently identified  with  the  city  of  l^uincy, 
where  he  h.as  l>een  practicini;  medicine  and  surgery 
since  18<)1.  lie  was  horn  in  I.*oininstcr,  Majw.,  .Sep- 
tcinlier  12.  1831.  where  alst)  htith  his  father,  (lil- 
inaii,  and  grandfather,  Thomas,  were  lK»rn,  and 
where  their  deaths  occurred.  The  latter  served  in 
the  Revolutionary  War,  and  wai<  a  descendant  of 
one  (.if  the  I'lyinoiilh  Colony.  His  son  (iilinaii 
was  a  farmer  and  removed  to  Melrose,  Ma.ss..  in 
1817,  hut  later  returned  to  the  place  of  his  liirlh, 
and  died  in  the  old  h«»me  at  the  age  of  eighty 
years,  lie  was  a  Democrat  until  the  year  18.')6, 
but  then  voted  for  Fremont,  and  wa.s  ever  after 
a  Repuhlican.  lie  was  one  of  the  lii-st  of  the 
I'nitarians  in  Massachusetts.  Ilis  wife  was  Re- 
l>eccn  Duiisler,  of  Ma^s;lchu^etls,  whose  ancestors 
were  Huglish,  and  her  progenitor,  the  Rev.  Henry 
Diinster,  was  the  fii>t  President  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege. She  died  in  Melrose,  and  left  six  living 
children. 

Our  subject  wa>  the  fourth  child,  and  was  reared 
at  home,  attending  a  clistrict  s<'Ihmi|  Miiiimer  and 
winter  until  he  wjis  twelve  yeai-s  old,  and  after  thai 
in  winter  until  he  was  llfteen.  The  hwt  two  winters 
were  at  a  gt>od  grauimar  scIhjoI  at  .Alclrose.     When 


he  was  sixteen  years  old,  he  learned  the  trade  of 
hous«>-paiii(iiig.  and  later  that  of  ornamental 
painting  in  a  furiiilure  shop.  In  I8,')7.  he  came  to 
(juincy  to  visit  an  uncle  by  marriage.  Dr.  .bilni  Par- 
son, and  in  IX.'iH  returned  here  for  the  pur|x>se  of 
studying  medicine  iiiidei'  him. and  here  he  remained 
until  18,59,  when  he  entered  .Icflfei-soii  .Medical  Col- 
le:;e,  Philadelphia,  from  which  he  was  i,'raduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.  1>.  In  IHtll.  He  returned  here 
and  t«K)k  the  practice  uf  Dr.  P-timiii,  who  was  among 
the  oUlest  practicing  physicians  in  the  i-ity.  At 
that  time,  a  physician's  life  was  not  an  easy  one, 
as  it  involved  many  long,  dreary  drives. aud  often 
very  dt>ubtful  collections.  However.  Dr.  Robbins 
had  a  good  constitution  and  great  peivseverance 
and  delight  in  his  profession  and  has  succeeded 
wonderfully  well.  He  is  a  man  of  good  judg- 
ment, keen  intellect,  and  naturally  inspires  con- 
fidence. In  November.  1862,  he  was  ap|K>inted 
Pension  Surgeon,  and  has  served  in  that  capac- 
ity ever  since,  except  during  Cleveland's  adminis- 
tration, lie  is  now  President  »if  the  lioard  of 
Kxamining  Surgeons  for  Pensions,  which  meets 
every  Wednesday,  and  served  as  .Surgeon  of  ISicss- 
ing  Hospital  for  some  years.  Dr.  Robbins  is  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  leading,  leprescntativo 
Republicans  of  Illinois,  and  his  counsel  is  often 
sought  by  the  best  men  of  his  party  in  the  State. 
He  w.as  a  Delegnte-at-large  to  the  convention  of 
'  1876.  which  nominated  R.  It.  Hayes,  and  also  Dele- 
!  gate-at-large  to  the  National  Convention  at  .Min- 
neapolis,  which  re-nominated  Harrisim.  He  also 
.served  as  Chairman  of  the  County  Central  C<mi- 
'  niittee  for  several  years.  In  1876,  he  ran  ftir 
Congress  on  the  Republican  ticket,  but  was  not 
elected,  the  district  iK-iiig  strongly  Demociiiiicand 
he  was  also  the  candidate  of  the  Republican  parly 
for  mcmlier  ()f  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
187u.  In  1877,  he  wasa  memlier  of  the  Coiiimission 
which  liK-ated  the  KiL'^tern  Insjine  Hospital  at  Kan- 
kakee. He  IS  promintnl  in  medical  circles,  ami  is  a 
liiember  of  the  American  .Medical  .\s.siM-ialion, 
the  Stale  Medical  Society,  and  lias  been  President 
several  times  of  the  Adams  County  .Mediuil  So- 
cletv.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  School  liimrd, 
ft  Director  of  the  Public  Library,  and  was  Presi- 
dent of  Ihe  old  t^uincy  Library,  prior  to  its  being 


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merged  into  a  iniblic  library.  He  is  a  valued 
member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Quiuc.y,  and 
daring  liis  term  several  scboolhouses  bave  been 
built.  He  is  a  prominent  Mason,  being  a  Knight 
Templar  and  Past  Eminent  Commander,  and  in 
1877-78  he  w.as  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Illinois. 
He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church  (Unitarian). 

He  was  married  in  Melrose,  Mass,  in  18(53,  to 
Louisa  A.  Norris,  who  was  born  in  Dorchester, 
Mass.  Jlrs.  Robbins  died  in  March,  1876.  The 
Doctor  is  among  the  most  influential  of  the  citizens 
of  Quincy,  and  is  highly  respected  by  all  who 
know  him. 


■»— (^>*W^p. 


„,'DAM  RANKIN  WALLACE.  The  poor 
'M0|  wretch  who  can  lay  claim  to  but  six  feet 
l/ril)  of  Mother  Earth  cannot  be  blamed  for  a 
(^  feeling  akin  to  envy,  as  he  views   the  six 

hundred  acres  of  fertile  land  of  which  the  original 
of  this  sketch  is  the  fortunate  owner.  An  inquiry 
of  this  pleasant  old  gentleman  would  bring  out 
the  story  of  the  luirdshi|)S  he  bravely  endured  before 
he  could  claim  these  beautiful  acres  as  his  own; 
for  he  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Adams  County, 
and  the  fields  and  meadows,  the  timber  and  fine 
stock  and  buildings,  were  earned  by  the  sweat  of  an 
houest  man's  brow. 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  of  the  same 
name  and  country  as  was  the  .Scottish  chief  whose 
storey  stirred  our  young  blood;  but  he  left  his  na- 
tive glens  and  came  to  America  and  settled  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  from  there  removed  to  (iarrard  County, 
Ky.,  and  pursued  an  agricultural  life.  The  father 
of  our  subject  was  Josiah  Wallace,  and  he  also  be- 
came a  farmer,  and  passed  his  last  days  in  Ken- 
tucky, dying  in  the  year  1826.  The  mother  of 
our  subject  was  Mary  Mason,  whose  father  came 
from  Ireland  with  his  wife  many  ^eais  ago,  and 
settled  in  Madisim  County,  Ky.,  where  Mary  was 
born. 

After    the   death    of   Mr.    Wajlace,  the  inother 


brought  her  children  to  Illinois,  and  settled  in 
Camp  Point  Township,  Adams  Cow'il.V-  They 
made  the  long  journey  with  ox-teams,  bringing 
along  the  merest  necessities  of  life,  and  that  win- 
ter, for  then  it  was  fall,  the  venturesome  family 
endured  hardships  that  to  the  boldest  of  the  pres- 
ent day  would  seem  perfectly  appalling.  In  the 
spring,  for  the  long  winter  in  the  lonely  log  liut 
in  the  great  timber  passed  away  at  last,  the 
family  funds  were  used  to  purchase  a  quarter 
of  section  2,  in  Camp  Point  Township,  where 
our  subject  has  since  lived.  This  laud  was  new 
and  unbroken,  and  the  log  cabin,  14x14,  still  served 
the  family  as  a  home.  Wild  game  was  plentiful, 
and  our  subject  killed  a  great  many  deer;  but  one 
tires  of  the  most  delicious  food  when  confined  to  a 
single  variety-.  No  doubt  very  many  times  dur- 
ing that  long,  lonely  winte'r,  without  books,  neigh- 
bors or  comforts,  the  mother  looked  longingly 
backward  to  the  jilenty  of  her  Kentucky  home. 
She  had  made  this  change  for  tlie  sake  of  her  chil- 
dren, but  in  1846  she  was  taken  from  them  by 
death.  At  that  time  the  city  of  Quincy  was  the 
nearest  market,  and  our  subject  soon  had  a  great 
deal  of  wheat  to  .sell,  which  he  had  to  haul  over 
the  prairie.  He  had  to  break  up  the  ground  with 
his  ox-teams,  and  for  several  years  he  had  nothing 
better,  but  the  fertile  soil  responded  to  his  efforts, 
and  year  by  year  he  became  more  independent. 
He  had  less  than  a  year  of  schooling,  and  is  wholly 
a  self-made  man. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1851,  to  Sarah  .lane 
Lyle,  who,  with  her  parents,  William  and  Margaret 
Lyle,  had  come  to  America  from  Ireland  when  she 
was  small.  They  first  lived  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
then  became  early  settlers  of  iVdams  County.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Wallace  have  the  following  children: 
Adam  R.;  iMary  E.,  who  is  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Downing,  a  fanner  of  Houston  Township;  John 
R.,  who  lives  at  Clayton,  where  he  is  a  banker; 
Emma,  who  is  at  home;  and  Samuel,  who  is  a  law- 
yer at  (^luincy.  All  of  these  children  have  had 
good  sc'hool  advantages,  denied  their  parents. 

Mr.  Wallace  was  formerly  a  AVhig.  and  has  been 
a  Republican  since  the  formation  of  that  party. 
His  first  vote  was  cast  for  Henry  Clay,  and  he  has 
been  very   inoniiuent  in  political  affairs,  and  ha§ 


POKIUMl"   AMI  nifKlKAIMIK  Al.   KKCORI). 


.■i:i  1 


oftrn  l>ccii  a  <U'li'gate  to  the  conventions,  lie  htv* 
not  wnnte<l  nlllcc,  liut  (Ikos  his  duty  ns  lio  tiiinks 
riijlit.  Mrs.  WhUiu-i'  ln-lonjrs  to  Iho  I  iiIIcmI  ries- 
hytorian  IhkIv,  and  is  n  woninn  of  high  nionil  rhnr- 
nclor.  Tlie  six  hmxIriMl  .icri's  lM>ion<>;in<;  to  Mr. 
Wallatf  is  in  one  IkkIv.  and  in-  h:is  enfjaged  in 
raisini;  .Short-liorn  i-attle  for  some  years.  lie  is  n 
man  niucli  hntked  up  to  in  his  ni>igliliorlu>o<],  and 
he  now  enjoys  lift-  in  his  Ix-autifui  iionic.  siu-- 
roun<led  with  elm,  maple  and  other  line  trce.s  of 
his  seleetion. 


=^>^^<^^- 


■^KV.    .I()I{|).\N   ("IIA\  IS.  ihe   St    ellicient 

pastor  of  theHighthand  Kim  Streets  liaptist 
•A  \,  Chureh.  is  one  of  those  rare  gentlemen  and 
princes  anu»ng  men  who  are  seldom  dupli- 
cated in  any  community.  Polite  in  his  manners,  de- 
voted to  his  friends,  mngnanimnus  towards  his  foes 
(if  he  has  any),  and  of  u  kind  and  forgiving  spirit, 
Mr.  Chavis  is  highly  esteemed  hy  all. 

Our  subject  was  btirn  in  Metropolis,  III.,  <in  the 
16th  of  Feliruary.  18."i»;,  and  is  the  youngest  of 
seven  chiliiren  Immii  to  W.-ishington  and  Anna 
(\'oss)  Chavis.  The  father  followed  the  occupa- 
tion of  a  ear|»enter  in  early  youth,  and  later  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuit.s,  which  he  has  car- 
ried on  very  successfully.  I'ntil  lifteen  years  of 
age,  our  subject  passed  his  boyhood  days  on  the 
farm,  and,  after  attending  a  private  school,  entered 
Alcorn  I'niversity,  at  Rodney,  .Mis.s.  Three  and  a- 
half  years  later,  he  was  graduated  from  the  Nor- 
mal, and  subsei|uently  finished  a  collegiate  course. 
lie  then  began  teaching  in  .Mississippi,  and  in  the 
spring  of  l«7<i  was  <irdaiiied  at  ^■icksbll|•g,  that 
.Slate,  entering  upon  his  ministerial  duties  in  that 
city,  anil  later  at  llayne's  HIiilT.  lie  taught  school 
at  the  same  time,  and  was  a  most  capalile  and  suc- 
ces*sful  educator. 

In  Decemlx-r,  18K(),  he  Wits  m:u-ried  at  Metropolis, 
III.,  to  Mi.ss  llattie  Marshall,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
and  to<»k  his  bride  to  N'icksburg,  Mi.vs.,  where  he 
ti^>ok  charge  of  a  school,  with  his  wife  as  assistant 


teacher.  On  account  of  the  failing  health  of  his 
wife,  he  letuined  to  Mctro|M>lis,  III.,  in  February. 
1MM2,  and  in  Scptemlier  of  the  same  year  he  as- 
sumed charge  of  a  school  al  Duipinjii.  I'errv 
County,  III.  During  llie  Miiniiierof  1  mm.'),  he  went 
to  Itloomiiigton,  III.,  un<l  iK-came  pastor  of  Mt. 
risgah  liiiptisl  Church  of  that  place,  ministt'ring 
to  the  spiritual  wants  of  his  fellow-men  there 
fiM-  two  and  a-lialf  yeai>.  In  Xoveinln'r.  1HM7, 
he  went  to  Chicago  and  took  charge  of  the  IJe- 
thesda  liaptist  Church,  where  he  continued  two 
years.  In  NoveinlK-r,  lHK'.i,  he  came  to  <^uiney, 
III.,  and  l)ecame  pastor  of  the  Kighth  and  Klin 
Streets  Baptist  Church,  which  jiosition  he  has  (illeil 
successfully  from  that  time  to  the  present. 

During  his  pasUirate  here,  Mr.  Chavis  has  not 
allowed  the  work  of  the  church  to  lie  at  a  sl.-iiid- 
still,  either  spiritually  or  practically.  .Many  im- 
provements have  l)cen  made  around  the  church 
and  pastoral  residence,  and  Mr.  Chavis  has  ail- 
vanced  the  interests  of  other  enterprises,  lie  w.-is 
(Jrand  Msisler  of  the  State  Cirand  I'nited  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  of  Illinois  for  a  term  of  one  vear, 
is  a  member  of  the  MiUsonic  Itliic  Lodge  of  (juiiicv 
and  w.as  a  member  of  Charles  .Sumner  Camp. 
Mr.  Chavis  is  also  a  memlier  «if  the  I'nited 
Hrothers  of  Friendship,  and  a  Sir  Knight  of  the 
Order  of  12.  Our  subject  was  the  lirst  colored 
man  that  ever  pre.aehed  in  the  State  Iloiis*-  at 
Springlield,  III.,  and  his  sermon  was  delivered  loa 
congregation  of  more  than  a  thousand  individuals, 
lie  also  preached  the  annual  Thank.sgiving  s«-rmon 
of  Lincoln  .Monument  Lodge  No.  I,M2I.  At  pres- 
ent he  is  .Moilerator  of  the  Wood  Uiver  liaptist  As- 
s<M'iation  of  Illinois,  and  is  also  \' ice-president  of  the 
SL:ite  Siiiiday-sehiiol  Convention  of  Illinois,  lieiiig 
a  memljer  of  the  Kxecutive  Iloanl  of  boih  of  the 
aUive  associations. 

Our  subject  was  the  first  founder  of  the  State 
Colore<l  liaptist  Association,  introducing  the  leso- 
lulion  that  brought  it  into  existenc«-,  and  was  a 
delegate  from  IVrry  County,  III.,  to  the  State  con- 
vention held  in  I'eoria  in  IHKL  for  the  uimiina- 
tion  of  l>ogan  for  I'resident  on  the  Republican 
ticket,  lie  wasalsoa  delegate  t<.i  the  Congressional 
convention  held  in  Springlield,  III.,  in  the  year 
lt*'.>2,  and  WH^  an  alternate  to  (he  SUile  convention 


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i^RTRAlT  AJST>  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


at  tbe  same  time  and  place.  In  politics,  Mr.  Chavis 
is  an  uncompromising,  dyed-in-the-wool,  stalwart 
Republican,  and  few  colored  men  in  Illinois,  if 
any,  have  played  so  conspicuous  a  part  in  local 
and  Suite  politics.  He  enjoys  the  distinction  of 
knowing  nearly  every  pei-son  in  the  county,  and 
of  having  done,  in  some  way.  acts  of  kindness  for 
ever_\-  second  person  therein.  He  is  as  popular 
with  one  race  as  with  the  other,  and  one  party  as 
another.  His  pleasant  home  at  Xo.  819  Eighth 
Street  is  made  much  pleasanter  since  the  birth  of 
a  bright  little  daughter,  named  Susie. 


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m^ 


^OHN  p.  NICHOLS.  The  gentleman  whose 
name  heads  this  article  is  the  President  of 
^_,  ,  the  Ursa,  Mendon  and  Lima  Farmei-s'  Fire 
'^g/'  Insurance  Company,  of  Adams  County, 
III.  He  lives  in  the  finest  residence  in  the  village 
of  Ui'sa,  which  he  built  in  1890  at  a  cost  of 
^1,825,  and  the  improvements  on  the  place  have 
cost  $3,000.  He  does  not  occupy  his  farm,  but 
rents  it. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  James  Xichols. 
who  was  a  native  of  Bourbon  County,  Ky..  born  in 
.September,  1799.  He  married  Margaret  Wallace, 
a  daughter  of  Robert  Wallace,  in  Kentucky,  and 
came  to  Illinois  in  1833,  and  settled  in  Ellington 
Township,  this  county,  on  wild  land.  In  1838, he 
moved  to  Ui-sa  Township,  .and  settled  on  section 
8,  which  was  almost  wild  then,  and  there  he  built 
a  house,  which  is  still  standing,  and  made  his 
permanent  home.  He  married  a  second  time, 
Miss  Mourning  Bowles,  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
becoming  his  wife;  she  died  in  1849,  and  he  took 
for  his  third  wife  Catherine  (Ruddell)  Hendry,  a 
widow.  She  died  June  12.  1!S3G.  B^-  his  first  mar- 
riage Mr.  Kichols  had  two  living  children.  L.  W. 
and  our  subject;  by  his  second  marriage  five  are  now 
remaining.  Mr.  Nichols  brought  his  family  up  in 
the  Chi-islian  Church,  of  which  he  was  Clerk.  He 
had  been  a  Republican  since  the  formation  of  the 
party,   and  was   always   an    industrious   man.  of 


good  habits,  public-spirited,  and  a  liberal  sup- 
porter of  churches  and  schools.  He  gave  his 
children  good  educations  and  had  the  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  he  had  done  his  duty  to  home 
and  county.  For  three  months  of  his  life  he  was 
tot;ilh-  blind  from  cataracts,  but  having  them  re- 
moved, his  sight  was  partially  restored.  He  died 
January  18,  1891. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Bourlwn  County,  Ky., 
April  20,  1829,  and  was  four  yeare  old  when  he 
came  tolllinios.  He  grew  up  on  the  farm,  and  re- 
mained at  home  until  he  was  twenty-four  years 
old.  and  then  he  made  a  home  for  himself.  He 
was  married  March  15,  1855,  to  Sarah  J.  McCunc, 
a  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Jane  (Dinsmore)  McCiine, 
both  natives  of  Nicholas  County,  Ky.  Mr.  Mc- 
Cune  came  to  this  State  in  1832,  and  settled  in 
Ursa  Township,  wliere  he  died  in  1842.  The 
mother  of  Mrs.  Nichols  died  in  July,  1854,leaving 
four  living  children.  After  marriage  our  subject 
settled  in  Mendon  Township,  on  section  21,  and 
remained  there  until  1859.  and  then  bought  a  half- 
interest  in  the  old  homestead,  and  moved  there. 
He  remained  there  until  January,  1891,  and  then 
moved  into  the  vilLige  of  Ursa.  During  his  stay 
upon  the  old  home  place  he  put  i;4,000  in  build- 
ings, and  otherwise  improved  the  place,  which 
includes  one  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  fine 
farming  land. 

Mr.  and  Mi-s.  Nichols  are  the  parents  of  four 
children:  ilargaret  Isabel  is  the  wife  of  C.  W. 
Thompson,  and  lives  in  Cowley  County,  Ky.,  and 
has  five  children:  Dora  J.  is  the  wife  of  John  T. 
Dennison.  and  lives  in  this  A'illage:  Ellen  Ora 
lives  at  home:  Minnie  E  is  the  wife  of  AV.  G.  Hern- 
don  and  lives  in  Chariton  County,  Mo.,  and  has 
one  child.  Mrs.  Nichols  takes  a  very  active  part 
in  the  Christian  Church,  and  her  husband  lias 
given  time  and  money  to  the  advancement  of  ed- 
ucation in  the  district,  and  has  filled  the  office  of 
School  Director  for  fifteen  years. 

Ill  i)olitics,  Mr.  Nichols  has  teen  a  Republican 
since  I860,  and  has  been  Assessor  of  Ui-sa  Town- 
ship for  two  terms,  and  has  been  Director  of  the 
Adams  County  Fair  Association  for  eleven  yeai-s. 
He  lias  taken  great  interest  in  line  stock-raising 
and    has   .Short-horn  cattle,  Fieuch  draft  hoi-ses, 


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POKTUAIl'  AM)   IllOCHAlMllt'AI,  UKCOUl). 


33.1 


r<il;niil-C'hinn  hogs,  sliippiiii;  iIk'  lalti-r  nil  ii\im 
the  country,  even  as  far  :».-  Califnruia.  Mrs. 
Nicliols  lias  inaile  a  siic'Pt'ss  of  raisini;  l'l\  niinith 
Hork  fowls. 

.Mr.    Nichols   xva.s  drafk-d  ilurin<;  the  Civil  War 
ami  was  (tlilij^ed  to  |>a\-  Ji<l,l(Mi  for  a  sulistiliiU'. 


(_^ 


OII.N  |)|(  K.  .Ml  people  of  Inic  sensibililv 
ami  a  just  regard  for  llie  ineinory  of  those 
who  have  departed  this  life  cherish  the  de- 
tails of  the  history  of  those  whose  careei-s 
have  lieen  marked  liy  iiiiriithtness  and  truth  and 
whose  lives  have  heen  lilled  up  with  activity  and 
iiidusiry.  It  is  therefore  with  firatilication  that 
we  |)resent  to  our  readers  a  sketch  of  ,AIr.  Dick, 
who  wa.s  for  many  years  idcntilied  with  the  his- 
tory and  pro<;ress  of  .Vdanis  County.  He  was  a 
man  whose  slerlinsj  wurth  of  character  was  reco<(- 
ni/.cd  liy  all,  and  his  death,  which  occurred  on  the 
.■}<>th  of  October,  IM'JO,  was  the  occa-sion  of  univer- 
sal sorrow,  for  all  felt  the  lo.ss  to  he  sustained  by 
the  departure  of  such  a  man. 

A  native  of  the  land  of  the  Khinc.  Mr.  Dick  was 
born  in  Bavaria  on  the  '.itli  of  October,  18:57,  and 
is  a  .son  of  John  and  Katherine  Dick,  natives  of 
Germany,  where  they  passed  their  entire  lives,  en- 
gaged in  active  pursuits.  The  youthful  days  of 
our  subject  were  passed  atiiid  the  scenes  of  his  na- 
tive country,  and,  like  nearly  all  natire-lHirn  (ier- 
mans,  he  received  good  educational  advantages. 
After  leaving  the  .school-room,  he  was  apprenticed 
to  learn  the  baker's  trade  and  became  very  profi- 
cient in  the  culinary  art.  .Many  of  his  nationalil\' 
had  emigrated  to  the  States,  with  a  view  to  better- 
ing their  condition  linancially.and  he  decided  that 
America  wa.s  the  land  of  promise  for  him.  In 
l«o2,  when  l>ut  twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  timk 
passage  for  Ainericu  and  landed  at  New  <  )rleans, 
where  he  remained  but  a  short  time,  'riienee  lie 
went  to  Belleville,  111.,  where  he  renniined  foui 
years  and  thence  came  Uireul  to  C^iiiucy.    Jn  lt<GO. 

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with  his  two  brothers,  .lacolt  and  Matthew,  under 
the  lirm  nante  of  Dick  Bros.,  he  erected  one  of  the 
largest  brewing  e>tab|ishment-s  in  the  West  and  w.as 
engaged  in  th.-it  business  until  his  death. 

In  choosinga  wife.  .Mi-.  Dick  selected  .Miss  liouisn 
.Steigineier,  who  was  born  in  I'hilailelphia.  I'a.,  on 
the  llh  of  August,  1«.'J7.  Her  ancesitirs  were  among 
the  early  settlew  of  the  Keystone  .State,  where 
they  were  very  prominent  people.  Her  parents, 
.lo.seph  and  Wandburg  Steigmeier,  were  natives  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  they  passed  their  entire  lives. 
Of^  the  marriage  of  Mr.  ;m<l  .Mrs.  Dick,  seven 
children  were  burn,  who  were  in  the  order  of 
their  births  lus  follows:  .\nnie,  wife  of  .Vugusl 
Darkenwald,  of  (ieiinany;  Bertha,  who  married 
August  (ilasner;  Kmma,  at  home;  Kiank:  .Matilda, 
wife  of  Kd  Menke,of  l^uincy;  Ivlilh,  Mrs.  l-'nmklin 
liampel,  of  St.  Louis,  and  .lohn 

Mr.  Dick  had  a  very  pleasant  home  in  <iuincy,at 
Ni>.  310  State  Street,  and  w.as  suiroundeij  by 
everything  that  made  life  enjoyable — domestic 
happiness,  prosperity  and  abundant  means — but  he 
was  hel|)le.<vs  before  the  grim  reaper.  Death.  Dur- 
ing the  many  years  in  which  he  resided  in  <iuincv. 
he  was  to  the  people  all  that  is  re(|uired  in  good 
citizenship,  pid)lic  enterprise  and  sympathetic 
fru'ndshin.  In  the  love  of  his  eslinuible  wife,  he 
found  his  cares  lightened,  and  in  the  esteem  of  his 
fellow-citizens  received  the  reward  of  his  faithful- 
ness. 


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iiOllN  S(in\.Vl;.  One  of  the  most  agree- 
able men  to  meet  in  the  business  circles  of 
•  ^ilincy  is  the  genial  subject  of  this  notice. 
He  is  a  prominent  retail  dialer  in  meal.s.at 
the  corner  of  Cedar  Street  aii<l  Fifth  Avenue,  t^iiiii- 
cy.  III.,  and  has  resided  here  all  liis  life,  he  U-iiig  a 
natixe  iif  this  city,  burn  on  .Maine  .Street.  .Ma\  12, 
lM,"i7.  His  father  was  iHirn  in  Bavaria.  ( lermany, 
November  i;t,  1K2;'.  and  his  graiidfalher.  I'eter 
Schwab,  was  a  farmer  of  the  same  place.  'I'he 
fMllicr  of  our  subject  was  appreiiliccd  to  the  trade 


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POETRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAI,  RECORD. 


of  a  liutcher  when  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age, 
and  came  to  the  Tniteil  States  on  the  sailing-ves- 
sel "Ernestine"  from  Bremen,  in  18o2,  landing  in 
New  Orleans,  and  from  there  proceeded  to  St. 
Louis,  where  he  located  and  engaged  in  the  meat 
business  for  four  years.  He  then  came  to  (.^uincy, 
where  he  started  a  meat  market  on  Maine  Street, 
which  he  ran  for  seventeen  years  and  was  very 
successful.  He  sold  his  business  in  1892,  and  has 
engaged  in  stock  buying  and  selling  since.  His 
residence  is  between  Ninth  and  Tenth  Streets,  on 
Maine  Street.  Our  subject's  mother  was  born  in 
Bavaria,  Germany,  and  died  iu  1877.  She  and 
her  husband  were  the  parents  of  six  children, 
all  of  whom  are  living,  our  subject  being  the 
only  son  in  llio  family.  The  other  children  are 
Cecelia,  Mrs.  James  Duker;  Maggie,  Mis.  John 
Duker;  Henrietta,  Kanigunda  and  Clara.  All 
live  in  Quincy  except  the  fourth  daughter,  who  is 
a  Sister  in  a  convent  iu  Jordan,  Minn.  Tiic 
youngest,  Clara,  lives  with  her  brother. 

John  Schwab  was  reared  and  educated  in  his 
native  city  and  in  the  Gem  City  Business  College. 
He  was  emplo3'ed  about  his  father's  meat  shop  and 
was  also  engaged  in  bu3'ing  stock.  He  remained 
with  his  father  until  1881,  when  he  started  a  shop 
of  his  own,  and  later  purchased  the  place  where  he 
now  is,  having  always  been  in  the  meat  business. 
His  present  shop  has  a  frontage  of  sixty  feet 
on  Fifth  Street.  It  is  fitted  up  with  all  the  mod- 
ern improvements,  and  reflects  credit  not  only  on 
the  owner,  but  on  the  city  of  Quincy.  He  owns  a 
slaughter  house  and  ten  acres  of  land  adjoining 
the  citj'  limits  of  Quincy.  Here  he  keeps  and 
feeds  his  stock,  which  he  buys  himself,  putting  up 
all  his  own  hams  and  bacon  and  other  salt  meats. 
He  also  renders  his  own  lard  and  makes  sausages. 

Mr.  Schwab  was  married  in  January,  1883,  to 
Miss  Frances  Johamees,  a  native  of  (Juinc^'.  She 
died  here  in  1891,  leaving  four  children:  Freddie, 
Clara,  Albert  and  Elsie.  Mr.  Schwab  built  his 
present  residence  and  both  his  house  and  shop 
have  all  tiie  modern  improvements,  telephone,  etc. 
He  runs  two  delivery  wagons  and  does  a  large 
and  paying  business. 

Our  subject  belongs  to  tiie  Fireman's  Benevo- 
lent Association.     Wlicii  lie  was  younger,  he  held 


a  position  in  tlie  Fireman's  AVestern  Catholic 
Union.  He  is  a  member  of  -St.  Anthony's  Brother- 
hood, and  a  charter  member  of  the  Quincy  Butch- 
ers' Association,  also  of  St.  Boniface  Society,  and 
belongs  to  the  St.  John's  Catholic  Church,  which 
he  helped  to  build.  He  is  a  Democrat  and  has 
been  a  memlier  of  the  Precinct  Committee  for 
years.  He  is  a  man  who  makes  friends  wherever 
he  goes,  and  has  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  who 
know  him. 


\|(  AMES  M.  JUDY,  a  prominent  man  and  re- 
tired farmer  of  this  neighborhood,  now  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Berrian  &  Co.,  millers 
and  owners  of  the  electric  light  plant  in 
Camp  Point,  is  the  subject  of  the  present  notice. 
The  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  Winefortli 
Judy,  and  was  an  emigrant  from  Germany,  who 
came  to  this  country  and  settled  in  Clark  County, 
Ky.,  and  became  a  farmer  there.  He  died  on 
the  old  farm.  His  son  Paris,  who  was  the  father 
of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Clark  County,  Ky., 
in  18(19,  and  came  to  Adams  County  in  1832,  and 
settled  in  Gilmer  Township,  where  he  purchased  a 
large  track  of  land.  He  became  an  extensive 
stock  dealer,  and  owned  about  two  thousand  acres 
of  land  when  he  retired  late  in  life,  and  died  in 
1880.  For  many  years  he  was  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  and  Deacon  in  the  Christian  Church, 
and  was  a  man  highly  respected  bj'  all  with  whom 
he  came  in  contact.  He  began  with  no  means,  but 
ani.assed  a  large  fortune.  The  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject was  Nancy  Markwell,  who  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky. She  still  lives  in  (Quincy,  a  devout  mem- 
ber of  the  Christian  Church. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Adams  County,  July 
19,  1842,  and  was  the  eldest  of  seven  children. 
He  attended  the  district  schools,  and  then  Abing- 
don College  for  two  years.  In  1863,  he  started  on 
an  adventurous  expedition.  He  took  the  contract 
to  dri\e  a  lot  of  mules  across  the  plains  to  Cali- 
f<iriiia.  and  rode  one  of  them    there.     He  stopped 


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about  two  months  thei-e.  sold  liif  mules,  and  thou 
fame  iiunio  liy  water  to  Now  York,  lie  had  Ih'om 
so  su(i-C's.sfiil,  tliat  he  cngafii-d  now  in  tlic  shi|i|iin<; 
of  slock,  and  for  thiof  years  was  one  of  the  piin- 
eipal  shi|»|)<>i>  of  liis  time. 

( lur  >iil>jeet  was  married  in  IHlitl.  to  Mi>s 
Amanda  K.  Mitfheli,  of  MeDonoiiifli  Count.v.  111., 
wiio  was  a  jjranddauirhter  of  .limniy  Chirk,  wiio 
laid  out  tiie  town  of  Maeomli.  The  latter  was  » 
<;real  friend  of  Senator  Doujjias.  and  was  one  of 
the  early  settlers,  t)ften  entertainin<»  Indians  at  his 
house. 

.\fler  his  marriajie.  .Mi'.  .Iu(l\  turned  lii>  atten- 
tion to  fanning  in  C'olunilnis  'rownship,  hut  re- 
moved to  t'amp  I'oint  m  IHS'.l.  Iiavinjj  sold  one  of 
his  farms,  lie  then  heeanie  interested  in  a  mill, 
and  the  eleetrie  light  plant  with  lierrian  \-  Co. 
They  own  the  mill  and  the  plaiil  :um1  ruiiii>li  the 
town  with  light. 

Mr.  and  Mi-s.  .ludy  are  the  parent.-  of  four  chil- 
ilren:  Paris,  Mark.  Nancy  and  l{ert  K.  .Mr.  Judy 
follows  his  father's  e.vamiile  in  polities,  as  he  is  an 
ardent  Demoerat.  The  family  attend  the  Christian 
Church,  of  which  they  are  highly  respected  mem- 
bers. Mr.  .ludy  owns  one  hundred  and  si.Kly  acres 
of  valuable  land  in  Cilmer  Township,  and  has 
built  .'1  line  residence  in  Camp  I'omt.  This  is  a 
case  where  both  father  and  son  have  been  among 
the  most  prominent  people  in  a  township. 


^OMAII  K.  KKI.I.V.  .\l.  I).  In  the  pr.actice 
of  medicine.  Dr.  Kelly  has  been  conspicuous 
for  his  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  his  pa- 
tient.", and  in  pui>uing  his  profes>ion  it  luis 
been  to  him  in  a  great  measure  a  labor  of  love, 
lie  impresses  one  at  on<-e  as  a  man  who  has  ilrifted 
easily  and  naturally  into  the  medical  profession, 
and  who  reali/.es  that  he  has  made  no  mistake  in 
the  choice  of  his  v(K-ation.  This  impres.-ion  deep- 
ens with  a  more  intimate  ac(|uaintance,  and  fainil- 
niritv   with  the  history  of   his  life  leads  lo  the  un- 


bia,sed  and  impurlial  view  that  the  splendid  success 
which  he  has  achieved  is  the  logical  se<|ueiiee  of 
talent  rightly  used,  together  with  energy  and  in- 
du.-try  never  misapplied,  lie  w.is  iMini  in  Adams 
County.  III.,  .lantiary  II,  Ift  17,  a  son  of  Fra/.ee  and 
Hannah  (liaymond)  Kelly,  the  former  of  whom 
was  bo;n  in  New  .lersey.  and  followed  the  occupa- 
tion of  a  farmer  throughout  life.  His  father  was 
also  a  native  of  New  .ler.sey.  and  was  of  .Scotch- 
Irish  extraction.  The  maternal  grandfather  was 
Wiliiain  Kaymond,  of  .Mstssachusett-s.  lie  was  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  .Vdams  County,  111.,  coming 
hereabout  1M.'?2,  and  l(K-ating  in  lieverly  Town- 
ship, which  he  named  afti'r  IJeverl.v,  .Ma.ss.,  and 
here  he  remained  until  his  death.  Fra/ee  Kelly 
came  to  Illinois  when  sixteen  years  of  age. 

Dr.  Joseph  U.  Kelly  was  sent  to  the  common 
schools  of  Adams  County,  where  he  received  his 
initiatory  training,  and  until  nearly  nineteen  years 
of  age  he  assisted  his  father  in  tilling  the  home 
faiin.  He  then  entered  <^uincy  College,  where  he 
for  a  time  succ-essfiilly  pursued  his  studies,  and 
later  he  began  life  for  hini.self  sis  a  pedagogue.  He 
gave  up  this  calling  after  a  short  time,  and  liegan 
reading  medicine  with  Dr.  .lames  .Sykes,  of  Bev- 
erly, III.,  after  which  he  entered  the  medit-al  de- 
partment of  the  riiiversity  of  .Michigan  at  Ann 
Arbor,  from  which  he  was  graduated  on  the  22d 
of  .March.  IK72.  He  at  once  began  practicing  in 
Adams  County,  III.,  but  siiliseipiently  removed  to 
Howen,  Hancock  Comity,  where  he  built  up  a  large 
practice,  and  remained  seven  years.  In  .March, 
18HH,  he  took  up  his  resideiu-e  in  l^uincy,  where  he 
is  now  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  fair  practice.  He 
has  found  the  practice  of  his  profession  an  occupa- 
tion more  ctmgenial  to  his  tiustes  than  anything 
else  could  ixissibly  have  been,  and  his  attention  is 
devoted  to  it  exclusively.  He  is  one  of  the  busi- 
est of  this  bus\  clas'i  of  men,  and,  in  addition  to 
bearing  the  burdens  plaued  upon  him  by  his  pa- 
Irons,  whose  respect  and  conlidence  he  h:is  won  by 
his  own  elTorts.  he  must  carry  the  burdens  (with 
others)  shitted  to  his  shoulders  by  ohler  practition- 
ers who  seek  the  rest  t«i   wliiell   age   entitles   them. 

(>ur  subject  is  a  member  of  the  .\inerican  Medi- 
cal Society,  and  socially,  iK-longs  to  the  Ancient 
Free  .III d  .Vccepteil  Mn-soiis.  and  (iem  City    Lodge 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD, 


of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  On 
the  lllh  of  June,  1874,  he  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  ;\Iagt;ie  Richardson,  of  Bevcrl\',  Adams 
County,  a  daugliterof  .lames  Richardson,  .Ir.  They 
have  an  interesting  family  of  eight  children,  to 
wliom  the  Doctor  expects  to  give  every  educa- 
tional advantage  in  his  power.  He  has  a  very 
pleasant  residence  at  No.  411  Elm  Street,  and  he 
and  his  wife  are  well  known  for  their  hosijitality. 
While  his  political  and  religious  beliefs  have  al- 
ways been  well  defined,  and  wliile  he  has  always 
aimed  to  discharge  all  tlie  duties  incumbent  upon 
him  as  a  citizen,  he  has  never  sought  prominence 
nor  preferment  of  any  kind,  other  than  that  which 
has  come  to  him  as  the  reward  of  professional  la- 
bors. 


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ENJAMIN  HECKLE  is  President  of  the 
Y^  (^uincy  Shirt  and  Overall  Company.  Men 
('/[■S))||:  are  to  be  judged  by  achievements,  and  it 
is  always  safe  to  accept  results  as  a  proof 
of  the  possession  of  the  powers  and  capaliilities 
which  lead  upto  them.  Of  successes  in  the  bus- 
iness world  which  have  been  earned  by  the  exer- 
cise of  sound  judgment,  thorough  business  tact 
and  indomitable  energy,  there  is  no  more  eminent 
exemplar  in  the  (4em  City  than  Benjamin  Heckle, 
who  is  at  the  head  of  the  above-mentioned  com- 
jiany.  This  worthy  gentleman  is  a  native  of  Ger- 
many, born  at  .Schelingan  July  18,  1846,  but 
was  brought  to  America  at  the  age  of  six 
years  by  his  parents,  Theodore  and  Anna  M. 
(Meyer)  Heckle,  who  landed  at  the  city  of  New 
York.  After  a  short  sta}'  in  the  metropolis,  they 
removed  to  the  prairies  of  Iowa  and  settled  on  a 
farm,  where  part  of  the  boyhood  of  young  Benja- 
min was  spent.  In  1859,  he  was  sent  to  the  par- 
ochial schools  of  (^umcy,  where  he  pui'sued  his 
studies  very  profitably  for  some  time,  after  which 
he  returned  to  his  home  in  Iowa,  and  remained 
under  the  shelter  of  the  paternal  roof  until  1860, 
when  he  returned    to  t^uiucy  and  began    clerking 


on  a  steamboat  on  the  Mississippi  River.  He  be- 
gan serving  in  this  capacity  at  very  moderate 
wages,  but  as  his  services  began  to  be  appreciated 
by  his  employer  he  was  promoted  from  time  to 
time,  until  he  easil\'  commanded  i^lSO  per  month. 
Upon  first  starting  out  in  life  for  himself  he  had 
no  means,  and  only  possessed  a  common  suit  of 
clotiies,  and  a  hat  that  cost  six  cents.  He  was  pru- 
dent and  economical  in  his  expenditures,  and 
wlien  he  left  the  river  he  had  saved  a  snug  little 
sum  of  money,  which  enabled  him  to  gain  a  foot- 
hold in  other  occupations. 

In  1866,  he  began  clerking  in  an  estalilishment  in 
l^uincy,  but  after  some  time  he  started  in  business 
on  his  own  responsibility  and  until  1872  success- 
fully conducted  a  general  store.  In  1871,  he  took 
for  his  partner  through  life  Miss  Victory  Mast,  of 
Ouincy,  who  has  proved  a  true  helpmate  to  him  in 
more  wajs  than  one.  He  continued  in  business 
until  1882,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  position  of 
Sheriff  of  Adams  County  on  the  Democratic  ticket, 
taking  possession  of  the  ortice  in  December  of 
the  same  year.  He  made  a  faithful,  efficient  and 
courageous  officer,  and  upon  his  retirement  from 
the  office  at  the  end  of  his  term  he  was  a])i)ointed 
Deputy  Revenue  Collector  for  the  Eighth  District 
of  Illinois  for  three  years  I)}'  President  Grover 
Cleveland.  In  this  position  he  acquitted  himself 
with  his  usual  ability  and  good  judgment,  and 
won  golden  opinions  for  liimself  as  a  painstaking 
and  zealous  official. 

Following  this,  he  helped  to  organize  the  (^uincy 
Shirt  and  Overall  Companj-,  of  which  he  was  im- 
mediately made  President,  and  which  position  he 
has  since  continued  to  hold.  This  company  is 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  .shirts,  pants,  over- 
alls and  jackets,  and  has  built  up  a  business  of 
vast  proportions.  The  high  commercial  character, 
the  discriminating  judgment,  the  eye  that  sees  and 
the  executive  ability  that  is  enabled  to  improve 
opportunities,  are  attributes  possessed  by  Mr. 
Heckle  in  a  marked  degree  and  the  establish- 
ment over  which  he  has  control  is  a  recognized 
synonym  for  all  that  is  popular,  progressive  and 
honest.  His  personal  character  is  as  high  as  his 
business  repute,  his  honorable  deportment  in  all 
the    relations  of  life  commanding  the   confidence 


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hikI  rfs|N>('t  of  all  wliu  kiu>w  liim.niicl  liiii^reiu'iiiiis 
natiin-  uflrii  >lii>ws  itsflf  in  friMHu-iit  anil  lil«T!il 
uifts  l4i  worlliv  fliaritii-*.  Tiii-  i'iiin|>an_v  I'lnplov;* 
fruin  seventy-five  tti  eii»lily-five  girls  aiitl  eleven 
men.  an<!  is  well  repti-sciiti'il  liy  Iravelini,'  sales- 
men on  tlie  road.  Mr.  Heckle  lia.<  u  siilisUintial 
re,Hi<len«'e.  suri-utinded  hy  a  >>\nn''\o»s  and  well-kept 
lawM.Mt  N...  7lM  North  Twelfth  Street. 


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and  hunonililc  dealinj^  and  for  their  repntation  as 
far-si<;hted.  i-iiergttie  an<l  enterprising  men  of 
liiisiness. 

To  .Mr..nM<l  Mi->.  Ijiwrence  have  lK>en  horn  three 
ehilflren:  K.  Klla.  Laura  K.  and  Willis  (i.  Asa 
good  eitizen  should,  he  t4ike>  a  deep  interest  in 
politie!«  and  is  a  strong  Deniocral  in  wor<i  and 
ileed.  Socially,  he  is  a  nirmU-r  of  the  .MiL-<ontc 
frat<>rnity,  in  which  liody  he  stands  high,  lie  is 
c<)nne<'ted  with  the  Christian  Church  liy  memlM-r- 
ship  and  we  lind  his  name  a.ssocinted  with  manv 
net-  (if  lieiii'Viili'nce  and  many  kind  tleeds. 


OAKRKri-  W  .  LAW  KI;N(  i:,  the  leading  mer- 
I  chant  at  I'ayson,  is  prominent  and  well 
known  in  husiness  circles  throughout  .\dams 
(Viunty.  lie  was  iMirn  in  I'ayson  Township  in  IH.'iT 
and  was  ijiven  g«»od  educational  advantage*  in  the 
comniou  schiHi|>.  lie  is  the  son  of  Uliiford  and 
.lane  (Shepherd)  Lawrence,  native.-,  of  Kentnckv 
and  Illinois  res|>ectively,  who  are  now  living  in 
I'ayson  Township,  lie  is  one  in  a  family  of  seven 
chihlren  ami  wa.-  reared  to  hecoine  a  good  citizen 
l>y  his  worthy  parents. 

The  laily  to  whom  our  siilijecl  was  married  in 
l«M(l  was  .Mi>s  Li/zie  Schroih,  a  d.-inghter  of 
Henry  Schroth.  The  young  couple  Inter  removed 
to  llannilial.  Mo.,  where  Mr.  Ijiwrence  was  en- 
gaged  with  the  Missouri,  Kansas  .V  Texas  Railroad 
Company  for  two  years,  after  which  he  worked  for 
the  Kinpire  Lumher  CoiiipMiy  the  same  lens^'tli  of 
time.  Returning  to  this  place  in  .March.  IXXH,  he 
at  once  engaged  with  (Jeorge  S<'hroth  as  general 
merchant,  which  partnership  l:i>te<l  for  two  years. 
At  the  end  of  ihat  lime,  Mr.  S-liiolh  sold  his  in- 
terest in  the  business  U)  his  father,  with  wlmiii  .Mi. 
Ijiwrencc  was  as>o<.Mated  until  the  death  of  that 
gentleman  in  the  fall  of  IK'.il. 

In  the  spring  of  1«1I2,  .Mi-.  Ljiwrciicc  ami 
A.  T.  Cook  consoliilated  their  stock  of  gooil.-. 
nn<l  in  their  neatly  arranged  esUililishmeiit  will 
Im'  found  .all  articles  necessary  to  supply  their 
trade.  They  conduct  their  liusine,s.s  s»teiiiat- 
ii-;illy,  promptly  and  after  the  l>est  methods,  and 
their  names  stand  high  in  Mnancial  circles  wher- 
ever   they    are    known    for   their    strictly    honest 


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i'l  SAA(  L.  F.M'CKTI'.  .\  young  and  enthusi- 
astic man,  for  whom  his  friends  preilict  a  fam- 
Js  oils  future,  is  he  whose  name  is  at  the  head  of 
the  present  sketch.  lie  may  never  outdo  the 
wizard  Kdison,  hut  the  future  will  lell  how  near 
he  will  cunie  to  l)C  his  equal.  The  city  of  t^iiiney 
is  tile  home  of  the  young  electrician  into  wlitt.se 
hands  has  heeii  placed  the  duty  of  managing  the 
engines  of  the  t^uincy  Horse  Railway  and  Carry- 
ing Comjiany.  This  is  one  of  the  linest  and  Itest- 
eipiipped  power  houses  in  the  Inited  .Slates,  and 
li.-ts  the  IkwI  engine  in  the  city. 

Our  subject  was  liorii  in  Rernadotte,  in  Fulton 
County,  III.,  .lune  7,  IKli.'t.  He  is  the  son  of 
l«aac  Faiieett,  an  Knglish  farmer,  who  UH-.nl4'd  on 
a  farm  in  Fulton  County.  He  served  two  yeai> 
in  the  Civil  U'ar.  aiwl  in  1«7I  he  t<M(k  up  a 
homestead  claim  at  LiiiioIti,  Neb.,  and  after 
proving  his  pro|H'ity  by  one  year's  residence,  he 
moved  into  the  city  of  Lincoln,  but  died  soon 
after,  in  the  (Ifty-first  year  of  his  age.  The  mother 
of  oiir  subject  wit*  I'hielie  (iaiif,  who  wiu*  liorii  in 
Illinois,  lint  whos«-  father  came  from  (ieriiiany. 
The  latter  now  livi's  near  Ik-rnndotte,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  eighty-eight  years,  and  is  an  earnest 
;ind  valued  iiieml>er  of  the  Christian  denomina- 
tion. The  lieloved  mother  of  our  subject  died  in 
]KM.    Hiivi]    forty-live,    and     left    three  children. 


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PORTEAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


Saiali,  is  Mrs.  Miec,  .inrl  resides  in  Denver,  Colo. 
IClraer  D.  is  an  electrician  for  the  Electric  Com- 
pany. 

Mr.  Faueett  of  this  notice  was  reared  in  Illinois, 
but  in  1871  he  accompanied  his  father  to  Ne- 
braska. In  the  spring  of  1873,  after  the  death  of  his 
father,  he  drove  the  farailj  ))ack  to  Illinois,  and 
a  long  journej'  it  was  b}-  team,  and  we  can 
imagine  the  great  sadness  of  it.  His  mother 
located  in  Vermont,  Fulton  County,  and  then 
this  very  brave  little  lad  had  a  chance  to  go  to 
school.  However,  as  there  was  no  father's  strong 
arm  to  provide  for  the  little  family,  it  was  neces- 
sary for  Isaac  to  begin  farm  work  when  only 
eleven  or  twelve  years  of  age.  He  was  offered 
So  a  month,  and  considered  it  good  wages,  and 
continued  on  the  farm  until  he  was  nineteen.  In 
1884,  his  natural  talents  asserted  themselves,  and  he 
became  river  fireman  on  the"Prescott,"  and  staid 
one  .year,  and  then  for  a  j'ear  was  on  the  "Parke 
Bluff."  He  then  changed  to  the  boat,"Burt  E.  Liiie- 
han,"  where  he  did  duty  a  year.  He  later  became 
assistant  engineer  for  the  (iuincy  Light  Company, 
and  continued  there  until  1889,  when  he  went 
to  Brookfleld,  Mo.,  and  was  there  engaged  for 
one  j'ear,  conducting  the  Brookfleld  Electric 
Light  Company.  JUI3'  22,  he  was  made  chief 
engineer  of  the  C^uinc^'  Company,  and  superin- 
tended the  placing  of  the  engines  for  the  power 
house  on  straight  foundations.  The  engine,  a 
Hamilton-Corliss,  is  of  four  hundred  horse  power, 
and  there  are  four  dynamos.  He  has  one  assistant, 
two  firemen  and  one  night  watchman. 

The  gentleman  who  is  our  subject  took  as  his 
bride  Miss  Louisa  Noakes,  a  native  of  the  Windy 
Citj'.  She  was  reared  in  Quincy,  and  has  made  her 
husband  a  good  wife.  They  have  two  bright  chil- 
dren, who  are  yet  too  young  to  show  whether  they 
have  inherited  the  mechanical  genius  of  their 
father  or  not.  Their  names  are  Edith  1'.  and  Law- 
rence E. 

Mr.  Faueett  is  socially  inclined,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and 
also  of  Quincy  Lyceum  of  Stationarj-  Engineers, 
and  is  the  Assistant  Engineer  in  this  society.  He 
believes  firmly  in  the  principles  of  the  Republi- 
can iiartv.  but  like  many  other  tivlented    men    he 


does  not  aspire  to  office.  He  has  just  applied  for 
a  patent  on  an  oil-filler,  which  is  very  practical, 
and  which  he  intends  to  manufacture. 

Mrs.  Faueett  is  an  exemplary  member  of  St. 
John's  Catholic  Church,  and  is  a  lady  of  much 
scns^  and  good  judgment.  She  and  her  husband 
are  well  informed,  and  he  is  thoroughly  posted  on 
all  electrical  developments. 


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s-HOMAS  R.  WIIHAY,  :\r.l).,  who  is  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Golden,  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  members 
of  his  profession  in  this  part  of  the  county.  He 
was  born  in  Adams  County,  in  1844,  and  is  a  son 
of  David  Whray,  who  was  born  in  South  Carolina, 
in  1811.  Emigrating  to  lUinoi?  in  a  very  early 
day,  he  aided  the  pioneers  in  that  struggle  with 
the  Indians  which  is  known  as  the  Black  Hawk 
War.  His  family  numbered  two  sons  and  two 
daughters. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  reared  amid  the 
wild  scenes  of  frontier  life  and  shared  with  the 
family  in  its  experiences  and  hardships.  The  com- 
mon schools  afforded  him  his  early  educational  ad- 
vantages, after  which  he  attended  the  High  School 
in  Quincy,  HI.  At  length,  he  determined  to  make 
the  practice  of  medicine  his  life  work,  and  to  this 
end  began  studying  with  Dr.  A.  E.  McNeal  in 
1870.  He  was  graduated  from  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  of  Keokuk,  Iowa,  in 
1878,  and  immediately  thereafter  entered  into 
practice  in  Columbus,  this  county,  where  he  re- 
mained for  four  years.  His  next  location  was  in 
La  Prairie,  111.,  where  he  spent  about  eigiit  jears 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine.  On  the  ex- 
piration of  that  period,  he  came  to  fiolden,  in 
18811,  and  has  since  been  one  of  the  leading  physi- 
cians in  this  part  of  the  count3'.  He  makes  a  speci- 
alty of  lung  trouble  and  also  i)ractices  surgery. 

In  the  year  1867,  the  Doctor  was  married  to 
Miss  Rachael  Livengood,  who  was  born  in  Missouri 
in  184(5.     The  following  children  grace  their  union: 


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Mai  V.  Ihmii  ill  IKtiH,  wh-s  educnled  in  1^  I'lairii-.  111., 
iukI  is  iiiiw  tfnvliiii<!  in  the  .schools  of  (loldcn; 
Nettie.  Ijorii  in  IbC'.).  died  in  1S71;  Lewis,  horn  in 
1m7;I.  was  educated  at  Iji  Prairie;  Tlioinius,  iMirn  in 
1«78  and  Halph.  in  1HXI.  are  still  under  the  pa- 
rental roof. 

In  reliffious  heiief,  the  DcK'tor  is  a  Methodist  and 
in  his  siK'ial  relations  is  eoniiected  with  the  Odd 
Fellows'  society,  heinji  ii  nienilier  of  the  suhordinate 
lod^e.  Dnrinsj  the  late  w«r  he  gave  evidence  of 
his  loyaitv  to  the  (Jovernment  by  enlistinsr  in  the 
service  in  186t,  when  twenty  years  of  !i;:e.  lie 
became  a  nieinlier  of  the  (iiie  Hundred  and  Tliirty- 
seventh  Illinois  Infantry  and  served  for  four 
months,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged,  lie 
li.i.s  ever  been  a  faithful  citizen  and  takes  an  active 
interest  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  the 
community.  His  skill  and  ability  in  his  chosen 
|)rofession  have  won  him  an  enviable  reputation 
and  secured  him  a  lilteral  patronajije.  which  he  well 
deserves.  He  ranks  high  among  his  professional 
brethren  and  is  known  as  one  of  the  leading  ))hysi- 
cians  of  Nortli  Kast  Township.  The  Doctor  made 
a  trip  to  .Montana  Territory  in  IHCG  and  remained 
aliout  two  years,  engaging  in  the  cattle  trade  and 
mining.  The  journey  to  Montana  occupied  three 
months. 


^^^^••^OKGK  VOLLHRACHT.  There  is  always 
II  '^  more  or  less  curiosity  in  regard  to  the  true 
>^^  and  inner  history  of  men  wh<»  were  born  in 
a  foreign  country  but  who  have  been  long  and 
favoralily  identilied  with  the  social  and  bnsine,s.s 
interests  of  any  conininnity.  Thus  the  biogrnpli\' 
of  Mr.  Vollbraeht  will  undoubtedly  prtive  interest- 
ing alike  to  old  and  young,  a-s  he  wius  born  in 
Prussia,  (Jerinany,  and  has  been  a  resilient  of 
Adams  County  since  eight  years  of  age. 

The  birth  of  our  subject  occurred  in  IHI.'i,  and 
ill  IH.")!,  in  company  with  iiis  parents  and  five 
brothers,  he  emigrated  to  the  I'nited  Stales  and 
immediately    came    with    lliein    to   <^uin(y.  where 


they  made  their  home  for  four  years.  Then,  liK-ut- 
ing  in  Concord  Township,  this  county,  the  father 
there  departed  this  life,  in  IHCl,  while  Mi-s.  Voll- 
braeht lived  to  attain  the  advance<l  age  of  seventy- 
eight  years. 

(;eorgc,of  this  sketch,  wiLs  the  fourth  in  order  of 
birth  of  the  parental  family  of  live  sons  who  grew 
to  mature  years. <ine  having  dietl  on  the  Mississippi 
River  while  en  route  to  this  State.  Cluirles  now 
makes  his  home  in  Concord  Township,  where  he 
has  a  family  of  eight  children:  Charles,  .lull  lis.  Mary, 
Fredericka.  Kva,  (ieorge.  Waller,  and  Krana; 
Henry,  the  second  son,  resides  near  Camp  Point, 
III.,  and  is  the  father  of  the  following-named 
si.\  children:  Mary,  Louis,  Cliri.--tian,  William, 
Sophia  and  Henry;  Christ,  the  next  in  order  of 
birth,  resides  in  Concord  and  has  a  family  of  nine 
children:  Louis:i.  William.  (Jotfried,  Henry.  Carl. 
Mary,  .lolin,  Minnie  and  Kdward;  William,  who  is 
the  lifth  son,  also  makes  his  home  in  Concord  and 
is  the  father  of  six  children:  (ieorge,  Finma.  .\niiie, 
Sophie,  Betsey  and  AIIkmI. 

The  original  of  this  sketch  grew  in  niatuie  \fars 
in  this  county,  where  he  wsis  brought  up  toa  knowl- 
edge of  farm  duties,  aixl  when  it  liecame  necessary 
for  him  to  select  acalling  in  life  he  naturally  cliose 
the  avocation  of  an  agriculturist.  His  experience 
ha.s  been  wide  and  varied,  and,  as  a  true  oiti/eii 
should,  he  always  takes  an  active  |tart  in  public 
affairs,  and  possesses  inlelligent  views  on  all  »ul»- 
jectsof  interest,  particularly  on  political  ijuestions, 
as  he  is  ail  ardent  supitorter  of  the  Democratic 
party,  which  body  he  has  represented  a.s  a  delegate 
to  various  conventions  from  Liltert}'  Township. 

Miss  .Sophie  S.  .Sdinelleand  Mr.  \'ollbracht  were 
married  in  l«(!l,  and  the  young  couple  at  onec 
Ijegan  life  on  ji  new  farm.  To  them  has  been 
granted  a  family  of  seven  children,  who  ari' 
respectively  Louisa.  .Mrs.  William  .Michael,  of  this 
township;  Charles,  Frank,  William,  Fred.  Theo- 
dore and  Carrie. 

Our  subject  has  U-en  very  successful  in  his  farm- 
ing fiperations,  and  al  the  present  time  owns  two 
hundred  and  seventy  acres  of  valuable  land,  which 
hi>  industry  an<l  good  jutjgment  have  placed  under 
excellent  tillage.  For  two  yeai>,  he  operatcil  the 
Fanner-'  lloine  Ibilcl.  in  <^iiiii!'y.  which  under  his 


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supervision  laiilved  among  the  best  in  the  city. 
He  was  appointed  Deputy-  Sheriff,  under  Ben 
Heckle,  and  during  liis  four  years'  iucunilienc}'  of 
the  office  gave  entire  satisfaction  to  the  people.  In 
other  respects  he  is  honorable,  discharging  his  ob- 
ligations as  a  citizen  of  this  great  Commonwealth, 
and  is  held  m    hiyh  esteem  l)v  all  who  know  him. 


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SDAVARD  SAHLAND.      This  clever   young 

gentleman  is  a  member  of  the  Arm  of  Haug 

^  it  Sahland.   proprietors   of   the    Gem    City 


Fence  Manufacturing  Com]iany.  His  partner  is 
Frank  Haug,  and  the  two  together  conduct  a 
thriving  Inisiness  in  the  manufacture  of  a  coml)i- 
nation  wire  and  picket  fence. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  <^uiucy.  111.,  .tan nary 
1,  1862.  His  father,  Edward,  came  very  near 
being  a  Russian,  as  he  was  born  in  Torgau,  in 
Prussia,  on  the  Russian  line,  in  1826.  He  was  a 
well-educated  man.  and  had  long  been  Librarian 
of  the  Public  Library.  He  came  to  America  at 
the  age  of  twenty-two,  and  on  reaching  Quiucy, 
111.,  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  and  later 
in  the  shoe  business.  Still  later,  he  became  a  part- 
ner with  Menke,  Grimm  &  Co.,  and  was  stock- 
holder, director  and  book-keeper  until  his  death, 
November  15,  1878.  In  1859,  he  married  Mary 
Herleman,  a  native  of  (Juinc}-,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Herleman,  a  (icrman  farmer 
who  settled  here  at  an  early  day.  Mrs.  Herleman 
is  still  living.  Mrs.  Sahland,  the  mother  of  our 
suliject,  resides  on  the  corner  of  Fourteenth  and 
Spring  Streets,  which  is  a  very  fine  place  of  resi- 
dence. She  has>  had  five  children,  three  of  whom 
are  deceased.  Our  subject's  brother  Walter  is  assist- 
ant book-keeper  in  Bull's  Bank. 

Edward  was  raised  .and  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Quincy,  attended  the  tiera  City  Business 
College,  and  completed  that  course  when  only 
eighteen  years  old.  He  was  then  apprenticed  to 
learn  the  trade  of  a  carriage-maker  in  the  Ilynes  Car- 
riage Company',  where  he  remained  four  jears.  He 


afterward  worked  for  Zimmerman  &  Heimlich, and 
for  different  parties  until  1X87,  when  he  began  the 
grocery  business  at  the  corner  of  Ninth  and  State 
Streets,  and  later  was  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Sahland  ct  Marsh  for  two  years.  He  then  went  to 
Silver  Spring  Park,  Fla.,  Itought  a  five-acre  tract 
and  set  out  an  orange  grove.  He  attended  to  its 
cultivation,  and  built  a  cottage  and  dining  his 
residence  there  was  Assistant  Postmaster  under 
R.  C.  Loveridge.  Two  years  later,  he  returned 
to  Quincy  and  bought  an  interest  in  the  fence 
business,  and  has  continued  there  until  the  pres- 
ent time.  The  firm  manufactures  fencing  and 
the  (iem  C'ity  Fence  jMnchiues,  and  keeps  one 
man  on  the  road  beside  ]\Ir.  Sahland.  The  fac- 
tory is  located  at  Nos.  1007  and  1009  Broad- 
way, and  gives  employment  to  ten  men.  This 
business  has  been  wondeifvdly  successful,  because 
those  engaged  in  it  are  strictly  honest,  enterpris- 
ing men. 

Our  sul)ject  is  a  memlier  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, and  is  very  decided  in  his  preference  for  the 
Keijublican  party.  Mr.  Sahland  retains  an  affec- 
tionate remembrance  of  his  father,  whose  exam- 
ple he  endeavors  to  follow. 


M  OEL  D.  SHERRICK.  The  subject  of  this 
notice  is  an  energetic  young  farmer  of 
llonslon  Township.  He  w.as  born  on  sec- 
tion 2(1  in  this  township,  in  the  old  Sher- 
rick  homestead,  in  Adams  County.  His  i)arents 
were  of  old  and  very  highly  respected  fam- 
ilies, his  mother  having  been  a  Strickler,  whose 
family  is  noticed  elsewhere,  and  his  father,  Martin, 
a  well-known  farmer  of  this  township. 

Joel  received  a  common-school  education,  and 
remained  at  home  until  he  was  twenty-one,  and 
engaged  in  his  favorite  occupation  of  farming  on 
the  old  homestead.  After  his  marriage,  he  located 
on  his  own  farm,  which  is  a  part  of  the  old  home- 
stead.    It  is  one  of   the  finest  farms  in  Houston, 


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and  III'  ha.-  iin|iruvwl  it  witli  a  lai};i'  new  finnii' 
housoand  liani.  IIi-  iiaypiit  lu'ilye  fences  arounil  liis 
fields  and  has  piirelia-eil  all  niodein  ini|in>veinenUi. 
Tlie  farm  i-  on  •■|!il:  Nei'k"  lunirii-.  and  is  very 
|ir<nliicti\e. 

Mr.  Slierrick  lia>  lieen  twice  niarrietl,  the  tii*t 
time  to  Miss  Kdith  .\.  Brown,  in  Felirnary,  IHTB, 
who  died  ei«rhteen  months  later,  leaving  a  dann;h- 
ter.  Kdith.  .Mrs.  Sherriok  was  a  native  of  Mons- 
ton  Township,  and  a  daughter  of  Willinni  and 
Dolly  Hrown.  Her  father  was  for  many  years  a 
prominent  farmer  in  the  township,  and  died  in 
1889.  He  had  served  the  township  a.><  .Sui>ervisor 
and  Si'lniol  Trustee.  His  widow  i^  now  li\in;r  in 
Camp  I'oint. 

In  187"J.  our  subject  married  .Miss  .Iose|>hine 
Harris.  (See  family  sketch.)  Their  home  has 
been  liles.sed  with  live  iuterestinjj  children,  as 
follows:  Martin,  l-uilier.  Charles,  May  and  .lolin  K. 

Mr.  Sherrick  is  no  olliee-seeker.  but  believes  in 
the  print'iples  of  the  Republican  party.  Both  he 
and  his  worthy  wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist 
K|>iscopal  Church,  in  which  he  has  been  very  active 
as  Chi.-s-leadcr  and  Sunday-school  Supeiintendcnt 
for  .several  years. 

Men  who  have  farms  of  three  hundred  and  lifty- 
six  acres  of  land  to  attend  to  do  not  have  time 
to  w.a.ste  in  seekinjf  olKee  of  any  kind,  therefore, 
Mr.  Sherrick  remains  carefully  Iookin<;  after  his 
own  interests,  and  is  highly  rc.-pccted  by  his 
neifjhliors.  He  raises  high-grade  stock,  and  Short- 
horn cattle. 


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OHN  .1.  I'.oN.NKT.  .So  far  from  merely  pre- 
.senting  a  com|iilation  of  sU»ti.sties  and  ctin- 
densod  f;icts  showing  the  resource:-  and 
bu>inc>s  status  of  (^uincy  and  the  western 
l)ortion  of  the  .State,  it  is  considered  compatdile 
with  the  nature  of  this  work  to  review  in  detail 
those  i'ntcrpri>es  which  exert  especial  intere.-l 
upon  the  industrial  and  eonunereial  standing  of 
the  f\i\.      It  will  be  found  upon  examination  that 


l^nincv  is  not  flelicient  in  thnt  distinctive  Wcdern 
spirit  of  enterprise  and  progress  which  hits  done 
so  much  to  develop  the  rcsour<'es  of  this  coniitiy. 
The  important  >tove  manufactory  of  which  .Mr. 
Bonnet  is  President  was  founded  in  IXtl-'l.  .■iiid 
has  been  in  .active  operation  ever  since. 

Mr.  Bonnet  was  born  in  Wittenlierg,  (lermany. 
.March  I,  IK.tO.  a  son  of  .lohn  and  Rachel  (  Ber- 
ringer)  fioiinet.  the  former  of  whom  was  a  jeweler 
by  trade.  His  family  came  to  America  when  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  a  sinnll  lad,  and  the 
f:ither  was  engaged  in  selling  cbK'ks  throughout 
the  .State  of  Ohio.  His  declining  yeai-s  weres|)eiit 
in  Zanesville.  where  he  passed  from  life  in  IHNj. 
His  family  consisle<l  of  eight  childri'ii.  of  whom 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  third  in  order 
of  biith.  He  acipiired  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Z.'inesville,  and  in  that  cit\'.  while  in 
his  teens,  began  learning  the  niolder'.s  trade. 

In  the  spring  of  ix.')(!.  Mr.  Bonnet  came  to 
t^uincy.  and  in  isfi;5  embarked  in  the  foundry 
business  on  his  own  account,  as  a  member  <if  the 
firm  of  White.  Bonnet  A:  Co.,  which  connection 
continued  for  thne  years,  when  the  firm  name 
was  changed  to  Bonnet.  Duffy  iV  Co.,  mannfaetur- 
eis  of  stoves.  .Mr.  Bonnet  soon  bought  out  Mr. 
I)ufl"y"s  interest,  and  the  tirm  name  was  changed 
to  Bonnet  it  Nance,  and  as  siirh  continued  until 
1K«7,  when  it  was  merged  into  a  st<K'k  comp.'iny, 
upon  the  organi/.ation  of  which  .Mr.  Bonnet  was 
made  President,  which  po-sition  he  still  continues 
to  hold.  They  manufacture  cooking  st<»ves,  ranges 
and  heating  stoves,  which  they  disp<ise  of  to 
retailers  and  jobbers.  They  employ  one  hundred 
skilled  men  in  their  works,  which  are  liM-ated  on 
the  line  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  A:  <^uiu<'V 
Railroad.  The  enterprise  which  they  have  built 
up  takes  a  justly  prominent  rank  among  the  in- 
dustries of  the  city.  The  foundry  is  Iitt4'd  with 
all  modern  appliances  and  convenience.«  for  the 
ellicient  and  prompt  execution  of  the  work.  With 
an  experience  of  nearly  thirty  years.  .Mr.  Bonnet 
holds  a  prominent  position  among  the  manufactur- 
ers of  the  West. 

.Mr.  Bonnet  w.as  married,  in  IMtKI,  to  Miss  Margaret 
A.  l-awlter.  of  <iuincy,  daughter  of  .loseph  I.aw- 
ber,    one    of    tin-    verv    earlv    seltlei-s    of     Adams 


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County.  Tlie  ijiiuriage  lias  resulted  in  the  birth 
of  the  following  children:  Louisa  S.,  widow  of 
George  F.  Jordan;  James  W.,  Treasurer  of  the 
Bonnet-Xance  Stove  Company;  Charles  J.,  (ieorge 
H.,  and  Loienzo  A.  JMr.  IJunnct  is  a  wide-awake 
man  of  affairs,  is  a  shrewd  financier,  and  has 
ever  had  the  good  judgment  to  grasp  at  opi)firtu- 
nities  for  bettering  his  financial  condition,  but 
never  at  the  cost  of  his  self-respect,  or  to  the  det- 
riment of  others.  He  is  the  soul  of  honor,  a  gen- 
erous giver  to  entei'prises  of  a  worthy  nature,  and 
public-spirited  and  enterprising.  In  politics,  he  is 
a  Democrat.  He  is  a  thorough  judge  of  his  busi- 
ness in  all  its  dejiartments,  and  is  shrewd  and  prac- 
tical in  the  conduct  of  his  affairs.  He  is  a  prom- 
inent Mason,  a  member  of  the  Consistory,  having 
attained  the  Thirty-second  Degree.  Tlie  family 
attends  the  Methodist  Church. 


^t?OHN  A.  ALLEN.  A  plain,  unvarnished 
statement  of  the  facts  embraced  in  the  life 
of  ]Mr.  Allen,  a  man  well  and  favorably 
known  to  the  people  of  Adams  County, 111., 
is  all  that  we  profess  to  be  able  to  give  in  this 
history  of  the  county;  and  yet,  upon  examination 
of  those  facts,  there  will  be  found  the  career  of 
one  whose  entire  course  through  the  world  has 
been  marked  by  great  honesty  and  fidelity  of 
purpose.  He  is  a  native  of  the  Empire  State, 
born  in  Dutchess  Count}-  on  the  14th  of  Decem- 
ber, 1829,  and  is  the  eldest  son  of  ten  children 
born  to  John  and  Anna  M.  (Forrester)  Allen,  the 
fatiier  a  native  of  Gloucestershire,  England,  and 
the  mother  of  Dutciiess  County,  N.  Y.  John 
Allen,  father  of  our  subject,  left  his  native  coun- 
try- for  this  when  a  single  man  and  for  a  number 
of  years  was  a  resident  of  New  York  State.  Later, 
he  moved  to  Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  and  there  passed 
the  remainder  of  his  days.  He  was  a  woolen 
manufacturer  by  occupation  and  .in  energetic, 
thorough-going  business  man. 


The  original  of  our  sketch  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  of  Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  until  four- 
teen years  of  age,  and  finished  at  Buschel  Ocana 
College,  at  Smithfield.  R.  L.  wheie  he  remained  a 
few  months.  Subsequently,  he  entered  New- 
berry Academy  in  New  York  City  and  under 
Dr.  Lausen  Prome  pursued  his  studies  diligently 
for  three  years,  graduating  in  1848.  Returning 
to  Kiiode  Island,  he  began  reading  law  with  Whit- 
ney Robinson.  In  the  year  1861,  his  patriotism 
was  greatly  aroused  by  seeing  the  troops  on  their 
way  to  meet  the  enemy,  and  he  enlisted  in  the  First 
Regiment,  Rhode  Island  Infantry,  serving  three 
months  under  (4en.  Burnside.  After  the  battle  of 
Bull  Run,  lie  returned  to  Rhode  Island  and  was 
made  Captain  of  tiie  Ftunth  Rhode  Island  Infantry. 
Later,  by  his  brave  and  meritorious  conduct,  he 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  and  was  with 
Gen.  Burnside  at  the  battles  of  Hatteras,  Roanoke, 
New  Berne,  Ft.  Machen,  etc.  He  bore  a  conspicu- 
ous part  in  all  these  engagements,  and  performed 
efficient  service.  He  captured  Morehead  City  and 
Wolfert,  and  was  afterward  appointed  Military 
Governor  of  that  district,  which  position  he  held 
with  much  distinction  until  May,  1862,  at  which 
time  he  was  appointed  Provost-marshal.  In  all 
the  trying  scenes  and  desperate  engagements  in 
which  he  participated  lie  acquitted  himself  witii 
credit  and  renown. 

When  peace  was  declared,  Mr.  Allen  returned  to 
his  home  in  Rhode  Island,  and  being  possessed  of 
much  natural  business  acumen,  he  engaged  in 
merchandising,  which  he  carried  on  until  1868. 
In  April  of  that  year,  he  moved  to  (.^uincy,  111., 
and  following  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father,  be- 
gan manufacturing  clothing  on  his  own  account. 
This  business  he  carried  on  successfully  until  1873, 
when  he  sold  out,  and  in  November  of  that  year 
was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace,  whicii  position  he 
holds  at  the  present  time,  discharging  its  duties  in 
a  veiy  satisfactory  and  able  manner.  In  politics, 
Mr.  Allen  is  a  pronounced  Democrat  and  he  has 
ever  advocated  the  principles  of  that  party.  Soci- 
ally, he  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum. 
He  is  active  in  all  enterprises  that  tend  to  improve 
or  benefit  his  town  and  county,  and  is  a  gentle- 
man who  merits  the  esteem  and  good-will   of  all. 


POUTKAir  AMI   IlIiK.liAl'IIK  AL    KKCORD. 


:tl'.t 


111  tlic  year  1  »(>;'»,  uftcr  ivliiniiii}^  fmin  llie  war 
wlierp  lip  had  <lis|ilnye<l  ■*<)  nim-li  liraverv  and  gal- 
lantiv.  In-  wiu-  imitpil  in  iniii'i'in<;c  to  Miss  Anna 
.M.  Lant'.  of  Dallas  City.  One  child.  Kol)eit,  has 
been  born  to  them.     Up  is  elprkini,'  in  i^niiu'V. 


^^^^-^NH^^--^- 


J'ASl'KR  WIirnoMll.  Auionfrthenien  who 
are  pultivating  a  portion  of  the  soil  of 
I'ayson  Townsliip  to  jjood  advantairc  is  the 
j;pnt|pnian  abovp  n.tnipd.  wliosp  pleasant 
home  is  located  on  section  22.  lie  is  the  foiliin- 
atp  possessor  of  two  hundred  and  thirty-two  acres 
of  pxcellciit  land,  upon  wiiich  lie  has  erected  a 
commodious  farm  residence  and  tlie  accompanying 
outbuildings,  which  are  also  substantial  and  well 
designed  for  (heir  respective  purposes.  The  at- 
tention of  the  passer-by  will  at  once  be  called  to 
the  neatness  ami  order  which  everywhere  ]irevail, 
anil  the  opinion  will  rca<liiy  be  fornu'd  that  the 
pro|)rietor  of  the  place   understands   his  business. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Trumbidl  ('tiunty,Ohio, 
in  1«2.'>,  and  was  a  lad  of  eight  years  when  his 
parents  came  to  this  county  and  located  on  the 
farm  where  he  makps  his  home  at  the  present  time. 
His  parents,  Wyniaii  and  l.ura  (IJrockway)  Whit- 
conib,  were  natives  respectively  of  \'ermonl  and 
New  York,  the  father  born  in  17'.I8,  and  the 
mother  in  18(1.'?.  Their  family  com|)rised  nine 
children,  seven  of  whom  grew  to  mature  years, 
of  whom  our  subject  was  the  eldest.  Ili>  brothers 
and  sisters  were  Orvdla.  Mrs.  .lames  T.  Taylor, 
who  died  at  her  home  in  Hourbon  County.  Kan., 
in  IK'.tl;  Dwight.  who  makes  his  home  in  Hancock 
County,  III.;  Kliza.  who  married  Israel  Cani|i.  of 
ISourbon  County.  Kan.;  David,  who  is  residing 
in  I'ayson;  .Moses,  who  makes  his  home  in  IJour- 
lM>n  County,  and  Ora,  who  is  the  wife  of  . I.  M. 
Hrodie.  Harriet  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years, 
and  -Moiizo  departed  tliis  life  when  six  years  of 
age. 

David  Whitcomb.  the  grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject,   was   a    native  of  Vermont,  and  married  Miss 


Ora  liipharilson,  an  l-lastern  lady,  by  whom  he  \>e- 
came  the  father  of  six  sons  and  one  daughter. 
The  \Vhil«'ombs  originally  came  from  Wales,  and 
have  represent.itives  in  nearly  all  the  professions. 
The  lady  to  whom  our  subject  was  married  in  IM.'iii 
was  Isabella  S(ewar(.  and  (o  (hem  were  Uirn  six 
children,  of  whom  .1,  Kveret,  .Vlmira,  |{.  Henry 
and  William  S.  are  living,  .\nnie  and  l.ura  are 
dei-t'ased.  Mr.  an<l  .Mrs.  Whitcomb  are  devoted 
niembei's  of  the  Missionary  Itapti.^t  Church,  and 
siK-ially,  <iur  sul>ji'c(  is  connected  widi  (he  .Masonic 
fraternity. 

.\s  every  loyal  citizen  should,  our  subject  takes 
considerable  interest  in  politics,  and  is  a  st^kiich 
advocate  of  the  DeiniK-ratic  party.  He  is  public- 
spirKed  and  never  loses  an  opportunity  toatlvocale 
the  welfare  of  his  adopted  township,  materially. 
st)cially  or  religiously.  He  has  been  ctuinected  with 
the  MjuHMiic  fraternity  for  thirty  years,  and  is  a 
charter  member  of  1-odge  Xo.  529.  .V.  K.  and  .V.  .M., 
of  I'lainviile.  He  served  as  ScIhkiI  Trustee  in  I'ay- 
son  for  about  twelve  years,  and  h.nsbeen  zealous  and 
efflcient  in  educational  matters.  He  h,as  succeeded 
well  in  worlilly  affairs,  and  is  able  to  surround  his 
family  with  all  (he  comforts  and  many  of  (he  lux- 
uries of  life. 


■>^<>1{HIS  (()N(t\KI{.  a  repiesen(a(ive  and 
progressive  farmer,  who  resides  on  .section 
II,  Lima  Townsliip,  was  born  in  llamiltrui 
Coun(y,  Ohio,  December  2!l,  1m;!1.  His 
father,  .loiiah  Conover.  and  his  grandfather,  .lolin 
Conover.  were  natives  of  New  .Iei>ey.  The  latter 
emigrated  to  Ohio,  and  thence  came  to  Illi- 
nois, where  he  died  at  an  advanced  age.  The 
father  accompanied  his  parents  to  ()hio.  and  w.-is 
married  in  Clermont  County  to  l-lsther  Honian.  a 
native  of  New  .lei-sey.  Kor  a  niimlK-r  of  years,  he 
followed  agricultural  pursuits  in  the  Buckeye  Stale, 
and  ill  Ifi.'tT  emigrated  with  his  family  to  Adams 
County,  locating  in  l.iina  Township,  where  he  ptir- 
chast'rl  land  and  built  a  frame  house.      He  Imiiv  all 


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the  experiences  of  pioneer  life  and  performed  the 
xirdiious  task  of  clearing,  developing  and  improv- 
ing a  new  farm.  He  became  a  prominent  and 
influential  citizen  of  the  community  and  held  a 
nunilter  of  public  offices.  In  his  early  life,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church,  but 
afterward  united  with  the  Christian  Church.  He 
died  in  1871,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years. 
The  death  of  his  wife  occurred  July  19,  1889,  and 
many  friends  mourned  the  loss  of  this  worthy 
couple. 

Our  subject  is  the  eldest  of  their  five  living 
children.  Tiie  greater  part  of  his  life  has  been 
spent  in  this  county,  where  he  was  reared  and 
educated,  his  school  privileges,  however,  being 
very  limited.  He  remained  at  home  until  twenty- 
two  years  of  age,  and  then  started  out  in  life  for 
himself,  purchasing  land  on  section  11,  Lima 
Township,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home, 
devoting  his  energies  exclusively  to  farming.  He 
owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  arable  land, 
which  is  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  and 
upon  it  he  has  made  many  good  improvements. 

In  1854,  Mr.  Conover  was  joined  in  wedlock 
with  Sarah  Bragg,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Hannah  (Rich)  Bragg,  the  former  a  native  of 
Massachusetts,  and  the  later  of  Vermont.  Their 
marriage  was  celebrated  in  the  Green  Mountain 
State;  from  there  they  emigrated  to  Ohio,  where 
Mrs.  Conover  was  born.  Her  father  was  a  car- 
penter by  trade.  He  came  to  Quincy,  but  after  a 
short  time  went  to  Missouri.  Later,  he  returned 
to  Adams  County  and  located  in  Lima  Township, 
where  he  carried  on  business  as  a  carpenter  and 
builder  for  some  3-ears.  He  was  called  to  his  final 
rest  in  1877,  and  his  wife,  who  was  a  member  of 
the  Christian  Churdi,  passed  away  in  1886.  Their 
family  numbered  eight  children,  all  of  whom  are 
3'et  living. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Conover  were  born  the 
following  children:  Sarah  L.,  now  deceased;  Dora 
A.,  Mary  K.,  Thaddeus  X.;  Gertrude  J.,  who  is 
engaged  in  teaching  music,  and  Electa  and  Hannah, 
both  deceased.  The  family  is  one  of  jirominencu 
in  the  community,  its  members  I'anking  higli  in 
social  circles,  and  the  Conover  home  is  the 
abode  of  hospitality.     The  parents  are  both  mem- 


bers of  the  Christian  Church,  and,  in  politics,  Mr. 
Conover  is  a  Repulilican.  We  see  in  him  a  self- 
made  man,  who  by  his  own  efforts  has  worked  his 
wa}'  upward  from  a  humble  position  to  one  of 
success,  and  is  numbered  among  the  substantial 
farmers  of  the  communitv. 


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yG.  McLOSKEY,  M.  D.  Dr.  McLoskey  has 
been  a  resident  of  (Quincy,  111.,  since  1874, 
and  during  that  time  his  career  as  a  prac- 
titioner of  the  healing  art,  as  well  as  his  upright 
and  honorable  conduct  as  a  citizen,  has  won  for 
him  golden  laurels.  Like  many  of  the  representa- 
tive men  of  this  county,  he  claims  Pennsylvania  as 
liis  native  State,  and  was  born  in  Washington 
County  January  18.  1818.  He  comes  of  a  promi- 
inent  Scotch  family,  his  grandfather  l)eing  a  native 
of  the  Highlands  of  Scotland,  and  no  doubt  inher- 
its his  thrift  and  energy  from  that  source.  The 
grandfatiier  crossed  the  ocean  to  America  at  an 
earh'  date  and  received  his  final  summons  in  Mis- 
souri. 

Our  subject,  the  eldest  son  of  six  children  born 
to  his  parents,  his  father  being  John  McLoskey, 
passed  his  boyhood  and  youth  in  Washington 
County,  Pa.,  and  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  a 
common-school  education.  In  the  j'ear  1834,  he 
emigrated  with  his  parents  to  Greene  County,  111. 
Later,  feeling  the  need  of  a  better  education,  he 
entered  Jefferson  Academy,  where  he  remained 
for  some  time,  and  then  entered  McDowell  Col- 
lege, St.  Louis,  from  which  institution  he  grad- 
uated in  1850.  Subsequently,  he  began  reading 
medicine  with  Archibald  McLoskey,  of  St.  Charles, 
Mo.,  and  afterward  moved  to  Coles  County,  HI., 
where  he  carried  on  a  general  practice,  but  only 
for  a  short  time. 

In  the  year  1874,  he  moved  to  Quincy,  111.,  and 
here  he  has  since  resided,  engaged  in  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession.  The  people  of  Adams, 
as  well  as  surrounding  counties,  are  familiar  with 
his  name,  and    he    has   shown    iiiniself    eminently 


PARIS     JUDY. 


1*0RTRAIT  AM>   ''H  »  ;i;.\  I'lIK  A  I.    RWOHD. 


.l/i.l 


WMitliy  of  tlif  ('<inti<IoiiL-o  and  trust  ie|K>M'<l  in  liiin 
liy  all  classvs.  and  is  a  pliysician  of  dwidi'd  merit, 
lie  i>  prominent Iv  idenlilied  with  all  enterprises 
of  a  laiidalilc  nature  and  no  wcutliy  moveinent.s  are 
alloweil  to  fail  tlir<.iu<;li  nejflif^cnee  lui  liis  |iart. 
In  all  his  relations  with  the  pulilie,  he  has  actpiitted 
himself  in  a  manner  relleetiuir  eredit  upon  himself 
and  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  eont^u-t. 

( »ur  subject  seleett'd  his  bride  in  the  person  of 
Kli/.alK'tli  Iturns,  dauijiiter  of  Thomas  liurns;  thev 
were  married  in  l'itt.-liurj;h,  I'a.,  and  their  nui)tials 
were  soleuHii/ed  in  the  spi-injj  of  184(1.  The  do- 
mestic happiness  of  Dr.  and  Mi-s.  Mcl.oskoy  was  in- 
creased materially  by  the  birth  of  five  children,  two 
living  at  this  time.  Mrs.  McLoskey  died  in  187(1. 
Our  subject  has  a  comfortable  home  at  No.  (WtJ  .ler- 
sey  Street  and  this  is  i)resided  over  in  an  admirable 
manner  by  his  worthy  and  much  esteemed  sister, 
.Mrs.  Myers.  Outside  of  his  business  successes,  the 
Doctor  is  a  gentleman  of  culture  and  pleasing 
social  qualities,  displaying  that  geniality,  liberality 
and  hospitable  nature  which  .so  pre-eminently 
characterized  his  ancestors.  The  interests  he  has 
shown  in  the  advancement  of  measures  for  the 
good  of  (^uincy  since  his  residence  here,  and  the 
zeal  he  h:us  shown  in  all  projects  worth}'  of  men- 
tion, caused  him  long  since  to  l»e  classed  as  one  of 
the  leading  citizens.  All  that  he  has  achieved  or 
gained  has  come  as  the  residt  of  his  own  efforl.s. 
.Socially,  tlie  Doctor  is  a  member  of  C'ommanche 
Lodge  No.  (12.  of  l);ivcni>ort.  Iowa. 


■■}\^\tifi:^i^ 


"X   AKl^    i.  .MDV.       Ill     |M«(i.    thcr.-    pa-scd 

I    from    life    in    Adams  Coiinty.   111..  »  man 

'%i- -^      who  had  been  identilicd  with  iimny  cnter- 

^  prises  of  importance,  who  was  public- 
spirited  and  ent^'rprising  to  a  degree,  and  whose 
name  wjls  well  known  in  both  s(K'ial  and  biisiiio- 
circles.  This  man  was  I'aris  T.  .Indy,  who  was  of 
Ocrman-Knglish  de.<«cent  and  came  of  good  obi 
Kentucky  slock,  lie  wa-<  born  in  (lark  loiiiil  \  ,of 
the  Blue  llrass  Si;iic.  Dicciubcr  U.   l»l(i.  and  was 


the  third  son  in  the  family  of  six  chihlreti  Ihu'ii  to 
Winnepark  an<l  Anna  .Iu(>y.  the  forHier  of  whom 
wa»  an  honest  "son  of  the  soil."  lie  and  his  wife 
are  descended  from  early  Kentucky  families,  who 
carved  out  homes  for  themselves  in  the  wilderne^s 
and  laid  the  foundation  for  the  present  magnilicent 
state  of  civilization  and  for  a  refined  Common- 
wealth. 

In  the  cominoii  schools  of  his  native  State.  I'aris 
T.  .ludy  received  his  early  educational  training, 
but  at  the  early  age  of  fifteen  years  his  advantages 
were  cut  short,  and  in  order  to  siip|iort  himself  he 
began  teaching  school,  a  calling  that  (X'cupieil  his 
attention  for  .some  time  during  the  winter  seasons. 
During  this  time,  his  range  of  vision  was  by  no 
means  conlined  to  the  iminediate  territory  in 
which  he  li\ed,  but,  lx>ing  familiar  will  the  history 
of  Illinois,  he  was  convinceil  that  the  young  Slate 
would,  in  the  near  future,  develop  into  one  of  the 
greatest  Common  wealths  of  the  (nited  States,  anil 
lime  h.HS  proved  the  wisdom  of  his  views.  Con- 
vinced of  this,  he  came  hither  in  18|(l,  and  for 
several  yeai-s  thereafter  taught  the  "young  idea  " 
in  Adams  County,  after  which  he  became  <|iiite  an 
extensive  dealer  in  real  estate  and  for  some  time 
thereafter  devoted  his  lime  and  energies  to  the 
material  advancement  of  the  l>est  interests  of  the 
county.  In  addition  to  the  duties  which  the 
magnitude  of  this  business  involved,  he  conducted 
a  variety  st<u-e  at  liiirtun,  Adams  County,  III.,  but 
soon  after  engaged  in  auriciilliiral  pui-suit.s.  and 
from  that  time  his  attention  was  given  to  that  in- 
de|)eiideiil  and  enjoyable,  if  lalHjrioiis,  pui-siiit, 
fanning.  He  found  thi^  congenial  to  his  tastes, 
and  stock-raising  was  a  bii>iii(-s  he  found  ispcci- 
ally  agreeable. 

(  >ur  subject  was  never  a  politician  in  the  sense 
of  being  a  public  odice-holder;  nevertheless,  he  was 
one  of  (li<»<e  men  who  exert,  without  any  apparent 
e(Tort  to  do  so,  a  most  important  iliMiience  on  an\ 
coiiimuiiity  with  which  ihey  clumce  to  !«■  identi- 
fied. .V  man  of  keen  perception*  mid  great  activ- 
ilv.  of  public  spirit  and  .vlerliiii;  iiitegiity.  his  aid 
was  siilicited  for  many  <'nlerpiises.  mid  so  far  as 
these  enterprises  .M-enied  t4i  him  meritorious,  and 
his  mc:iiis  would  allow,  he  extt'iideil  •>ubslanti.-il 
cucouruuciueul.     His  vote  was  ever  ucl>  in    fuvor 


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of  Republican  principles  and  be  was  at  all  times  a 
strong  snpjiorter  of  the  party.  Ilis  InHiiencc  was 
one  wliicli  quickened  into  healthful  action  the 
social,  moral  and  industrial  pulse  of  the  commu- 
nity, and  thus  contributed  to  its  upbuilding,  and  in 
social  life  he  was  considered  an  acquisition  to  any 
circle.  lie  was  a  ineinl)er  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
I'nited  Workmen. 

()n  the  11th  of  October,  1851.  Mr.  .ludy  was 
united  in  married  with  Miss  Nancy  Markwell,  who 
was  born  in  Flemingsburg,  Fleming  C'ount\-,  Ky., 
.Inly  31,  1815,  to  James  and  Rebecca  (Valandliani) 
Markwell,  being  one  of  their  seven  children. 
She  bore  her  husband  six  daughters  and  one 
son:  James  M..  at  Camp  Point,  Adams  County; 
Adelia  A.,  wife  of  W.  B.  Finley,  of  (iilman  'I'own- 
shii).  this  county;  Rebecca  E.,  wife  of  Martin 
Taylor,  of  Lewis  County,  Mo.;  Xantipjie,  wife  of 
Lycurgus  E.  Finle>-,  of  Adams  County;  Sierra 
Nevada,  wife  of  AVilliam  Criswold,  also  of  this 
county;  Ida  Kate,  wife  of  Charles  Horn,  and  Mary 
I).,  wife  of  Frederick  Rush,  of  Wichita.  Kan.  The 
mother  of  these  children  is  of  English  descent,  and 
her  ancestors  were  among  the  very  first  settlers  of 
Kentucky,  while  her  grandfather,  George  A'aland- 
hain,  was  a  near  neighlior  and  an  intimate  friend 
of  the  celebrated  pioneer,  Daniel  Boone.  Mrs. 
Judy  has  been  a  resident  of  <^uinc\'  since  October, 
1841,  and  is  now  occupying  a  pleasant  residence 
at  No.  1454  ^'ermont  Street. 


^C 


E^^ 


f, 


"iflOSEPH  ESTERLEY.  On  the  14th  of  July, 
1892,  there  died  at  his  pleasant  home 
in  Quincy,  111.,  a  man  whose  career  was 
marked  by  enterprise,  honesty,  sobriety  and 

industry,  and  of   him    it  could   be  sai^l   with  the 

greatest  fitness, 

"  He  hore  without  abuse 

The  grand  old  name  of  gentleman." 

He  was  a  man  of  great  strength  of  character, 
and  wielded  an  iatluencc  in  public  affairs  which 
will  be  fell  long  after  his  form  has  mouldered  to 


dust.  He  was  a  son  of  the  cit3'  of  <^uinc3',  born 
in  1837,  his  parents  being  John  and  Justina 
(Brodbeck)  Esterley,  both  of  whom  came  of  sub- 
stantial German  stock,  which  race  has  been  an  im- 
portant factor  in  American  progress  and  civiliza- 
tion. John  Esterle}'  became  a  resident  of  (^uincy, 
III.,  in  1835,  and  there  he  followed  the  calling  to 
which  he  had  been  reared,  and  of  which  he  had  a 
thoiough  knowledge,  carpentering,  for  many 
years.  He  was  a  man  who  believed  in  doing 
what  he  had  to  do  with  all  his  might,  and  his  skill 
as  a  wielder  of  the  hammer  and  plane  was  known 
and  appreciated. 

Fnti!  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  Joseph  Esterley 
wasan  attendantat  the  parc>chial  schools  of  t^uinc^', 
and  being  a  youth  of  considerable  mentality,  his 
career  was  marked  by  ra[)id  progress  in  his  studies 
and  by  a  desire  to  make  the  most  of  his  opportu- 
nities. Cpon  leaving  school,  he  was  apprenticed 
to  a  macliinisl,  and  worked  at  the  trade  until 
1864,  and  with  his  usual  a|)titudc  learned  all  theie 
was  to  learn  about  tlie  l)usiness.  In  18()5,  how- 
ever, he  decided  to  turn  his  attention  to  other 
pursuits,  and  came  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
gr(K'er3'  business  afforded  as  good  a  field  as  any  for 
the  accumulation  of  a  competenc.N,  and  for  four 
\'eai's  he  devoted  his  attention  faitlifully  to  this 
calling.  At  the  end  of  that  time,  he  disposed  of 
his  stock  of  goods,  and  became  a  member  of  the 
stock  company  that  organized  the  Excelsior  Stove 
Foundry  at  t^'uincy,  which  business  he  continued 
to  follow  for  two  years.  Having  sold  out  his  in- 
terest at  the  end  of  that  time,  be  began  devoting 
his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits  in  Lewis 
County',  Mo.,  and  for  six  years  thereafter  contin- 
ued to  be  an  energetic  tiller  of  the  soil.  In  1877. 
he  returned  to  the  iiome  of  his  birth,  and,  resum- 
ing his  former  occupation  of  machinist,  worked  at 
the  same  with  reasonable  success  until  1884,  at 
which  time  he  was  made  Chief  of  the  (^iiincy  Fire 
Department,  a  ])Osition  for  which  he  was  admira- 
bly fitted,  as  he  possessed  sound  and  practical 
views,  energy  and  undoulited  courage.  He  held 
this  position  with  the  greatest  credit  to  himself 
and  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned  until  ISIU, 
when  he  letired.  While  discharging  his  duties, lie 
did  a  great  deal  towards  perfecting  the  discipline 


roIMKAlI    ANF)   I'.K  M.l; Al'HK  AI.    IfTf ORI). 


of  lii>  r<ir('c.  and  iiii|iiiiviiii;  tlic  i|i-|i:ii  liiii-nl  m 
luiinerous  ollii-r  wa_v.«.  itiitl  iimi  natural  (■(in>t'(|ncnte 
his  st-rviit's  were  valued  n.s  tlicv  deserved  to  lie. 

I'ndiT  all  cirruinstnnces,  he  was  ie<.M>j;iiized  as 
line  of  lhos('  |>ulilii--s|>irited  I'lti/ens  who  could  hi' 
relied  upon  to  aid  every  worthy  enterprise,  and 
allhou<;li  he  was  (|uiet  and  unostentatious  in  dis- 
pensing I'harity.  he  did  so  in  that  piarticai  way 
wliieli  ex|)erienfe  taught  liini  aefonipiished  the 
Im'sI  residt.s.  His  knowledge  of  men.  like  liis 
knowledge  of  his  c.-illing,  was  of  a  liroad  ehanicl^'r, 
and  he  was  always  known  ati  iilx-ral  and  cliaritalde 
in  liis  views,  lie  was  a  strong  Democrat,  and 
soeiaily  w.is  a  nieniher  of  Mnripielte  Lodge  No.  .'JG, 
I.  ( >.  ().  !■".  lie  was  a  charter  meml)er of  the  Mould- 
ers'Tnion  of  <^uincv.  In  tlie  year  18;")H,  lie  married 
.Miss  Mary  C  Liilirs.  daugiiter  of  Fre<lcricL  i.iihrs, 
of  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  and  by  her  was  the  fatlierof 
the  following  children:  .Minnie,  wife  of  .lohn 
Livingston,  of  Kansiis  fity.  Mo.;  .Vnnie,  at  home; 
Mary,  wife  of  .lohn  D'llare,  of  i^uincy;  .loseph, 
.Ir.,  of  <;uincy;  Charles  II..  also  a  resident  of 
<iuincy;  Hose  K.,  Kva  C,  ItcMijamiii  L.  and  Kdna 
I).  The  family  resides  at  No.  40X  ,lci>ey  .Street, 
which  is  a  comfortable  and  plea-sant  home.  Mr. 
Ksterley  was,  as  is  his  wife,  a  member  of  St.  IVtcr's 
Catholic  Church. 


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oil  N  M.  LARKL  was  for  maii\  years  a 
prominent  and  honored  eiti/.en  of  .Vdams 
County,  and  it  is  Init  justice  to  his  family 
that  this  record  of  his  life  lie  given  in  the 
county  history,  lie  wa^  born  in  X'irginia,  in  IH27, 
and  comes  of  an  old  family  of  that  Stale,  ills 
parents,  .lames  and  .Margaret  Karel,  were  both  na- 
tives of  X'irginia.  His  father  served  in  the  War 
of  1HI2,  and  S.  (i.  l-juel.  the  brother  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  one  of  the  boys  in  blue  of  the  lal*-  war. 
The  family  numU-red  four  sons  and  two  daiigh- 
U-rs. 

In  his  early  yeais,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  en- 


i.':4l;ci|  111  icHiliiii;^  x-liool  for  inaiiv  tci  nis.  ami  m 
the  same  time,  during  the  sumnu-r  months,  fol- 
lowed farming.  .M  the  age  of  twenty-three,  in 
IKI!I,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Mailha  .!. 
Cleaver,  who  was  born  in  IH.til.  and  was  the  onh 
daughter  of  Henjamin  an<i  lj\na  Clcnver.  Four 
children  gniced  this  union:  .\ugustus.  Inirn  in 
l«.j",  was  educated  in  the  public  schmils  and  in 
•  ^uiiicy,  and  now  operates  the  old  homestead  for 
his  mother;  Mary  .\.,  born  in  1852,  is  the  wife  of 
('apt.  I).  M.  Morris,  by  whom  she  has  two  children, 
and  their  home  is  in  Camp  I'oint;  .\rtliur  it.,  born 
in  IH.'il,  mari-ieri  .\nna  Omer,  by  whom  he  lia.s 
three  children,  and  they  reside  on  the  old  li<ime- 
stead;  and  .lane,  born  in  18(;(i,  is  the  wife  of  Sam- 
uel Curry,  a  resident  of  Clayton.  The  children 
were  all  educated  in  the  (^iiincy  s»-liools.  and  were 
thus  lltted  ffir  the  juactical  and  responsible  duties 
of  life. 

.Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Ivarel  began  their  domestic  life  in 
Columbus  Township,  on  a  fartn  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  which  he  had  previously  pur- 
chased, and  there  resided  for  three  years.  He  then 
removed  with  his  family  to  his  father-in-law's  farm 
and  ojierated  the  old  homesteail  in  partnership. 
He  afterward  purchased  one  huiKlied  and  sixtv 
acres  of  that  farm,  and  engaged  in  it.<i  care  and 
cultivation  until  \Hi\9,  when  he  was  elected  Sheriff 
of  .Vdains  County,  and  removed  t<i(juincy.  Faith- 
fully he  performed  the  duties  of  his  odk-e,  and  for 
six  years  he  resided  in  that  city.  He  then  re- 
moved to  Abingdon,  Knox  County,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  bakery  business  for  about  six  months. 
He  then  sold  out  and  returned  to  (^uincy,  iK'com- 
ing  interested  in  steamlK)at  tninsportation.  He 
purclia.sed  interests  in  live  of  the  largest  steamers 
on  the  .MissiKsippi.  and  t4>  that  line  of  business  de- 
voted his  energies  for  four  veai>.  when  he  sold  out 
and  returned  to  the  old  homestead,  where  he  s|H-nt 
the  remainder  of  his  life. 

Ill  politics.  Mr.  Karel  was  n  Democrat,  and  was 
ipiite  a  promini-nt  meiiilH-r  of  his  party.  StM'iallv, 
he  w;is  connected  with  the  Masonic  fraternit\.  He 
was  charitable  and  U-nevolent.  and  the  pooi  aii<l 
needy  found  in  him  a  friend.  He  was  .a  man  of 
strong  convictions,  ever  true  to  what  he  lielieved 
to  Ik*  the  right,     lie  was  held  in  univeiNil  regard, 


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and  was  highly  esteemed  by  all.  He  passed  away 
May  2.5,  1881,  and  his  death  was  mourned  bv  many 
friends. 

Mrs.  Eai'el,  who  is  a  most  estimable  lady,  still 
resides  on  the  home  farm  with  her  children.  The 
liomestead  comprises  tliree  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
of  valuable  land,  all  under  a  high  state  of  cultiva- 
tion and  well  improved. 


►f^>|<^^ 


jf7  EMUEL  BURKE,  who  resides  on  section 
il  (^  34,  is  one  of  the  wealthy  and  representa- 
j^v\  five  citizens  of  Nortli  East  Township. 
Adams  County  is  the  place  of  his  birth,  which  oc- 
curred in  1833.  His  ])arents  were  Fleming  and 
Sarah  (Horney)  Burke,  the  former  a  native  of 
Russell  County,  Va.,  and  the  latter  of  (Uiilford 
County,  N.  C.  They  were  of  Scotch  and  Irish 
descent. 

In  1831.  Fleming  Burke  came  to  this  count}' 
witli  his  fatlier,  but  after  a  year  returned  to  Xiv- 
ginia.  In  a  short  time,  however,  he  again  came 
to  the  West  and  settled  on  section  3."),  North 
East  Township,  where  he  made  a  claim  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  wild  land.  Tliree 
years  later,  he  sold  this  claim  and  removed  to 
anotiier  farm  of  a  (juarter-section  in  the  .school 
district.  There  he  carried  on  agricultural  i)ur- 
suits  until  18aO,  when  he  again  sold  out.  Later, 
he  purchased  and  improved  a  tract  of  three  liun- 
dred  and  twenty  acres,  which  he  made  his  home 
\intil  his  death.  He  was  one  of  the  lionored  pio- 
neers of  this  locality,  and  was  prominently  identi- 
fied witli  its  early  history.  During  the  Black 
Hawk  War,  he  enlisted  at  Rusliville,  under  Capt. 
Fellows,  and  served  in  tliat  struggle  against  the 
Indians. 

The  Burke  family  nuinl>ered  the  following  chil- 
dren: Mary  E.,  now  deceased;  Robert  F.,  who 
married  Miss  Barnett  and  is  a  grain  dealer  of 
Plainville,  Kan.;  our  subject;  Sarah  E,,  now  Mrs. 
Clark;  William  H.,  Lydia  D.,  Louisa  and  Re- 
becca. 


Lemuel  Burke  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  the 
county  of  his  nativitj-.  He  was  reared  amid  the 
wild  scenes  of  frontier  life  and,  with  the  family, 
shared  in  the  experiences  and  liardshijjs  which 
fall  to  the  lot  of  a  pioneer.  His  educational  ad- 
vantages were  such  as  the  common  schools  af- 
forded, and  he  remained  under  the  parental  roof 
until  after  he  had  attained  is  majority,  when  he 
started  out  in  life  for  himself.  He  secured  a  farm 
of  eighty  acres  of  prairie  land  and  thirty-  .acres  of 
timber,  and  placed  it  under  a  high  state  of  culti- 
vation. His  father  afterward  gave  to  him  one 
liundred  and  sixty  acres,  and,  as  his  financial 
resources  increased,  he  made  additional  purchases 
and  his  farm  now  comprises  five  hundred  .and 
forty-th-ee  acres  of  rich  prairie.  It  is  all  under 
a  iiigh  state  of  cultivation,  the  fields  are  well  tilled 
.and  the  improvements  are  many.  Jn  connection 
with  general  farming,  Mr.  Burke  engages  in  stock- 
raising  and  has  a  line  herd  of  fort}'  head  of  Short- 
horn cattle.  He  also  raises  a  high  grade  c)f  hogs 
and  horses. 

In  18o(),  iNIr.  ]5urke  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Ann,  daughter  of  .James  Robbins.  of  North 
East  Township.  The  following  children  were  liorn 
unto  them:  Addie,  born  in  18.57;  Edward  L.,  born  in 
1858,  married  Amelia  .Ihenksy  and  is  baggage- 
master  in  (ialesburg;  Cora  A.,  born  in  186(J,  is 
the  wife  of  Eugene  De  Groot,  a  resident  farmer 
of  North  East  Township;  L^dia,  l)orn  in  1862, 
married  Ira  F.  Reynolds;  Sarah  E.,  born  in  18()6, 
died  in  childliiiod;  and  Flora,  born  in  18(58,  is  at 
home. 

On  the  14th  of  August,  18(52,  :Mr.  Burke  re- 
sponded to  his  country's  call  for  troops,  and,  en- 
listing at  La  Prairie  under  Capt.  .Johnson,  became 
a  meml)er  of  Comp.any  K.  One  Hundred  and 
Nineteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which  he  served 
three  years.  He  was  taken  prisoner  at  Ruther- 
ford .Station,  Tenn.,  but  was  afterward  p;iroled. 
He  participated  in  the  Red  River  campaign  and 
in  all  the  battles  in  which  the  Sixteenth  Army 
Corps  was  engaged.  He  was  a  faithful  soldier, 
ever  found  at  his  post  of  duty,  and  when  the 
war  was  over  was    honorably  discharged. 

For  several  years.  Mi'.  Burke  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  Government  as  special  employe  uuder  the 


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PDKTKAIT  AND  RIOr.RArHICAL    HKCORI). 


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Indiiin  nixi'iit,  .iiul  in  |H7(>  Imd  oliai'^^e  of  n  liiiiiu-li 
of  the  «;:eiicy  at  Fl.  Itt'lkiinp.  Mont.  In  |)olilii-s. 
Ill'  is  a  Mtjilwarl  Mi|)iioitci-  of  ilio  U(|iul>licau 
|iartv  and  lias  licld  llic  oHii-cs  of  Tax  Collector, 
S*.-liool  Director  and  {'oniniis-ioncr  «»f  lliirliw(iyi<. 
Sicially,  ho  is  a  Knii^lit  TcMijilnr  Mason  and  hi;* 
wife  is  a  nieinlx'r  of  the  Mptliodi»t  Cliiircli.  lie  \* 
an  «'nti'r|>risinir  and  proyrcssivt'  farmer,  is  a  man 
true  to  every  |iul>lie  and  private  trust,  and  amon^ 
the  valuefl  citizens  of  his  township  he  is  numbered. 


c-l-l 


I.FHKI)  A.  WllllM'l.K.  .M.  I).  The  med- 
ical fraternity  of  Adams  County  would  lie 
i!)  hut  poorly  represented  in  this  rolumc  were 
not  n)entioii  made  of  tlii'  irentlcman  aliove 
named,  who  is  one  of  the  Icadinir  physicians  of 
<iuincy.  After  years  of  unremitting^  toil,  he  se- 
cured a  line  footing;  in  the  profession  and  a  com- 
petence which  cnalilcs  him  to  enjoy  all  the  com- 
forts of  life.  His  home,  which  is  «inc  of  the  most 
attractive  residences  of  the  city,  and  his  otlice. 
which  is  >|ileiididly  eijiiipped  with  all  neetled  med- 
ical appliances,  are  Ificated  at  Nos.  (>'M  and  (J.'l'.t 
Maine  Street. 

As  his  life  lii>toiy  >Iioh>.  Dr.  Whipple  is  a  self- 
made  man,  an<l  as  such  deserves  the  greater  credit 
for  his  acquisitions  and  attainments.  His  earliest 
recollecti<uis  are  of  the  scenes  around  lii>  father's 
farm  in  Cattaraugus  County.  N.  Y.,  where  hisliirth 
occurred  Octolier  ."U,  1 «!."».  He  is  the  eldest  s<in  <if 
Henry  F.  Whipple,  a  native  of  New  York,  liiit 
reared  in  I'ennsylvania.and  he  in  turn  was  the  son 
of  .Joseph  Whipple,  of  Knirlish  des<-ent.  Durinfr  the 
late  war.  Henry  F.  Whipple  enlisted  and  served 
with  honor,  luit  unfortunately  was  captured  at  the 
liattle  of  ( iettysliiirg.  sent  as  a  prisoner  of  war  to 
liiehmond.  and  then  to  .Anderson  villi-,  h  here  he 
died  in  .Inly,  IHiil. 

The  moth<-r  of  our  siihject.  .Martha  A.  (Hatch) 
Whipple,  w.os  liorn  in  New  York  Stale,  the  daiiuhler 
(if  Stephen  anil  Mary  Hatch. and  is  still  living  al  the 
old  liomi-stead  in  Western  .New    York,     Tlie  earlv 


lioyhiKid  of  our  suhject  was  spent  on  a  farm,  and 
during  the  trying  times  of  war  he  remained  at 
home  to  care  for  his  nnitheraii<l  the  younger  chil- 
dren, of  whom  there  were  six.  At  the  age  of  nine- 
teen years,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Krie  Kail- 
road  Company,  and  remained  an  eiiiplove  of  the 
freight  department   for  six  yeai-s. 

H.'iving  resolved  tocho<»efor  his  life  iK'i'iipatJon 
the  nitdical  profe.-sion.  the  young  man  commenced 
to  read  medicine  with  Dr.  Henry  Ijirned.  of  Sala- 
manca. N.  Y.;  later,  he  entered  the  Fcleclic  Medical 
liistitut<>  at  Cincinnati,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated, and  .afterward  wa.s  graduated  fiom  the 
Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  Chicago.  Having 
gained  a  thorough  theoretical  knowledge  of  the 
healing  art,  he  was  prepared  to  prove  his  ability 
by  practical  experience.  Opening  an  ollk-e  at  Kaii- 
dolpli.  ill  the  westi'rn  part  of  New  York,  he  there 
commenced  practice  in  lN7."»-7(i,  and  from  the  tirst 
wiis  successful. 

Ill  ISMli,  Dr.  Whipple  came  to  (^uincy  to  take 
the  practice  of  the  late  Dr.  .Moore,  who  was  the 
successor  of  Dr.  Talcott.  He  afterward  piirchasetl 
his  Maine  Street  property  of  Dr.  Talcott.  thus  iden- 
tifying himself  permanently  with  (^iiincy  as  a  res- 
ident. The  confidence  wliich  is  bestowed  u|ion 
him  by  the  people  of  t^uiiicy  and  vicinity  is  not 
misplaced,  for  lie  is  skillful  in  the  profession  he 
has  chosen,  is  well  read  in  general  topii'?'.  a  keen 
ob-erverof  life  in  its  various  phages,  and  Iuls  borne 
himself  as  a  man  of  honor  in  all  the  scenes  through 
which  he  has  passed.  He  has  In-en  very  successful 
in  alleviating  suffering,  and  well  deserves  the 
lioiuir  which  he  receives  as  a  memlier  of  a  profes- 
sion which  is  exceeded  in  its  U-nefits  only  by  the 
iniiiistry,  and  which,  in  many  res|K>cls.  stands  si<i,. 
by  side  with  the  laUir  of  a  |Mislor. 

The  positions  of  trust  in  professional  ami  ^mial 
organizations  »liieli  li.ave  been  conferred  ii|H>nDi. 
Whipple  are  numerous.  For  the  |>!»st  ten  years  he 
has  served  as  Tie.asurer  of  the  State  Homeopatliic 
Medical  Ass4K-ialion.  ami  still  fills  that  [Hisition. 
Ill  aildition,  he  is  identifie<l  with  the  .Vmeriean  In- 
stitute of  llomeopalliy.  its  one  of  its  most  active 
memlK-rs.  For  -everal  yeai-s  lie  was  a  memlH-r  of 
the  (juiney  Koard  of  Health,  and  his  lalHii>  in 
that  position  weiT  iirduoiisand  eltlci)>nt,     SiK-ially, 


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he  belongs  to  Quinc.y  Lodge  No.  296,  F.  &  A.  M.; 
Quiiicy  Chapter  No.  .'>,  of  which  he  is  High  Priest; 
Alaska  Commandery  No.  5,  K.  T.,  and  Quincy  Con- 
sistory. 

Tlie  marriage  of  Dr.  Whii)[)Ie  to  Miss  J,ydia  E., 
daughter  of  Dr.  Henry  and  Mary  Lamed,  was  cel- 
ehrated  in  October,  1869.  Mrs.  "\Vliip|)le  was 
reared  in  New  York,  receiving  a  good  education, 
and  grew  to  womanhood  with  a  character  which 
wins  for  iier  many  friends  wlierever  slie  is  known. 
Slie  is  a  model  housekeeper,  a  sympathizing  com- 
panion, and  a  considerate  motiier  to  her  four  sons: 
Henry  L.,  Merrilt  P..  Arthur  15.  and  William.  The 
daughter,  Grace  E.,  died  at  the  age  of  four   years. 


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'\f(AMES  J.  SHANAHAN.  One  of  tlie  resi- 
dents of  and  most  prominent  men  in  Quincy, 
who  has  made  himself  felt  in  the  commer- 
cial life  of  the  town,  is  he  whose  name  is  at 
the  head  of  this  sketch.  Although  an  American 
by  birth  and  education,  he  is  of  Insli  ancestr}', 
and  has  always  brought  to  bear  in  his  business 
dealings  tlie  honesty  and  energy  for  which  his  na- 
tionality' is  celebrated.  He  is  one  of  the  most  re- 
liable and  successful  of  the  builders  and  contrac- 
tors of  Quincy. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  tiiis  citj-  December  4, 
1844.  He  is  the  son  of  John  Shanaban,  who 
came  from  his  native  country,  Ireland,  when  a 
young  man,  and  made  liis  home  in  St.  Louis, 
where  lie  followed  the  trade  of  a  blacksmitli.  In 
the  year  1839.  he  came  to  Quincy  and  engaged  in 
farming  on  land  whicli  is  now  included  in  the 
corporation  limits.  Later,  he  became  employed 
in  street-excavating  and  contracting.  At  this 
he  continued  until  tlie  time  of  liis  deatli.  which 
occurred  November  22,  1869.  He  upheld  tlie 
principles  of  the  Democratic  i)arty  all  his  life. 
The  motlier  of  our  subject  was  JNIargaret  Ma- 
lony,  wlio  was  born  in  Ireland,  but  now  resides 
at  lier  liome.  No.  827  Jersey  Street,  Quinc}-,  111. 
Our  subject  is  the  (')d('st  of  cighl  cliiUUej)  and 


was  born  in  Quincy.  and  here  received  a  very  liberal 
education.  He  first  attended  tlie  putilic  scliools. 
and  then  Baker's  Academy,  and  still  later  the  old 
Methodist  Episcopal  College  on  Spring  .and  Fourlli 
Streets,  now  Chaddock  College.  Still  later,  he  was 
sent  to  iirivate  schools.  When  eighteen  years  old, 
he  was  apprenticed  under  Williamson  il-  Jones 
to  learn  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  continued  there 
three  years  and  six  months.  He  worked  in  Quincy 
until  April  .5,  1869,  when  he  went  to  Ft.  Scott. 
Kan.,  and  there  engaged  in  contracting  and 
building  for  nine  months,  but  was  recalled  to 
l^uincy  by  the  death  of  his  father.  In  the  siiring 
of  1870,  lie  went  to  Warren  County  and  engaged 
with  his  Uncle  William  in  contracting  on  the  .St. 
Louis,  Kockford  A-  Rock  Island  Railroad,  and  that 
same  fall  went  to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  and  was 
employed  as  carpenter  foreman  on  the  Kansas  City, 
St.  Joe  &  Council  Bluffs  Railroad.  In  1874,  he  re- 
turned to  Quincy  and  went  to  work  for  Lark- 
worthy  At  Burgee,  and  remained  there  for  three 
years,  when  he  and  Joe  Berkin  did  a  contracting 
business  in  partnership  for  two  years,  but  since 
then  lie  has  conducted  his  flourisliing  business 
alone.  He  contracts  for  brick  and  frame  resi- 
dences, and  does  jobbing  in  general.  He  built  his 
fine  brick  residence  on  the  corner  of  Eighth  and 
Jersey  Streets,  eighty  feet  front,  with  shop  ad- 
joining, and  has  everj' convenience  for  first-class 
work. 

IMr.  Shanahan  was  married  in  St.  Joe,  January 
30,  1873,  to  Jliss  ISIary  JlcCabe,  wlio  was  born  in 
the  Emerald  Isle,  but  came  to  America  with  her 
parents,  and  was  reared  and  educated  in  St.  Louis, 
Mo.  Willi  iier  thrifty  habits,  she  has  assisted  her 
liusband  in  every  way  in  her  power,  and  is  a  much 
respected  member  of  their  circle  of  friends. 

Our  subject  has  lent  his  name  and  aid  to  many 
of  the  social  and  benevolent  societies  of  his  na- 
tive city,  .among  which  we  may  mention  St.  Pa- 
trick's, of  which  he  has  Ijeen  President  for  two 
years;  and  the  Fireman's  Benevolent  Societ}',  in 
which  he  was  Foreman  of  Hose  for  two  years. 
From  a  young  man  lie  has  been  a  volunteer  fire- 
man, and  for  several  years  was  Foreman  of  the  old 
Hose  No.  1  Company. 

i^i^■,  Sliajiahan   is  a  conscientious  incDibei-  of  St, 


PORTHAir  AN!)  l!K;(  UIAI'IIK  M.    i;r;(  <ilM). 


.'Ifil 


Fetor's  Catholic  Cliurch.wliicli  he  ntleiuls  niid  liclps 
to  Mi|i|iort;  lu'  is  also  a  inuinlier  of  tlip  DenuK-nitii' 
|ijirt\.  lu'lieviiiif  ill  tin-  t«'iu't-<  of  froc  trade  and  I 
sovoreiirn  |m>wit.  Mr. Sliaiialiaii  has  lived  so  many 
vi-ai-s  ill  this  lieaiitifiil  i-ity,  whirli  his  industry  has 
helped  to  adorn,  that  his  natural  pride  in  it  is 
not  to  he  wondered  at. 


i,  KTKK'  C'OIJT.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
ijl  is  a  farmer  liviii<r  on  section  2,  Mendon 
Township.  II is  father  was  .loscpli  Cort.  a 
native  of  Westmoreland  County,  I'a.,  who 
in  his  turn  was  a  son  of  .loseph  Coi  t,  who  came 
from  liermany.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was 
Catherine  ((iross)  Cort,  a  native  of  IVnnsylvaiiia, 
who  wa.s  married  to  .loseph  Cort  in  that  State. 
The  latter  tame  to  Illinois  in  |S,').'(,  settled  in 
Mendon  Township,  and  improved  a  farm.  He  re- 
sided there  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in 
1K7S.  Mis  wife  had  died  many  years  before  in 
IViinsylvania.  They  were  parent*  of  nine  chil- 
dren, but  two  of  whom  are  now  living,our  sul)ject 
and  a  brother,  .lo.seph,  who  lives  in  Missouri.  Mr. 
and  Mi-s.  Cort  were  worthy  membei"s  of  the  (ierman 
Hcformed  Church,  of  which  he  had  been  Deacon 
anil  KIder  .several  times.  He  took  a  deep  interest 
in  schools,  and  was  a  liberal,  open-handed  man. 

Our  subject  was  born  .Iiine  21.  IX2(I.  in  West- 
moreland Comity.  I'a.,  and  was  reared  to  the  life 
of  a  farmer.  He  received  a  common-school  educa- 
tion, and  remained  at  luinie  until  he  was  twenty- 
four  years  old.  In  1M1;{.  he  was  married  to  Mar- 
ifarel  Whitehead,  a  native  of  Westmoreland 
County,  I'a.,  who  w.as  born  in  IK2I;  she  was  a 
daughter  of  Peter  Whitehe.-id.  a  native  of  I'enn- 
svlvanin.  After  his  niiirriage,  .Mr.  Cort  worked 
on  his  father's  farm  until  he  came  to  Illinois  in 
I8."i.'»and  M'ttled  in  Mendon  Township,  near  the 
town  line  of  Lima.  The  place  was  partly  improved, 
and  had  upon  it  a  small  log  cabin,  ami  here  the 
family  life  in  Illinois  iH'giin.  Oursuliject  wnsindu.s- 
^|•ious.  and  auon  put  up  a  brick   house  ftiu'  frnine 


barn,  the  lK?st  in  that  liK'iility.  I  Ic  moved  to  his 
present  farm  in  IHtJT,  and  has  greatly  improved 
this  place,  his  line  residenc«\  which  he  built  in  l««(t, 
alone  costing  il,S(io.  He  owns  three  hundred  and 
forty-seven  acres  of  land,  ami  has  it  all  improved, 
but  now  rents  his  farms. 

The  wife  of  .Mr.  Cort  died  in  1X6:1,  lenviiig  four 
of  her  eight  children.  They  are  Margaret  K.,  the 
wife  of  Kreneli  IJaltell,  who  lives  in  Memlon.and 
has  two  children;  I.in<la,  who  is  the  wife  of  Charles 
Wright,  lives  in  this  township  and  has  two  chil- 
dren; J<ydia  lives  at  home;  and  Lebbus  I).,  wlu> 
married  Miss  Smith,  lives  in  .Missouri  and  Uas  one 
child. 

.Mr.Cort  is  a  niembfr  of  the  Lutheran  (^.'hurcli  at 
Mendon,  in  which  he  has  been  a  Deacon, and  is  one 
of  the  most  resjiected  men  of  the  community.  He 
has  been  much  interested  in  educational  matters, 
and  has  .served  .as  .School  Director  for  years.  He 
has  also  been  lioad  Commissioner  in  this  township. 
In  politics.  Mr.  Cort  believes  in  the  principles 
enunciated  by  the  DenuK-ratic  party.  He  (»wiis 
two  large  improved  farms,  a  fine  frame  residence 
and  one  of  brick.  He  began  almost  empty-handed 
but  h:us  worked  hard,  and  now  enjoys  the  result  of 
his  labor. 


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«y^l  b'lAII  11.  KKVIU,  Depuly  Collectiu-  of 
I  I  I'liitcd  .States  Internal  Revenue  for  the 
V_/^  Kiglith  |)istri<'t  of  lllinnis.  has  his  liead- 
(piarters  in  <iuincv,  and  while  his  duties  mvupy  a 
great  deal  of  his  time  and  att^'iition,  still  he  is  al- 
wavs  ready  to  .-lid  in  any  worthy  movements,  lb- 
was  born  in  .l.icksoii ville.  .Morgan  County.  III., 
November  :L  IX.'U.  the  eldest  son  of  (iabriel  Keath, 
a  native  of  .Mt.  Sterling.  Montgiiiiier>  Cuunly. 
Kv..  of  which  State  his  f.-ithcr.  Iriah  Ke:itli.  was  an 
early  .settler  fmni  llu-  ( »ld  I  )i>iiiiiiioii.  (iabriel 
Keath  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Liicinda 
Uandolph,  who  was  also  Imiiii  on  Itliie  (irasr< 
soil,  a  daughter  <  f  •Lames  jinndolph,  and  with 
hi>     wife     leijiovcd     to    A''i>"l>    Coniitv,    III.,    l|| 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


1833,  where  lie  purchased  a  tract  of  land  and 
at  once  began  to  convert  it  into  a  farm.  To  this 
occupation  lie  devoted  his  attention  throughout 
life  and  also  carried  on  that  most  necessary  and 
profitable  branch  of  agriculture,  stock-raising. 

The  ^youthful  days  of  Uriah  H.  Keath  were  spent 
like  those  of  most  bo.ys,  in  assisting  his  father  on 
the  home  farm  and  in  attending  the  district  school 
near  his  rural  home,  where  he  iitted  himself  for 
the  McKendree  College,  which  he  entered  at  Leb- 
anon, 111.  He  pursued  his  studies  successfully  in 
that  institution  for  three  years,  and  at  the  same 
time  pursued  the  study  of  law.  After  finishing 
his  collegiate  course,  he  continued  his  legal  studies 
in  the  office  of  Archibald  Williams  and  C.  B.  Law- 
rence, of  Quincy,  and  on  the  5th  of  February, 
1855,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar.  lie  entered 
heart  and  soul  into  the  practice  of  his  profession 
and  was  energetically  at  work  looking  after  his 
large  clientage  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  when  the  threat- 
ening war  cloud  burst  in  all  its  fury,  and  he 
offered  himself  for  the  Union  service.  He  became 
First  Lieutenant  in  the  Fifth  Iowa  Infantry, 
of  which  Col.  W.  H.  AVoithington  was  the  Com- 
mander, and  during  his  long  term  of  service  was 
in  twent3'-one  battles,  among  which  may  be  men- 
tioned New  Madrid,  Island  No.  10,  luka,  Cor- 
inth, Vicksburg,  Knoxville,  siege  of  Corinth,  Mis- 
sionary- Ridge,  and  the  Atlanta  Campaign.  In 
September,  1862,  he  vvas  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Captain,  in  which  capacity-  he  served  until  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term  of  service,  when  he  returned 
to  his  home  in  Iowa. 

In  1865,  he  became  a  resident  of  Quincy,  where 
he  at  once  opened  a  law  office  and  has  since  prac- 
ticed in  all  the  courts.  He  was  universally  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  most  prominent  members  of  a 
Bar  which  included  men  of  keen  and  cultured  in- 
tellect. His  practice  was  remunerative  and  he  en- 
joyed the  enviable  reputation  with  court,  coun.sel 
and  client  of  a  practitioner  scrupulously  accurate 
in  statement,  and  in  every  action  or  position  gov- 
erned by  the  nicest  sense  of  professional  honor. 
In  1889,  he  was  appointed  United  States  Deputy- 
Collector  of  Revenue,  and  his  talents  now  found 
employment  in  a  new  channel.  He  interested  liim- 
>elf  in  tiie   duties    of   his    jievv    position    and    lias 


evinced  an  unusual  aptitude  for  the  business. 
American  politics  have  never  failed  to  enlist  his 
warmest  sympathies  and  he  has  always  exhibited 
the  liveliest  interest  in  the  public  questions  of  the 
day,  always  advocating  the  men  and  principles 
that  challenged  his  support.  As  a  man,  he  is  of 
genial  nature  and  social  tastes,  and  these  qualities 
have  won  him  a  host  of  warm  and  devoted  friends. 
He  is  a  member  of  John  Wood  Post  No.  96, 
G.  A.  R.,  of  Quincy.  He  has  a  very  pleasant  resi- 
dence at  No.  1205  North  Sixth  Street. 


AMUEL  D.  ISHTTS,  a  self-made  man,  who 
low  engaged  in  farming  on  section  25, 
'oncord  Township,  is  a  native  of  Kentucky. 
He  was  born  in  1831,  and  is  one  of  a  fam- 
ily- of  nine  sons  who  graced  the  union  of  John  and 
Sarah  Mitts.  In  an  early  day,  the  father  emigrated 
with  his  family  Westward,  and  took  up  his  residence 
in  this  county,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  days,  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits. 

Mr.  Mitts,  whose  name  heads  this  record,  was 
reared  amid  the  wild  scenes  of  frontier  life  in 
Adams  County,  and  his  privileges  in  either  a  finan- 
cial or  educational  way  were  rather  limited.  When 
young,  he  started  out  for  himself  to  earn  his  own 
livelihood,  and  worked  by  the  day  and  month  for 
some  years.  He  then  rented  land  and  engaged  in 
farming  for  himself,  and  at  length,  by  his  perse- 
vering and  industrious  efforts,  he  acquired  a 
suHicient  sum  to  purchase  forty  acres  of  land. 
I^pon  that  farm  he  resided  for  five  years  and  then 
bought  eight}'  acres,  to  which  he  has  since  added 
another  tract  of  eighty  acres.  His  farm  now  com- 
prises over  two  hundred  acres  of  land,  valued  at 
$40  per  acre.  The  fields  are  well  tilled  and  under 
a  high  state  of  cultivation.  The  improvements 
are  many  and  are  such  as  are  seen  on  the  farm  of 
a  thrifty  and  enterprising  .agriculturist. 

An  important  event  in  the  life  of  Mr.  Mitts  oc- 
cuired  in  the  year  1856,  when  he  was  married  to 


(JlS) .  ^  •  t/pdn^^-e^-'yi^ 


ponTKAiT  AM)  ni(M;i{AiMrif\i    urronn. 


.•tr..-, 


.Mi>-  Ailaliiir  llii^Mii.  riu  II  iiniiiji  \v!i>  IiU'>m'iI 
ivitli  two  cliildi'cii.  Iiii(  Udli  arp  now  (Jocj-asi-d. 
as  is  al.s<"»  tlieir  iiuitlicr.  To  lii.s  presi'iit  wife, 
who  provioiis  to  licr  niarriaiif  will)  our  s(il>- 
jt'ct  was  Mrs.  llallii'  (iooloy,  lie  was  uiiitvd  in 
the  yonr  1883.  Our  sulijecl  and  his  cstiinnblc 
wife  hold  nieniliorsliip  witli  the  Christian  I'linreh, 
to  tlio  support  of  which  they  c-ontritiulc  liberally, 
and  are  numbered  among  iU*  prominent  andaetive 
workers,  doins  all  in  their  power  for  its  advance- 
ment and  u|iliuildin,<r.  Mr.  Mitts  is  i-ver  found  in 
the  front  ranks  of  any  enterprise  i-alculated  to 
l)onent  or  improve  tlieeomnninity.and  is  a  |>ublic- 
spirited  and  projjressive  citi/.en.  He  exercises  his 
right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  Democratic 
party,  but  has  never  .sought  or  desired  the  honors 
or  emoluments  of  public  ollice.  lusleail.  he  lias 
given  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  Ids  busine.vs 
and  h.ns  met  with  signal  success.  lie  is  truly  a 
.self-made  man,  having  started  out  in  life  em|)ty- 
lianded,  and  by  Ins  own  unaided  efforts  has  worked 
hi.«  wav  upward  .and  acipiircd  a  comfortable  com- 
petency. 


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F.  KDMONDS.  The  most  con.spicuous 
figure  in  the  southern  part  of  ,\dams 
(jfc  V  County  is  the  above-named  gentleman,  who 
makes  his  lumie  in  Payson  and  is  always  to 
be  found  giving  his  confidence  and  support  to 
that  which  pertains  to  the  improvement  of  this 
section  and  the  advancement  of  its  people.  So 
•Straightforward  has  been  his  life,  so  honorable  his 
tlealings  with  all,  and  so  marked  his  interest  in. 
and  energetic  his  work  for,  the  Itcst  that  life  af- 
fords, that  on  all  sides  his  prai.so  resounds.  He  is 
the  proprietor  of  three  hundred  acres  of  valuable 
land,  to  the  cultivation  of  which  he  gives  his  per- 
sonal attention,  and  on  which  he  raises  improved 
varieties  «>f  grain  and  the  best  grades  of  stin-k. 

Our  subject,  who  was  born  in  Iredell  County, 
X.  C,  September  2,  1818,  was  a  lad  of  ten  years 
when  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal 


lo  UluDii  (  .uiiiiv,  li'iiu.  I- rum  tlu-re  tlu^y  reniuvccl 
t<i  Payson  Township,  this  county,  .Iidy  '.i,  \M\, 
where  .Mr.  Kdmondshns  since  made  \i\s  home.  The 
country  abounded  with  wild  game  in  that  early 
day,  and  iiiMiiediately  on  the  arrival  of  the  family 
here  the  father  began  the  improvement  of  his 
farm  and.  one  after  one.  the  sturdy  nionarchs  of 
the  forest  fell  beftu'e  his  ax.  :iiid  in  a  few  years 
where  was  once  a  dense  timber  waving  fields  of 
grain  were  seen. 

The  lii-st  schooling  our  subject  fver  received 
was  in  183 1.  when  he  attended  a  subscription 
school  kept  by  Woodford  Lawrence  in  a  log  stable. 
12x1-1  feet,  with  very  large  cracks  between  the 
logs.  He  began  life  without  capital  save  a  young 
man's  bright  hope  of  the  future,  and  is  now  num- 
bered among  the  substantial  citizens  of  this  com- 
imiiuty  as  the  result  of  his  own  thrift  and  enter- 
prise, supplemented  by  good  busines*;  ability. 
March  I.  IHll,  when  twenly-two  years  of  age,  he 
was  married  U>  Miss  Caroline  I.,  daughter  of 
Klislia  Chapman.  Locating  with  his  bride  upon 
his  farm,  he  engaged  in  its  cultivation  for  many 
years,  and  later,  removing  lo  the  village  of  I'ay- 
.son.  launched  out  into  the  mercantile  Irailc.  in 
which  he  continued  fcu'  seventeen  ye.nrs. 

The  original  of  this  sketch  has  always  been  very 
popular  annmg  his  fellow-tctwnsmen.  He  wa.«  ap- 
pointed I'ostmaster  of  the  village,  serving  in  that 
responsible  position  from  July,  1801,  until  the 
fall  of  18K(J,  when  he  resigned  his  ollice  on  ac- 
count t)f  Ix'ing  called  upon  by  Posimasler-(  leneral 
Randall  for  a  subscription  to  a.ssist  the  .Southern 
cause.  To  Mr.  and  .Mi>.  Kdnionds  were  iHini 
thirteen  children,  eight  of  whom  arc  deceased. 

.lolin  and  Klizabeth  (Fitzgerald)  Kdmonds,  the 
parents  of  our  subject,  were  natives  r«\spectively 
of  Ireland  and  Virginia.  'i'lie  father  <-aine  to 
Ameri<'a  in  company  with  his  nK>ther  and  ten  sis- 
tei>  and  brothers.  He  was  twice  married  and  be- 
came the  father  of  fifteen  children,  of  wlioni  our 
subject  is  the  llrsi  in  order  of  birth  of  the  second 
union.  In  politics,  he  has  always  vot*'d  the  |{c- 
publican  ticket  since  the  organization  of  that 
party,  prior  to  which  time  he  cast  his  first  vote  for 
William  Henry  Harrison.  He  deserves  no  little 
creilil  for  his  success  in  business  life,  us  to  his  own 


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unaided  efiforts  may  be  attributed  his  prosperity. 
As  before  stated,  he  owns  one  of  the  linest  farms 
in  tlie  township,  and  has  property  suflicient  to 
supply  all  his  wants  in  the  deelininq;  years  of  liis 
life.  About  187.5,  he  began  lireeding  Short-horn 
cattle,  which  brandi  of  agriculture  he  continued 
in  until  1882,  and  during  that  time  was  awarded 
several  premiums  at  the  count}'  fairs,  lie  is  lib- 
eral in  his  church  views,  and  has  many  warm 
friends  throughout  the  county  who  esteem  him 
highlj'  for  his  sterling  worth. 


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I 


eHARLES  Y.  GAY,  the  Cashier  of  the  Camp 
Point  Bank,  was  born  in  this  county,  .Janu- 
ary 16,  1844.  He  was  the  son  of  Yixon  P. 
Gay,  of  Muskingum  County,  Ohio,  born  in  1814. 
The  father  of  Yixon  was  a  native  of  Maine,  and 
his  father  emigrated  from  England  and  settled  in 
Maine.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject  moved  to 
Ohio  at  an  early  day,  and  became  a  farmer  upon 
his  own  farm  in  Muskingum  County.  He  died 
there  about  1845.  The  great-grandfather  was  a 
Revolutionary  soldier,  and  the  grandfather  was  in 
the  "War  of  1812. 

Tlie  father  of  Charles  was  the  eldest  of  three 
children.  He  began  farming  when  he  first  came 
to  Illinois,  in  1836.  In  1837,  he  removed  from 
Schuyler  Count}'  to  Camp  Point  Township,  in 
Adams  County,  where  he  took  up  Government 
land  and  remained  the  balance  of  his  life.  He 
built  a  small  frame  house  on  his  land,  which  was 
on  the  edge  of  the  prairie.  The  whole  country 
was  then  new  and  unsettled.  He  was  a  cooper,  and 
worked  at  his  trade  during  the  winter,  earning 
enough  at  it  to  pay  ftir  his  land  and  improve- 
ments. He  was  married  in  the  fall  of  1839, 
to  Eydia  Knight,  a  native  of  !Maine,  who  came 
AVest  with  her  parents  at  an  earl}'  day. 

Mr.  Gay,  Sr.,  lived  to  enjo}'  some  of  the  fruits 
of  his  hard  labor.  He  had  only  about  8100  when 
he  came  to  Illinois,  but  became  the  owner  of  four 
hundred  acres  of  fine  land,  kept  some  stock,  was 


an  extensive  wheat-raiser,  and  was  a  great  lover  of 
fruit,  of  which  he  had  an  alnindance.  He  died  in 
1877.  He  had  been  Supervisor  of  his  township 
and  Assessor  for  several  terms.  He  was  a  man  of 
strong  religious  convictions,  and  was  a  great  Sun- 
day-school worker,  although  he  was  not  identified 
with  any  church  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was 
well  known  and  much  respected.  His  wife  died 
in  1852,  a  memlier  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  and  left  three  children.  The  father  re- 
married, and  had  two  more  children. 

Charles,  our  subject,  was  reared  on  the  farm, 
and  received  a  district-school  education,  Init  it  was 
confined  to  the  winter  terms.  In  1865.  he  consid- 
ered himself  old  enough  to  strike  out  alone,  and 
he  engaged  in  farming  for  a  few  years,  lie  then 
came  to  Camp  Point  in  the  fall  of  1867,  to  engage 
in  the  mercantile  business,  which  he  continued  for 
four  years.  He  again  farmed  for  a  time,  and  then 
went  into  business  again.  In  1879.  he  moved  into 
Camp  Point  and  purchased  a  nursery,  the  Bailey 
Grove,  as  it  was  named.  He  bought  it  of  A.  B. 
Kelley,  who  had  established  it,  and  Mr.  Gay  still 
owns  it.  He  has  done  mainly  a  retail  business,  .and 
has  stocked  this  whole  section.  He  is  a  lover  of 
all  kinds  of  fruit,  and  has  one  of  the  choicest  fruit, 
plant,  garden  and  grove  establishments  in  the 
State.  He  has  grown  much  small  fruit  in  the  last 
ten  years.  The  nurser}'  originally  contained  six- 
ty-five acres,  but  now  only  twenty-five  acres  are 
cultivated.  They  are  well  adajited  for  the  purpose. 

In  May,  1892,  Mr.  G.ay.  with  his  brother  and  his 
son,  purchased  the  bank  of  R.  A.  Wallace  i^-  Bro., 
and  it  is  now  known  as  the  Camp  Pt)iiit  Bank.  It 
has  had  a  most  successful  career,  doing  a  general 
banking  business.  The  officers  of  the  bank  are: 
Albert  P.  Gay,  President;  Charles  Y.  Gay,  Cash- 
ier; Arthur  E.  Gay,  Assistant  Cashier.  Mr.  Gay 
was  married  on  the  22d  of  Feluuary  1866,  to  An- 
nie Strickler,  a  daughter  of  Wesley  and  Catherine 
(Kern)  Strickler,  of  Adams  County.  Both  parents 
are  living  in  Camp  Point.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gay  have 
three  children:  Arthur  E.;  Bertha  1.  and  Charles 
Don.  Mr.  Gay  is  a  Republican  and  a  member 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  is 
a  stockholder  in  the  Adams  County  Fair  Associa- 
ti(m,  and  has  been  Secretary  for  several  years. 


i>()uri;\ir  \M)  kiogkai'IIICal  KF.rouD. 


.'It;: 


.Mr.  (inv  lid-i  IWfiitx-livi- arri'xif  Iniiil  iii^itli-  llu- 
coriMirntt'  limit'- of  ('aiii|)  I'oiiit.niid  n  tliii-  farm  in 
one  ooriuTof  the  iiurMTV.  lie  is  n  r<t<K'kliulilcr  in 
tin-  |{<i«cn  lUiik.  of  ll:tni-<K-k  Cininly.  .'uiil  i>  n  line 
m:iii,  aixl  one  of  wliuni  liist'unn)\   i>  iii~i1\    {ikiiuI. 


--•^-r-Hii<^t=^-^-- 


(II  IN  A.  Ill  MM  KHT.  In  mcnlit>nin;j  tli.wif 
iif  fmt'i^n  liirtli  who  Iirvc  liocoini'  flust-lv 
ajwiK-iatod  with  ilu-  Ini.sini-.ss  inU-resls  of 
\i^  .'Vdnnis  Counly,  111.,  we  yhotilcl  not  fail  to 
pri'M'tit  an  outline  of  tin*  t-aroor  of  .Mr.  Ilunimcrt. 
for  lit-  i>  one  who  lin.s  fully  lM>rne  out  the  reputa- 
tion of  that  class  of  industrious,  enerfretie  and  far- 
>oeinLi  nu-n  of  (iern)aii  nativity  who  have  risen  to 
|>romiii('iicc  in  dilTerent  portions  of  this  county. 
In  everytliinjr  c<innectfd  with  the  growth  and 
properity  of  his  adopted  country,  he  takes  an 
artive  interest,  and  as  a  eontracloi-  mimI  lni-iniv< 
man  he  stands  in  the  front  rank- 
Horn  in  rrus*ia,  Decemlier  fi.  KSJh.  he  i>  the  son 
of  Theodore  and  .VUelian  (Casse)  llunimert,  im- 
livcs  also  «if  (ierniany,  and  prominent  citizens  of 
their  community.  The  father  wa>i  a  fuel  dealer 
and  paved  his  entire  life  in  his  native  country,  as 
did  also  his  wife.  I'ntil  twenty-t»ne  years  of  ajje. 
our  suliject  pa.-se<l  his  days  in  his  native  country, 
hut,  piM^essing  those  sterlin<,'(|unliliesso  character- 
istic of  those  of  (ierman  nativity  and  which  jiartic- 
ularly  lit  them  for  almost  any  iK-cupntion  in  life, 
he  took  pa.s.sa;;e  for  .Vnierica,  and  after  an  ocean 
voyage  of  eight  wtvks,  landed  on  I'nited  States 
soil.  This  was  in  IMIH.  and  aftt-r  a  short  stop  in 
New  Orleans  he  pnn-eeded  up  the  .Mississippi 
Hiver  by  Ixml  toSt.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  remained 
live  years. 

Krom  ther«-  he  went  direct  to  (juincy.  111.,  and 
U'gan  learning  lirick-niaking,  which  Itiisincss  he 
I'ondncted  with  much  success  up  to  1W71,  when  he 
Itegan  contiacting  on  thoO.  iV  K.  Knilroad.  Two 
years  Inter,  he  lM>g»n  contracting  for  h<iiises,  and 
|>erhaps  the  U'st  proof  of  his  suc«-ess  in  that  capa- 
city Would  U-    to  p<iint  out  the    monuments  of  his 


handiwork  in  <^ulncy.  In  connection  with  con- 
tracting, he  was  also  engaged  in  pork-packing  dur- 
ing the  winter  M'U.Hons.  Uiter,  he  emiiarkeil  in  the 
u;r<K-ery  liusines,",  continued  tin*  with  fair  succi'ss 
for  a  time,  and  then  liranched  out  as  n  real-estate 
dealer.  The  old  adage,  ".lack  of  all  trades  ami  a 
master  of  none"  d<K's  not  npply  in  his  case,  for  he 
has  made  a  sui-ccss  of  all  ent«'rpri.ses  uixlertaken. 

In  the  year  IM.'il,  .Miss  Klixalieth  l.ueMiei-ke, 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  who  wiLs  Immii  in  <>ernmny,  was 
united  t«)  our  subject  in  marriage,  and  ten  children 
were  given  them,  viz:  .John,  a  brick-maker:  Henry, 
a  contractor;  .loseph,  a  Catholic  priest  In  Marling. 
Iowa;  William,  a  brick-maker;  .\loysius,  with  his 
father;  Frank, at  home;  Kli/jilH-th,  a  Catholic  Sister 
ill  Chicago;  Catherine,  wife  of  IWnjamin  Walter- 
man,  of  Kjiiidolph  County,  .Mo.;  .Vnna,  a  Catholic 
.Sister  in  Chicago,  and  Mary,  at  home.  .Mr.  Iluin- 
merl  resides  at  No.  C.'IT  Spruce  Street,  and  has  a 
line  large  brick  house  with  all  the  nxidern  improve- 
menCsand  built  in  the  modern  style  of  architecture. 
Mis  lot  is  -iiMlxa.'iO  feel,  ami  is  an  attractive  and 
very  pleaviiit  home.  .Mrs.  Ilummert,  who  presides 
over  this  plea.saiit  home,  is  a  very  entertaining  and 
sociable  lady,  and  by  her  <|uiel  tact  and  pleiLsnnt. 
agreeable  mannei>  has  won  many  warm  friends. 
They  have  reared  their  large  family  t4i  In;  honor- 
able and  respected  niemlM-rs  of  societ\  and  ma>' 
justly  U-  proud  of  each  one  of  ilieni.  .Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ilummert  are  exemplary  and  faithful  inemliers 
of  St.  .lohn's  Catholic  Church. 


-jmu  =  iniH' — '     . 


W  (ll  IS  KIlLUr.  wholesale  and  retail  dealer 
ll  (S,  in  meats  at  No,    |m;    North    Sixth   Street. 

J_Y  (^uincy.  This  city  ranks  with  any  city  of 
il>  si/e  on  the  contiix-nt  in  the  output  and  magni- 
tude of  its  provision  trade,  and  the  enterprim^ 
which  characterizes  Its  leprcM-ntative  merchants  in 
this  line  is  not  excelled  in  aii\  other  liiaiich  ol 
comineriN-.  One  of  the  most  |Hipnlnr  Iioum>.h  in  the 
t«iwn  is  that  of  .Mr.  KlH-rl.  who  is  an  rxteOHive 
tiealer  in  fresh  and  salt  meat',    llsli.    |Kiultry,  game 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


and  vegetables  in  season.  This  establishment  is  a 
model  of  cleanliness  and  order,  and  is  furnished 
witii  every  convenience  and  facility  for  llic  satis- 
factory carrying  on  of  tlio  enterpiise,  all  the  latest 
improvements  in  the  way  of  cold  and  dry  storage 
being  here  in  successful  operation.  jNIr.  Kl)ert  is  a 
practical  and  experienced  business  man,  and  is  an 
excellent  judge  of  cattle,  sheep  and  hogs  as  live 
stock  or  in  the  carcass.  He  iiandles  only  the  finest 
animals,  and  keeps  the  choicest  of  all  kinds  of 
meats. 

Mr.  Ebert  is  a  native  of  Prussia,  (lerniany, 
where  he  was  born  October  10,  1852,  to  Henry 
Ebert,  who  was  a  successful  farmer  of  Germany, 
and  a  man  of  good  judgment  and  excellent  repu- 
tation. The  maiden  name  of  his  wife  was  An- 
dresa.  Louis  Ebert  was  the  second  of  their 
seven  children,  and  up  to  the  age  of  thirteen 
years  his  boyhood  was  -spent  in  attending  the 
common  schools  of  Prussia,  in  which  he  acquired  a 
practical  education.  He  was  an  ambitious  and 
enterprising  youth,  was  anxious  to  commence  the 
battle  of  life  for  himself,  and  in  July,  1867,  he 
came  to  America,  landing  at  New  Orleans.  He 
made  his  way  up  the  Mississippi  River  to  Quiiicy, 
and  commenced  learning  the  butcher's  trade  under 
(4eorge  Gasser,  with  whom  he  remained  ten  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  opened  a  market  of 
his  own,  and  at  once  built  up  a  trade  that  insured 
him  business  success,  lie  brings  to  bear  a  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  the  business  in  all  its  branches, 
an d  possesses  an  intimate  acquaintance  with  the 
wants  and  requirements  of  the  public.  A  brisk 
and  active  trade  has  rewarded  his  well-directed 
efforts,  and  everything  indicates  a  continued  and 
steady  growth  of  business. 

Mr.  Ebert  has  for  a  number  of  years  been  promi- 
nently connected  with  the  Ancient  Free  and  Accept- 
ed Masons,  the  IndependentOrder  of  Odd  Fellows, 
and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He 
is  also  a  worthy  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Mutual  Aid;  is  a  member  of  the  United  An- 
cient Order  of  Druids,  the  Harugari,  the  Firemen's 
Benevolent  Association,  the  Turners,  and  the 
Butchers'  Union,  in  all  of  which  organizations  he 
is  an  active  and  useful  member.  His  career  has 
been  worthy  of  example  to   all  young   men,  and 


especially  to  his  countrymen,  for  it  shows  what 
push  and  determination,  coupled  with  honesty 
and  sobriety,  will  do  for  a  young  man  with  little 
money,  and  witiiout  the  aid  of  friends  or  influ- 
ance.  He  has  identified  himself  with  America  and 
American  interests  since  locating  in  this  count}', 
is  tlioroughly  loyal,  and  is  proving  himself  a 
useful  and  desirable  citizen. 

On  November  20,  1879,  Miss  Louisa  AViehmann, 
a  native  of  tjuincy,  became  his  wife,  and  their 
union  has  resulted  in  the  birth  of  two  boys,  Louis, 
and  Willie,  deceased.  Mr.  Elieit's  residence  is  lo- 
cated at  No.  1 1 6  North  .Sixth  Street,  and  has  become 
well  known  for  the  kindly  hospitality  that  is  ex- 
tended to  all  who  enter  its  portals. 


_i=S3)' 


i>^^<^ 


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SAAC  L.  TEACllKNOR,  who  resides  in  Clay- 
ton, was  born  in  Ohio,  .lune  30,  1858,  and 
i  is  a  son  of  Nathan  and  Sarah  Teachenor. 
The  family  numbers  the  following  living  chil- 
dren: l^avid  W.,  who  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1853, 
resides  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah;  Monroe,  born  in 
1865,  is  a  resident  of  Missouri;  and  Lillic. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  when  a  year  old,  was 
taken  by  his  parents  to  Missouri,  and  was  reared 
among  the  Bushwackers  of  that  State.  His  first 
work  was  to  carry  water  to  the  rebel  soldiers. 
His  education  was  acquired  in  the  schools  of  Mis- 
souri, and  he  afterward  was  a  student  in  the  Gem 
City  Business  College,  of  Quincy,  He  came  to  the 
North  when  a  young  man,  and  for  some  time  has 
been  a  resident  of  Clayton. 

Mr.  Teachenor  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Hattie  A.,  daughter  of  W.  H.  Harbison.  The 
lady  was  born  in  Clayton  in  1859,  and  their  union 
was  celebrated  in  1884.  The}'  are  numbered 
among  the  leading  young  people  of  this  place, 
being  held  in  high  regard  for  their  many  excellen- 
cies of  character.  Their  sterling  worth  has  won 
them  many  friends,  and  they  hold  an  enviable  po- 
sition in  social  circles.  In  political  sentiment, 
Mr.    Teachenor    is  a  Democrat,  and  is   a   stalwart 


roRTn.MT  AND  jii.M;i{.\i'm(  Ai.  rkcokd. 


I 


Mi|i|H>i'tci'  of  timt  |iarl,v'.s  |iriiici|ilcs.  In  1M9(I.  he 
>vns  iioliiiniitcti  niwl  flt-rtcil  to  llic  nlllcf  of  Towii- 
>lii|)  (  ollcctor,  tkltlioii^li  tlic  lo\vii«hi|i  \\n>  :i  Ki'- 
|iiil)lii-aii  iimjorily  of  one  luiiidi'tMl.  lie  won  the- 
I'lfrtion  liy  ii  |>liimlit\  of  ti\«>nty-«M>:lil,  whii'li  fnrt 
inrlicad^  \ti>  |i<'r>on!il  |Mi|iuliu'ity  iiiid  tlic  coiitl- 
tlcniv  i'<'|ioscil  ill  liiiii  liy  hi*  friends  iiiid  nfi};li- 
lior>. 

Mr. 'rt'jiclii'iioi-  owiicil  .-III  iiit«Ti'>t  ill  the  (  liixtoii 
((|icra  lloiiM',  mid  nt  thi-  tiinc  of  tlio  lire  whii-h 
dc>tio_vf<i  that  liiiildiiii;  lie  lo>t  ahoiit  >Hmi.  lit* 
i$i  one  of  tlie  leiidiiii;  hu!>ines>  iiifii  of  (  la\  ton.  iind 
is  the  senior  ineiiil)er  of  the  linn  of  'I'eaehenor  A" 
Co..  dnififjisl*  of  tliis  place.  'I'liey  earrv  'a  full 
and  eoinplete  .sliK-k  of  t^oods,  siieh  a:*  are  found  in  h 
(irst-eldss  drtij;  store,  to  ihc  anionnl  of  aUmt  ^4.(100. 
They  are  doiiif;  a  jr<M»d  Imsiness.  ami  the  eiil»>r- 
priseand  iMilu>lry  of  our  siilijecl  have  gained  llieni 
a  liberal  pntronapo.  of  whieli  they  arc  well  deserv- 
ing. He  is  a  man  of  irood  Inisiiiess  ahility.  sa!.ra- 
eiuus  and  far-sighted,  and  ranks  anioiig  the  val- 
ued eiti/.ens  of  t'layton. 


!g^^« 


KV.   KATIIKK  .loM-.l'll  MILL  is    a   i-riest 

who    eoinhines     with     loi{i<-:il      reasonini; 

V        |M)wers  a  {joodly   share  of  oratorieal  elu- 

);  «|nenee  and  the  Imppy  faculty  of  convinc- 
ini;  his  hearei's.  He  is  a  man  well  known  throujj^h- 
out  this  section  of  the  country  a.s  pos-sessing  liroad 
culture  and  is  a  lucid  and  forcilile  e.\poiindcr  of 
the  (oispel,  iLs  it  is  understood  liy  him.  'I'lior- 
uughly  orthodox  in  his  Iieliofs,  he  ably  reveals  the 
flivine  truths  of  the  church,  and  his  manner  of 
presenting;  an  idea  is  original  and  to  the  point,  and 
c«»iisc<iuently  convincing.  At  the  present  time,  he 
is  the  I'.nstor  of  St.  .lohn's  Catholic  Church,  of 
'^uincy,  III.,  the  affairs  of  which  he  has  conducted 
in  n  skillful  and  judicious  manner. 

Father  Still  was  liorn  in  lerdingen.  Ctciinany, 
.May  2.'>,  IH4'.',  and  after  obtaining  a  good  practical 
education,  began  the  study  of  philosophy  and 
tlieohigy  at  Munster,    into  Inith   of    wliicli    he   ob- 


tained a  very  clear  insight,  lie  was  ordained  a 
priest  at  .Miiii'-ler.  .May  'J-J.  ImT.'i.  and  as  he  had  a 
clear  perception  of  the  breadth  and  sco|k-  of  the 
work  to  Ik-  done  in  the  Held  of  labor  which  he  had 
chosen,  he  decided  to  piir«ue  his  calling  in  .\nieriea, 
and  with  that  purpose  came  to  this  country  S-pl- 
enilH-r  H,  |H7.'i,  landing  at  the  city  of  New  York. 

l'"roni  New  York,  Father  Still  went  to  (ierman- 
toun,  Clinton  County,  III.,  and  until  the  2^d  of 
May.  I  MHO,  ha<l  charge  of  a  church  at  that  place, 
soon  after  which  he  came  to  (^iiiiicy.  wlieie  he 
started  St.  .lohn's  Catholic  Church.  .Since  liK-ating 
here,  he  has  licen  a  potent  factor  for  good,  and 
every  year  of  his  career  as  a  priest  has  U-eii  pro- 
lific of  noble  work.  In  promoting  the  pros|H-rity 
of  the  church  of  which  he  is  IVstor,  he  has  lieen  a 
potent  factoi,  and  to  his  earnest  and  pei-sisteiit  ef- 
forts is  attributed  the  erei'tion  of  the  teiii|MuarN 
rliurch  edifice  in  w  hich  he  now  holds  .tervii-es,  and 
which  wjiserectoil  in  IHSo.  He  will  s<hiii  U'gin  the 
erection  of  an  elegant  new  <-liui'cli.  His  congri'ga- 
tion  at  lirst  numliered  one  hundred  families,  but 
through  his  undeviating  efforts,  earnestness  and 
zeal,  he  Iiils  extended  the  church  connection  to 
three  hundi-ed  families,  all  of  whom  are  his  firm 
fi  ieiitls. 

Comtiined  with  fervent  piet.\  and  a  vigorous  in- 
tellectuality. Father  .Still  hits  a  thoroughly  prac- 
tical knowledge  of  the  every-day  aflfaii-s  of  life, 
which  makes  him  a  competent  adviser  in  temporal, 
as  he  is  in  spiritual,  mattei-s.  Heisa<|iiiel  and  iin- 
osteiit.-itious  (iispens4>r  of  charity,  In-lieves  that 
"  the  Lord  helps  him  who  liel|>s  himself,"  and  has 
alw.iys  acteil  u|h>ii  this  principle  in  his  cliarital>le 
work.  His  knowledge  of  men  is  of  a  broad  char- 
acter, acipiiied  l>>  .\ear«  of  ex|K'rience  anri  clo.se  oli- 
servation.  and  his  naturally  keen  peiveptionst  make 
it  easy  for  him  to  distinguish,  a.s  a  rule,  the  wtirtliy 
from  the  unworthy,  applicant  for  a.ssistance.  For 
the  former  class,  he  has  abundant  sym|Mithy,  which 
he  expresses  in  that  substantial  way  which  opens 
to  them  the  avenues  of  pros|>erity.  aii<l  in  the  end 
niaki>!t  them  M'If-supporting  and  inde|iendeiit. 

ThroiiL'h  the  effort-  of  Father  Still,  the  pariK'hial 
•tcluMil  wa5  erecteil,  which  has  an  attendance  of 
three  liun<ln'd  childn^n.  In  the  ereclitm  and 
nianagctneiit  of  this,  .as  well  as   of   his   church,   he 


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has  displayed  much  exciitive  and  financial  ability, 
as  well  as  zeal  and  energv.  In  1884,  he  started 
the  St.  Vincent's  Home  for  aged  persons.  The 
parsonage  is  located  at  the  corner  of  Tenth  and 
Cedar  Streets. 


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"jfjOIIN  W.  JACOBS.  The  proper  tilling  of 
the  soil  and  the  building  of  a  future  inde- 
pendence have  been  the  life  work  of  the 
gentleman  whose  biography  we  give  on  this 
page.  Our  subject,  a  farmer  on  section  22,  Houston 
Township,  was  born  in  Clark  County,  Ind.,  August 
13,  1835.  His  father  was  John  D.  Jacobs,  a  native 
of  North  Carolina,  and  a  descendant  of  an  old 
Southern  family.  John  emigrated  to  Indiana 
when  a  yuung  man  and  lieeanie  a  farmer  in  Clark 
County,  where  he  died  in  1842.  He  served  in  the 
War  of  1812,  and  was  wounded  at  Tippecanoe.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Cliurch. 
The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Lucinda  Gilmore, 
of  Kentucky,  who  went  with  her  parents  to  Indiana 
when  quite  young.  After  the  death  of  her  first 
husband,  she  remained  on  the  farm  with  her  three 
claldren.  She  was  a  woman  of  strong  intlividuality, 
lionest  and  hard-working,  and  was  an  excellent 
manager.  Her  fondest  hope  was  to  educate  her 
children.  Slie  subsequently  married  Kli  Jacobs,  a 
brother  of  her  former  husband  and  died  in  1869, 
having  been  a  zealous  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 

John  W.  is  the  eldest  of  three  children.  His 
boyhood  days  were  passed  upon  the  farm,  although 
he  had  excellent  school  advantages.  When  he 
was  about  fifteen,  he  and  his  younger  brother, 
Ilenrj',  took  charge  of  the  farm,  which  had  been 
rented  after  the  death  of  their  father.  After  his 
marriage,  he  farmed  in  the  old  place  for  two  years. 
In  the  fall  of  18.^)9,  lie  emigrated  to  Illinois,  and 
located  in  Houston  Township,  where  he  purchased 
one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land  in  section 
22,  on  which  he  has   since  made   liis    iiome.     The 


land  was  only  partly  improved,  a  log  house  and 
barn  i^eing  about  tlie  extent  of  the  improvements. 
In  18fi5,  the  log  house  was  replaced  with  a  sub- 
stantial frame  one,  and  other  like  improvements 
made  from  time  to  time.  More  land  was  also 
purchased. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  August,  1857,  to 
Emily  Bennett,  a  schoolmate  of  childhood  days. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Rachel 
(Prather)  Bennett,  who  moved  from  North  Carolina 
at  an  early  day  and  settled  in  Clark  County,  Ind. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacobs  have  eight  children:  Aver- 
illa,  wife  of  James  Smith,  a  farmer  of  Houston 
Township;  Rosella,  wife  of  John  Bruffy,  a  farmer 
of  Nebraska;  Lillian,  wife  of  John  Sharrow,  a 
farmer  in  Houston;  Annie,  wife  of  Wesley  Cath- 
cart,  a  fanner  in  Nebraska;  Edgar,  Cora  and  Ada, 
at  home,  and  Frank,  deceased. 

Mr.  Jacol3s  is  a  Republican.  His  famil\-  belongs 
to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  he  is 
a  Trustee.  Our  subject  liegan  with  limited  means, 
but  has  been  a  careful  man  and  has  worked  hard  and 
won  success.  His  liome  farm  contains  two  liuu- 
dred  and  ninety  acres,  and  he  has  two  liundred  and 
forty  ai'i-es  in  York  County,  Neb.  His  life  goes 
far  to  prove  the  truth  of  the  wise  old  saying: 
"Success  crowns  honest  efforts." 


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^p^EORGE  G.  SMITH.  There  is  something  es- 
IJI  ^— .  sentially  American  in  tlie  life  and  character 
^^^1  of  Mr.  (ieorge  G.  Sinitli.  The  United 
States  has  given  rare  opportunities  to  men  with 
courage,  honesty  of  purpose,  integrity  and  energy 
to  achieve  success.  The  bulk  of  our  public  men, 
and  those  who  have  been  more  than  ordinarily 
successful,  have  been  men  witli  the  above  charac- 
teristics, and  Mr.  Smith  is  sul  generis  one  of 
that  stamp.  He  is  of  the  people,  and  ids  success 
as  a  business  and  a  i)ublic  man  has  come  of  his  de- 
votion to  right  and  Ins  tenacity  of  purpose. 

He  is  at  present  the  most  efficient  City  Clerk  at 
the  City  Hall,  Quincv,  111.,  and  in  discharging   the 


I'dlMKAIT  AXD  lilOC;UArill(  M     IJKfOlU). 


(Iiitii'>  III"  llial  iilliiT  he  lijis  dis|il:tvc(l  iiiiifli  i>I>ilily 
ami  sr<iuil  jiKl^niicnl.  Mr.  Smith  was  :i  iialivo 
«if  AVIu't'liiii;,  W.  \':i.,  his  hiilh  uci-iiirini;  uii  tin- 
ITlhiif  MuK-h.  |.H||,.unl  he  is  a  sun  uf  Tliuiiias  |{. 
and  .Maria  (l!i"lhel|  Smith.  The  father  was  .i 
lircwcr  in  Whi-eliufj,  and  also  owned  a  hirtre  lirew- 
ery  in  I'ill.-liiirgh,  I'a.  lie  W!i.s  a  verv  siiwcssful 
liiislnt's.s  man  .-mil  aeenmulated  a  handsome  com- 
pete iic  v. 

Onr  sulijett  received  a  tliiiriiiiji;li  scholastic  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  of  Wheelnur  "ikI  Pitt.sluirgh, 
and  later  removed  to  New  York,  where  he  re.sided 
until  fifteen  years  of  ai;e.  Ketiirninu;  to  his  na- 
tive city,  he  \v:is  tilled  with  a  jiatiiolic  desire  to 
aid  his  country 's  cause,  and  as  a  consei|uence.  in 
1H(;2,  cidisted  in  Company  I).  Kirsl  West  \'iririnia 
I.ijiht  Artillery.  He  was  lii-st  taken  jirisoncr  at 
Ilaniiing  Uock  Caj).  and  the  second  time  at  15lue 
Ridge  Mountain.  Like  many  others,  he  sutTercd 
untold  horrors  in  Andersonville,  and  his  constitu- 
tion must  have  lieen  one  of  the  hanle^t  to  have 
survived  eleven  months  in  that  liorriMe  rchel  pen. 
AllhoULrh  miu-h  thinner  in  llcsli  after  lieinj;  re- 
leased, he  was  otherwise  in  fairly  iiood  health,. and 
soon  was  restored  to  his  wonted  condition.  lie 
W!is  e.xchaiiircd  and  mustered  out  of  service  in 
I  HGo. 

Hcturninir  to  Whcclinu;.  he  remained  there  foi- 
sonu-  time,  and  then  went  to  Savannah,  (ia.,  where 
he  remained  as  a  witness  ajjainst  .lames  Dunkham, 
who  had  chariie  of  the  culinary  fh'partment  of  Au- 
dersonville  prison.  .Mr.  Smith  removed  from 
Wliecling  to  <iuincy,  III.,  in  the  sprinir  "f  IH(i<'i, 
and  accepted  a  position  as  machinist  and  engineer. 
In  IKI'irt,  he  went  to  Omaha,  Neii.  Here  he  was  cm- 
ployed  on  the  I'nion  I'.ncitic  Hailro.-td,  hetwcen 
Omali!!  and  ( Igden.  In  the  year  IHtl'.l,  he  returned 
to  ••uincy.  and  was  there  mairied  the  same  yearto 
.Miss  .Vnna  (  arler.  a  nali\c  of  t^Mnncy,  and  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  tarter.  This  union  h.as  re- 
sulted in  the  liirth  of  eight  children,  all  living. 

.Vfter  his  marriage,  Mr.  .Smith  worked  a.s  a  ma- 
chinist in  the  .Smith  Hill  I-'ounilry  at  <^uincy,  and 
was  thus  employed  until  1!S1M.  when  he  waselecleil 
City  Clerk  for  one  year.  Su  well  and  faithfuih 
did  he  till  this  position  that  he  w.as  re-elected,  and 
is  now  disch.arging  the  duties  incumlH-nt  u|ion  that 


|Hi.sitiuii.  .Mr.  Smith  is  a  memU-r  of  the  Kiiighl- 
of  Pythias,  the  .lohii  Woud  rii>l  No.  '.tC.  (i.  A.  !{., 
and  is  a  memlK>r  of  the  Prairie  Knight.s  Demoerntic 
dull.  He  is  a  meiidier  of  the  Democratic  Post  of 
the  (irand  .Vrmy  of  the  Uepiililic.  and  a  memlier  of 
-Mien  KncampmenI  .No.  I,  1. 1 ».  t ).  I-'.  .Mr.  nn<l  .Mrs. 
.Smith  have  a  go<id  lesidciicc  at  No.  .'121  .Suuth 
Fourth  .Street,  and  are  elitsscd  among  the  represen- 
tative citizens  of  the  place.  They  are  active  in  all 
good  work,  are  progressive  and  enterprising,  and 
.•ire  of  great  sissistance  to  the  j-ily  of  <^uiiicv  in 
in.anv  ways. 


/^^^  '■  ^'"■'^"  one  of  the  representative  farm- 
[ll  ers  of  Mctiee    Township,    who    owns    and 

^^('  operates  forty  acres  of  land  on  section  2, 
claims  (lerinauy  as  the  land  of  his  liiitli,  which 
fK'curred  in  the  year  l«.'t2.  His  parent.s,  .John  and 
l.i/zie  (\os)  Nofiz,  were  also  natives  of  Germany. 
Their  fainilx  numliered  ten  children,  seven  sons 
and  three  daughters,  of  whom   nine  are  yet  living. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  eldest.  The 
dtiys  of  his  lioyhood  and  youth  were  spent  in  the 
land  of  his  nativity  and  there  he  acipiired  his 
education  and  learned  the  wagon-maker's  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  a  numlier  of  years.  At 
length,  he  determined  to  seek  a  home  in  the  New- 
World,  of  whose  advantages  and  privileges  he  had 
heanl  much.  Kre  lejiving  his  native  laud,  how- 
ever, he  was  united  in  marriage,  in  ll^ilo,  with  .Miss 
.Vdelgande  I'et/.el,  who  was  lioru  in  ( ierninny  in 
|H3(I.  They  have  liecoine  the  parents  of  five  chil- 
dren, all  of  whom  Jire  yet   living. 

Ill  IMiI.'t.  .Mr.  NofI/  with  his  family  liade  good- 
live  to  his  old  home  and  crossed  the  hriny  de<-p  to 
.\meriia.  For  some  time  after  his  einigr.Mliiui.  he 
followed  the  w.agon-maker'o  trade.  In  1M(;k,  he 
removed  to  Toledo,  Ohio,  where  he  was  employed 
in  the  <-ar-shops  for  one  year,  after  which  he  worked 
in  a  wagmi  factory.  His  lesidcnce  in  Adam;) 
County  dates  from  IMtl'.i.  He  resided  in  Paloma 
until  1H72,  when  he  came   to   Kellerville  and    eu- 


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gaged  in  the  wagon-making  business.  He  pur- 
chased his  present  farm  in  1886,  a  tract  of  forty 
acres  of  hind.  His  farm  is  under  a  high  state  of 
cultivation  and  the  many  im|)rovements  upon  it 
stand  ,as  monuments  to  his  thrift  and  enterprise. 
It  is  complete  in  all  its  appointments  and  its  neat 
appearance  indicates  his  careful  supervision. 

ill  his  political  aflill.ations,  Mr.  Noftz  is  a  Re- 
l)ublican  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  politics, 
lie  does  alt  in  his  power  to  support  the  interests 
of  his  party  and  has  held  a  number  of  official  posi- 
tions. He  has  been  Postmaster  of  Kellerville 
for  three  jears.  His  life  has  been  a  prosperous 
and  successful  one,  owing  to  his  well-directed  ef- 
forts. It  was  a  fortunate  day  for  Mr.  Noftz  when 
he  decided  to  leave  Germany  and  come  to  America, 
for  in  this  country  he  has  found  a  pleasant  home, 
made  many  warm  friends  and  secured  a  comfort- 
able competency  which  places  him  among  the 
substantial  citizens  of  his  adopted  country.  He 
carries  a  general  stock  of  goods,  consisting  of  dry- 
goods,  groceries,  notions,  etc.,  and  commands  his 
sliarc  of  the  trade. 


ENRY    ERNST    CHRISTIAN   AUMANN. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this 
sketch  was  endowed  by  nature  with  such 
gifts  as  characterize  true  manhood  in  all 
the  word  implies,  and  was  descended  from  lion- 
orable  and  sturdy  German  ancestors.  He  was 
liorn  on  the  9tli  of  <Iuly,  1836,  in  Hanover, 
(iermany,  a  son  of  Henr^-  Ernst  Christian  and 
Minna  (Despenan)  Aumaiin,  the  former  of  wliom 
was  a  man  of  very  much  stabilit}-  and  strength 
of  character,  and  by  occupation  was  a  railroad 
contractor.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the 
elder  of  his  two  children,  and  until  he  attained  his 
thirteenth  .year  he  was  an  attendant  at  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Hanover,  Germany,  at  the  end  of 
which  time  the  Inirden  of  his  parents' support  fell 
upon  his  y(nitlifiil  and  slender  shoulders,  and  for 


some  lime  thereafter  he  had  to  traverse  as  rough 
and  rugged  a  road  as  ever  stretched  itself  out  be- 
fore an  ambitious  3'outh. 

He  remained  in  Hanover  until  he  was  fifteen 
years  of  age,  then  bade  adieu  to  home,  friends  and 
native  land,  and  crossed  the  stormy  ocean  to 
America  in  searcli  of  Dame  Fortune.  In  the  fall 
of  18.51,  he  landed  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans,  and 
thence  came  by  boat  up  the  Mississippi  River  to 
(-iuincy,  where  he  became  an  apprentice  at  the  tail- 
or's trade,  learned  the  business  upon  correct  princi- 
ples and  became  an  excellent  judge  of  goods  in  the 
tadoring  line.  In  1860,  he  opened  an  establish- 
ment of  his  own,  and  after  following  this  calling 
with  success  for  one  year  he,  in  partnership  with 
a  Mr.  Cusac,  0])ened  a  general  clothing  house  in 
Quincy,  under  the  firm  name  of  Cusac  &  Aumann, 
which  association  continued  until  1866,  when  Mr. 
Aumann  disposed  of  his  share  of  the  stock  and  en- 
tered into  the  saloon  business  until  1887,  when  he 
sold  out  and  went  into  business  with  his  son-in- 
law,  Fred  Bernard,  as  a  photographer,  and  this 
partnership  continued  harmoniously  and  profitable' 
until  Mr.  Aumann  was  called  from  life,  ,luly  23, 
1887. 

The  work  executed  by  these  gentlemen  was  of 
the  finest  quality,  and  owing  to  their  artistic  abil- 
ity and  integrity,  they  well  deserved  the  substan- 
tial success  they  achieved,  and  gathered  about 
them  a  wealthy  and  refined  patronage.  They  won 
a  reputation,  not  merely  local,  for  securing  to  sit- 
ters before  the  camera  a  graceful,  natural  pose  and 
life-like  and  pleasing  expression,  and  in  all  their 
work  was  to  he  seen  the  thorough,  expert  artist. 
Their  portraits  were  unsurpassed  for  fidelity  and 
natural  exjiression  and  gained  golden  opinions  for 
them  from  experts  and  connoisseurs.  Mr.  Au- 
mann was  a  thorough  business  man,  shrewd  and 
practical,  yet  always  honest,  and  his  geniality  of 
disposition  made  him  many  friends,  whom  he 
rarely  lost  when  once  won. 

Socially,  he  was  a  member  of  the  .\ncient  Order 
of  Ignited  "Workmen,  in  which  order  he  was  Chap- 
lain, and  he  also  belonged  to  the  Ancient  (,)idert)f 
Druids,  and  politically  was  always  a  Re[)ul)lican. 
On  the  2(Uli  of  jNIarcli,  1860,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Amelia  Smith,  of  New  York  City, 


POKTRAIT  AM)  UK  »( ;i; AI'IIK  AI.  KKCORD. 


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whoso  pari'iits  were  i>f  ( it'rmaii  descent,  mikI  who  lie- 
canie  resiident*  of  l^iiiiiey.  III.,  in  18I.T.  Tlii-  union 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Auninnii  resulted  in  the 
hirth  iif  ihiee  ehildren,  two  uf  whom  .-lie  now 
livinj;:  Clara,  wife  of  Fiederiek  V.  15ernaid,a  well- 
known  and  t;ilented  |)holo<;;ia|)her  of  t^ninev;  and 
Lenora.  wife  of  Allen  .Shantz,  also  of  (.^uiney. 
The  residenee  of  .Mrs.  .\ninann  is  at  No.  .")15  North 
Third  Street.  Mr.  Auniann  wiis  Secretary  of  the 
Ancient,  Free  A-  Accepted  Ma.sons  for  three  yeai-s 
iKjfore  his  death. 


-^-^■^-^-- 


LHKRT  r.  fJAY.  This  sketch  presents  one 
of  the  foremost  men  of  Camp  I'oiiit  Town- 
ship, lie  is  President  of  the  Camp  Point 
Hank,  and  is  a  native  of  this  township, 
horn  December  31.  184ii,  heing  the  son  vf  \'ix(m 
P.  (iay,  a  native  of  Muskingum  C'ount\ ,  Ohio, 
who  was  horn  .Inly  :M,  1814,  and  whose  father,  G. 
(;.  (Jay.  a  native  of  Maine,  emigrated  to  Ohio  at 
an  early  day.  The  latter  was  a  successful  farmer 
of  Muskingum  County,  where  he  died  at  a  good 
old  age.  The  (Jay  ancestors  were  Knglishmen 
who  came  to  America  in  Colonial  times.  The 
great-grandfather  |)articipated  in  the  Revolution- 
ary War  and  tlie  grandfather  in  the  War  of  1812. 
The  hest  record  is  of  three  brothers  who  came 
from  Knglaud  together,  one  settling  in  South  Caro- 
lina, one  in  Maine  and  the  third  in  Mai-sjiclinsetts. 
The  father  of  t>ur  subject,  \'ixon  P.  (Jay,  was  the 
eldest  of  lhi"ce  children.  One  of  his  brotliei-s,  G. 
(i.  (iay,  is  a  farmer  on  the  r)ld  Gay  homestead  in 
Muskingum  Cr)unly,  Ohio;  and  the  third  child  was 
a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  died  in  .Minnesota. 
Vixon  P.  (iay  had  very  ptwir  school  advantages. 
lie  came  to  Illinois  in  18;{(!,  and  worked  in  a  mill 
in  Schuyler  Coiuity  for  alxtut  three  years;  he  then 
went  into  .Vdams  County  and  bought  land  iu 
Camp  Point  Township,  where  he  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers,  and  where  he  liegan  farming  and 
built  a  frame  house,  which   still  stands.     At  that 


time  the  country  was  unsettled,  and  ileer  and 
wolves  were  |)lentiful.  Like  his  few  neighbors,  he 
wiis  obliged  to  haul  his  grain  and  produce  to 
f^uincy,  which  was  the  nearest  market.  His  death 
occurred  September  2<i,  1877.  and  he  left  behin<l 
him  a  record  of  which  his  family  may  well  be 
pioud.  Me  had  not  identified  himself  with  .-luy 
church,  but  he  was  a  religious  man.  .Mnd  had  <ir- 
ganized  a  Sunday-school  which  he  conducted  for 
.several  yeai-s  prior  to  his  death.  lie  took  great  in- 
terest in  instructing  the  young,  and,  being  a  man 
of  exemplary  habits,  having  never  used  tobacco, 
spirits,  coffee  or  tea,  he  had  great  influence  over 
them,  lie  was  a  great  Temperance  man,  but  made 
no  public  demonstration  of  his  ideas,  and  w,i.s 
highly  thought  of  by  all  who  knew  him.  lie  was 
a  Republican  and  had  held  the  offices  of  Super- 
visor and  Assessor  in  his  township.  His  wife,  the 
mother  of  our  subject,  was  Lj'dia  Knight,  whose 
ancestors  for  many  years  had  been  Maine  people. 
.She  came  to  Illinois  with  her  parents,  and  she  and 
5Ir.  Vixon  OJay  were  married  in  Schuyler  County, 
and  removed  to  Cam|)  Point.  .Vdams  County, 
some  time  after.  She  died  in  18."(2,  leaving  three 
children,  of  whom  Albert  is  the  eldest.  Those 
living  are:  Sophronia,  wife  of  Cl.iyton  MctJill,  of 
15owen,  Hancock  County-,  ill.,  owner  of  a  large 
farm  and  President  of  the  IJank  of  Howen;  Charles 
A'..  Casiiier  of  the  Camp  Point  liank,  .•ind  our  sub- 
ject. 

Alliert  (Jay  was  ivaied  on  a  farm  and  received 
his  first  education  in  a  log  schoolhouse,  but  later 
att^-uded  school  in  a  frame  hou,se.  He  started  t)Ut 
for  himself  when  he  w.-us  twenty-one,  working  at 
the  carpenter  trade  during  the  summer  and  teach- 
ing during  the  winter.  He  taught  six  terms,  his 
first  school  lieing  near  Cedar  Falls,  Iowa,  and  his 
last  one  being  in  the  old  home  district.  In  the 
spring  of  18(!;'),  he  turned  hisattention  to  farming 
iu  Houston  Township,  where  he  piuchased  eighty 
acres  of  land  at  *18  an  acre,  on  .section  2.  It  was 
all  uiiim|iroved  at  the  time,  but  he  has  brought  it 
to  a  high  stale  of  cultivation.  He  added  to  it 
three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  two  hundred  and 
forty  of  which  were  in  one  body  and  the  balanci* 
very  near.  He  engaged  for  a  time  in  breeding 
Jcrsev  cattle,  and  was  the  first  man    iu    the   towj). 


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ship  to  own  and  breed  tliis  class  of  cattle.  For  a 
l)eriod  of  twenty-four  years  he  successfully  carried 
on  his  business  of  farming  and  stock-raising.  In 
the  fall  of  1888,  he  removed  to  Camp  Point,  where 
lie  has  erected  a  fine  residence,  designed  by  him- 
self. It  is  built  in  modern  stjie,  both  inside  and 
out. 

Our  subject  was  married  April  20,  186.i,  to  Har- 
riet L.  Strickler,  of  Houston  Townsliip.  Her 
parents  were  William  A.  and  Marj'  (Kern)  Strick- 
ler, natives  of  Pennsylvania.  The  latter  were 
married  June  17,  1840,  and  came  to  Illinois 
among  the  earlj'  settlers,  locating  in  Houston 
Township,  Adams  County.  Mr.  Strickler  was  born 
May  28,  1814,  and  died  November  26,  1882,  and 
at  his  death  owned  quite  a  large  tract  of  land  in 
Houston  Township.  ^Mrs.  Strickler  died  June 
17,  1883.  Both  had  been  members  of  the  Method- 
ist Episcopal  Church.  They  left  five  living  of 
their  twelve  children.  Mr.  Strickler 's  great-grand- 
father, Henry  Strickler,  emigrated  from  tierman}' 
in  1727,  and  settled  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa., 
and  married  in  the  same  year  Seenowa  Stauffer, 
by  whom  he  had  seven  children.  She  died  in 
1758,  but  he  survived  her  until  May  5,  1761.  His 
son  Jacob  was  the  father  of  John,  who  was  the 
father  of  William  A.,  father  of  Mrs.  Gay. 

Mr.  and  Mrs  Gay  have  one  son,  Otho  X.,  born 
June  16,  1872.  He  is  eng.aged  at  present  in  the 
jewelry  business  at  Camp  Point.  He  has  been  well 
educated  and  is  a  bright  business  man. 

Our  subject  is  a  Repulilican  and  has  served  as 
Supervisor  of  ,the  township.  He  has  also  been 
School  Director  and  Trustee  and  member  of  the 
School  Board  ever  since  he  came  to  Camp  Point. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gay  are  members  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church,  of  which  Mr.  Gay  has  been  an  Elder 
for  years.  Mr.  Gay's  business  interests  are  large, 
he  being  President  of  the  Camp  Point  Bank,  also  a 
Director  and  stockholder  in  the  bank  at  Bo  wen, 
HI.,  and  he  still  carries  on  his  farm  of  three  hundred 
and  twenty  acres  in  which  he  has  been  particularly 
successful.  He  is  a  self-made  man,  reliable  in 
business,  and  retlects  honor  on  his  neighbor- 
hood and  county.  His  wife  is  a  very  intelligent 
lady,  and  both  are  highly  respecte(]  j)i  th"*  ^'om- 
muriity. 


B.  RATCLIFF,  a  retired  farmer  residing 
11  in  Clayton,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in 
It  1814,  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
^  (Bryant)  Ratcliff.  His  parents  were  both 
natives  of  Mrginia,  the  former  born  in  1781,  and 
the  latter  in  1782.  The  grandmother  was  a  native 
of  Ireland.  In  the  Hateliff  family  were  two  sous 
and  five  daughters:  Isabella,  born  in  Kentucky, 
in  1804,  was  married  in  this  State  to  Will  Long,  a 
farmer,  and  died  in  1877;  Nancy,  born  in  Shelby 
County,  Ky.,  in  1806,  became  the  wife  of  Joseph 
McLean,  and  died  in  Texas  in  1886;  Caroline, 
born  in  1808,  became  the  wife  of  Wyatt  Reeves, 
and  resides  in  Texas;  Lucinda,  born  in  1816,  was 
married  in  Illinois  to  Rector  Gore,  and  died  in 
18.39;  Annie,  born  in  1818,  is  the  wife  of  Thomas 
O'Neil;  .lolm,  lif)rn  in  1821,  married  Annie  Chip- 
man,  and  is  a  farmer  of  Adams  County,  111.;  and 
Joseph,  born  in  1825,  died  at  the  age  of  three 
years. 

Mr.  Uatclift'  of  this  sketch  acquired  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  of  Woodford  County, 
Ky.,  but  his  advantages  were  limited,  as  at  an  early 
day  he  had  to  begin  to  earn  his  own  livelihood. 
In  1830,  he  entered  the  employ  of  John  Buford, 
putting  on  roofs,  and  worked  in  that  capacity  for 
six  years.  During  that  period,  he  sent  his  wages 
to  his  father,  who  purchased  for  him  one  hundred 
and  sixt}-  acres  of  impro\ed  land  in  Brown 
County,  111. 

Mr.  Ratcliff  married  Elizabeth  McCoy,  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  their  union  being  celebrated  in  1842. 
Her  death  occurred  in  1843,  and  in  184.5  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Sarah  Lucky,  by  whom  he  had  two  chil- 
dren: Susan,  born  in  1846;  and  Joseph,  liorn  in 
1847.  The  mother  and  both  children  died  m 
1847.  Mr.  Ratcliff  was  again  married  in  1852, 
Miss  Agnes  Coheuower  becoming  his  wife.  Ten 
children  were  born  of  their  union:  John,  born 
August  31,  1853,  married  Miss  Giddings,  and  died 
in  Nel>rask:i  in  IHHS;  William,  born  in  August, 
lh(5(;,  died  in  1,SK1»;  Edwin  A.  married  Miss  Josie 
Stout,  and  is  a  telegraph  operator;  Joseph,  born  in 
1860,  died  in  ISHl;  Mary,  born  in  1862,  died  in 
1881;  Clara,  born  in  1865,  is  the  wife  of  Charley 
Swaney,  of  Clayton,  and  they  have  three  children; 
Eva  J.,  born  in  1867,  is  the  wife  of  G^oi'gc  Gore, 


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<if  Nebraska;  Leiiora,  l)Oi'n  in  1869,  died  in  IM81; 
llorai'e,  lM)rn  in  IH71,  married  Mattie  Swaney,  and 
has  unr  elilld;.  .lesso,  !M>i'n  in  187.'t.  ilied  in  in- 
fancy. 

After  liis  lirsl  iii:irri.ii.'c,  .Mr.  WalelilT  located  on 
his  land  in  llrown  Connty,  III.,  and  in  18  1-1  he 
renu)ved  to  .laeksonville,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
niannfaelure  of  lieni)).  In  181!»,  he  crossed  the 
plains  to  California,  attracted  l>y  the  discovery  of 
gold  in  that  St.Mtc.  and  remained  on  the  Pacitic 
slo|ic  until  18.'il.  (Ml  his  return,  he  purchased 
one  hundred  acres  of  land  in  this  county,  to  which 
he  afterward  ailded  until  he  had  a  tincly  improved 
farm  of  two  hundred  and  forty  acres,  which  he 
sold  in  18i)(l,  on  his  removal  to  Clayton.  His  life 
Inis  been  a  prosperous  one,  and,  bv  his  industry 
ami  enterprise,  he  has  accumulated  ji  handsome 
competency,  which  now  enables  him  to  la\'  aside 
all  business  care  and  rest  in  the  enjoyment  of  the 
fruits  of  his  former  toil.  For  a  half  century,  lie 
has  been  a  nieml)er  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  is  one  of  its  liberal  supiwrters  aiicl  faithful 
workei-s.  In  politics,  he  was  a  Whig  until  the  or- 
gani/.ati<in  of  the  He|)ublican  jiarty,  since  which 
time  he  li.as  served  under  its  banner.  lie  was 
Constable  of  IJrown  County  for  some  years,  but 
has  never  been  an  ollice-seeker.  His  life  has  been 
well  and  worthily  spent,  ami  he  lias  the  high  re- 
gard of  all  witii  whom  he  lias  conii'  in  contact. 


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lv>>  DlilMI.I.A  F.  I'OWKI.I.  resides  at 
//  1  Pleasant  View,  the  beautiful  homestead  of 
III  la  the  Powell  family,  located  on  section  22, 
Klliiiglon  Township.  There  she  w:is  born 
and  reared.  The  Powell  ancestors  were  of  Kng- 
lish  descent,  'i'he  grandfather,  Mark  Powell,  a 
native  of  Delaware,  was  a  surveyor,  and  served  in 
the  Cohmial  army  dining  the  Kevoliitionnry 
War.  Willi.am  C.  Powell,  the  father,  was  born  in 
Kent  County,  Del.,  ( (ctoU-r  2(1.  17'JH,  and  when 
<|iiito  young  learned  the  trade  of  shoe-making. 
In  1818  he  went  to  JvCxinglon,  Kv.,  where  he  fol- 


lowed that  pursuit  for  a  number  of  years.  In  the 
fall  of  IMO,  became  to  Adams  County,  III.,  and 
purclha-sed  a  ti'act  of  land  on  section  22,  Kllington 
Township,  on  which  a  log  cabin  had  lieen  erected. 
The  settlements  in  this  locality  were  few  and  far 
between;  deer  were  very  plentiful  and  other  wild 
game  was  to  be  had  in  abundance. 

On  August  21.  1828,  Mr.  Powell  married  Eliza- 
beth Williams,  who  was  born  in  Prankfort,  Ky.. 
on  Christmas  Day  of  18(ll.  After  coming  to  Illi- 
nois, they  spent  the  remainder  of  their  lives  on 
Pleasant  N'iew  Farm,  which  .Mr.  Powell  developed 
into  a  valuable  place.  He  started  oiitinlifein 
limited  circumstances,  but  w.as  a  very  successful 
man,  and  through  his  industry  and  enterprise  he 
won  a  handsome  competency.  In  early  life,  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church.  In  poli- 
tics, he  was  a  supporter  of  Democratic  princi- 
ples, and  his  fellow-townsmen  showed  their  appre- 
ciation of  his  worth  and  ability  by  electing  him 
.\sse.ssor.  Collector,  and  to  other  local  ollices.  His 
death  occurred  Januar}-  29,  188.3.  His  wife  passed 
away  September  2.3,  1887.  in  the  faith  of  the 
Christian  Church,  of  which  she  was  a  member. 

I'lito  this  wortlij-  couple  were  l>orn  nine  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  Owen  15.,  decea.sed:  Driisilla  F. 
of  this  sketch;  .lohanna  (1.  and  Zerild.-i  IC,  both 
deceased;  Mary  P.,  wife  of  .lohn  Oilmer,  of 
(^uincy;  Hattie.  wife  of  Absalom  Samuels,  of 
Texas;  .Vniiie  and  (Jeorge  W.,  both  dccea.sed; 
and  Charles  K.,  who  is  married  and  operates  an 
extensive  farm  in  Kingman  Coiintv.  Kan. 

Miss  Powell  is  the  eldest  daughter  and  second 
child  of  the  family.  She  began  her  education  in  a 
log  sclioolhouse,  and  conned  her  le>sons  while 
seated  on  a  slab  bench.  .She  afterward  .•ittended  a 
.select  scIkmiI  ill  (^uincy,  and  later  was  a  student 
in  the  Female  Seminary  of  Jacksonville,  III.  For 
sevcr.nl  terms  she  successfully  engaged  in  teach- 
ing. She  has  never  known  ail \  ullier  lioine  than 
l'lea>nnt  \'iew  F.-irm.  and  since  her  father's  death 
she  has  entire  charge  of  it.  It  was  left  to  her  and 
her  sister  Johanna  (i.,  and  on  the  death  of  her  si>- 
ter,  in  1888,  it  became  the  sole  properly  of  .Miss 
Powell,  who  now  owns  this  valuable  trad  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres.  In  its  management  and 
sujiervjsioH   slic   displays  excellent    business  ami 


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executive  ability.  The  fields  are  under  a  high 
state  of  cultivation  and  yield  to  her  a  golden 
tribute.  The  home  is  a  large  brick  residence,  and 
the  farm  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  finest  in  the 
township,  being  located  near  the  station  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  A  Qnincj-  Railroad. 

In  the  spring  of  1875,  Miss  Powell  was  ap- 
pointed School  Treasurer  for  Ellington  Townsliip, 
and  has  held  that  position  up  to  the  present 
time,  or  for  seventeen  consecutive  jears,  which 
fact  indicates  the  trust  reposed  in  her  and  the  effi- 
cient manner  in  which  she  discharges  her  duties. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Ellington  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  a  lady  of  culture  and  refinement, 
who  is  held  in  the  higliest  regard  throughout  the 
community. 


'U)IIN  ORIENT  LIEBERMANN.  The  genial 
gentleman  whose  name  appears  at  the  liead 
of  this  article  should  liave  a  special  fond- 
''  ness  for  the  ocean,  as  he  first  saw  the  light 
upon  the  broad  waters  of  the  Atlantic,  three  daj-s 
before  his  proud  motlier  saw  the  American  conti- 
nent. This  is  not  a  very  common  experience,  and 
deserves  to  be  commented  upon.  To  be  more  exact, 
our  subject  vvas  horn  on  board  the  sailing-vessel 
the  "John  Orient,"  in  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  .Tune 
20,  ISoO.  His  father,  Lawrence  Liebermann,  was 
born  in  Berne,  (Jermany,  where  he  was  a  silk 
weaver,  and  then  became  a  soldier  in  the  Oerman 
army  for  six  years.  He  was  in  the  Sehleswig-Holstein 
War.  In  1850,  he  brought  the  family  to  America, 
and  located  in  Buffalo,  where  he  was  emi)loyed  on 
a  farm  one  year,  and  in  1851  he  came  to  Illinois, 
and  located  at  New  Atiiens.  He  engaged  here  in 
farming  for  five  years,  but  he  lost  his  wife  in  1856, 
and  then  moved  to  Belleville  for  six  months;  after- 
ward he  took  his  son  and  daughter  to  Kickapoo, 
Kan.,  where  lie  remniijed  two  months,  nn<l  ^^^^n  re- 


turned and  settled    in    St.   Clair  Countj^    a  while. 
Later,  he  removed  to  St.  Louis. 

In  1861,  he  enlisted  in  a  Missouri  regiment  as  a 
private,  but  was  promoted  to  be  Captain.  He  re- 
signed and  returned  to  St.  Louis,  and  there  located 
in  East  St.  Louis,  and  then  at  ICdwardsvilie, 
III.,  in  Madison  County.  Here  he  first  en- 
gaged in  farming,  and  later  he  started  a  hotel, 
but  was  burned  out;  then  he  located  at  Calio- 
kia,  and  from  there  went  to  Carondelet,  Mo.  At 
this  place  he  carried  on  teaming  on  the  railroad, 
and  was  accidentally  killed  on  the  Iron  Mountain 
Railroad,  in  July,  1887.  He  was  sixty-four  years  of 
age,  and  had  been  a  Democrat  and  a  member  of  the 
Lutheran  Church.  His  wife  was  Catherine  Drocken- 
brodt,  a  native  of  Berne.     She  died  in  1856. 

Our  subject  was  reared  in  Illinois,  and  had  but 
meagre  schooling,  and  at  the  age  of  twelve  years 
he  began  work  learning  the  harness-makiflg  trade. 
He  then  worked  upon  a  farm,  and  at  seventeen  was 
apprenticed  to  a  carj)eiiter,  and  worked  at  carpen- 
tering four  years,  and  then  went  to  Carondelet, 
Mo.,  and  began  teaming  with  his  father. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  Carondelet,  Febru- 
ary 10,  1874,  to  Miss  Alice  Weicht,  who  was  born 
in  Circleville,  Pickaway  County,  Ohio,  and  was 
the  daughter  of  William  Weicht,  who  was  a  native 
of  Greencastle,  Pa.  He  came  to  Ohio  in  1837,  and 
was  a  bricklayer.  In  1855,  he  located  in  Primrose, 
Iowa,  and  after  that  moved  to  many  places,  among 
others  to  Warsaw  and  Alexandria,  Mo.  He  finally 
located  in  Alton,  III.,  and  died  at  the  home  of 
our  subject  in  1885.  His  wife  was  Margaretta  Cun- 
ningham, of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  born  in  the  same 
place  and  died  in  1865,  at  Alton,  111. 

Our  subject  was  the  eldest  of  four  children. 
After  marriage,  lie  remained  in  Missouri  for  three 
years,  and  then  located  in  .Vlton,  III.,  and  engaged 
in  trade.  Later,  he  engaged  in  contracting,  with  J. 
Bilderbeck  as  partner.  He  there  built  many  of  the 
finest  buildings,  but  in  1887  he  moved  to  (^uincy 
and  soon  began  contracting.  He  has  built  many 
of  the  best  residences  here.  His  own  is  upon  the 
corner  of  Third  and  Locust  .Streets. 
I  IMr.  and  Mrs.  liieberinann  have  four  children: 
Ijlaiu'ii,  Willium.  May  and  Nina.  In  .Vlton,  our 
I  subject  joined  llic  .Vncient  Order  of  I'liited  Woi'k- 


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men.  IIu  is  a  Democrat,  and  belongs  to  the  Lu- 
llienin  fnitli.  Ills  wife,  an  inteliijfent.  clever  liuly. 
was  a  pi'oniiiicnt  iiu-inlier  of  the  l're.sln-lcrinn 
Ciiurch,  and  took  an  active  part  in  liie  Ladies' 
Society. 


!#^M^-I^||^ 


^■:o  ^     y 


AMKS  AKTIirit.  No  citizen  of  (^uincy  is 
more  worthy  of  ri'|iresentation  in  this  bio- 
graphical   work    than    the    veneralile   and 

_  venerated  gentleman  whose  name  intro- 
duces this  sket<?ii  and  who  has  borne  an  active 
I)art  in  the  public  as  well  as  in  the  business  life  of 
the  city.  Now,  in  the  twilight  of  his  age,  he  is 
retired  from  tlie  active  cares  which  formerly  en- 
gaged his  attention,  and  in  his  pleasant  home, 
surrounded  by  tUoriO  wiiom  he  iiolds  dear,  is  pass- 
ing the  years  yet  allotted  to  liim.  Let  us  glance 
briefly  at  the  events  that  have  contriliuted  to 
shape  his  career  and  assist  him  in  the  palliway  to 
success. 

Born  in  Ireland,  of  Scotch  descent,  the  son  of 
.Tames  and  Mary  (Hill)  Arthur,  the  native  home 
of  our  subject  was  near  Londonderry-,  and  the  date 
of  his  birth  March  2,  1811.  He  grew  to  man's 
estate  on  the  Knierald  Isle,  and  in  18.33,  in  the 
full  vigor  of  life,  emigrated  to  .\merica,  landing 
in  New  York.  For  two  years  he  remained  in  New- 
York  City,  and  then  removed  to  St.  Louis,  there 
o|)ening  a  laige  wholesale  grocery  store,  under  the 
tirm  name  of  .Sterns,  Arthur  &  Co.  His  business 
grew  to  sucii  an  extent  that  he  became  in  due 
time  the  owner  of  an  interest  in  three  stennljoats, 
two  on  the  Mississippi  and  one  on  tlie  Illinois 
Hiver,  and  for  two  years  commanded  one  of  the 
former  boats  as  Captain. 

In  1816,  Mr.  Arthur  came  to  Quincy,  where  he 
opened  a  wholesale  and  retail  grocery  store.  This 
establishment,  which  was  the  joint  property  of  our 
subject  and  his  lirother,  w.is  located  on  Front  and 
Maine  Streets,  a  location  both  desirable  and  con- 
venient. During  many  of  those  early  years  in  the 
liisU>ry  of  this  city,  Mr.  Arthur  was  agent  for  the 
mails,  a  very  responsible  position,  which  goes  to 
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show  that  in  the  earlier  3-ears  of  his  life  he  dis- 
played the  same  honesty  and  uprightness  which 
have  characterized  his  later  life.  \Ve  can  under- 
stand how  his  good  qualities  have  ahvays  made  him 
one  of  the  best  and  most  respected  citizens  of  the 
place. 

Ill  his  ta>tfs,  Mr.  .Aitliur  lias  been  domestic,  and 
has  refused  frf(|iicnt  solicitation  to  .ncccpt  ollicial 
positions,  but  upon  one  occasion  he  consented  to 
allow  the  use  of  his  name  a-s  candidate  for  Alder- 
man of  the  Third  Ward,  and  was  elected  to  repre- 
sent it  in  the  City  Council.  Since  then  he  has  re- 
peatedly declined  requests  to  accept  nomina- 
tions for  various  ollices,  but,  notw-ilhstanding 
this,  he  maintains  a  deep  interest  in  Ujcal  matters, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  public-spirited  citizens  of 
the  coiiiinuiiity.  He  has  contributed  largely  of 
his  time  and  means  to  make  the  city  so  prominent 
among  the  river  towns  of  Illinois,  and  has  aided 
in  increasing  its  growth  until  it  is  now  the  largest 
city  on  the  Mississippi  between  .St.  Paul  and  St. 
Louis. 

For  eight  years  Mr.  Arthur  was  interested  in  the 
pork  business  in  parlnershi|)  with  the  late  .Joseph 
Norwood,  an  enterprise  which  was  conducted  with 
flattering  success.  In  1855,  he  erected  the  large 
sawmill  on  the  bay,  which  he  operated  for 
twenty-two  years,  and  then,  disposing  of  the  prop- 
erty, retired  from  business.  In  his  religious  con- 
nections, he  has  been  a  member  of  the  J'resbyter- 
ian  Church  since  1854,  and  has  served  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  Klder  since  1858.  He  was  Chairman  of 
the  building  committee,  and  largely  to  his  judg- 
ment, skill,  patient  labor  and  generosity  is  due 
the  elegant  edifice  now-  standing  on  the  corner  of 
Kiglith  Street  and  Broadway.  In  jiolitics,  .Mr. 
Arthur  is  a  Republican. 

In  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  .January  9,  1840,  oc- 
curred the  marriage  of  James  Arthur  and  Mary  ,1. 
Reed,  a  native  of  Virginia.  Into  them  have  been 
born  seven  children,  all  worthy  memljers  of  so- 
ciety-, and  prominent  in  the  business  world.  Isaac 
H.  is  a  prominent  and  successful  wholesale  mer- 
chant in  St.  Paul;  . I.  Albert  owns  and  o|)eiates  a 
large  stock  farm  near  La  Ilelle,  Mo.;  William  II.  is 
a  leading  druggist  in  Quincy;  Newman  W.  is  a 
successful  business  man  of  St.  Paul;  the  daughters, 


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Mrs.  Virginia  IM.  Prince,  Mrs.  Jennie  E.  Pittney, 
and  Mrs.  Emma  M.  fiaskill,  are  residents  of  Quiney. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  are  very  proud  of  tlieir 
thirteen  grandchildren,  who  are  bright  and  intelli- 
gent, and  a  visitor  within  their  home  will  con- 
clude that  it  is  as  happy  a  circle  as  can  be  found  in 
the  world. 


^<Q1 


E>^r~<m^^' 


LARK  ORTON  ranks  among  the  leading 
farmers    of     Adams     County.     He     owns 

^^  twenty-five  acres  of  arable  land  on  section 
13,  Concord  Township,  and  engages  in  general 
farming  and  stock-raising,  making  a  specialty  of 
the  raising  of  a  high  grade  of  cattle.  His  home  is 
a  comfortable  and  neat  story  and  a-half  residence, 
his  barns  and  outbuildings  pi'ovide  ample  shelter 
for  his  stock  and  grain,  and  the  well-tilled  fields 
jield  to  him  a  golden  tribute  in  return  for  the 
care  and  cultivation  of  his  land. 

Mr.  Orton  is  a  native  of  the  Empire  State.  He 
was  born  in  1826,  and  is  a  son  of  David  and  Ruth 
(Clark)  Orton,  whose  family  numbered  five  sons 
and  four  daughters:  Timothy  B.,  who  married  Miss 
Osborn;  James,  who  married  MissPaidina  Mounts; 
Horatio  wedded  Miss  Nancy  Peer,  and  died  in  1849; 
Huldah,who  married  James  Burtiss;Melissa,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Milton  Ray;Almira,  the  wife  of 
James  Mann;  Elias,  who  married  Miss  Davis,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Fiftieth  Illinois  Infantry, 
serving  for  three  years  during  the  late  war;  and 
Maiw,  who  married  Robert  Culprit. 

In  the  common  schools  Clark  Orton  acquired 
his  education,  and  was  reared  under  the  parental 
roof  in  the  usual  manner  of  farmer  lads.  During 
the  late  war,  he  responded  to  the  call  for  troops, 
and  in  1865  enlisted  as  a  member  of  Coin  pane- 
ls. Fiftieth  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which  he  served  un- 
til the  close  of  the  struggle.  Throughout  his  en- 
tire life  he  has  followed  farming,  his  first  purchase 
consisting  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land, 
for  which  lie  jiaid  >i-l  per  acre.  It  was  a  wild 
linct,  entirely  destitute  of  improvements,  but  he 


has  made  it  one  of  the  fine  farms  of  the  township. 
In  1853,  Mr.  Orton  went  to  California,  Init  re- 
turned to  Illinois  in  1854. 

The  lady  who  is  now  Mrs.  Orion  was,  in 
her  mnidenhuod.  Miss  Jlary  E.  Keller,  daughter 
of  Joshua  Keller.  She  was  bom  in  1832,  and 
their  marriage  was  celebrated  in  1856.  Eight 
children  graced  their  union:  Rose  Ellen,  born 
in  1857,  became  the  wife  of  William  May, 
and  resides  in  Kansas;  Berenthia,  born  in  1859, 
became  the  wife  of  John  Black,  and  died  in  1882; 
Charles  was  born  in  1861,  and  is  a  farmer;  Eva, 
born  in  1865,  is  the  wife  of  Harvey  Williams;  Van- 
deleur,  born  in  1868,  and  Ellsworth,  born  in  1874, 
are  still  at  home;  Ida  and  Clark   died    in   infancy. 

Mr  Orton  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church, 
and  his  wife  holds  membership  with  the  Methodist 
Church.  They  are  highly  respected  citizens  of 
the  community  and  hold  an  enviable  position  in 
social  circles.  In  politics,  he  is  a  supporter  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  served  as  School  Director 
for  many  years,  but  he  devotes  his  principal  at- 
tention to  his  business  interests,  in  wiiich  he  has 
met  with  good  success. 

Mr.  Orton's  paternal  grandparents  were  Roger 
and  Esther  Orton,  who  were  natives  of  Connecti- 
cut. They  moved  to  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  at 
at  early  day,  and  there  spent  the  remainder  of 
their  days.  David  Orton,  after  the  death  of  his 
parents,  moved  to  Ohio,  where  he  resided  two 
years,  and  in  1836  came  to  Scott  County,  III., 
where  he  lived  five  years,  after  which  he  came  to 
Adams  County  and  located  in  Concord  Township, 
Seven  uncles  of  our  subject  partici|)ated  in  the 
War  of  1812.  one  of  them  being  a  captain. 


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Y.m 


IM-^ 


^^EORGE  W.  CLEAVELAND,  who  is  exten- 
III  ^—-^  sively  engaged  in  the  breeding  of  fine 
\^;^J4l  horses,  owns  a  valuable  farm  on  section  33, 
Ellington  Township,  about  three  miles  east  of 
Quiney.  He  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  February 
16,  1828,  nntl  is  (descended  from  .^  distinguishecj 


PORTRAIT  AND  WOtJRAl'IIICAL   RKCORl). 


:5.s3 


liiiv  of  Nov  Kii<i:I:ui(l  aiR-estrv.  IU>  great-grciil- 
jiiamlfallicr  wm  mIso  <;rcat-git'at-grai)tlfatli('r  t<i 
I'ri'.'-idont  (k-VflaiKl. 

.Kiliii  C'li-avflaiid,  fallicrof  Diiisulijfct.  was  Imiii 
ill  Samly  Hav,  Mas.-.,  in  \7'MK  and  liocaini'  a  master 
inecliaiiiu.  lie  eiiiigraled  to  <^uiiiey  in  Septeiiilier, 
is:il.niid  piirelia.sed  land  in  KllingUin  Tuwnsliip, 
iipun  wliicli  lie  luiill  a  loji  ealiiii,  lHx2l  feet.  It 
was  the  only  one  in  all  this  section  with  jjlass 
windows.  Mr.  Cleaveland  was  a  great  friend  of 
Cov.  \Voo<l,  of  (^iiinev.  lie  earried  on  l)iisine.ss  as 
a  contraelor  and  Iniilder,  erecting  many  of  the 
lii'st  buildings  in  the  city,  and  in  addition  also  iin- 
jiroved  his  farm,  lie  had  served  his  country  as  a 
soldier  in  the  War  of  1M12,  and  was  a  prominent 
citizen,  his  upright  life  inakinghim  very  iiiHuen- 
tial.  Willi  the  Masonic  society  he  held  mcinher- 
ship  and  was  one  of  seven  men  who  estahlished 
the  Odd  Fellows'  lodge  in  liuiiicy.  In  religious 
hclief  he  was  a  I'liiversalisl.  liis  death  occurred 
May  .'it),  IStiX,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years.  His 
wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Hannah  Noble, 
was  a  native  of  Massachusetts  and  came  of  a  proini- 
neiit  New  Kngland  family.  She  died  Ai)ril  10, 
1x72.  Ill  the  family  were  nine  children,  .seven  of 
whom  lived  to  mature  years,  while  foui  yet  survive. 

Our  subject  was  a  lad  of  six  summers  when  with 
his  parents  he  came  to  this  county.  His  early  ed- 
ucation, acquired  ill  the  |iriiiiitive  log  schoolhouse, 
was  supplemented  by  study  in  a  private  school  in 
(^iiincy,  and  he  is  now  a  well-informed  man.  He 
remained  upon  the  home  farm  until  twenty  years 
of  age,  when  lie  became  clerk  on  a  steamer  running 
lietween  (Juincy,  St.  Louis,  Cincinnati  and  New- 
Orleans.  In  the  spring  of  1>*.'»2,  he  crossed  the 
plains  with  live  yoke  of  oxen,  arriving  in  S,acra- 
inento  after  six  inonthsof  travel.  His  trip  was  an 
exciting  and  interesting  one.  They  had  lliree  or 
four  skirmishes  with  the  Indians,  but  at  length 
reached  their  destination  in  safety.  Mr.  Cleaveland 
engaged  in  mining  except  during  a  slifirt  period 
when  lie  carrierl  on  a  meat,  market  and  grocery 
store.  He  w.is  (|uite  successful  in  his  operations 
and  remained  on  the  I'acilic Slope  until  IKIJ.'),  wiieii 
he  returned  home  liy  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  I'aii- 
iiiiia. 

(Jii  the  1st  of  Ffbruaiy,  1«7  J,  .Mr,  C|eavelan<l  iimr- 


ried  .Mrs.  r.'iuliiie  Lynch,  daughter  of  .loshua  Stin- 
soii,  a  native  of  Tennes,see,  who  einigi.'ited  to 
Hrown  County.  111.,  in  an  early  day.  Her  first  hu>- 
baiHJ.  M.  .1.  Lynch,  wius  a  native  of  New  York.  He 
was  a  highly  educated  in.-iii  and  was  a  telegraph 
operator  in  .'in  early  day.  His  death  occurred  here 
;iboiii  IHfiU.  l?y  her  lirst  marriage,  Mrs.  Cleaveland 
had  a  daughter,  Clara,  who  iiiarried  I!.  Charles 
•  Talmer  and  resides  in  Chicago. 

Ill  politics,  Mr.  Cleaveland  is  a  Democrat,  but  is 
not  an  ollice-seeker.  He  prefers  to  devote  his  en- 
tire attention  to  his  business,  in  which  he  is  meet- 
ing with  excellent  success.  On  his  return  from 
California,  he  took  up  his  residence  on  the  olil 
homestead,  where  he  has  since  resideil.  He  owns 
one  hundred  acres  of  well-improved  land  and 
since  the  year  1M()I>  has  been  engagc<l  in  the  breed- 
ing of  standard  hor.--es.  He  has  several  line  animals 
sired  by  the  famous  Kentuck}"  horse,  "Aiitio." 
He  has  bred  and  sold  a  great  many  line  horses  and 
has  over  twent}'  excellent  horses  now  upon  his 
farm.  He  is  a  lover  of  the  noble  steed  and  an  ex- 
cellent judge  of  line  liorses.  He  has  established  a 
wide  reputation  in  the  line  of  his  business  and  li.as 
been  very  successful.  He  has  a  pleasant  liotne,  an 
excellent  farm,  ami  is  one  of  the  leading  citizens 
of  the  commuiiitv. 


V_ 


UII.1,I.\M    II.    1)1-:    (; ROOT,  who  owns  and 
operates  a  line  tract  of  land   of    two  liun- 


Vf'V/  dred  and  sixteen  acres  on  sections  1  I,  l.'i. 
and  2'.'.  North  Last  Township,  has  been  a  resident 
of  this  coiinly  for  iiiore  than  half  a  century. 
Ill  f.'ict,  almost  his  entire  life  has  here  been  pa.-sed, 
anil  he  liius  witnessed  the  growth  and  development 
which  the  yeai-s  have  brought  forth,  and  the  rapid 
progress  and  a<lvaiieenieiit  made  by  the  couiitw 
.\s  one  of  it.s  honored  pioneers,  In-  well  deserves 
representation  in  this  volume. 

.\    native   of    New  ,ler.scy,    .\Ir.    I)e  Oi'ooi    was 
born  in  l.ong  Uraiidi.  in   lK:t2,  and  is  of  I'lcncli 


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and  German  descent.  His  father,  John  De  Groot, 
was  born  in  New  York  City  in  1808,  and  married 
Miss  Margaiet  Harvy,  a  native  of  the  same  i)laee, 
born  in  1801.  In  1836,  they  emigrated  wilii  their 
family  to  Illinois,  and  Mr.  De  Groot,  who  was  a 
carijcnter  by  trade,  located  in  Quincy,  where  he 
followed  his  occupation  for  a  year.  At  liie  end  of 
that  time,  lie  removed  to  a  partially  improved 
farm  wliich  he  liad  ]iiiiehascd.  Witli  characteristic 
energy  he  began  its  development,  and  in  course 
of  time  made  it  one  of  the  finest  farms  of  the  com- 
munit)'.  He  died  on  the  old  homestead  in  1889. 
He  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Ciiristian 
Ciiurch,  and  took  an  active  interest  in  all  that 
pertained  to  the  welfaie  of  the  community.  In 
politics,  he  was  a  supporter  of  Democratic  princi- 
ples, and  filled  the  offices  of  Supervisor,  Assessor 
and  Justice  of  the  Peace.  His  life  was  a  successful 
one,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  owned  sev- 
enteen hundred  acres  of  improved  land. 

The  De  Groot  family  numbered  sis  children: 
Mary,  born  in  Long  Branch,  in  1829,  died  in 
1892;  Phoebe  E.,  born  in  1839,  in  Adams  County, 
is  the  wife  of  Elder  J.  Carroll  Stark,  a  minister  of 
the  Christian  Church;  John  E.,  born  in  1841,  mar- 
ried Josephine  Davis,  and  is  a  dentist  of  Augusta; 
Edward  H.,  born  in  1843,  married  Miss  Margaret 
E.  Drake,  of  Downer's  Grove,  and  is  a  railroad 
employe;  Clarissa,  Mrs.  Wm.  R.  Gordon,  born  in 
1845,  is  a  farmer  of  Red  Oak,  Iowa. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  acquired  liis  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools,  and  took  a  business 
course  in  Eastman's  Business  College,  of  Pougli- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.,from  which  he  was  graduated  in  18(55. 
He  was  also  a  student  in  the  Mt.  Washington  Col- 
legiate Institute,  of  New  York  City.  For  tliree 
j'ears,  he  engaged  in  teaching  in  the  La  Prairie 
public  schools,  and  at  the  same  time  carried  on 
farming.  As  a  companion  and  helpmate  on  life's 
journey,  he  chose  Miss  Annie  C.  Beach,  a  native  of 
Chester,  N.  Y.,  born  in  1836,  a  daughter  of  Elijah 
and  W.  Eleanor  (Clox)  Beach.  Their  union  was 
celebrated  in  1856,  and  two  cliildren  have  been  born 
unto  them:  Charles  Albert,  born  in  1861,  married 
Miss  Fannie  Fosd^ck,  and  engaged  in  fanning  un- 
til his  death,  which  occurred  in  1886;  Fred  B.,  born 
in  1865,  is  a  railroad  emjjloye, 


After  his  marriage,  Mr.  De  Groot  turned  his  at- 
tention to  farming,  and  has  since  followed  that 
occupation.  He  now  owns  two  bundled  and  six- 
teen acres  of  arable  land,  valued  at  ^75  per  acre. 
It  is  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation  and  well 
improved,  and  is  considered  one  of  the  model 
farms  of  the  township.  The  home  is  a  pleasant 
nine-room  residence,  which  was  erected  at  a  cost 
of  $2,000.  It  is  the  abode  of  hospitality,  and  its 
occupants  rank  high  in  social  circles.  Mr.  De 
Groot  is  also  connected  with  the  County  Fire  In- 
surance Companv,  of  which  he  was  Secretary  for 
eight  years.  Director  for  nine  ^ears.  and  President 
for  a  >ear.  He  has  served  his  fellow-townsmen 
as  Assessor  for  one  year,  and  was  also  Town  Clerk. 
He  takes  an  active  interest  in  ehuivh  and  Sunday- 
school  work,  and  is  a  stanch  advoc:ite  of  the  Pro- 
hibition party.  Himself  and  wife  have  been  mem- 
bers of  the  Christian  Church  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  have  been  numbered  among  its  consis- 
tent and  faithful  workers.  Their  lives  have  been 
well  and  woithily  spent,  anfl  their  man}-  excellen- 
cies of  character  have  won  them  the  high  regard 
of  a  large  ciiclc  of  friends  and  acquaintances. 


4^ 


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ENRY  L.  LEFERS,  V.  S.  To  those  who  un- 
derstand the  wants  and    necessities  of  the 

^^  brute  creation  under  civilization,  the 
yj  healer  of  their  diseases  occupies  oa\y  a  sec- 
ondary place  to  those  who  minister  to  the  ailments 
of  the  human  race.  As  one  of  the  most  successful 
and  well-known  veterinaiy  surgeons  in  the  State,  we 
call  attention  to  the  subject  of  this  notice. 

Henry  Lefers,  of  Quincy,  was  born  in  Germany, 
November  20,  1821.  His  father,  Wilhelm,  was  torn 
in  Germany  also,  as  was  his  grandfa  jber,  and  both 
were  farmers  and  died  there.  The  name  of  our 
subject's  mother  was  Gertrude  Osendorph,  who 
lived  and  died  in  Germany. 

Henry  was  the  youngest  of  seven  children,  and 
was  raised  in  Germany,  and  there  attended  the 
common  schools  until  he  was  seventeen  years  of 


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age.  wlioii  Ir-  hi';;;ui  lliu  stiuly  of  volorinarv  siirjjpry; 
when  twiMity-oiic  years  old,  lii»  lia<i  liegiiii  tlic  prnc- 
liee  of  liis  profession,  and  bought  and  sold  horses 
for  the  army,  and  als(»  for  the  mail  earriei-s.  In 
IHtUt,  lif  came  to  Aineriea,  leaving  Kotlerdani  on 
the  steamer  "India"'  fur  Nt-w  York.  After  landing, 
he  came  Wot  and  iucated  in  <^uincv.  He  has  lieen 
very  succes.sful  in  his  piaetiee,  and  is  favorahly 
known  to  every  one.  lie  has  a  good  repnt.'ition  a> 
surgeon  and  understMfid-*  everything  ahoul  a  horse, 
and  docs  all  the  Imsitiess  in  his  line  in  this  section. 
He  w.as  (iovcrnmenl  Inspector  at  the (Juincy  stock- 
yards for  one  year.  He  has  some  (ine  horses  and 
in  llcrmany  he  raiscfl  only  the  finest  breeds.  His 
practice  extends  through  Adams  County,  and  into 
Missouri.  His  office  and  residence  are  on  Hamp- 
shire .Street. 

Oursubject  was  married  in  Germany  to  Christine 
Boozern.  who  died  in  187.'$,  leaving  four  children: 
Hendrick,  who  lives  in  (iuincy;  IWrnard.  in  .St. 
Louis;  and  Mary  and  Gertrude,  who  live  here.  Ik- 
was  mariied  a  second  time,  this  union  being  with 
Christina  I'osket,  who  was  born  in  (iermaiiy.  The 
children  are  .Maiy.  .Vnne.  Kate.  Lizzie  ami  Will- 
iam. 

Dr.  Lefers  is  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Veterinary 
Surgeons'  Society,  and  belongs  to  the  .St.  Boniface 
Catholic  Churdi.  He  is  a  Democrat,  and  a  very 
prominent  man  among  the  (ierman  residents  of 
Quincy. 


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K'KDEUICK  MKNKF,.  Vice-president  and 
.Manager  of  the  .Mciike  A-  (irimm  I'laning 
it^  ~  Slill  Company,  of  Quincy,  is  a  man,  who, 
in  the  conduct  of  his  business  affairs,  has  mani- 
fested discriminating  judgment,  fine  commercial 
instincts  and  executive  ability  of  a  high  order. 
He  is  a  native  of  the  city  in  which  he  is  now  do- 
ing business,  and  is  a  son  of  .John  H.  and  Freder- 
ica  (Hagarbummer)  Menkc.  the  former  of  whom 
was  born  in  Westphalia.  Germany,  November  .SO, 
182J,   and   in  the  schools   of  his  native    land    was 


given  a  good  education.  He  reninined  a  subject 
of  (■ermany  until  he  attained  his  twenty-sixth 
year,  when  he  emigrated  to  the  Inited  States,  his 
first  knowledge  of  .Vmcnca  being  acipiired  in  the 
city  of  New  Orleans  in  IH.'ill. 

From  New  Orleans,  .loliii  II.  .Menke  |)roceeded 
by  boat  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  spent  three 
years  operating  a  sawmill.  At  the  en<I  of  that 
time,  he  began  fuilKwing  tlie  same  calling  in 
Qiiincy  f<)r  Gould  A:  .\lleii.  with  whom  he  re- 
mained for  a  number  of  years.  Ho  then  formed  a 
partnership  witli  .1.  II.  Bimson  under  the  firm 
name  of  Bimson.  .Menke  S:  Co.,  which  continued 
to  exist  for  several  ycai"s,  when  its  name  was 
changed  to  Menke,  Grimra  &  Co.  The  firm  contin- 
ued without  eiiange  until  IKKl,  when  it  was  made  a 
stock  company,  with  .lolin  H.  .Menke  President 
and  Manager,  which  position  he  held  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death.  September  29.  IXX'.t.  He  lived 
to  see  the  ostal>lishmenl  of  which  he  was  the 
founder  grow  in  proportions  until  it  was  one  of 
the  leading  and  sub.-tantial    industries  of  (^uincy. 

John  II.  Menke  was  a  man  of  great  energy, 
keen  business  foresight,  decision  and  force  of 
character.  .Mlhough  his  career  wius  a  very  busy 
one,  it  did  not  prevent  him  from  active  par- 
ticipation in  all  worthy  projects  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  inateriiil  interests  c>f  the  city,  and  his 
generous  nature  manifested  it^elf  in  frequent  and 
liberal  gifts  to  worthy  charities.  His  wife  was 
born  111  Westphalia,  (iermany,  .Inly  18,  1830,  the 
daughter  of  .Joseph  and  Margaret  Hagarbummer, 
and  by  her  he  became  the  father  of  five  children: 
.\niia,  wife  of  W.  II.  I'ieper.  of  i^iuincy;  Augusta, 
wife  of  II.  U.  Charle,  of  Hannibal,  Mo.;  Lily,  Mrs. 
George  Bickelhaupt,  of  C^uincy;  Ainanda.athomc; 
and  Frederick,  the  subject  of  this  sketclh.  For 
many  years  .lohn  H.  .Menke  and  his  wife  were 
members  of  the  Lutheran  Church.  In  |)oIitics, 
he  w.as  usually  iiuh  prndeiit,  and  during  the  late 
war  was  a  staiieh  I'liii  n  man. 

Frederick  Menke  h.as  inherited  many  of  his 
father's  talents,  among  which  may  be  mentioned  his 
keen  conimereial  iiistiiiet.>i,  his  industry  and  hon- 
orable chai-acter.  wliieh  admirably  fit  him  to  suc- 
cessfully carry  on  the  biisiiu'.s,s  so  ably  inaugurated 
by  his  father.    His  education  up  to  the  age  of  eigh- 


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teen  years  was  acquired  in  tlie  public  schools,  after 
which  he  entered  tlie  Gem  City  Business  College, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1879.  His  career 
in  college  was  marked  by  earnest  application  and 
rapid  progress,  and  he  was  a  favorite  with  class- 
mates and  teachers.  After  finishing  his  education 
he  began  learning  the  machinist's  trade  with  M. 
T.  Greenleaf,  after  which  he  became  Assistant 
Superintendent  of  the  Menkc  it  Grimm  Planing 
Mill  Company,  subsequently  was  elected  Vice- 
president  and  Manager,  and  still  holds  the  latter 
positions. 

October  4,  1882,  Mr.  Menke  married  Mi.'^s  Jos- 
ephine Roszwog,  of  Quincy,  a  daughter  of  A.  Rosz- 
wog,  and  to  them  tlu-ee  children  have  been  born, 
two  sons  and  one  daughter.  They  have  a  very 
cozy  and  pleasant  home  at  No.  1238  Kentucky 
Street,  to  which  they  gladly'  welcome  their  large 
circle  of  friends.  Politically,  Mr.  Menke  is  a 
Democrat  and  his  vote  is  always  cast  for  men  of 
the  same  jiolitical  faith  as  himself.  Public-spirited, 
liberal  minded  and  generous  in  disposition,  and 
active,  intelligent  and  energetic  by  nature,  his 
career  has  been  successful  and  honorable,  and  his 
future  is  full  of  promise. 


^LEASANT  M.  HERNDON,  M.  D.  The  sub- 
ject of  tliis  sketch  is  the  pleasant  and  ac- 
commodating dentist  of  Camp  Point,  and 
is  a  representative  of  an  old  Virginia  fam- 
ly.  His  grandfather  was  a  Virginian  by  birth, 
and  passed  from  tiiis  life  when  his  son,  the  father 
of  oiu'  subject,  was  quite  young.  This  latter  gen- 
tleman was  tlie  Rev.  Ple.asant  M.  Herndon,  and 
was  born  in  Virginia,  March  1,  1818.  lie  was 
reared  b}-  an  uncle,  and  enjoyed  such  school  ad-' 
vantages  as  the  times  afforded.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  wheel-wright,  and  became  a  wagon  maker. 
He  emigrated  to  (Quincy,  111.,  in  the  '40s  where 
he  worked  for  a  shoit  time,  and  then  purchased  a 
farm  and  engaged   in    fai'ming   for   a   season.     He 


then  sold  out  to  engage  in  merchandizing  in 
Bloomfield,  and  here  remained  until  he  changed 
his  store,  in  18.57,  to  Camp  Point.  In  the  year 
1868,  he  moved  to  Jackonville,  and  conducted 
the  same  business  for  several  years,  liut  in  1882  he 
returned  to  Camp  Point,  and  has  since  resided 
with  his  son.  He  has  been  a  Methodist  minister 
for  fifty  years,  having  been  licensed  to  preacli  in 
1841,  and  was  ordained  to  tlic  ministry  in  1^<;J8. 
He  has  done  much  supply  work  for  ministers,  and 
has  preached  regularly  for  several  years,  although 
not  a  member  of  an}'  conference.  He  has  always 
been  an  active  worker,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
building  committee  when  the  first  Methodist 
E])iscopal  Church  was  erected  in  Cami)  Point. 
When  the  Rebellion  broke  out,  he  considered  it 
his  duty  to  take  pait  in  the  defense  of  his  country, 
and  so  assisted  Capt.  Joel  in  raising  a  company, 
being  made  Second  Lieutenant  of  it.  This  was 
Company  G,  Seventy-eighth  Illinois  Infantry, 
and  with  it  he  served  almost  a  year,  but  his 
health  failed,  and  after  a  confinement  in  the  hos- 
pital for  three  months  he  was  discharged  and  came 
home.  He  is  a  zealous  Christian,  modest  and  unas- 
suming, and  very  intelligent  and  kind-iiearted. 
The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Mary  Tally,  also 
descended  from  an  old  \'irginia  family.  She  has 
been  a  life-long  member  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Cliurch,  and  now  lives  at  the  home  of  her 
son. 

The  gentleman  whose  biography  we  are  writing 
was  born  in  Bloomfield,  Adams  County,  111.,  .Ian- 
nary  27,  1857,  and  is  the  youngest  of  six  children. 
He  attended  the  common  schools  until  his  four- 
teenth year,  and  then  learned  telegraphy,  and 
practiced  that  for  two  jears;  after  that  he 
acted  as  clerk  in  a  store,  worked  on  a  farm,  and 
made  himself  useful  in  various  employments  until 
he  decided  to  study  dentistry,  in  1875.  He  began 
study  under  Dr.  Lane,  of  Jacksonville,  lint  at  the 
expiration  of  two  years  he  found  himself  without 
means,  and  it  was  necessary  to  find  the  funds  to 
continue  the  study  of  his  chosen  profession.  He 
found  employment  in  a  mill  and  ft)undry  for  a 
time,  and  in  1882  he  removed  to  C:\iiip  Point  and 
began  the  jiraetice  of  his  jirofession. 

Dr.  Herndon  was  married  in  1877,  to  Miss  Sarah 


rORTPvAIT  AND  T^loCUAPHJCAL   RF.fORO. 


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M.  Wliiteliiii-sl,  of  Winclifster.  III.  Her  |i:ii'i-iit^ 
were  eiirly  r<cttlor>  o(  Scolt  C'uuiily.  and  were 
natives  of  Virijiiiia  mid  of  Oliio.  Dr.  :nid  Mi's. 
IK'niddii  liave  (wo  I'liildreii:  t'liarlos  C.  and  He.ssie 
I.  Itiitli  he  and  liis  wife  are  active  iiiemhei's  of 
tlie  Mftliodist  Kpl.-icoiial  Clnireli.  Dr.  Ileriidoii  is 
a  man  of  energy,  very  inlelli<;ent,  and  eoinmaiids 
the  respeet  and  eonfidenee  of  every  one  in  this 
iieijjhborhood.  lie  holds  strong  views  on  the 
I'rohiliition  i|iicstioii,  and  is  a  firm  Proliiliitioiiist. 
lie  U'loiigs  to  the  social  order  of  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias. He  has  his  dental  parlors  located  in  his  line 
new  residence  located  in  this  place,  which  he  erected 
in   1891. 


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( »I5KRT  UANKIN.  The  simple  record  of  an 
lioiioralile  lif(!  is  the  liest  nioiuiment  that 
(ii  }\  can  lie  reared  to  any  citizen,  and  we  shall 
^^©  therefore  not  attempt  to  enlarge  upon  the 
history  of  the  gentleman  ahovc  named,  who  dur- 
ing his  life  was  one  of  Fall  Creek  Township's 
most  reput^ible  residents.  He  was  born  in  Cald- 
well County,  Ky.,  in  1827.  and  was  the  son  of 
Elias  Rimkin,  who  was  born  in  Scotland.  The 
latter-named  gentleman  came  to  America  in  an 
early  day.  and  at  the  age  of  twenty -one  years  was 
married  to  Miss  Klizabelh  llerron,  who  was  born  in 
North  Carolina.  The  parents, later  in  life,  located 
in  this  county,  where  they  were  numbered  among 
its  best  citizens,  and  where  their  decease  occurred 
when  ripe  in  ycai>. 

He  of  whom  we  write  received  a  common-school 
education  in  his  native  county,  and,  on  taking  up 
bis  abode  in  this  section,  was  married,  in  1H,")0,  to 
Miss  Sarah  .1..  daughter  of  .lohn  and  Klizabetli 
Kdmonds,  and  of  the  ten  children  born  to  tlieiii 
Frances  L.  (.Mi-s.  Henry  C.  Cupp)  and  (h.-ules  II. 
lived  to  establish  homes  of  their  own.  Two  years 
after  his  marriage,  Robert  Rankin  located  on  the 
farm  which  is  now  owned  by  his  son  Charles  II., 
ami  which  he  cleared  and  pliiced  under  good  culti- 
vation, erecting  thereon  excellent  buildings,  in- 
cluding a  cozv  dwelliii''. 


Mrs.  Sarah  .1.  Rankin  having  died  in  IHT.'l.  our 
subject  clio.se  for  his  .second  wife  Miss  Laura  <!ood- 
ner,  and  to  them  were  born  two  children,  who  are 
now  deceased,  as  is  also  the  wife  anci  mother,  lb- 
of  whom  we  write  in  religious  belief  was  a  .Meih- 
odist,  in  which  faith  he  died  December  11,  1h7«. 
In  politics,  his  sentiments  were  in  harmony  with 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party.  He  was  a 
thoiDUghly  upright,  honest  man,  alw.ays  dealing 
fairly  and  squarely  by  all,  and  his  estimable  char- 
acter, jus  well  as  his  capability,  gave  him  an  iiii|ioi- 
taiit  place  among  his  fellow-townsmen. 

Roljert  Rankin  of  this  sketch,  as  before  stated, 
was  a  true  Christian  gentleman,  having  been  a 
memtjer  of  the  Methodist  K|)iscopal  Church  for 
nearly  fort}'  years.  He  took  a  very  promiiu'iit 
part  in  the  organization  of  that  body  in  Fall 
Creek  Township,  and  contributed  lil)erally  of  his 
means  at  all  times  toward  its  support.  He  was 
also  very  jictive  in  Sunday-scliOf)l  work  and  was 
Class-leader  for  many  years.  With  each  p.-issing 
year,  he  continued  to  add  to  his  long  list  of 
friends,  and  at  the  time  of  his  decease  was  greatly 
respected  throughout  the  community  in  which  he 
resided.  He  possessed  in  an  eminent  degree  those 
genial,  courteous,  social  qualities  which  made  of  his 
cliarniing  home  that  center  of  true  liosi)ilality  which 
knows  so  well  how  to  "welcome  the  coining  and 
speed  the  parting  guest."  He  was  yciy  prominently 
connected  with  the  agricultural  and  horticultural 
interests  of  the  county,  and  w.is  for  several  terms 
President  of  the  .Vgricultural  Society  of  Adams 
County,  lie  also  organized  a  fruit-growing  asso- 
ciati<in  in  this  locality  and  served  as  its  President 
for  some  time. 

Charles  H.  Rankin,  the  lifth  xui  of  our  subject, 
was  lK>rii  in  18."i!)  in  .Vdams  County  and  received 
an  excellent  education,  being  a  graduate  of  the 
Illinois  .St'ite  rnivei-sity  at  I'rbana,  receiving  his 
(li|iloma  in  188.').  Two  years  later,  be  was  married 
to  Miss  Ilenriettjj  I,.  Whittleton,  who  w.hs  born  in 
IHiiil  and  was  a  native  of  this  county,  but  at  the 
time  of  her  marriage  was  re.*iiding  in  Pike  County. 
They  have  become  the  parents  of  twt)  dauglilers: 
llattie  K.,  born  October  6,  I88',l,  and  I.iiio  ,1.,  born 
February  17,  1892,  whom  they  are  carefully  rear- 
ing.     Mr.  Rankin,  like  his  honorable  father,  is  also 


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a  stanch  adherent  of  the  Republican  party,  and  is 
a  peaceable  and  law-abiding  citizen,  an  intelligent 
and  industrious  tiller  of  the  soil,  and  a  successful 
fruit-grower.  He  is  duly  respected  by  those  to 
whom  he  is  known. 


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>   I   f  I.  «  1,  I  ^. 


^ONAH  HEDGES.  Adams  County  is  the 
home  of  a  large  number  of  enterprising 
^-^  and  progressive  farmers,  whose  estates  add 
^f^fJ  attractiveness  to  the  landscape,  being 
marked  by  first-class  improvements,  and  the  air  of 
order  and  thrift  -which  gives  one  unacquainted 
with  farm  life  a  good  idea  of  the  value  of  rural 
property.  Melrose  Township  has  her  share  of 
these  well-regulated  farms,  and  one  of  them  is 
seen  on  section  7,  where  Mr.  Hedges  owns  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  and  has  made  his  home 
since  1868.  He  has  good  standing  among  those 
of  his  own  calling,  and  in  all  business  circles  is 
held  in  good  repute. 

The  birth  of  Mr.  Hedges  occurred  in  Februar}', 
1828,  in  Bcrkelej'  County,  Va.  There  he  studied 
in  the  common  schools,  and  under  the  parental 
roof  learned  useful  lessons  of  life  and  its  duties 
and  privileges.  In  the  year  of  18.56,  he  came 
to  Adams  County,  where  he  has  continued  to 
reside,  industriousl}'  pursuing  his  chosen  voca- 
tion and  quietly  discharging  the  duties  of  citizen- 
ship. In  1859,  Mr.  Hedges  returned  to  Virginia, 
■where  he  was  married  to  Miss  Frances  J.  Lambert, 
and  witii  his  bride  immediately  returned  to  Quincy, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  the  commission  business 
with  Rodne>'  Lambert.  He  continued  so  employed 
until  1868,  during  which  time  lie  shipped  immense 
quantities  of  grain,  hay,  etc.,  to  St.  Louis  markets. 

On  the  above  date,  our  subject  located  upon  his 
present  farm  of  one  hundred  acres,  whose  richly 
cultivated  land  yields  a  handsome  income.  As 
lime  passed,  acre  after  acre  was  placed  under  the 
plow,  until  he  now  has  one  of  the  best-improved 
farms  in  the  township.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hedges 
have  been  born  two  children:     Annie,  now  Mrs. 


Fred  G.   .Johnson,  and  Daniel  L.,  who  makes  his 
home  in  Cliicago. 

Samuel  and  Jane  (Thompson)  Hedges,  the  par- 
ents of  our  subject,  were  natives  of  Virginia,  the 
father  being  boin  in  Berkeley  County,  in  1778;  and 
the  mother  in  Hampshire  County,  in  1796.  They 
reared  a  family  of  ten  children,  of  whom  .Jonah  of 
this  sketch  was  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth.  The 
paternal  grandfather,  .James  Hedges,  was  born  in 
Berkeley  Count}-,  Va.,  about  1745,  and  served  as 
a  soldier  during  the  Revolutionaiy  AVar.  His 
father,  Jonah  Hedges,  was  the  son  of  Joseph 
Hedges,  who  emigiated  from  England  and  located 
near  Frederick  City,  Md.,  where  he  passed  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life.  One  of  his  sons  purchased 
a  farm  in  Berkele}'  County,  which  property  re- 
mained in  the  family  until  recent  years. 

He  of  whom  we  write  gives  his  political  alle- 
giance to  the  Democratic  party,  and,  although  he 
can  scarcely  be  called  a  politician,  he  has  rendered 
his  fellow-citizens  good  service  in  the  capacity  of 
Township  Clerk  for  many  terms.  He  is  honored 
and  respected  throughout  tiie  community,  and  in 
his  own  unassuming  wa}'  beai'S  a  part  in  the  good 
works  that  are  projected  in  the  vicinity. 


^^HARLES  W.  CHUMBLEY,  the  efficient 
j|(^-^^_  yard  clerk  for  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
^^f'  Quincy  Railroad,  and  Alderman  from  the 
First  Ward,  was  born  in  Claiborne  County,  Tenn., 
near  Tazewell,  November  2,  1833.  His  father, 
John  Chumbley,  was  born  in  the  same  State,  and 
his  grandfather,  Roliert  Chumbley,  a  farmer,  was 
also  a  native  of  Tennessee.  John  Chumble.y  was  a 
well-to-do  farmer,  but  held  no  slaves.  He  was  a 
Whig  in  politics,  and  died  in  his  native  State  at 
the  age  of  forty-five  3ears.  His  wife  was  Malinda 
Sharp,  a  native  of  Tennessee.  Slie  removed  to 
Arkansas,  where  she  died,  aged  fiftj-five  years. 
They  had  eight  diildren,  five  of  whom  are  still 
living. 


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Charlos  was  the  second  child,  and  was  raised  on 
the  farm  and  attended  the  puMic  st-hools.  lie  re- 
mained at  hon\o  until  he  was  ei<;hleen  yeai-s  old. 
In  1!<.")6,  ho  removed  to  Missouri,  seltlin<;  near  Lex- 
ington, I^nfavclte  County.  Here  he  bought  a  farm 
and  engaged  in  general  farming.  In  186.3,  he 
came  to  (Juincy  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  t<)baoco.  About  l«7(i,  he  was  employed  as  yard- 
master  for  the  Ilannihal  A  St.  Jc>e  Railroad, 
until  its  consolidation  with  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton it  Quincy  RailroatI,  when  lie  became  yard 
clerk,  and  has  occujjied  that  position  ever  since, 
it  requiring  all  his  time.  lie  is  «m.e  of  the  oldest 
employes  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  ife  Quincy 
Railroad,  and  lias  never  been  off  duty,  but  for  two 
short  trips. 

C)ur  subject  was  married  in  Tennessee  in  1851, 
to  Miss  Mary  Walliii,  a  native  of  that  State.  He 
has  four  children:  Frederick  W.,  who  is  cashier  for 
the  Chicago,  Burling'.on  it  Quincy  Railroad  at 
(Juincy;  Robert  L.,  yard  clerk  for  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  it  tjuincy  Railroad;  Lulccia  A.,  now 
Mrs.  Williamson,  residing  in  Chicago,  and  Ora  M. 
Mr.  Cliuiiibley  is  now  serving  his  eighth  term  as 
Alderman,  and  is  the  oldest  on  the  Board,  lie  is 
Chairman  of  the  I.iglit  Committee,  a  member  of 
the  Finance,  and  ollieis,  and  has  served  the  city 
in  many  important  ways.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Royal  Anaiiiiin,  t>f  the  Druids,  and  has  been  an 
active  Democrat,  serving  as  delegate  to  the  county 
conventions.  His  wife  attends  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 


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^OHN  BATSCHY.  With  the  increase  in  pop- 
ulation, refinement  and  wealth  in  the  prin- 
cipal centers  of  the  I'liited  States,  has  risen 
a  growing  deiiiaiid  for  the  blending  of  the 
artistic  and  the  beautiful  with  the  utilitarian  in 
architecture.  The  result  has  been  extremely  grat- 
ifying to  the  adv<x-ates  of  progress  in  this  impor- 
tant occupation.  Among  those  who  have  acquired 
a  wide  reputation  for  their  great  skill  and  artistic 


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conception  .is  architects,  ranks  .lohn  Bat.schy,  one 
of  the  prominent  business  men  of  (Quincy.  He  is 
jirepared  to  execute  all  commissions  promptly  and 
with  that  intelligent  apprehension  of  design  which 
has  served  to  make  his  efforts  so  highly  .•ippie- 
ciated. 

Jlr.  BatM'hy  has  had  a  thorough  training  and  a 
longand  valuable  experience  as  an  architect,  and  all 
through  the  city  and  rural  districts  may  be  seen 
man}'  evidences  of  his  skill.  He  was  l)orn  at  Fili- 
sur,  .Switzerland,  on  the  8th  of  ^larcli,  18.^.'),  re- 
ceived a  good  pr.ictical  education  in  the  common 
schools,  and  subsequently  spent  .several  years  in 
the  architectural  schools  at  Zurich  and  Winterthur, 
preparing  himself  for  his  profession.  At  an  early 
age,  he  showed  much  natural  ability  for  his  trade 
and  remarkably  good  taste  in  designing  and  plan- 
ning buildings. 

In  the  year  1881,  Mr.  Batscliy  came  to  this 
country,  and  to  (^uincj"  two  years  later.  He  is  an 
architect  of  excellent  characteristics,  and  the  costly 
residences  that  have  been  erected  after  his  designs 
during  the  past  three  years  are  a  source  of  great 
pleasure  to  the  owners  and  of  pride  to  l^uincy,  a 
city  alread}*  rich  in  the  possession  of  beautiful 
and  commodious  dwellings.  Mr.  Bat-schy  is  archi- 
tect of  the  Mus,seliiian  Huibling,  which  is  occupied 
b}'  the  Gem  City  Business  College,  a  handsome 
brick  structure  five  stories  high,  and  very  elegant 
in  architectural  design  and  siipeili  in  liiiisli.  Our 
subject  is  also  the  designer  of  most  of  the  build- 
ings of  the  Soldiers'  and  .Sailors'  Home  at  (Quincy, 
and  man3of  the  fine  and  costly  dwellings  recently 
erected  in  this  prosperous  city.  He  is  enterprising 
and  [irogressi  vc,  a  thorough  master  of  his  (irofession 
and  a  useful,  popular  and  inlhienlial  citizen.  He 
brings  to  bear  vast  practical  experience,  sound 
judgment  and  aniple  resources,  preparing  his  elab- 
orate plans  with  the  greatest  care  and  infusing 
great  beauty  in  his  architectural  designs.  His 
honorable  and  equitable  methods  inspire  the  ut- 
most confidence,  and  his  energy  and  enterprise  aie 
reaping  a  well-merited  reward. 

JIr.Bat.schyclio.se  his  life  com|iani(in  in  the  per- 
son of  Mi.ss  Louisa  .SclKieiieman,  a  ii;itive  of  Quincy, 
and  their  marriage  was  solemnized  in  the  year 
1891.     They  have  a  charming  and  very  attractive 


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resirlence  iit  No.  316  South  Twelfth  Street,  in  a 
good  neighborhood  with  fine  surroundings,  and 
tliey  are  classed  among  the  prominent  young  peo- 
])le  of  the  community.  Mrs.  Batschj-  is  a  daughter 
of  John  Schoeneman,  one  of  the  representative 
citizens  of  Adams  County,  and  is  a  lady  of  much 
refinement  .and  culture.  Slie  presides  over  the 
elegant  home  with  gr.ace  and  dignity,  and  is  a 
favorite  in  social  circles. 


m>-^^<B^ 


^^EORGE  RROPIIY,  who  is  now  discharging 
(If  (-—  his  duties  as  tlie  most  efHcient  and  capa- 
^^^(  ble  Circuit  Clerk  of  Adams  County,  is 
justly  entitled  to  a  place  in  tlie  history  of  the 
county,  for  he  is  a  man  wiio  has  been  honoral)ly 
and  usefully  identified  with  its  interests  and  with 
its  advancement  in  every  worthy  particular.  Since 
his  lesidence  here  lie  lias  enjoyed  the  reputation  of 
being  one  of  tlie  industrious,  thorough-going  busi- 
ness men,  iind  a  man  well  posted  on  all  the  current 
to|)ics  of  the  day.  From  small  beginnings,  by  dint 
of  hard  work,  energy  and  enterprise,  Mr.  Brophy 
has  succeeded  in  accumulating  a  comfortable  com- 
l)etency,  until  now,  when  reaching  towards  the  al- 
lotted age  of  man,  he  can  s|)3nd  the  balance  of  his 
days  in  jjeacc  and  plenty. 

Mr.  Brophy  is  a  native  of  the  Emerald  Isle,  born 
in  the  townlandot  Parksgrove,  near  the  hanks  of 
the  silent  waters  of  the  River  Nore,  Parish  of  Lis- 
downey  in  County  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  in  March, 
1H22.     Of  the  land  of  his  birth  he  li.is  written: 

"Oh!  I  was  born  at  Parksgrove — 
'Tis  an  exile  breathes  the  strain, — 
And  the  dear  old  land  of  my  early  love 
1  may  never  see  again. 
As  memoiy  calls  her  beauteous  scenes, 
My  feelings  overflow 
■\Vilh  earnest  love  for  the  green  old  sod 
And  the  gleam  of  the  River  Nore." 

Oursubject  was  reared  in  his  native  country  and 
he  received  a  fair  education  in  the  schools  of  the 
same,  attending  until  nineteen  years  of  age.  Like 
many  others  of  his  race,  Mr.   I'.roiihy's  day-dream 


w.as  for  lilierty  and  the  right  to  cope  with  his  fel- 
low-men on  an  equal  footing  in  the  battle  ot  life. 
As  a  consequence  he  emigrated  to  the  United 
States  and  landed  in  New  York  City  in  July,  1853. 
lie  remained  in  that  city  a  short  time,  hut  went 
from  there  to  Buffalo,  thence  to  Marietta,  Wash- 
ington County,  Ohio,  and  in  the  same  year  came 
to  (Juincy,  III.,  where  he  has  since  resided. 

Being  an  excellent  penman,  Mr.  Brophy  found 
employment  in  the  oHice  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit 
Court  and  afterward  was  engaged  as  clerk  for  Mr. 
McFall,  who  was  Clerk  of  the  Court.  In  1860,  he 
began  as  Deputy  Clerk  under  S.  M.  Anderson  and 
was  engaged  with  him  during  his  term  of  otlice. 
Afterward  he  was  employed  as  Deputy  with  John 
and  Najioleon  Jloreliead  and  also  with  Samuel  S. 
Brooks.  In  1872,  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  for  the  term  of  four  years  on  the  Dem- 
ocratic ticket.  He  has  held  the  office  continuously 
by  re-election  to  the  present  time,  and  has  dis- 
charged the  duties  incumbent  thereon  in  a  manner 
reflecting  credit  ujion  himself  and  his  constituents. 
He  is  one  of  the  foremost  men  of  the  county  and 
in  every  walk  of  life  has  conducted  himself  in  an 
honorable,  upright  manner. 

Mr.  Brophy "s  marriage  to  Miss  Catherine  Grace, 
of  Quincy,  III.,  occurred  in  May,  1861,  and  three 
children  have  blessed  their  union:  Mary  E.  and 
Anna  C,  both  at  home,  and  William  G.,  one  of  the 
deputy  clerks.  Mrs.  Brophy  was  born  in  Moona- 
vadrue.  Parish  of  Fresh  ford.  County  Kilkenny, 
Ireland,  in  the  year  1832.  Mr.  Bro|)hy  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Orphan  Society  at 
(Quincy,  and  is  active  in  all  good  work.  He  and 
his  family  are  members  of  St.  Peter's  Catholic 
Church,  and  take  a  deep  interest  in  the  same,  con- 
tributing liberally  to  its  support  and  advancing  its 
interests  in  every  way.  Mr.  Brophy  has  a  pleas- 
ant residence  at  No.  818  Spring  Street,  which 
is  a  home  indeed,  and  at  once  a  monument  and 
a  reward  of  patient  continuance  in  well-doing  and 
hard  toil.  Mr.  Brophy  ranks  as  a  noticeable  illus- 
tration of  that  indomitalile  push  and  energy  which 
characterize  men  of  will  and  determination.  Like 
every  true  Irishman,  Mr.  Brophy  ever  holds  dear 
in  his  heart  the  memory  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  He 
has  always  advocated  Home  Rule  f<jr  Ireland,  and 


PORTRAIT  AM)  BIOORAPHICAL   RECORD. 


39.5 


his  M  inpjiUins  l;ii  .u-mv-  i|j<-  l.ii>;i(l  waters  for  the 
liravi'  li'isliineii  wlio  me  >triis;i;liiij;  for  tlioir  ri^lits 
anil  will  ever  coiitiniip  until  llu'  down-lrodili'ii  an- 
liflcil  up  and  Irchind  is  frof. 


\l^^^ 


;IIAR1.KS  .M.  (ill.MKU.  atlorm  .v-at-law. 
Till'  liar  of  Adams  County.  III.,  lias  lieon 
j^rcally  strengtlioni'd  hv  tlie  addition  to  it 
of  many  alile  advfK-ates  and  foiinsclors,  who  have 
won  renown  .is  Icfjal  pnu-titioners,  and  anionjj 
these  may  be  mentioned  Charles  M.  Ciilnier,  who  is 
a  inemher  of  the  well-known  firm  of  (Jilnierit 
Moore,  of  t^uiney.  111.  lie  w.-is  born  in  (iilmer 
Townsliii>,  Adams  County,  III.,  November  2-1, 181-1. 
n  son  of  .lohn  T.  and  Lydia  L.  (Barker)  Gilmer, 
the  former  of  wliom  wns  born  in  (Jeorgia,  and  at 
the  age  of  eijirht  yeai-s  was  taken  to  Kentucky  by 
his  father.  Dr.  .lohn  T.  (Iilmer,  a  native  of  Albe- 
marle Count}',  Va.  He  was  a  very  successful  prac- 
titioner of  the  liealing  art,  and  won  mncli  local 
renown  as  an  intelligent  and  conscientious  plij'Si- 
eian.  After  residing  in  the  .Stale  of  Kentucky 
until  18;?'2,  he  came  with  his  family  to  Adams 
County,  III.,  and  here  spent  the  rest  of  his  d.ays. 
The  mother  of  the  subject  of  tliis  .-sketch  w.xs  a 
Kentucky'  lady,  and  possessed  many  of  the  virtues 
and  graces  for  which  Southern  women  are  noted. 
She  wa.s  a  daughter  of  Charles  Harker  and  was  of 
Knglish  and  Scotch  extraction.  She  died  in  Adams 
County,  111.,  in  May,  1876,  surviving  her  husband 
ten  yeai-s.  They  became  the  parentsof  a  good  old- 
fashioned  family  of  eleven  children,  of  whom  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  sixth  in  order  of 
birth. 

Charles  M.  (iilmer  spent  his  boyhood  in  dis- 
charging the  healthful  and  hap|)y  duties  of  farm 
life,  and  received  his  early  educational  training 
in  the  district  schofils  near  his  rural  home,  which 
was  supplemented  by  a  three-years  course  in  Ab- 
ingdon College  of  Knox  County,  III.,  where  his 
career  w.as  one  of  progress.  Following  this,  he 
entered  the  Transylvania  I.jiw  School  at  Lexington, 


K\.,  tiuiii  wliicli  he  graduated  in  March,  18()8.  In 
187<l,  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  <^uiiicy,  and  in  |m7.'?  became  a  partner  of  Calvin 
A.  Warren,  with  whom  he  remained  .as-socialcd  for 
ten  years.  Mr.  (Jiliner,  in  188'!,  joined  forces  with 
William  15.  Moore,  with  whom  he  has  remained 
a.ssociated  up  to  the  [jresenl  time.  They  have  built 
up  a  comfortable  practice  by  their  devotion  to  the 
interests  of  their  clients  and  their  sterling  integ- 
rity. They  practice  in  all  courts  and  their  entire 
lime  is  devoted  to  their  profession. 

.Mr.  (iilmer  possesses  a  strong,  healthy,  and  vig- 
orous intellect,  a  cap.acity  for  logical  reasoning 
and  sound  judgment,  and  has  become  widely  known 
as  a  ca[)able  adviser.  He  possesses  remarkable 
aptitude  for  dealing  in  a  pr.actical  and  eminently 
successful  way  with  the  issues  involved  in  litiga- 
tion, and  his  care  and  conservatism  in  reaching 
conclusions,  m  accordance  with  which  he  advises 
his  clients,  were  luited  early  in  his  professional 
career,  as  was  also  the  fact  that  he  was  seldom  in 
error  in  his  constructions  of  the  law, or  in  applying 
it  to  cases  at  the  Bar.  At  the  present  time,  he  is  .Sec- 
retary and  Man.ager  of  the  Distin  Produce  Com- 
pany*. He  is  the  owner  of  some  good  farms  in  the 
county,  besides  other  valuable  property,  and  a  good 
residence  in  (^uincy,  at  No.  ();54  Broadway.  He 
was  married  in  1873  to  Miss  Matilda  Heller,  of 
(iuiiicy,  a  daughter  of  Philip  Heller,  and  their 
union  has  resulted  in  the  birth  of  two  sons  and 
two  daughters.  He  is  a  memberof  the  Mutual  .Vid 
and  <ither  insurance  .societies  too  numerous  to 
mention,  and  has  interested  him.self  in  the  good  of 
his  section.  In  his  political  views,  he  is  a  pri>- 
nounced  Democrat. 


■^^ 


1™  3* 


X^  IIARLKST.DA/.KY, dramatist,  (^uiiicy.  111., 

||(  „  is  a  native  <)f  the  Prairie  .St.ate,  born 
y|\     JJj 

^^y  in  Lima,  .■\dams  County,  on  the  KUhof  .\u- 
gust,  18r)i'>,  and  is  a  son  of  Mitchell  Da/ey  and  Al- 
bina  C.  (Conover)  Da/ey.  The  father  is  one  of  the 
|iioiicur  settlei-sof  Illinois,  having  located  in  .Vdnins 


^••■^■•^T^.*  .  »\«".»y. 


^«  *  *. 


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County  over  sixty  j'earsago,  and  is  now  one  of  the 
wealthy  and  substantial  farmers  of  his  section.  He 
is  a  man  of  great  intelligence,  excellent  judgment, 
and  sound  good  sense.  He  is  at  present  the  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  tlie  Legislature,  and  having  a 
host  of  warm  friends  in  the  county,  his  success  is 
almost  assured.  He  is  a  man  well  worthy  the  re- 
spect and  esteem  reposed  in  him  and  in  every  walk 
of  life  has  conducted  himself  with  honor  and  re- 
nown. He  has  followed  agricultural  pursuits  all 
his  life,<ind,  being  progressive  and  adv.inced  in  his 
ideas,  he  has  met  with  substantial  results.  He  is 
thoroughly  posted  on  all  tlie  current  topics  of  the 
day,  is  an  entertaiuingconversationalist,aud  a  man 
of  whose  integrity  there  is  no  question.  Mrs.  Dazey 
w.as  born  in  Adams  Count}',  111.,  and  was  a  daughter 
of  Robert  and  Hannah  Conover.  She  died  \fhen 
our  subject  was  about  two  years  of  age. 

Charles  T.  Dazey,  the  onl}'  child  born  to  the 
above-mentioned  couple,  received  his  earl}' scliolas- 
tic  training  in  the  district  seliool,  and  assisted  his 
father  in  cultivating  the  faim.  At  a  suitable  age  he 
entered  tlic  Methodist  Episcopal  College,  whicii 
is  now  the  Chaddoek  College,  of  Quincy,  and  after 
appl3'ing  himself  faithfull}' to  his  books  in  tliat  insti- 
tution some  time,  lie  entered  the  University  at  Lex- 
ington, K}'.  Upon  leaving  the  latter  institution,  he 
entered  Harvard  College,  where  he  remained  four 
years  and  received  the  degree  of  B.  A.  By  accla- 
mation he  was  selected  as  class  poet,  and  later  took 
the  degree  of  M.  A.  at  Jacksonville  College,  Illi- 
nois. After  reading  law  for  one  j'ear,  he  entered 
Columbia  Law  College,  New  York,  but  on  account 
of  failing  health  was  compelled  to  leave  school. 

Our  subject  went  from  the  school  room  to  North 
Dakota  and  with  the  certainty  of  returning  health 
he  embarked  quite  extensively  in  the  real-estate  bus- 
iness, continuing  in  this  up  to  1885,  since  which 
time  he  has  devoted  his  time  to  the  writing  of  plan's. 
Some  of  his  pla3S  have  become  quite  popular, being 
played  by  J.  M.  Llill,  Katie  Putman,  James  O'Neil 
and  Maggie  Mitchell,  and  he  has  several  plays  un- 
der contract  by  well-known  stars.  He  has  become 
quite  noted  in  his  profession  and  his  writings  are 
eagerly  taken.  Mr.  Dazej*  has  been  a  contributor 
to  the  Century,  New  York  Independent,  the  Youth's 
Companion,  and   other  popular  periodicals.     Two 


of  his  sonnets  have  been  inserted  in  the  book  called 
Representative  American  Sonnets,  and  have  been 
noticed  favorably  by  eminent  poets.  While  he 
travels  extensively,  he  makes  his  headquarters  at 
Quincy,  111.,  where  he  has  resided  for  a  number  of 
years.  Mr.  Dazey  is  also  quite  accomplished  in 
music  and  is  a  composer. 

On  the  12th  of  July,  1887,  Mr.  Dazey  was  married 
to  Miss  Luc}-  Harding,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Lucy  Harding.  This  union  has  been  blessed  by  the 
birtli  of  one  child,  a  son,  Charles  F.,  who  was  born 
on  the  .30th  of  April,  1892.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dazey 
have  their  headquarters  at  the  Newcomb  Hotel, 
Quinc3',  111. 


*^*2 


"jf^  RNEST  DICK  was  born  in  Quincy,  HI.,  the 
||U)  5tli  of  August,  1869,  to  the  union  of 
^'^ — ^  Matthew  and  Eleanor  Dick,  both  natives  of 
Germany.  The  father  was  a  very  prominent  and 
solid  business  man  of  Quincy,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  noted  business  firm  of  Dick  Bros.  He  and 
his  brothers  were  the  founders  of  an  extensive 
brewing  business  and  were  among  the  leading  men 
of  the  city.  Our  suliject  has  had  every  opportu- 
nity for  obtaining  a  good  education.  He  attended 
the  city  schools  of  Quinc}',  afterward  the  seiiools 
of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  subsequently  finished  at 
AVasliington  University,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he 
spent  five  years.  Returning  to  (Juinc}',  he  engaged 
in  the  breeding  of  fine  trotting  liorses,  to  which 
he  has  given  considerable  attention,  raising  some 
very  fine  animals. 

In  1891,  he  bought  out  the  livery  stable  of 
Charles  Slocum  and  continued  tiie  business  at  the 
same  place  until  September  13,  1882,  when  he  dis- 
posed of  his  livery.  Mr.  Dick  was  an  affable  and 
courteous  caterer  to  the  pleasure-loving  and  busi- 
ness sections  of  society,  and  is  undeviatingly  up- 
right in  all  his  dealings,  and  is  a  live  busi- 
ness man.  He  was  married  in  1890  to  Miss  Anna 
Hartman,  daughter  of  Randolph  Hartman,  and  a 


matm 


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rORTRAlT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RF.CORD. 


309 


native  of  Quincv,  III.,  where  she  was  reared  and 
cdiicalc'fi.  Ml.  and  Mrs.  Dick  iiavc  a  very  pleas- 
ant residence  at  No.  .321*  .Smith  F.it;lith  Street, 
and  are  well  respected  by  all.  They  lake  a  deep 
interest  in  all  enterprises  worthy  of  notice;  con- 
tribute lil)erally  to  all  eharitalile  or  lienevolcnt 
projects,  and  merit  the  esteem  of  all.  Mr.  Diek 
is  personally  one  of  the  most  pri^iinlneiit  men 
in  the  city,  is  cordial  in  his  nianners,  anil  has 
a  host  of  warm  friends,  aiul  few,  if  any,  enemies. 
Although  yoiiiiij  in  years,  he  has  won  an  eii\  iufiie 
reputation,  and  is  deeply  interested  in  all  the  bus- 
iness enterprises  of  the  city. 


it[_,^^ENHV  I!.  KAl.DWIN.  a  retired  farmer  now 
jj,  livin<i:  in  the  city  of  (^nincy,  is  the  oriiriiial 
l^'  of  the  present  notice.  He  is  able  to  trace 
^  his  lineage  back  to  his  grandfather,  Tim- 
otliy  Baldwin,  and  his  great-grandmother,  Sarah 
Morse,  who  was  born  in  the  year  1727.  The  |)a- 
ternal  grandfather  was  born  in  the  year  17.')0, 
while  Henry's  father,  Benjamin  B.'ildwin,  was  born 
in  North  fluilford,  Conn.,  in  1777.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  w.as  Betsey  (Chittenden)  Baldwin,  a 
daughter  of  Abrain  Chittenden,  and  a  half-sister 
of  Col.  .lohn  li.  Chittenden.  Slie  was  born  in 
1777,  in  Nut  Plains,  Conn,  near  Guilford.  Our 
subject's  parents  were  married  in  fJuilford,  and  re- 
sided at  North  CJuilford  until  183.'?,  when  they 
came  to  Illinois.  The  father  of  our  subject  w.as  a 
Colonel  of  a  regiment  of  Connecticut  State  militia, 
and  the  whole  family  are  of  good  reinite  in  New 
England,  Ix'ing  of  I'uriUui  stock.  After  their  ar- 
rival in  Illinois,  Mr.  Baldwin,  Sr.,  with  Col.  Chit- 
tenden, laid  out  the  village  and  first  named  it 
Kairtield.  but  linally  decided  upon  Mendon.  Col. 
Baldwin  settled  in  Honey  Creek  Township,  on  sec- 
tion IH,  and  opened  up  and  cultivated  a  farm  and 
built  a  barn,  and  after  living  four  years  in  .-i  log 
house,  built  a  frame  one.  Both  (jf  the  parents  of 
our  subject  were  members  of  the  Congregational 
Church,  and  Col.  Baldwin  was  a   very  prominent 


man  in  that  body.  He  was  a  Federalist  in  politi- 
cal faith,  and  was  a  man  of  !iiitlioiiiy  in  (iuilford. 
He  died  .September  21,  IKl  I,  and  his  devoted  wife 
sur\ived  him  until  Feluuai-y  20,  iM.id. 

Our  subject  was  one  of  the  f:iinlly  of  ten  chil- 
dren, and  is  the  only  surviving  ineinbcr.  He  was 
born  December  .'»,  lHi:i,al  N(.rtli  Guilford,  Conn., 
and  .'ittendeil  the  (ommon  st'hools  of  that  place. 
At  an  early  age  he  began  to  teach  in  his  native 
town,  but  came  with  his  parents  upon  their  re- 
moval to  Illiniii>  when  lie  wa- twenty  \ears  of  age. 
He  remained  upon  his  father's  farm,  and  continued 
teaching  school. 

The  marriage  of  our  >ubjecl  took  place  .\pril  7, 
1811,  to  Melinda  llubbaid,  a  n.ative  of  Soiners, 
Ct>nn.  She  was  the  daughter  of  .Xsahcl  and  Maria 
(Gaylord)  Hubbard,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
tanner  by  occupation,  who  came  to  Illinois  in 
18;i,")  and  settled  at  I'lyinoutli.  Mrs.  Baldwin  w.as 
born  August  21,  182n.  After  marriage,  the  gen- 
tleman of  whom  we  write  settled  upon  the  Hub- 
bard farm  an<l  reinaiiie<l  there  live  ye.ars.  He  tlien 
removed  to  his  father's  farm  in  Honey  Creek  Town- 
ship in  the  year  181(!.  Mrs.  Melind.a  Baldwin 
died  in  1872,  and  left  one  child,  a  siui  named 
George,  who  was  boin  .lanuary  HI,  181;').  Thisson 
married  Mary  Bartlett,  who  is  now  deceased,  and 
is  the  fatlier  of  three  living  children:  Henry  Ward, 
who  was  studying  for  the  ministry,  but  died 
.laniiaiy  1,  18!t2;  Ivlwiu  G.,  who  is  a  stinient  at 
.lacksonville,  lil.,  and  Waller  II.  He  also  had  a 
daughter  who  died.  After  the  death  of  his  lirst 
wife,  he  married  .Matlie  Hew  itt.  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  live  living  children:  .\lirain.  .lohn, 
Thomas,  Benjamin  H.  and  Sadie.  One  little  boy 
was  killed  by  falling  off  a  horse. 

Oiuv-ubjeet  was  married  a  second  lime,  A|)ril  3li, 
187  I.  taking  as  his  wife  Susan  Barr,  who  was  born 
February  2,  IM22.  in  Lancaster  County,  I'a..  a 
(l.aughtcr  !•(  .Michael  B.  and  Susan  (Fslielinan) 
liarr.  boih  natives  of  lVnns\l vani.a.  'I'hey  were 
of  S«  is>  descent,  and  came  to  Illinois  about  1837, 
and  settled  in  Fllingt<Mi  Township.  Later,  this 
old  couple  removed  to  (.^uincy.  and  there  died. 

.Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baldwin  have  no  family,  and  in 
1874  they  removed  to  Meiubui  Village,  where 
they  lived  until  coming  to  C^uincy   in  September, 


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1892.  Both  are  biglily  regarded  members  of  the 
Congregational  Church,  in  which  Mr.  Baldwin  has 
been  a  zealous  worker  for  many  ^ears  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Standing  Committee.  In  his  politi- 
cal faith,  he  is  a  Republican,  and  was  formerly  a 
Whig,  casting  his  first  vote  for  Henry  Clay.  He 
has  been  Road  Commissioner  and  also  School  Di- 
rector. This  family  is  one  of  tiie  most  prominent 
in  the  county. 


JHLIP  STEIKBACH,  Jn.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  is  a  member  of  the  largest  con- 
tracting brick  firm  in  the  city.  He  was 
born  in  Quinc}',  August  24,  1849.  (For 
family  history  see  that  of  .John  A.  Stcinljach.) 
Philip  was  the  third  oldest  child,  was  raised  in 
Quinc}',  and  had  the  usual  advantages  of  the  at- 
tendant at  the  public  school.  At  the  age  of  four- 
teen, he  was  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  a  tin- 
smith, under  Henry  Renscli,  with  whom  he  contin- 
ued three  j'ears.  and  then, as  his  apprenticeship  had 
ended,  ho  remained  with  him  four  3ears  longer. 
When  the  stamped  tinware  came  into  use,  this  re- 
duced the  wages  and  lessened  the  work.  He  then 
chose  the  brick-l.ayer's  trade,  and  was  apprenticed 
under  Bloomer  &Steinbach  for  two  years,  and  ,as  he 
was  an  adept  in  the  use  of  tools,  he  learned  the 
trade  readily. 

About  1872,  he  became  a  partner  of  his  brother 
and  stepfather,  in  the  firm  of  Steinbach  &  Son. 
AVhen  .John  A.  became  Chief  of  the  Fire  Depart- 
ment, our  subject  and  his  father  continued  the  firm 
of  Steinbach  &.  Son  for  one  year.  Finally,  his  step- 
father withdrew,  and  he  continued  alone,  meeting 
with  success.  In  1885,  his  brother  .John  became  a 
partner  again,  and  the  firm  became  John  A.  & 
Philip  Steinbach.  They  are  the  oldest,  as  well  as 
the  largest  and  most  extensive  brick  firm  in  the 
county.  They  have  supplied  brick  for  most  of  the 
fine  business  blocks  here,  the  Opera  Houso,  I.esem 
Building,   uiost  of  the  Soldiers'  Home  buildijigs, 


and  the  principal  churches  and  colleges.  At  pres- 
ent they  are  just  completing  the  Mussellman  Col- 
lege Block,  the  largest  building  in  the  city.  They 
also  built  the  First  National  liank  building  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  and  the  Government  Building  in 
Keokuk,  Iowa;  several  residences  in  Lincoln,  Neb.; 
and  some  in  Hannibal,  Mo.  Our  subject  has  com- 
pleted his  home  on  Twenty-third  and  East  Maine 
Street.  It  is  a  fine,  large  brick  residence,  and  one 
of  the  loveliest  in  the  city. 

In  their  business  they  employ  from  forty  to 
forty-five  men,  and  have  a  pay  roll  of  1500  a  week. 
Mr.  Steinbach  is  a  member  of  the  People's  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association,  the  Quincy  Building 
and  Loan  Association, and  also  the  Adams  County 
Building  and  Loan  Association. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  Quincj^  to  Miss  Laura 
Grimm,  who  was  born  here,  and  is  a  daughter  of 
George  Grimm,  an  early  settler  of  Quincy,  and  a 
successful  man  in  the  planing-mill  business.  They 
have  six  children:  Laura, a  graduate  of  the  Quincy 
Conseivatory  of  Music;  Myra,  Emma,  I->lna,  Viola 
and  Elmer. 

The  family  are  Lutherans,  and  attend  and  suj)- 
port  St.  Peter's  Lutheran  Church.  Mr.  Steinb.ack  is 
a  Democrat,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  and 
county  Democratic  Committees,  but  he  is  not  radical 
in  his  views.  This  is  a  representative  family  of  the 
Gem  Cit3',  and  their  beautiful  home  is  ijointed  out  to 
strangers  with  a  great  deal  of  pride. 


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RANK  B.  WEBBER,  There  are  very 
few  branches  of  industrial  art  toward  the 
development  of  which  such  increasing  ef- 
forts have  been  for  several  years  past  directed  as 
that  which  has  for  its  immediate  object  the  artistic 
painting  of  our  homes  and  general  surroundings. 
Among  the  most  successful  jiainters  in  Quincy,  a 
prominent  i)osition  must  be  assigned  to  Mr.  Web- 
ber, whose  i)lace  of  business  is  at  No.  617  Maine 
.Street.  ]Mr.  Webber  was  born  in,  and  throughout 
his  life  has  been  a  resident  of,  Qiiinc)-,     His  birth 


PORTRAIT  AM)  T^IOORArillCAL   RKCORl). 


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occun-ptl  May  7,  1)S52.  he  Itciiifi  a  son  of  Charles 
Mini  Anna  (Stvin)  W«>1iIiit.  liotii  of  whom  wow  of 
(iorninn  ik'.H.vnl.  The  father  was  a  niciclianl  liv 
oirii|>alioii.  which  liu>inc'ss  lu>  followed  for  many 
year.-*  in  Ri(-hnion<l.  \'a..  Iml  al  an  early  day  he  it-- 
iiioyed  from  that  city  and  made  his  home  in  Atlaiiis 
County,  and  in  this  seelion  Frank  I>.  \\'cl)lier  was 
an  attendant  of  the  eomnion  schools  u\>  to  the  age 
of  lifteeii  years. 

At  alxinl  this  time,  he  beijaii  learning  the 
|iainler*s  trade,  ami  so  apt  a  |iu|)il  did  he  make, 
and  so  thoroughly  skilled  did  he  liecome  in  theart 
of  artistic  decorating,  tli;it  he  li.-is  followed  thai 
liusiness  up  to  the  present  time  and  has  now  lie- 
come  ipiite  an  extensiye  |>ainting  contractor.  lie 
handles  ipiite  a  large  stock  of  paints,  oils  and 
glass,  has  a  constantly  growing  patronage,  and  is 
prepared  to  execute  large  contract*  on  short 
notice.  He  executes  his  eontr.icls  in  such  an  alile 
manner  that  uniyersal  satisfaction  has  lieen  ex- 
pressed, and  he  is  well  and  fayoralily  known  and 
highly  endorsed  liy  the  leading  architect^*, liuilders 
and  property  owners  of  (Juincy. 

In  ))olUics,  our  siiliject  li.ns  always  supported 
RepuMican  principles. and  his  services  to  his  party 
have  at  yaiioiis  times  heeii  recognized.  In  IHKH, 
he  mil  for  Alderman  from  the  Fifth  War<l,  which 
generally  polled  a  Democratic  majority  of  three 
hundred  and  eight\  votes,  liiit  so  popular  a  (■andi- 
date  was  Mr.  Weblier  that  he  succeeded  in  cutting 
down  the  Democratic  majority  to  sixty-five  votes, 
lie  has  lieen  Chairman  of  the  City  Central  Coin- 
inittee  for  a  niiinher  of  years,  hut  resigned  in  the 
spring  of  18D2.  lie  is  a  City  Committeeman,  and  is 
a  Director  of  the  Young  Men's  Repiililican  Cluh 
ofc^uincy.  lie  has  long  heeii  an  active  ineinljcr 
of  Lamhert  Lodge  No.  C5!»,  A.,  F.  &  A.M.;  is  a 
mcmlier  of  t^uincy  Lodge  No.  4.'),  .\.  ().  V.  \\'.;  be- 
longs to  <iuincv  Council  No.  I9i>,  R.  A.,  and  is  a 
meinl)er  of  the  riiicnix  Chevalier  Ix)dge  No.  IH, 
K.  of  I*.,  in  all  of  which  organizations  he  is  an 
honored  and  active  member. 

On  the  rilh  of  .Inly.  IhTu.  Mr.  Webber  was 
united  ill  marriage  to  .Miss  .Molly  Fvatt.  daughter 
of  William  Kvatt.  of  f^iiiiicy,  and  in  due  coui>e  of 
time  live  children  gatheiid  around  their  board, 
Iwo  sons  anil   lliiet'  duuglilcrs;  llarrv  M.,  a  mail 


carrier  of  (inincy;  Frederick  W..  a  telegi-a|ili  oper- 
ator; Kthlyii  A.,  a  graduate  of  the  (ieiii  City  busi- 
ness College;  llallie  F.,  a  schoid  girl,  and  Helen 
K.  .\s  a  business  man.  Mr.  Webber's  dealings 
arc  characterized  by  fairness  and  reliability,  and 
he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  sterling  repre- 
senlatiyes  of  the  city's  notable  industries.  His 
residence  is  at  the  corner  of  Foiiiteenlb  and  York 
Streets,  No.  '221  I'ark  I'lace.  He  and  his  wife  are 
well  known  for  their  hospitality,  as  well  a>  for 
their  liberality  in  the  support  of  movements  of  a 
worthy  nature,  and  are  among  the  substantial  citi- 
zens of  (iuincy. 


Il  I  I  I   I  ,mim-m^ 


'     I     '         I    I.I 


ICHARD  A.  W.VLLACK.  Among  the  re- 
tired farmers  and  successful  business  men 
of  Camp  Point,  the  name  of  the  gentleman 
of  whom  we  are  writing  stands  very  high. 
He  n<»w  owns  a  fine  residence  in  Camp  Point 
and  a  great  deal  of  valuable  property. 

The  grandfather  of  oursubject  bore  the  excellent 
Scotch  iiainc  of  .\llen  Wallace  and  was  of  Scot'.-li 
descent:  his  son  James,  who  was  the  father  of 
our  subject,  was  l»irn  in  (iarrard  County,  Ky., 
Nt)vember2l,  liSN.  .lames  grew  up  to  an  .agri- 
cultural life,  and  came  to  Pike  County  at  (piite  an 
early  day.  He  afterward  returned  to  Kentucky, 
but  again  came  to  Illinois,  and  this  second  time 
lie  located  in  Camp  Point  Township,  in  Adams 
County.  He  was  one  of  the  very  lirsl  settlers  and 
married  here,  SeptemlH-r  (i.  \MH.  Miss  .Margaret 
Sealoii,  of  Jefferson  County.  Ky.  He  then  bought 
land  on  section  25,  and  became  a  successful 
farmer.  In  that  day  the  whole  country  was  wild 
and  only  the  home  of  red  men,  deer  and  wolves.  He 
lived  an  indiislrious  pioneer  life  and  died  Decem- 
ber :!,  IHill'i.  He  had  been  a  inember  of  the  ita|itist 
Church  and  was  a  good  Christian  man.  The 
mother  of  our  subject  was  a  memlM-r  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church,  and  after  a  life  of  ixi'iod  det'ds  died 
December  13,  18(JL 
Our  subject  was  boru  near  Camp  Point,  .^Ia)  17, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRArHICAL   RECORD. 


1844.  He  was  the  third  in  a  famil}'  of  nine  chil- 
dren and  was  reared  on  the  farm,  as  were  other 
youths  of  the  same  time,  doing  the  chores  and  at- 
tending the  district  school  in  the  winter.  He  im- 
proved his  opportunities  and  was  made  Assistant- 
Postmaster  during  1861-62.  In  1864,  he  re- 
sponded to  the  call  for  more  volunteers,  and  en- 
listed in  Conipan.v  E,  Fiftieth  Illinois  Infantry, 
and  served  his  country  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  was  sent  to  L3nnville,  Tenn.,  and  was  at  At- 
lanta and  took  part  in  the  battles  around  that 
place,  and  was  with  Sherman's  army^  from  Resnca 
to  the  sea.  He  was  at  Washington  when  the 
triumph  of  peace  was  celebrated,  and  he  went  with 
h;s  regiment  to  Louisville  to  receive  a  prize  as  the 
best-drilled  regiment  in  the  competition  that  took 
place  July  13,  1865.  He  then  returned  home  and 
resumed  farming  and  thus  continued  until  1880. 
He  then  moved  to  Camp  Point  and  engaged  in  the 
agricultural  implement  business,  after  which  he 
purchased  a  half-interest  in  the  bank.  The  firm 
name  was  Seaton  &  Wallace;  in  1885  he  purchased 
the  interest  of  Blr.  Seaton  and  continued  to  man- 
age the  hank  for  two  3'ears,  when  John  S.,  his 
brother,  came  in  as  a  partner  and  the  firm  name 
became  R.  A.  Wallace  &  Bro.  In  May,  1892, 
this  firm  was  bought  out  by  Gay  Bros.  John  S. 
Wallace  ife  Co.  organized  a  bank  in  Mendon,  in 
1881*,  and  of  this  our  subject  is  a  partner,  but  it  is 
under  the  management  of  John  S.  Wallace.  Jan- 
uary 1,  1891,  Mr.  Wallace,  of  this  notice,  helped 
to  organize  the  Farmers'  Bank  of  Bowen,  Hancock 
County,  and  still  holds  an  interest  in  it.  He  was 
a  charter  member  of  the  Camp  Point  Homestead 
Association,  which  was  organized  here  in  1889, 
and  he  has  been  a  Director  and  Treasurer  ever 
since. 

In  Januaiy,  1869,  Mr.  Wallace  was  married  to 
Miss  Harriet  Heaton,  of  Liberty,  Adams  County. 
She  has  been  reared  in  this  count}-,  although  her 
father,  Samuel,  had  been  born  in  Virginia.  The  lat- 
ter was  an  early  settler  in  Ohio  and  came  to  Illinois 
in  18.39,  settling  in  this  county.  He  engaged 
in  farming  and  made  his  land  so  valuable  that  he 
was  able  to  sell  it  in  1869  and  move  to  Camp 
Point  Township  near  the  town.  Here  he  died  in 
June,  1873,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years.     The 


mother  of  Mrs.  AVallace  was  Betsey  Gardner,  a 
native  of  Danville,  Xt.,  who,  at  the  age  of  twelve 
years,  was  taken  ty  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  She  now 
makes  her  home  with  our  sul)jcct.  She  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Christian  Church. 

Our  subject  has  one  daughter,  Lillie.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  his  party  affiliations,  nd,  as  a 
public  man,  has  had  to  take  a  prominent  part  in 
local  affairs.  He  was  made  Supervisor  of  the 
township  for  five  years,  and  was  President  of  the 
first  Board  of  Trustees  elected  for  Camp  Point, 
and  was  re-elected  several  times.  The  last  time 
he  received  all  the  votes  in  the  town  except  two. 
He  is  socially  inclined,  and  is  a  member  of  Camp 
Point  Lodge  No.  215,  I.  O.  0.  F.,  and  Excalibur 
Lodge  No.  299,  K.  P. 

Mrs.  Wallace  is  an  intelligent  lady,  who  main- 
tains her  husband's  position  with  dignity,  and  is  a 
valued  member  of  the  Christian  denomination. 
Her  husband  is  not  a  member  of  any  denomina- 
tion, but  is  a  member  of  the  Building  Committee 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  enjoys  the 
confidence  of  everv  one. 


^5^  APT.  D.  M.  MORRIS.  One  of  the  most  in- 
telligent and  well-known  steamboat  cap- 
tains on  tiie  Mississippi  River  is  the  original 
of  the  present  sketch.  The  greatgrandfather  of 
our  subject  was  a  native  of  Wales,  and  engaged  in 
the  Revolutionary  War  soon  after  coming  to  this 
country.  Our  subject's  father,  Stephen  C.  Morris, 
was  a  farmer  in  his  native  State  of  Delaware,  and 
passed  his  life  there,  dying  in  November,  1852. 
The  mother  of  our  subject  was  JIary  Morris,  who 
was  a  native  of  the  same  State,  and  died  there  in 
1874. 

The  Captain  is  the  eldest  of  four  children,  and 
was  born  in  Georgetown,  Del.,  July  4,  1843.  His 
boyhood  daj's  were  passed  on  a  farm  until  eight- 
een 3'ears  of  age.  lie  attended  the  district  school 
and  an  academy  at  Georgetown,  Del.,   for  a  time. 


'^    Q:^^/ie.e^. 


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rORTKAir   AMI   r.KKU! AI'IIIC A[.  IMXOKI). 


iii; 


mid  l>e<;nn  lencliing  nt eighteen, iiiid  contiiiuud  tli.-it 
for  tliri'o  yeai-s.  In  1SG(!,  he  eanio  to  Missouri. nn (I 
siiKst'(|ueiitly  t.-iu'ilit  scliool  for  two  or  tlircc  years, 
and  then  went  to  Adams  County,  III. 

Our  sul>ject  la^iran  his  river  life  on  tlie  Missis- 
sippi us  a  pilot,  then  as  elerk  .ind  hislly  as  ni.ister. 
Ilis  trips  were  <;eneraliy  nia<le  between  Keokuk, 
(^uiney  and  St,  l.otiis.  lie  li.ns  eontinucd  on  tiie 
river  ever  since,  wilii  the  exception  of  almut  four 
yeai-s.  lie  came  to  jC'ainp  Point  in  1K8."),  havin<i 
previously  lived  in  (^uincy. 

The  C'apUiin  was  married  in  IHT.'i,  to  Mary  A. 
Karl,  of  Adams  County,  daufihler  of  .1.  M.  Karl, 
who  came  from  Virjiinia  when  a  hoy.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  died  in  May,  IM'll.  lie  owned  a  large 
farm,  and  was  an  inlluential  man,  having  served  as 
Sheriff  of  Adams  County.  After  having  served  as 
Sheriff,  he  went  to  «^uincy  and  hecaine  interested 
in  hanking  and  stcamhoating  in  t^uincy  and  Ab- 
ingdon, 111.  lie  subseiiuently  returned  to  farm- 
ing. His  wife  was  Martha  .1.  Clever,  a  native  of 
Oliici.  Her  parents  were  among  the  first  settlers  in 
this  conn Iv.  She  is  still  living.  :ind  is  a  member 
of  the  Christian  Church. 

The  Captain  and  his  wife  have  two  children, 
.Vrthur  and  Lucille.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  his  politi- 
cal faith,  though  not  a  seeker  after  office.  Capt. 
Morris  owns  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  land 
in  Snylevce  District  in  I'ike  Count3-,  HI.  He  is  a 
genial  man,  and  h.-u*  hosts  of  frien<ls  among  the 
people  who  are  brought  in  contact  with  him.  He 
lias  a  very  pleasant  home  at  Camp  Point,  where  he 
and  his  family  reside. 


A\  ID  SIIKi:iv.      Among  the  faiMicrsof  this 
county,  .•>  good  station  has   been   attained 
l^jfif^       by    the  gentleman    above    named,    whose 
career  in  life  has  been    marked   wiili   piu- 
dence  and   pei-sislcnt   effort.      His    labors   have   re- 
sulted in  the  attainment  of  a  magniliceni  est.nte  in 
Melrose  Township,  which  comprises  four  hunilrcd 
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and  forty  acres,  and  is  beautifully  locsited  two 
miles  southwest  of  liurton.  He  is  the  son  of  .lohn 
and  Margaret  Slieer,  native.*  of  Havaria,  Ciermany, 
whence  they  emigrated  to  .\merica  in  1S22,  and 
located  in  Huffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  they  made  their 
home  for  a  year.  .\l  the  expiration  of  that  time, 
removing  t«»  (Icltyslnirg.  Pa.,  they  resided  there 
until  1827,  when  they  returned  to  nuffiilo,and  the 
following  year  tho  subject  of  this  sket<-h  wasliorn. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year,  the  father  located  with  his 
family  in  Tuscarawas  County,  Ohio,  where  he  de- 
veloped a  good  farm  of  eighty  acres.  In  184.5,116 
sold  out  his  po-ssessions,  and,  coming  to  Melrose 
Township,  this  county,  was  here  identified  with  its 
most  progressive  citizens  until  his  death. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  active  members 
of  the  German  Lutheran  Cliureh,  as  were  also 
their  eight  children,  fif  whom  the  following  is 
noted:  .Tucob  departeil  this  life  near  Decatur, 
III.,  leaving  a  wife  and  family  of  children;  Mary, 
who  married  .lacoV)  (Iheme.  makes  her  home  in 
Ohio;  Tina,  who  married  David  IJeainer,  is  de- 
ceased; Michael  resides  in  Cherokee  County,  Kan.; 
Margaret,  Mrs.  King,  is  decea.sed;  David  is  our 
subject;  Caroline  married  Fred  Ilercheiiroder,  and 
Peter  makes  his  home  at  Slater,  Mo.  ^Michael 
was  a  .soldier  in  the  Mexican  War,  and  after  the 
outljreak  of  the  Civil  War  enlisted,  in  lH(!2,and  saw 
iiuieh  hard  service  under  fJen.  (n-ant.  During  his 
whole  military  life  he  displ.iyed  line  soldierly 
qualities,  was  prompt,  alert,  brave  and  daring  in 
action,  and  was  always  faithful  to  all  trusts. 

He  of  whom  we  write  received  a  limited  educa- 
tiiui  in  the  coinmon  schools,  and  when  choosing  an 
occujiation  in  life,  followed  in  his  father's  foot- 
steps and  became  a  farmer.  In  IM.">(),  he  made  iin 
overland  trip  to  Californi:i,  where  he  remaincil  foi- 
two  years.  In  l8;'i:J,  he  married  Miss  Kli/.abetli 
llerleman,  and  to  them  were  born  eight  children, 
namely:  Leonard,  William,  Margaret  ( .Mrs.  .lames 
Abel),  Mary,  .Marion,  Matilda,  Annie  and  \Valler. 
The  wife  and  mother  dying.  Mr.  Sheer  chose  foi- 
his  second  wife  Miss  Henrietta  .Inreiid.  and  the 
two  children  bom  of  tlirlr  iiiarri:ige  are  Anionelte 
ami  Isabella  M. 

\\\  intelligent,  public-spirited  eiti/.en,  .Mr.  Sheer 
is  prominent  iiimI    inlluential    in    the   coinmiinity 


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where  he  resides,  and  manifests  a  commendable  in- 
terest in  everytliiug  jjcrtaining  to  his  township 
and  county.  He  occupies  a  very  prominent  posi- 
tion among  tlie  agriculturist*  of  tliis section,  and  in 
18711  added  toliis  interests  that  of  breeding  Short- 
horn cattle,  and  is  now  prepared  to  exhibit  many 
tine  animals  of  that  blood.  For  many  years  he  has 
attended  the  county  fairs  throughout  the  State, 
and  on  almost  all  occasions  his  animals  have  carried 
off  tlie  blue  ribbons.  He  is  .also  fond  of  fine  horses, 
and  .as  a  result  has  his  place  stocked  with  animals 
of  good  grades. 

Our  subject  is  very  popular  in  his  townshi[i  and 
served  as  Supervisor  of  Melrose  for  seven  years. 
In  politics,  he  votes  with  the  Democratic  party 
and  is  an  excellent  citizen,  and  in  his  association 
with  friends  and  neighbors  kind-hearted  and  ac- 
commodating. He  takes  an  active  pari  in  all  pub- 
lic enterprises,  and  tli(«e  who  know  him  regard 
him  highly  .as  a  man  of  sterling  worth.  His  estate 
of  four  hundred  and  forty  acres  is  well  cultivated 
and  embellished  with  large  barns,  which  furnisii 
ample  shelter  for  his  grain  and  stock,  and  all  his 
other  buildings  are  models  of  convenience. 


\f^^  A.  MARKS,  M.  D.  The  value  to  any  com. 
Jl)  munity  of  a  professional  man  is  not  marked 
'  f^  merel\-  by  his  learning  and  skill,  his  proflci- 
i  \  ency  in  medical  and  surgical  practice,  but 
also  by  his  character,  l)oth  private  and  i)rofessional, 
his  honorable  adherence  to  medical  ethics,  and  his 
personal  integrity  and  benevolence  of  purpose. 
When  a  pliNsician  combines  these  characteristics,  it 
is  with  great  pleasure  that  we  record  his  life  work, 
and  such  a  man  do  we  find  in  Dr.  Marks.  His  of- 
fice is  located  at  No.  727  Hampshire  Street,  and 
he  h.as  built  up  a  patronage  highly  complimentary 
to  his  ability  in  the  medical  profession.  Not  only 
is  he  prominent  in  medical  circles,  but  .as  a  cit 
izen  and  neighbor  he  is  highly  esteemed. 

Although  (lermany    has  contributed  ninny  esli- 
iii!\'ile  citizens  to  the  United  Status,  she  has  given 


us  none  more  worthy  of  mention  than  Dr.  Marks, 
whose  birth  occurred  in  Prussia,  on  the  1.5th  of 
August,  1843.  He  is  the  son  of  .John  and  Maiia 
(Kiefer)  M.arks,and  the  grandson  of  Francis  Marks, 
all  natives  of  the  Fatherland,  .lohn  Marks  w.as  a 
wagon-maker  by  trade,  and  followed  this  in  his 
native  country  until  1857,  when,  tempted  b}'  the 
promises  held  out  in  America,  he  emigrated  with 
his  family  to  this  country.  They  landed  in  New 
York  City,  but  made  direct  for  the  Buckeye  State, 
and  settled  in  Cincinnati,  where  the  father  followed 
his  trade. 

Our  subject  was  but  fifteen  yeais  of  .age  when  he 
came  with  his  parents  to  America,  and  after  set- 
tling in  Cincinnati  he  attended  the  schools  in  that 
city,  thus  laying  a  substantial  foundation  for  his 
future  career.  Later,  he  attended  Miami  Medical 
College,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  on  the  1st  of  jMarch,  1867. 
He  read  medicine  with  Dr.  8.  B.  Tomilson,of  Cin- 
cinnati, and  on  the  28th  of  May,  1861,  enlisted  in 
Comi)any  D,  Fifth  Ohio  Infantry.  He  participated 
in  the  battles  of  Winchester  (Va.),  Port  Republic 
(Va.),  and  Ri^h  Mountain,  and  was  honorably  dis- 
charged at  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  1.5th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1862.  Returning  to  Cincinnati,  he  re- 
mained there  until  Jul}'  2,  1863,  when  he  en- 
listed in  the  United  States  Navy,  Mississippi 
Squadron,  holding  the  position  of  Surgeon-Steward. 
He  was  in  the  battles  of  Ft.  Donelson,  .Johnson- 
ville,  E.astport  (Miss.),  Florence  (Ala.),  and  Nash- 
ville (Tenn.),  and  was  honorable  discharged  on  the 
15th  of  October,  1865. 

Upon  returning  to  Cincinnati,  he  practiced  his 
profession  until  the  year  1869,  when  he  came  to 
Quincy  and  entered  actively  upon  the  jjiactice  of 
the  healing  art.  He  is  one  of  the  most  thoroughly 
reliable  and  efficient  physicians  of  the  city,  and  is 
well  liked  by  all  who  have  tested  his  he.aling  .abil- 
it}'.  He  takes  a  deep  interest  in  the  development 
and  progress  of  the  city,  and  is  active  in  all  good 
work.  The  Doctor  is  a  member  of  the  Adams 
C'ounty  INIedical  Association,  and  a  member  of  the 
State  Medical  A.ssocialion.  He  is  a  stanch  Kepub- 
lican,  and  is  eager  to  see  his  party  successful,  as  in 
formei  d.ays.  Socially,  he  is  a  member  of  Col, 
Charles  H.  MoiIom  Post  No.  707,  G,  A.  li, 


I'OKrKAIT  AND  BKJGHAPinCAL    RECOHl). 


111:1 


l)|-.  Marks' iiiHrriaj!:L' took  placo  in  1H7(I,  at  which 
lime  hi'  was  uiiilfd  to  Miss  Louisa  A.  Aii'xaiider, 
(laughter  of  W.  I{.  and  Kliza  Aloxaiitk'r,  of  t^uiiiry, 
III.  thie  <hiii<;litor  has  lilcssod  tills  union,  Marie 
Louisa,  at  home.  The  Doitor  resides  at  No.  727 
llani|ishirc  Street,  and  lias  a  very  comfurtaMe  and 
:iUr:K-live  home. 


-y     -M: 


If^HKI)  I-I'I'IIIN.  This  {rentleniaii,  t(i  whdiii 
\vp  !iie  pleased  to  eall  tlie  attention  of  our 
readers,  is  one  of  the  most  iiromiiicnt  of 
the  (ierman-American  residents  of  the  eity  of 
C^uincy.  lie  is  tlioroutfiily  (lernian  in  his  sturdy- 
industry  and  thrift,  and  is  as  truly  .\merican  in 
his  determination  lo  make  this  (•(iniitrv  a  lia|>i)v 
and  free  home  for  all.  His  llourisliiny:  business 
attesLs  his  suceess,  and  his  rei-ord  as  a  soldier  of 
his  ado[)ted  country  presents  the  other  side  of  his 
eharaeter. 

Fred  Luthin  w;is  horn  in  Lauterlierjr-ani-llaiz, 
Hanover,  Germany,  May  30,  IMII.  Ilr  was  the 
son  of  flottleih  Luthin.  an  irou-nioulder  of  Hano- 
ver, who  w.asen<iai;ed  in  makinir  cnslinirs  for  a^ri- 
euUural  implements  until  his  demise,  at  the  age  of 
sixlv-tiveyears.in  1«(>G.  He  had  served  his  Father- 
land in  the  army  honoralily,  and  died  a  memlier 
of  the  Lutheran  Church.  His  wife  was  a  native  of 
the  same  place  and  was  Wilhelniina  (latterinan. 
.She  lived  a  lilameless,  industrious  life  for  >eventy- 
five  years  and  died  in  the  Lutheran  faith. 

Oursnhject  is  one  of  nine  brothers  and  sistei-s, 
five  living  in  (Jermany.  two  in  Cincinnati,  and 
one  in  Kentucky.  He  was  educated  in  (ier- 
inany,  in  the  coniinon  schools,  which  are  excel- 
lent ones,  anil  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years  it  1k?- 
came  necessary  for  him  to  choose  a  trade  and,  fol- 
lowing the  example  of  his  father,  he  decided  to 
become  a  moulder.  In  (Jermany,  the  iron  trade 
is  in  the  hands  of  the  king  and  it  is  necessary  that 
all  apprentices  should  pass  the  first  year  in  the 
Iron  .Mills.  Our  subject  tried  it  for  six  months, 
but  decided  tliftlil  wftssuclm  dangerous  jjjuce  lliut 


he  did  not  wish  to  remain.  He  then  became  ap- 
prenticed to  the  tailor  trade  in  his  home  city.  This 
is  a  well-known  bathing  resort  of  eight  thousand 
inhaliitHiits.and  here  he  became  thonnighly  taught 
in  his  trade.  He  was  now  eighteen  y^ai-sold,  and, 
having  heard  of  the  great  country  across  the  <»cean. 
deciiled  to  lake  his  skill  there  and  begin  his 
fortune  among  strangers.  Conse<iuently,  he  left 
IJrcmen  on  the  sailing-ship,  '"Anna,"  and  landed 
in  IJaltimore  after  a  voyage  of  three  months,  and 
then  ca  I  lie  on  to  Ciiiciiiiiatl  ami  w:i>  iiiunediatelv 
employed  at  his  trade. 

Ill  Fi'bruarv,  imil,  he  enlisteil  in  (  <iiiipan\  I , 
One  lliinilred  and  Kighlh  Oliio  Infanliy.  ainl  was 
mustered  in  for  one  year.  He  was  >eiil  lo  Louis- 
ville and  was  in  the  engagement  at  Millard  Springs 
and  served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  being 
mustered  out  .luly  I,  at  Louisville,  Ky.  He  re- 
turned lo  civil  life,  and  all  this  time  he  was  study- 
ing and  observing  and  reading  and  learning  the 
ways  of  the  new  country.  He  first  located  in 
Lebanon,  Ohio,  where  he  remained  for  about  two 
years,  but  returned  to  Cincinnati  in  the  year  iy(!7; 
after  some  time  he  went  to  Teiitopolis,  III.,  and 
from  there  to  Chicago,  and  remained  in  that  great 
city  fruiii  18('>8  to  1872,  working  at  his  trade. 
He  conducted  a  large  merchant  tailor's  slio|)  on  the 
West  Side  of  the  city,  and  was  so  successful  that 
he  was  able  to  spend  a  part  of  1 872  in  traveling 
through  Wisconsin  and  .Minnesotji.  In  the  spring 
of  1873,  he  loi'ated  in  (^iiiiicy  and  started  a  shop 
on  Fifth  Street,  but  in  1871  he  (innlly  located  at 
No.  607  Maine  Street.  He  has  the  best  trade  in  the 
city  and  carries  a  large  stock  of  goods  in  all  the 
finer  lines.  He  p.-iys  personal  attention  to  his 
business,  believing  that  what  is  worth  doing  at  all 
is  worth  doing  well. 

Since  his  residenc-e  here.  Mr.  Luthin  has  liecome 
identified  with  many  of  the  best  and  oldest  social 
and  business  siK'ieties  of  the  coiinty.  We  name 
the  IVoi)le"s  Building  and  Loan  Association,  the 
Adams  County  Ituilding  and  Loan  .\ssuciniion, 
the  Independent  Onlerof  Odd  Fellows,  the  Knights 
of  Fythias,  the  Turners  and  .lolni  Wood  I'ost, 
G.  A.  H. 

.Mr.  Liitliin's  marriage  oc-eiirred  in  t^iiiiu-v,  in 
187<J,  Miss  Anie|i»  Gaab,  a  native  of   >'cw  York 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


City,  becoming  his  wife.  Six  children  have  blessed 
this  union,  namely:  Lydia,  Clara  Fredericka  and 
Clara  Amelia  (who  are  twins),  Fred  W.  F.,  Ida  and 
Karl. 

In  leligion,  Mr.  Luthiii  holds  to  the  Unitarian 
faith  and  is  consistent  in  this  as  in  all  his  views. 
Ever  since  his  residence  in  America,  he  has  been  a 
true-blue  Republican,  and  is  very  sure  that  this 
is  tiie  part}'  of  the  future  when  all  wrong  things 
will  be  righted.  This  gentleman,  whose  life  we 
have  imperfectly  i)laced  before  the  public,  enjoys 
life  with  his  family  at  No.  719  South  Fifth  Street, 
,n  C^uincy. 


^'  OHN  SCHNUR.  Adams  County  has  within 
her  borders  a  number  of  men  of  foreign 
birth,  who  began  their  life's  labors  in  Amer- 
ica with  a  very  small  capital  beyond  the 
energy  and  determination  which  they  possessed. 
By  dint  of  industry  and  well-directed  efforts,  they 
have  risen  to  conditions  of  prosperity  and  some 
have  even  become  quite  wealthy.  One  of  those, 
who  from  a  small  beginning  has  gained  an  assured 
financial  standing,  is  Jolai  Sclinur,  a  resident  of 
section  34,  Burton  Township,  lie  has  devoted 
himself  to  the  calling  of  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser, 
and  has  proved  conclusively  that  this  line  of  life 
leads  to  independence. 

Our  subject  was  born  near  Frankfort,  Germany, 
in  1H36,  and  was  but  four  years  of  age  when  he 
came  to  America  with  his  parents  and  located  in 
Franklin  County,  Ohio.  There  he  remained  until 
eleven  years  of  age,  when  he  came  to  this  county, 
where  he  has  always  resided,  with  the  exception  of 
two  years  spent  in  California.  His  journey  across 
tiie  plains  was  made  with  an  ox-team,  and  he  ar- 
rived after  four  months'  time  at  Sacramento.  In 
the  year  1861,  he  returned  home  and  four  years 
later  was  united  in  marriage  witii  Miss  Nancy, 
daughter  of  .loseph  Childers,  wiio  died  n  few 
months  afterward.  Jlr.  Schnur  was  later  married 
|(i   Ainaiida,  daughter  uf  Ji;i    Kiuunoiis   and    the 


widow  of  Israel  Spitler,  by  whom  she  had  one 
daughter.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schniir  have  been  born 
four  children,  viz.:  Mary  P.,  Grace,  Ira  and  Susie, 
all  of  whom  are  at  home. 

George  II.  and  JNIary  (iNIulil)  Schnur,  the  parents 
of  our  subject,  were,  like  himself,  natives  of  the 
Fatiierland,  and  on  coming  to  America  acquired  a 
good  farm  in  Adams  County.  Of  their  family  of 
live  children,  we  make  the  folk)wing  mention: 
George  H.  is  residing  in  Nebraska,  where  he  is 
minister  in  the  Lutheran  Church;  Annie  M.  is  the 
wife  of  John  W.  I-Crb,  of  Fulton  County,  this  State. 
Our  subject  is  the  third  in  order  of  birth;  J.  Peter 
is  a  resident  of  Pennsylvania,  where  be  is  preach- 
ing in  the  Lutheran  Church,  and  Mary  C.  is  the 
wife  of  William  lvornbaum,of  Hanover,  Kan.  The 
latter  was  the  only  member  of  the  family  born  in 
America. 

Our  subject  has  excellent  business  qualifications, 
i  and,  although  beginning  life  without  a  single  dol- 
lar, he  to-day  owns  one  of  the  best  estates  and  is 
one  of  the  most  progressive  farmers  in  Adams 
County.  He  takes  an  intelligent  interest  in  poli- 
tics and  is  a  strong  advocate  of  the  policy  of  the 
Democratic  ])arty.  Even  a  short  conversation  with 
him  is  sufficient  to  convince  one  of  his  intelligence, 
large  fund  of  information  and  marked  courtesy. 
He  is  at  the  present  time  School  Treasurer  of  Bur- 
ton Township),  which  position  he  has  held  for  the 
past  seventeen  years.  Socially,  he  occupies  a  high 
place  in  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  order  he 
has  many  friends. 


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C-s^^HE  HERALD  COMPANY.  In  the  town  of 
j;n  Quincy.  III.,  on  the  17lh  of  April,  1835, 
/  the  t^uincy  IL'rald  was  founded.  It  began 
its  long  career  under  the  title  of  The  Land  Bonniij 
Jiec/ister,  a  name  suggestive  of  the  principal  pur- 
l)Ose  which  a  paper  served  in  what  was  Ihen  a 
feeble  settlement  on  the  outskirts  of  civilization. 

Tlie  name   did    not  seem   large    enough   to  suit 
the  umbilions  of  the  early  publishers,  and  in  July 


,1   ■i-mmi^-d, 

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RESIDENCE  UF    DAVID    S  H  EER^  5EC.^t .,  MELROSE   TP^  ADAMS    COJLL. 


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rORTRAIT  AND  RIOORAnilCAL  RECORD. 


41.T 


of  the  foUowiiitf  year  it  took  on  a  prolix  and  !)C- 
I'niiif  known  as  The  Artjus,  and  Land  Bountij  lity- 
intfi:  A  mini'  fintral  impulse  lipcamc  dnminant  a 
year  laUT,  wlu-n  it  liccanio  fiim|)ly  Tin'  ,I/-;/mn,  and 
some  time  in  1837  the  last  cliansie  in  ilie  title  of 
llu'  papiT  made  it  llie  t^uinr'V  Ift'mld. 

Wliun  the  paper  tirsl  issued  from  liic  prcs-s,  lliere 
were  in  existence  in  Illinois  only  two  oilier  papers 
that  yet  live,  the  S|)ringtield  Journal  and  the 
(ialena  (razette,  and  tlie  I/eruld  is  therefore  one  of 
tlie  three  oldest  papers  in  the  Slate. 

Much  of  the  deserved  fame  of  the  old  paper's 
early  years  is  undoulitedly  due  to  the  uiiconinioii 
abilities  and  strong  personality  of  Editor  Brooks. 
In  its  lonjr  career  the //eco/f/lias  had  man\  editors, 
but  no  other  seem»  to  have  left  so  slion<f  an  im- 
pression on  the  life-time  patrons,  or  is  so  often  re- 
called  by  old  subscribers  in  their  reminiscent 
moods,  as  this  i)ionecr,  who  during  a  long  career 
at  the  head  of  the  paper  gave  it  a  wide  celebritj' 
ajid  extended  influence. 

The  Wi'Pkly  Ifrrakl  is  almost  as  old  as  the  city 
in  which  it  was  |)ublished.  In  ISI'.i,  i^uiney  iiad 
attained  a  growth  which  seemed  to  warrant  a  more 
frequent  issue  of  the  paper,  and  accordingly  a 
daily  edition  was  that  year  added  and  has  since 
bw-n  successfully  maintained. 

[n  September,  18i(l,the  //"/•(( W  became  the  prop- 
erty of  a  joint  st'ck company,  formed  in  accordance 
Willi  the  laws  of  the  Stale  and  known  as  the 
t^uincy  //>>;•((/(/ t'onipany.  The  company  is  ollicered 
as  follows:  President,  Charles  L.  Miller;  Vice-presi- 
dent. Edmund  M.  IJot.sford;  .Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer, lledley  .1.  Eaton.  The  stock  of  the  company 
is  all  held  by  the  three  ollicers  named,  and  the 
paper  is  uiicler  the  direct  management  of  itsowners, 
.Mr.  .Miller  being  the  inan.nging  editor.  .Mr.  Ilots- 
ford  City  editor,  and  .Mr.Eaton  in  charge  of  the 
business  managemenl. 

'\.'\ic  Jli-nild  has  bt-en  from  eaily  times  a  stead- 
fast representative  of  Democratic  principles  and 
policies  and  gives  an  eiilliusi.-istic  support  to  the 
candidacy  of  (Jrover  Cleveland  (vr  President  and 
to  the  cause  of  radical  tariff  reform  which  llie 
party  reprejenls.  It  was  the  banner  (.'leveland 
daily  of  the  Slate  long  before  the  nomination,  and 
when  there  was  no  absolute  Cleveland  organ  even 


in  the  city  of  Chicago.  It  is  the  only  Democratic 
daily  in  the  Twelfth  Congressional  District, every 
county  of  which  is  strongly  Democratic,  and  is  the 
olllcial  paiier  of  Adams  County  and  the  city  of 
l^uincy. 

l5olh  editions  of  the  Ifprahl,  the  daily  and  the 
weekly,  have  a  large  and  increasing  circulation, 
covering  a  wide  territory  lioth  in  Illinois  and 
Missouri,  and  together  they  form  the  most  profit- 
able medium  for  the  advertisers  in  this  section, 
reaching,  as  they  df>.  an  iiiimen.se  an<l  prosiieious 
coustituency  in  two  States. 


.A  ICIIAEL  ROOXEY.  .M.  I).,  look  his  fust 
coui-se  of  lectures  in  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  .Michigan  at 
Ann  Arbor,  and  completed  his  studies  at 
Miami  Medical  College  in  Cincinnati,  graduating 
from  the  latter  inslilulion  in  IHCC.  In  IMtlH,  he 
took  a  post-graduate  course  in  the  (>liio  .Medical 
College,  and  further  added  to  his  theoretical 
knowledge  by  stiuly  in  the  Long  Island  Hospital 
Medical  College  in  1874,  and  liy  a  practitioner's 
course  at  Chicago  Medical  College  in  1881.  In 
1871,  Dr.  IJoonev  came  to  <iuincy,  where  he  opened 
an  odice  for  the  practice  of  his  profession,  lie  is 
now  physician  to  St.  Mary's  llospitjil  at  (^uincy. 
St.  Erancis  College,  .St.  Erancis  .Mona.stery  and  St. 
Mary's  Academy.  Among  the  organ i/.ations  of 
which  he  is  an  active  member  may  be  mentioned 
the  Adams  County  Medical  Society,  Illinois  .stale 
Medical  Society  and  American  Medical  Ass<K;ia- 
tion.  Ilisolliceand  residence  are  located  on  the 
cornerof  Eighth  and  Hampshire .Street-s  in  t^uiucv. 
About  four  years  after  Dr.  Uooney's  !irri val  in 
•.^iiiney  he  was  married,  in  .lune,  187.").  to  Dr.  .\bby 
I,.  Eox.  This  lady  is  the  daughter  of  Oliver  II.  and 
.Marietta  Eox,  of  Ellington  Township.  Adams  Coun- 
ty.  In  her  girlhood  she  was  a  sliidenl  in  l.oniliard 
College  at  (Jalobiirg.  111.,  where  she  remained  for 
one  venr.      I,:iter.  slip    took  a  lliree-\  ears    eourse  in 


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the  Clinton  Liberal  Institute  of  New  York,  from 
wliicli  institution  she  was  graduaterl  in  1864. 
Afterward,  she  accepted  a  professorship  in  Dean 
Academy  at  Franklin,  Mass.,  where  she  taught  for 
three  years.  In  1873,  she  was  graduated  from 
the  Women's  Medical  College  of  the  New  York 
Infirmary,  and  at  once,  after  completing  the  course, 
came  to  Quincj',  where  she  opened  an  office  and 
commenced  the  practice  of  her  profession.  It 
was  not  long  liefore  she  wjis  well  established  as  a 
physician  and  had  gained  a  large  practice,  as  well 
as  the  reputation  of  being  a  successful  practi- 
tioner. She  has  actively  engaged  in  practice,  and 
is  still  connected  with  the  medical  associations  and 
interested  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  ad- 
vancement of  the  profession.  Her  two  sons,  Paul 
i).  and  Henry  M.,  are  at  present  students  in  St. 
Francis  College.  Among  the  organizations  with 
which  she  is  identified  may  be  mentioned  the 
Adams  County  Medical  Society,  the  Illinois  State 
Medical  Society  and  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation. She  is  also  prominently  connected  with 
the  Friends  in  Council,  one  of  the  oldest  literary 
societies  in  the  West,  and  is  now  serving  as  gyne- 
cologist of  St.  Mary's  Hospital. 


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I OGER  B.  HIBBARD.  One  of  the  pleasant- 
est  farms  that  dot  the  expanse  of  Payson 
iils  \V  Township  is  owned  and  occupied  by  the 
V^ above-named  gentleman,  and  consists  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  the  greater  portion 
of  which  is  under  cultivation.  Upon  it  stands  a 
home-like  farm  house  and  the  accompan3'ing  out- 
buildings which  are  needed  by  every  agriculturist 
and  which  all  (jrudent  and  enterprising  men  see 
to  it  are  erected  as  fast  as  possible. 

A  native  of  Vermont,  our  subject  was  born  near 
Montpelier  in  1817,  and  spent  the  first  nineteen 
years  of  his  life  in  the  jjlace  of  his  birth.  Then 
determining  to  find  out  what  he  could  do  in  the 
Western  eoiintiy,  he  came  to  this  State,  and,  before 
the   Mormons   began   congregating  at  that  |)oint. 


for  seven  years  lived  in  Hancock  Count3',  near 
Commerce  City — later  Nauvoo.  In  1842,  how- 
ever, he  took  up  his  abode  in  this  county  and 
purchased  the  property  where  he  now  resides. 
While  living  at  Nauvoo,  he  traded  land  with  one 
of  the  "saints,"  and  was  well  acquainted  with 
Joseph  Smith,  the  great  Mcjrinon  leadei'. 

Young  Hibliard  received  a  fair  education  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  State,  and  has  since  added  to 
the  knowledge  gained  therein  l)y  systematic  reading 
and  observation.  His  wife,  to  whom  he  was  mar- 
ried in  1845,  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Julia  Mer- 
rill, and  was  born  in  YernH)nt,  near  where  our 
subject  was  born.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Lucinda  Merrill,  natives  of  N'ermont, 
who  are  now  liotli  deceased.  Two  years  prior  to 
his  marriage,  Mr.  Hibbard  made  an  extended  tour 
of  the  Southern  States,  where  he  became  very 
familiar  with  the  habits  and  customs  of  the  South- 
ern people. 

Roger  and  Pluebe  (Barnes)  Hibbard,  the  parents 
of  our  subject,  were  natives  respectively  of  New 
Hampshire  and  Connecticut,  and  were  born  during 
the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  They 
reared  a  family  of  four  children,  of  whom  our 
subject  was  the  eldest.  Lydia,  the  next  in  order 
of  birlh.  married  Abraham  Carlisle,  and  at  her 
death  left  one  child;  INlarv  Jane  is  also  deceased, 
and  Levi  M.,  who  served  as  a  soldier  during  the 
late  Civil  War,  died  at  the  array  hospital,  in  Cor- 
inth, Miss.,  in  1863.  His  remains  were  brought 
home  and  interred  in  the  cemetery  at  Plainvillc. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Roger 
Hibbard,  was  also  a  native  vf  the  Granite  State, 
and  became  the  father  of  seven  children  who  grew 
to  manhood  and  womanhood.  The  first  represen- 
tatives of  the  family  in  America  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1630,  and  located  in  New  York,  where 
their  application  for  naturalization  papers  was 
placed  on  file.  To  our  subject  and  his  wife  were 
born  eleven  children,  viz.:  R.  Mason,  who  is 
prominently  identified  with  the  interests  of  C'lay 
Count}',  Mo.,  where  he  resides;  George  W.,  also  a 
resident  of  the  above-named  county;  Storey'  M., 
living  in  Payson  Township;  Levi  N.,  Jasper  and 
Nathaniel  H.,  at  home;  Otis  B.,  formerly  a  resi- 
dent of  Cla}'  County,  Mo.,  is  now    deceased,  and 


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■1  I  .". 


at  his  tlpalli  li-fl  a  fftiiiil\  of  two  sons,  Claiido  ftiid 
Roy;  Kstlicr  M.  ami  Julia  A.  are  also  <leci>a.sc'<l. 
Two  stins.  Wiliiii-i'  I),  aiitl  Coliiniluis  F.,  dii'il  at 
tlie  age  t»f  four  and  two  yi-ars,  respectively. 

Ilaviii!;  aciMiiiiiilatcil  sullicicut  money  to  heconie 
n  propel  t>-  owner,  Mr.  llililianl  pnreliased  one  liun- 
dred  and  sixty  acres  of  line  lan<l  in  partnership 
with  his  lirother,  Levi  M.,  and  after  the  hitter's 
<lecease  purchased  his  share  from  liis  widow;  add- 
ing from  lime  to  lime  to  his  estate,  lie  hceame 
the  owner  of  two  hundred  and  Iweiily  acres  of 
land.  Iiesides  a  <niarter-sectioii  in  (lay  County, 
Mo.,  where  his  three  sons  were  located. 

Mr.  Ililihard  is  not  a  jioliticiaii.  never  sockinj; 
ollice,  liut  is  always  informed  regarding  [larty 
issues  and  ready  to  deposit  his  Iwllot,  which  is 
ever  a  Kepuhiican  one.  With  his  wife,  he  is  a 
proininent  nienilier  of  the  Missionary  Haptist 
Church.  They  were  foiiiieriy  connected  with  tlic 
Free-will  Baptist  organization,  tuit  owing  to  the 
death  of  many  meinliers  and  the  removal  of  others, 
this  denomination  liccami-  extinct  in  the  neigh- 
Ixirhood. 


1^  i;i  i;i<  II.  .MKYKR.  The  m.ajcstio  growth  of 
Jl)  this  nourishing  city  of  the  Mis-sissippi  \'al- 
r^  lev  has  been  ui>on  a  scale  commensurate 
/  \  with  the  emigration  which  has  taken  place 
in  the  Prairie  State,  t^uinc}'  is  the  hest-huilt 
American  city  of  its  size,  and  the  credit  of  this  is 
due  almost  entirely  to  the  designer  and  huildcr. 
To  the  contractor  and  builder  in  effect,  conjointly 
with  the  architect,  belongs  the  t.ask  of  imparting 
to  the  city  that  apiiearance  of  solidity,  wealth,  re- 
lincment  and  comfort  which  at  once  stamps  its 
citizens  as  progressive  ami  enterprising. 

Prominent  among  the  lirst-class  contractors 
and  buildei's  of  C^uincy,  III.,  stands  Peter  II. 
Meyer,  who  was  born  in  North  (lermaii}',  l)e- 
etiiiber  2.'i,  IHIO.  lie  is  the  eldest  of  six  children 
of  Henry  aiirl  Anna  Meyer,  the  father  a  modest 
farmer    by    occupation.      Oui'    subject    pas.sed    his 


3'oulh  and  school  days  in  his  native  coiinli y.  and, 
when  fourteen  years  of  age,  he  left  the  school- 
room, and  soon  after  his  native  country,  touching 
American  soil  for  the  first  time  at  New  OrleaiKS. 
From  there  he  went  direct  to  liuiiicy,  I II.,  and  hav  • 
ing  very  little  means  to  assist  him  in  lighting  the 
battle  of  life,  he  worked  out  on  a  f;ii  in  for  (ivi- 
years,  his  remuneration  being  very  small.  During 
that  time,  he  received  one  month's  schiMding,  al- 
most his  entire  scholastic  training  being  conlined 
to  the  schools  of  (lermaiiy. 

After  leaving  the  farm,  he  learned  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  which  he  followed  for  six  years,  and  in 
IHtil!,  in  parlnei>hip  with  llei'man  Shier,  under  the 
liiiii  name  of  Meyer  A-  .Shier,  began  contracting 
and  liuililing,  and  continued  this  for  three  years, 
when  the  partnership  was  dis.solved,  Mr.  ]\lever 
continuing  the  business  alone.  As  a  contractor 
and  liuilder.  Mr.  Meyer  has  met  with  well-ineriteil 
success.  From  the  start,  his  exceptional  business 
al)ilities,  his  reliability  and  prom|itness  in  carrying 
out  his  undertakings,  and  the  liberal  methods  he 
adopted  in  dealing  with  the  public,  secured  for 
him  wide  recognition  and  an  inlluential  [mtron- 
.age.  lie  has  erected  many  of  the  largest  business 
blocks,  churches  and  ]iri vale  residences,  ami  among 
them  we  will  mention  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
which  he  finished  in  1875,  but  the  night  before  it 
w.as  to  be  formally  dedicated,  the  handsome  edidce 
was  totally  destroyed  by  lire.  He  then  rebuilt  it. 
.Mr.  Meyer  also  built  the  Warfield's  elegant  home 
on  ICast  .Maine  Street.  At  the  present  time  he  is 
building  the  Melhodist  Church  at  Kighth  and  \'cr- 
mont  Streets,  besides  large  buildings  in  St.  .loseph 
(Mo.),  Kansas  City,  Keokuk,  and  other  cities  far  re- 
moved from  <^iiiiicy. 

Three  years  ago,  .Mr.  Meyer's  large  shop  on 
South  Kighth  Street  was  destroyed  by  lire,  but  be- 
fore the  ashes  were  <-old,  he  began  rebuilding,  and 
now  li.is  the  largest  and  most  comiilele  mill  and 
shop  in  the  West.  He  has  employed  eightv  to  one 
hundred  men,  but  his  force  will  average  through 
the  year  about  fifty.  He  has  been  a  Director  in 
the  ISiiilding  .\ssociation  for  fourleen  years,  and 
is  one  of  the  city's  iiio.-l  active  and  progressive 
citizens. 

In    the    M'ai     isiili.    .Ml.    .\Ie\i'r   was   married    to 


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Miss  Hannah  Menke,  of  Quincy,  a  sister  of  F.  W. 
Menke,  a  prominent  contractor,  and  one  of  Quincj''s 
most  honored  citizens.  He  is  tlie  fatlier  of  five 
interesting  children.  Mr.  Me_yer  is  a  Republican, 
in  politics,  is  a  member  of  the  People's  Homestead 
Building  Association,  and  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  t^uincy  Building  Association.  Al- 
though he  commenced  at  the  bottom  round  of  the 
ladder,  by  industry  and  perseverance  he  has  accu- 
mulated a  handsome  property.  He  owns  several 
good  dwellings,  which  he  rents,  besides  a  good 
brick  structure  of  modern  architecture,  in  which 
he  lives  and  which  is  located  at  No.  234  South 
Twelfth  Street. 


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,  AVID  K.  WATSON,  a  leading  resident  of 
Claj-ton,  was  born  in  Ross  County,  Ohio, 
July  20,  1818,  and  is  a  son  of  Alexander 
and  Jane  Watson.  His  father  was  a  na- 
tive of  the  Emerald  Isle  and  his  mother  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania.  Their  family  numbered  four  sons 
and  one  daughter.  Catherine,  born  in  Ohio,  was 
married  to  Mr.  Taylor,  who  died  in  1834,  leaving 
one  child.  She  was  afterward  again  married,  this 
time  to  Mr.  Miller,  of  Naples,  111.,  and  died  in 
18.53.  Delaney,  born  in  Illinois,  removed  to  Indi- 
ana, Init  is  now  deceased. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Ohio  and  Illinois.  His  father 
died  when  he  was  j'oung,  and  as  he  was  the  eldest 
son  he  remained  with  his  mother  until  he  was 
twenty-six  years  of  age.  He  worked  in  a  sawmill 
at  Naples,  111.,  for  three  years  and  then  went  to 
Bi'own  Count}',  111.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming, 
placing  his  land  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation. 
He  also  erected  good  buildings,  his  fields  were  well 
tilled  and  he  made  many  excellent  improvements, 
devoting  his  energies  to  agricultural  pursuits  until 
after  the  breaking  out  of  the  late  war. 

On  the  10th  of  July,  1862,  Mr.  AVatson  enlisted 
in  Company  E,  One  Hundred  and  Nineteeth  Illi- 
nois Regiment,  and,  with    his  command,  went    to 


the  front.  He  was  on  duty  guar^ng  railroads 
until  the  fall  of  1864,  when  he  was  ordered  to 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  thence  to  Vicksburg,  partici- 
pating in  the  Meridan  raid  under  Sherman.  He 
was  also  in  the  Red  River  Expedition,  and  after- 
ward again  did  guard  dutJ^  Mr.  Watson  was 
wounded  and  lay  in  the  hospital  for  a  time,  but 
when  he  had  partially  recovered  he  rejoined  his 
regiment  at  Cairo.  He  was  elected  to  the  rank  of 
First  Lieutenant  on  the  organization  of  the  com- 
panj'.  The  Captain  was  appointed  Brigade  In- 
spector and  during  his  absence  our  subject  had 
command  of  the  company.  At  the  battle  of  Yel- 
low Baj'ou,  La.,  March  18,  1804,  he  was  wounded 
in  the  left  leg,  a  ball  striking  above  the  ankle,  and 
was  then  in  the  hospital  until  the  5th  of  November 
1865.  He  was  first  in  the  hospital  at  Jefferson 
Barracks  and  later  at  Quincy.  He  received  his  dis- 
charge at  St.  Louis  on  the  5th  of  November,  1865, 
and  returned  home,  where  he  assumed  charge  of 
the  home  farm  and  engaged  in  buying  stock  for  a 
packing  house.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  well-im- 
proved farm  of  four  hundred  acres,  which  he  sold 
for  $40  per  acre  on  his  removal  to  Cl.ayton  after 
the  death  of  his  wife. 

Mr.  Watson  was  married  in  Pickaway  County, 
Ohio,  October  12,  1842,  to  Rutli,  daughter  of 
Abraham  and  Mary  Kirkpatrick.  [^nto  them  were 
born  the  following  children:  Mary,  born  in  Picka- 
way County  in  1843,  is  the  wife  of  J.  C.  Davis,  a 
farmer  of  Brown  County,  III.,  by  whom  she  has 
four  children.  Abraham,  born  in  Scott  County, 
III.,  in  1845,  married  Julia  Davis  and  died  in  1865, 
in  Minnesota;  he  enlisted  in  1861  for  the  late  war 
and  his  death  resulted  from  disease  contracted  in 
the  service.  James  C,  born  in  Brown  County  in 
1852,  died  of  consumption  in  1868.  Mark  Henry, 
born  in  1855,  is  married  and  engaged  in  the  drug 
business  in  Chicago. 

In  1888,  Mr.  Watson  removed  to  Clayton, 
where  he  has  since  lived  a  retired  life.  He  is  a 
faithful  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  and  one 
of  its  liberal  supporters.  Socially,  he  is  a  Knight 
Templar  Mason,  having  been  connected  with  that 
fraternity  since  1846.  In  politics,  he  was  an  old- 
line  Whig,  and  on  its  organization  became  a  sup- 
porter of  the  Republican  party.     In  1862,  he  was 


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t'leclod  Su|HMvis<ir  :iiiil  lia'^  lifM  various  uHiccs  of 
honor  and  tnisl.  discliarirhij;  liis  duties  willi  i-rerlit 
t«i  liinisi'lf  and  tin-  satisfaction  of  his  fonstiliients. 
llo  may  well  Ih>  proud  of  his  army  rot-ord.  for  he 
was  a  faithful  dofondur  of  his  country  in  lur  hour 
of  peril. 


II.I.IAM  Mi.INW  KI)i;i,l,.  Had  tlio  Old 
Nli  ^^"'''''  fiii'f'J  t<'  c'ontriltute  to  the  popula- 
W^  l'^>"  <^f  '^•'C  New.  Illinois  would  not  have 
reached  its  present  high  st;Ue  of  development, 
(iermany  has  furnished  her  full  (luotaof  vigorous, 
industrious  men,  and  |)rominenl  among  them  is 
Mr.  .Steinwodell,  a  resident  of  (^uincy  and  one  of 
its  most  substantial  eitizens.  He  is  now  President 
of  the  (.iuincy  Gas  Company,  as  well  as  one  of  the 
principal  sttx-kholders;  Vice-president  of  the 
Thompson-Houston  Klectric  (-iglil  Compan^v;  Sec- 
retary of  Dick  Hrolliei-s  Hrcwing  Company;  Presi- 
dent of  the  Arrow  Hock  Mining  and  Milling  Com- 
pany; also  Treasurer  of  the  Dick  Hrothers  Milling 
Company.  In  all  his  business  relations,  he  has  dis- 
played excellent  judgment,  lirmnessand  thorough- 
ness. He  is  one  who  has  fully  home  out  the  repu- 
tation of  that  class  of  industrious,  energetic  and 
far-seeing  men  of  Teutonic  descent  who  have 
risen  to  prominence  in  different  portions  of  Adams 
County. 

Mr.  Steinwcdell  was  liorii  in  Hanover,  Germany, 
Decemlwjr  21,  1827,  and  w.is  there  reared  and  edu- 
cated. On  account  of  the  Revolution  of  1H48,  in 
which  he  participated,  he  had  to  leave  the  country, 
and  .iccordingly  emigrated  to  America,  arriving  in 
t^uincy  in  June,  184!<.  He  was  married  in  this 
city,  Feliruary  24,  1859,  to  Miss  Louisa  Mor[)hy,a 
native  of  New  Orleans,  l)orn  in  1841,  and  their 
union  was  blessed  by  the  birth  of  live  children,  as 
follows:  Klise;  Lilia.  wife  of  Frank  Kvatt;  Will- 
iam, Oeorge  and  Carl.  In  his  political  views,  Mr. 
Stein  wedell  is  a  strong  supporter  of  the  platform 
of  the  Demix-ratic  party. 

During  the  week   following  the   attack   on    Kl. 


Sumter,  our  subject  organized  a  military  com- 
pany, and  served  as  volunteer  under  Oen.  Pope  in 
seciH'iug  the  money  of  the  banks  of  I-a  Grange  and 
Canton,  which  he  delivered  at  the  sub-treasury  in 
St.  Louis,  by  order  of  Maj.-(;en.  Fremont.  Our 
subject  served  his  adopted  country  faithfully,  was 
noted  for  his  courage  and  tirmncss,  and  was  ever 
on  hand  when  duly  called.  He  participated  in 
the  attack  on  Monroe  Station,  for  the  relief  of  the 
Sixteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  besieged  there  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  war.  He  escorted  the  arms  for  the 
Iowa  volunteers  from  l^uincy  to  Keokuk,  and 
served  in  other  capacities  during  that  trying  time. 
The  comjianj'  organized  by  him  served  .is  city 
guards  until  18(54,  when  Mr.  .Sleinwedell  disbanded 
it.  This  company  rendered  good  service  for  the 
Government  at  a  critical  time,  when  lirmness, 
good  judgment  and  unfaltering  bravery  were 
much  appreciated.  Neither  Mr.  Steinwcdell  nor 
his  men  received  any  remuneration  from  the  Gov- 
ernment for  their  valuable  services. 

The  (irm  of  Heitschinger  A-  Stcinwedell  imported 
their  goods  in  the  hardware  line,  direct  from  Kurope 
to  Quincy,  and  paid  the  lirst  duty  to  the  col- 
lector of  the  port.  Our  subject  is  a  stockholder  in 
the  F'ii-st  National  Hank  in  this  city,  and  is  also  a 
stockholder  and  director  in  the  (icrman  Turnei-s* 
society.  He  w.is  one  of  the  clectoi-s  for  Greeley  in 
1872,  and  is  ever  interested  in  the  political  affairs 
of  the  country.  Socially,  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  one  of 
the  leading  Germans  of  (Quincy.  Honorable  and 
upright  in  all  his  dealings,  he  has  won  a  host  of 
warm  friends. 


E^N^ 


^jF()R(iK  II.  BALDWIN  is  carrying  on  the 
^^  largest  dairying  business  in  the  county  and 
is  a  prominent  farmer  residing  on  section 
18,  Honey  Creek  Towi\sliip,  about  twf>  miles  south- 
east of  Mendon.  He  h:is  the  honor  of  being  a  na- 
tive of  Illinois,  having  been  born  on  a  farm  in  Mc- 
Donou'di  County.   .Innuarv  HI.  IMI.'i.  ami  is  a  son 


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of  H.  B.  Baldwin,  wlio  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in 
this  work.  His  parents  came  to  Adams  County 
wlion  he  was  about  eighteen  months  old.  and  in  the 
district  schools  he  acquired  his  primary  education. 
He  was  afterward  a  student  in  tlie  High  School  of 
Kewanee,  111.,  and  subsequently  took  a  commercial 
course  in  Eastman's  Business  College  of  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.  His  boyhood  da^-s  were  quietly 
passed  upon  iiis  father's  farm,  and  in  1866  lie  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits  for  himself  on  sec- 
tion 18,  Honej-  Creek  Township,  where  he  has 
since  made  his  home. 

On  the  2d  of  April,  186;"),  Mr.  Baldwin  was 
joined  in  wedlock  with  Miss  Mary  Bartlett,  a  na- 
tive of  North  Guilford,  New  Haven  Count}-,  Conn. 
After  a  married  life  of  eleven  years,  she  was  called 
to  her  final  rest  in  1876.  Four  children  were  l)orn 
of  that  union.  Henry  Ward,  the  eldest,  was 
studying  for  the  ministry  in  Trinity  College,  Hart- 
ford, Conn.  AVhile  visiting  an  uncle  in  North 
Guilford,  Conn.,  he  was  taken  suddenly  ill  and 
died  .January  1,  1802.  He  was  a  promising  young 
man,  who  stood  high  in  his  classes  and  in  the  es- 
teem of  all  who  knew  him,  and  his  loss  was  deeply 
mourned.  George  Edwin  has  just  entered  upon 
Ills  third  3-ear  in  the  Illinois  College  of  Jackson- 
ville, pursuing  a  classical  course  of  studv.  Walter 
Hubbard  is  at  home.  Melinda  C.  is  now  deceased. 
Mr.  Baldwin  was  again  married,  in  1877,  his  second 
union  being  with  Miss  Mattie  .J.  Hewett,  a  native 
of  Mendon.  Unto  them  have  been  born  six  chil- 
dren: Gilbert  S.,  who  was  killed  by  being  thrown 
from  a  horse  when  about  six  years  old;  Abram 
Roliert;  .John  Harmon;  Thomas  Gaylord;  Benj- 
amin llartlett  and  Sarah  Elizabeth. 

The  fine  farm  of  Mr.  Baldwin  comprises  over 
three  hundred  acres  and  he  controls  about  five 
hundred  acres.  His  land  was  entered  from  the 
Government  by  Col.  Benjamin  Baldwin,  his  grand- 
father, in  183.3,  and  the  original  deed,  signed  by 
Jlartin  Van  Buren,  is  still  in  his  possession.  The 
farm  has  always  been  in  the  Baldwin  family.  Our 
subject  raises  considerable  stock,  making  a  specialt}' 
of  horses,  and  his  riclily  cultivated  fields  yield  to 
him  an  excellent  income.  In  1880,  lie  embarked 
ill  tiie  dairy  business  and  has  carried  it  on  exten- 
sively for  several  years.  He  has  all  tlie  modern  ap- 


pliances for  making  choice  butter  and  the  produce 
of  his  dairy  receives  the  highest  market  price.  He 
keeps  a  fine  herd  of  jjigh-grade  .Tersey  cows  and 
for  the  past  three  j'ears  has  been  awarded  the  fii-st 
premium  on  his  butter  at  the  State  Dairy  Fair. 
His  annual  product  amounts  to  between  three  and 
four  thousand  pounds  and  he  is  the  largest  butter 
maker  in  the  county.  He  is  a  man  of  good 
business  ability,  and  his  fair  and  honest  dealings 
have  won  him  a  well-deserved  success. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Baldwin  is  a  stalwart  Republican 
but  has  never  Ijeen  a  politican  in  the  sense  of 
office-seeking.  The  cause  of  education  finds  in 
him  a  warm  friend.  He  is  now  serving  as  School 
Trustee  in  his  township  and  has  done  much  for 
the  benefit  of  the  schools  in  this  community.  Witii 
the  Congregational  Church  he  holds  membership 
and  his  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
Mr.  Baldwin  is  a  public-spirited  and  progressive 
citizen  and  manifests  a  commendable  interest  in 
all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  the  coniinunily. 
An  intelligent  and  well-informed  man,  he  is  con- 
versant with  all  the  current  events  of  the  day. 


•■*^-?-i--^- 


Wl  AMES  GALLAHER  is  the  efficient  Libiiirian 
of  the  Quincy  Public  Library,  a  short  dc- 
^^.  I  scription  of  which  will  be  in  order.  It  is 
'f^fJ  pleasantly  located  on  the  southwest  cor- 
ner of  ]Maine  and  Fourth  Streets,  was  erected 
through  the  liberality  of  a  few  philanthroi)ic  pri- 
vate citizens,  and  will  stand  as  a  monument  to 
their  generosity  and  public  spirit.  The  building  is 
constructed  of  Quincy  stone  throughout,  with  a 
copper-covered  tower,  is  of  a  very  beautiful  and 
modern  design,  and  is  built  in  an  admirable  and 
substantial  manner.  The  interior  is  even  more 
handsome  than  the  exterior,  and  is  finished  in  ex- 
quisite taste,  with  elaborate  wood  carvings,  man- 
tels, rails,  etc.  There  is  a  spacious  vestibule,  a  de- 
livery room,  a  book  room  capable  of  holding 
twenty  thousand  volumes,  a   reference   room   sup- 


rOUTRAlT  AM)  mOORAl'IIICAL   RECORD. 


lil 


\>\\ri\  uitlin  wi'll-soli'cled  assnrtinciit  <if  icfcrciirc 
liotiks.  ami  a  Directors'  rooin.  wliicli  i>  lll<«^l 
haixlMtnu'lv  and  ta>ti'full_v  fiiriiislicil.  In  llii- 
second  story  is  tin-  rcadinir  room,  n  large  (iotliic 
apartineiit.  iiglitod  on  all  sides,  adjoining  wliieli 
are  two  parlors  liandsoniely  furiiislieil  and  lH>auti- 
fiillv  deet)rated.  In  the  tower  is  another  room. 
The  liasoment  is  devote(l  to  the  toilet  rooms  for 
lioth  ladies  and  ncntlemen,  the  storerooms  and  a 
larpe  Ixiiler  room,  and  the  entire  Imildinjr  i* 
lie:ited  l)V  >team  and  snpplied  with  g.as  and  water. 
'i"he  whole  interior  is  heaiitifullv  fieseoed,  and  each 
room  is  of  a  different  eomliination  of  lintj?,  which 
pi'odnces  a  vei-y  ple-asintr  effect.  It  is  in  every  re- 
spect an  institution  of  which  C^nincy  may  well  feel 
protxl. 

-Mr.  (iallahcr  was  horn  in  Castlebar,  Ireland, 
.Inly  -2^,  1H.?.'>,  and  in  IH."i|  emigrated  to  the 
I'liited  Stfltes,  landing  at  Xew  York  City,  where 
he  was  married,  .Vngust  1,  l^^."><(.  to  Miss  Lizzie 
McIIugh,  a  daughter  of  (apt.  M.  A.  T.  McIIugli, 
of  the  Sixtieth  Royal  Rille  IJrigadc  of  the  British 
army.  She  was-  horn  at  (Whraltar.  Soon  after 
landing  in  America,  Mr.  (Jallaher  located  at  Hridgc- 
(lort.  Conn.,  where  he  learned  the  "art  preserv.a- 
tive"  in  the  ollice  of  the  Stnnilanl.  at  that  time  a 
st.aneli  organ  of  the  "Whigs.  He  shortly  after  re- 
turned to  New  York,  where  he  remained,  engaged 
in  the  iiook  business,  until  the  financial  panic  of 
IH.iT,  when  he  came  to  Illinois  and  liecame  asso- 
ciate editor  of  the  Sl'itc  Jnitrnal  of  Springfield, 
III.,  which  (Mjsition  he  held  for  ten  years.  Mere 
he  became  acquainted  with  Abraham  Lincoln, 
Stephen  A.  Douglas,  (iov.  Yates.  Dr.  Wallace  and 
other  ])r<)ininent  men.  Later,  he  became  connected 
with  the  (^uincy  Whig,  and  in  1K71  assumeil  the 
editorial  charge  of  The  Old  Flwj.  of  rittslield.  111. 
He  has  had  a  wide  and  varied  cxi)erience  in  travel 
and  journalism,  and  is  a  man  of  very  superior 
natural  endowments,  and  has  a  clear,  concise, 
analytical  and  well-poised  mind.  He  has  been  a 
close  student  all  his  life,  keeps  in  continuous  touch 
with  all  forms  of  current  thought,  scientific,  pttliti- 
"•al  and  literary,  and  his  acfpiaint.ance  with  books 
is  of  material  adv.-int^ige  to  the  pati'ons  of  the  lib- 
rary. 

Mr.  (i.allahcr's  union  resulted  in  the  birth  of  two 


sons  and  two  <laughlers:  Margaret  K..  born  in  New 
York,  is  now  the  wife  of  W.K.  Williams,  of  Pit tsficld. 
I'ike  County,  III.;  Klizabcth  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  K. 
K.  Conrarl.of  New  York  City;  Harry  M.,  a  n-sident 
of  Chicago;  and  Charles  . I.,  also  f)f  Chicago.  Mr. 
(iallaher  h.as  a  very  plea.sant  residence  at  No.  H2i') 
Vermont  Street,  while  his  kind,  generous  anil  hos- 
pitable disposition  wins  him  friends  whom  he 
rarelv  loses. 


'^N^<^ 


RKDKRICK  RKKS.  The  original  of  tlic 
present  notice  is  one  of  the  honest  (ierman- 
born  citizens  of  this  .sectitm,  who  by  their 
thrift  and  perseverance  have  made  this  county  the 
fine  farming  country  that  it  is.  The  father  of  our 
subject  w:us  .lohn  Kces.  who  w.ns  born  in  Wurtein- 
berg,  (Jermany.  in  17H().  He  w.as  a  farmer  there, 
and  remained  m  that  country  all  his  life.  The 
mother  of  our  subject  was  Harbara  (Henke)  Recs, 
and  wiis  a  native  of  the  same  pl.ice  as  her  bus- 
band,  and  there  spent  her  life,  dying  in  the  same 
year  as  her  husband,  18-13. 

Mr.  Rees  of  this  notice  was  one  of  eight  chil- 
dren, and  was  born  in  Wurtcmberg,  (iermany,  in 
182(1,  and  attended  school  there  until  fourteen, 
and  then  went  to  learn  stocking-weaving.  When 
he  wa.s  twenty  years  old,  he  was  drafted  into  the 
German  army,  and  served  three  years,  and  then 
three  more  in  the  Reserves.  He  came  to  America 
in  1817,  and  worked  .is  a  teamster  in  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  and  also  on  a  farm,  and  in  1848  he  came  to 
<iuincy,  but  returned  to' .St.  Louis  until  18  111.  He 
came  to  .Mendon  Township  in  18.'>(i,  an<l  wurkul 
on  the  farm  of  .Michael  Shupe. 

In  DecenduM-,  18.")0,  he  was  married  to  I'olly 
Sliu))e,  a  daughter  of  his  em[)loyer.  Her  parents 
were  Michael  and  Catherine  ((irubli)  .Shupe,  both 
natives  of  Pennsylvania,  who  were  married  there 
and  came  to  Illinois  in  I8i:{,  and  settled  on  this 
farm,  which  had  been  partly  improved.  He  lia<l 
one  hundred  and  eighty-four  acres  of  land,  and  im- 
proved it   .all  himself.      He  die(l  ,lanu:iry  1.'!.  I87(J. 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


and  his  wife  was  taken  away  March  2S,  1869. 
Mrs.  Rees  was  one  of  six  cliildren,  four  of  whom  are 
now  living,  and  was  Ijorn  in  Westmoreland  County, 
Pa.,  JIarcli  2.'),  1827. 

After  marriage,  Mr.  Rees  rented  tiie  farm  for 
five  years,  and  bought  forty  acres  one  mile  north 
of  liis  present  farm.  This  was  wild  land,  but  he 
lived  tiiere  ten  years  and  improved  it.  In  1870, 
he  bouglit  tlie  old  farm  of  Michael  Shupe,  re- 
moved to  it,  and  in  1882  built  iiis  present  home, 
just  across  from  the  old  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rees 
have  worived  hard,  and  liave  been  very  careful  and 
self-denying.  Tiiey  liad  to  go  into  debt  $1,700 
for  the  place,  but  it  has  paid  for  itself.  There  is 
now  one  hundred  and  eighty-one  acres  of  land,  all 
improved  except  twenty-five  acres  of  timber. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shupe  have  two  children  living: 
William,  who  was  born  in  1851,  married  Annie 
Mcllvaine,  and  lives  on  this  farm.  The  other 
Catherine  Elizabeth,  born  August  5,  1862,  is  the 
wife  of  Lyman  Frisbee,  and  resides  at  San  Diego, 
Cal.,  and  h.as  two  children.  Tiie  church  to  which 
these  excellent  people  belong  is  the  Lutheran, 
and  Mr.  Rees  has  been  a  ver\'  active  man  in  it,  and 
one  of  its  Deacons.  He  has  been  a  liberal  sup- 
porter of  church  and  schools,  and  has  given  his 
children  good  common-school  educations.  He  has 
been  elected  to  the  important  office  of  School  Di- 
rector. He  and  his  good  wife  are  highly  respected 
bv  the  whole  neisjhborhood. 


W?  AMES  H.  DUDLEY.  To  look  backward 
over  eighty  years  of  a  well-sjicnt  life  does 
not  come  into  the  experience  of  every  one, 
^^^  and  great  must  be  the  satisfaction  to  feel  at 
tiiat  time  that  no  grave  mistakes  have  been  com- 
mitted, no  acts  of  evil  done  to  cloud  that  backnard 
path.  This  experience  has  come  to  the  subject  of 
our  respectful  mention. 

Ei-astus  and  Rutli  (Fowler)  Dudley,  were  the 
names  of  the  parents  who,  on  the  morning  of  No- 
vember 4,   1811,  welcomed   the  little  infant    who 


now  wears  his  hoary  locks  with  the  dignity  of 
eighty-one  years.  The  parents  have  passed  away, 
yet  the  record  of  their  good  lives  still  remains, 
i  Erastus  Dudley  w.as  a  native  of  Connecticut,  and 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  leather.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  the  public  events  of  his  da}^  was  an 
active  and  useful  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church,  and  at  last  passed  out  of  life  in  his  eighty- 
second  jear.  A  woman's  sphere  is  usually  con- 
fined to  her  home,  or  was,  in  the  da3S  of  which 
this  notice  Sjieaks,  so  that  we  onl^'  can  give  of  the 
mother  of  our  subject  her  name,  her  home  in  old 
Guilford,  and  her  death  in  her  sixtieth  3'ear,  after 
having  been  the  mother  of  ten  children.  Five  of 
these  are  yet  living. 

Our  subject  received  a  common-school  educa- 
tion, and  was  sent  for  a  short  time  to  an  academy, 
remaining  under  the  parental  roof  until  he  was 
twenty-four  years  old.  He  was  the  eldest  son,  and 
his  duties  were  many  on  the  farm,  and  in  a  tan- 
yard  belonging  to  his  father.  He  left  home  in 
18.3.5,  and  followed  his  acquaintances  who  had 
gone  to  the  new  countiy  near  the  Mississippi, 
and  here  he  located  a  farm  on  section  25,  Mendon 
Township,  and  began  his  pioneer  life.  The  land 
was  wild  enough  looking,  and  no  doubt  the  young 
man  often  thought  of  the  comfortable  homes  of 
the  Connecticut  Valley,  of  the  green  meadows  and 
the  busy  mills  and  signs  of  civilized  life,  as  he 
looked  at  his  lonely  surroundings.  He  had  taken 
a  farm  that  had  twenty-five  acres  enclosed,  but  the 
great  black  stumps  still  remained  of  the  trees,  and 
how  small  looked  his  log  cabin  when  he  had  raised 
it!  However,  though  neighbors  were  few,  they 
were  kind,  and  in  1836  he  was  able  to  persuade  a 
sweet  Connecticut  maiden  to  be  his  wife,  and  share 
his  fortunes  in  the  backwoods. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1836,  to  Miss  Eliza 
B.  Bray,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  R.  Bray,  of  Guil- 
ford, who  came  to  Illinois  in  1837.  Mrs.  Dudley 
was  born  August  2,  1814,  and  lived  by  her  hus- 
band's side  until  November  17,  1891.  This  couple 
lived  for  forty  years  on  the  farm  which  their  in- 
dustry and  thrift  made  into  the  pleasant  home  it 
now  has  become. 

Mr.  and  iVL's.  Dudle\'  were  the  parents  of  four 
children,  and  all  are  living:  Sarah   L.   is  the   wife 


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'layn^y^^in^ 


POirnj.MT  AM)  r.lOClJ.M'IlM  Al.    KKC'OKI). 


(2r. 


itf  Cviu^  ('.  .MfviTs,  :iii(I  livis  Ml  Honey  Crock 
Town,>i|ii|),  and  has  seven  cliildivn;  Finnk  F.  niar- 
iied  Klvira  Meyers,  and  lives  on  seelion  i;i.  Men- 
don 'l'(>wn>lii|i,  and  lias  two  cliildren;  Kdward  11. 
married  lliildaii  \'an  Dyke,  lives  on  seelit)n  2.'). 
Mendon 'l\>\vnslii|>,  and  has  two  children;  Carle- 
tun  .1.  married  Nettie  Kinneman,  and  livesat  Con- 
way Spriniri,  Kan.  In  1H7.'>,  onr  snlijeet  retired 
from  his  farm  and  moved  into  Mendon  Villai^e, 
where  he  has  lived  for  the  la-st  seventeen  years, 
lie  now  makes  his  home  with  his  son  Frank.  He 
has  heen  an  active  member  of  the  Con^rrejjational 
Church  for  the  past  lifty  years,  and  has  acted  fre- 
quently on  the  committees,  lie  has  always  taken 
a  deep  interest  in  schools,  cluaches  and  public 
aflfairs  generally.  In  politics,  he  is  a  Hepulilican, 
and  was  oriii;inally  a  Whig.  Ills  first  vote  was  for 
the  opponent  of  Martin  Van  IJuren,  in  18.'5C,  and 
he  has  never  missed  a  Presidential  election.  When 
our  subject  started  out  in  life,  his  father  placed 
upon  him  this  command,  "1  want  you  to  do  your 
part,"  and  he  has  tried  so  to  do.  The  farm  of  Mr. 
Dudley  comiirise?  two  hundred  and  ninety  acres, 
and  one  hundred  and  sixty  are  improved. 


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«  1^11. 1. lAM  V.  CIIANNON.  President  of  the 
\/sJ//  ^ ''"""•^*"  - '"•'"'^''.v  Stove  Company,  of 
^^  (iuincy,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Iloniton, 
Devonshire,  England,  on  the  26tli  of  November. 
1H12.  No  more  acceptable  citizens  have  made 
this  country  their  home  than  those  who  emi- 
grated from  tireat  Hritnin,  and  who  brought  with 
them  as  their  inheritance  the  traits  of  character 
and  life  which  have  ever  distinguished  them. 
None  are  more  esteemed  in  Adams  County  than  the 
gentleman  above  mentioned,  .nnd  none  have  been 
more  industrious,  ambitious  and  enter|)risini;.  W- 
tbuugli  well  along  in  yeai-s,  time  has  dealt  leniently 
with  him, and  he  enjoys  comparatively  good  health. 
I'ntil  twelve  yeai-s  of  age,  our  subject  remained 
under  the  parental  loof,  and  he  was  fairly  educated 
iu  the  schools   of  his   native  country.     Later,  he 


leaiiu'cl  the  trade  of  paper-making  in  Devonshire, 
ICnglaiid.  and  was  there  married,  in  18.'?.>,  to  Miss 
Flizalieth  Hay  ward,  of  the  same  |>lace.  In  the 
year  181 1.  he  came  to  New  York  City,  but  went 
from  there  to  I'hiladelphia  to  seek  employment  in 
his  trade.  As  about  everything  was  imported,  he 
found  it  very  dillicult  to  obtain  employment,  but 
after  a  faithful  search,  obtained  a  situation  in  a 
wholesale  dry -goods  house,  serving  in  various  ca- 
pacities with  the  lirm  for  several  yeai-s.  His  am- 
bition, however,  was  to  go  West,  and  he  landed  in 
t^uincy  in  August,  1818.  Tra<le  was  dull,  work 
scarce,  and  as  he  had  but  little  money,  the  outlook 
was  very  discouraging.  The  cares  and  responsi- 
bilities of  a  family  added  much  to  his  expenses, 
but  he  was  possessed  of  a  determination  to  succeed 
and  was  employed  in  various  enterprises  until 
18;j2,  when  he  founcl  employment  in  the  Comst(K;k 
Foundry,  where  he  earned  eighty-seven  and  a  half 
cents  per  day. 

The  foundry  was  small,  but  it  grew,  and  Mr. 
Chan non's  salary  increased  in  the  meantime,  until 
18o(i.  when  he  received  if7(M)  per  year.  For  many 
years  he  remained  with  Comstock  it  Co.,  or  until 
18(!;"),  when  he  severed  his  connection,  to  enter  the 
new  foundry  of  IJonnet  it  Duffy,  with  whom  he 
remained  for  four  years.  After  this,  he  returned 
to  ths  Comstock  Foundry,  which  had  been  re-or- 
lani/.ed.and  w.as  with  this  firm  for  eleven  years, 
after  which  he  and  .loseph  W.  Kmer3'  built  the 
foundry  at  Fifth  and  Ohio  Streets.  This  is  a  most 
vahndile  and  important  addition  to  <iuincy's  man- 
ufacturing interests,  and  the  mend)ers  of  the  lirm 
are  live,  energetic  business  men,  who  have  become 
lirndy  established  here.  The  plant  occupies  more 
than  half  a  block,  and  the  company  maiiufacttire 
ranges,  cooking  and  he.-iting  stoves,  etc. 

A  few  years  ago.  the  business  w:ls  merged  into  a 
stock  company,  of  which  Mr.  Cliann(m  was  made 
President,  and  Joseph  W.  Ivmery  \'ice-|iresident 
and  Treasurer.  The  lirm  is  doing  a  large  business, 
and  is  re|>resented  by  five  traveling  men,  who.-*e 
territory  covers  most  of  the  Westei-n  and  Southern 
.Slates.  One  hundred  men  arc  employe<l  in  the 
works  and  all  are  skilli'il  in  their  business.  Mr. 
Cliannon  resides  at  No.  217  South  Kighteenth 
Street, and  the  Uouiu  was  brightened  by  the  presence 


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of  two  cliildreii,  William  H.  and  Ellen  E.  The 
former  is  the  etiieient  Secretary  of  the  Clian  non- 
Emery  Stove  Company;  and  the  latter  became  the 
wife  of  Mr.  Jackson  and  died,  leaving  three  chil- 
dren. In  politics,  ]\Ir.  Channon  is  indei)eiident, 
liut  usually  votes  tlie  Re[)ulilican  ticket.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  for 
forty  years,  and  its  Trustee  for  some  time.  He  is 
well  knc)wn  in  the  city,  is  universality  resi)ected, 
and  is  a  self-made  man  in  every  sense  of  that  term. 
He  is  ambitious  and  enterprising,  and  what  he  has 
accumulated  is  the  result  of  his  energy  and  per- 
severance. 


^^  OL.  WILLIAM  R.  LOCK  WOOD.  The  richest 
(l(  r  l'6''itage  of  American  youth  is  the  examjjle 
^^^'  of  their  country's  brain  and  brawn  wnjught 
into  lives  of  perfect  manhood,  of  splendid  fealty 
and  of  tireless  industry.  The  annals  of  sucli  a  life 
are  briefly  told  l\v  one  who  has  known  him  long  and 
well.  Col.  William  R.  Lockwood,  Sr.,  of  (^uinc.v, 
111.,  is  the  oldest  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  the  city, 
having  held  that  position  for  over  sixteen  Aears, 
and  is  a  gentleman  who  has  won  the  esteem  of  all 
by  his  upright,  honorable  conduct.  He  was  born 
in  Smyrna,  Kent  County,  Del.,  on  the  24th  of 
February,  181;"),  and  is  a  son  of  David  and  Comfort 
(Russell)  Lockwood,  both  natives  of  Delaware. 
The  father  was  of  English-Scotch  descent  and  was 
early  trained  to  the  duties  of  the  farm.  After 
growing  to  mature  years,  he  married  Miss  Russell 
and  afterward  became  a  pronnnent  and  successful 
agriculturist.  Later,  he  was  elected  Sheriff  of  Kent 
Count}-,  Del.,  held  that  position  for  a  number 
of  years,  and  then  kept  hotel  at  Smyrna,  He  died 
when  our  subject  was  but  an  infant.  The  mother 
reared  the  two  children  liorn  to  this  union  and 
died  in  the  East  when  quite  aged.  ( )nc  child,  David, 
died  in  the  East. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  supplemented  a  com- 
mon-scliuol  educiilion  by  attending  Cummins' 
Academy,  aud  tifloc  coiuiJleting  the  (.'oLirst;  lit  en- 


gaged as  a  clerk  for  a  Mr.  .Speuce  in  a  general  store 
in  Sm^'rna.     There  he  continued  until   the  fall  of 

1842,  when  he  came  West  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and 
clerked  for  a  cousin  in  the   leather   lousiness   until 

1843.  After  this,  he  settled  in  Alton,  111.,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  leather  business  for  himself  at  that 
place  until  August,  1844,  when  he  came  to 
(iuinc}',  then  a  village  of  eighteen  hundred 
inhabitants.  Possessed  of  any  amount  of  en- 
ergy and  enterpiise,  he  opened  a  leather  store 
at  the  corner  of  Fifth  aud  Hampshire  Streets, 
in  a  hewn-log  store  building,  and  carried  on  his 
business  at  that  ))oint  for  three  years.  After  this  he 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  harness  and  saddles 
in  partnership  with  J.  C.  Bernard,  under  the  firm  ti- 
tle of  I>emard  ifc  Lockwood  and  they  were  engaged 
in  manufacturing  exclusively  until  the  tocsin  of 
war  sounded  to  arms.  They  contributed  saddles 
and  liridles  for  thirty  or  forty  men  during  the 
war  and  in  18(!3  dissolved  partnership. 

Jlr.  Lockwood  was  then  appointed  b}-  (iov.  Dick 
Yates  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Thirty-third  Illi- 
nois Infantry,  and  joined  the  regular  army  at 
Arcadia.  He  was  one  of  the  first  members  of  the 
company  called  the  "(Juincy  Blues"  under  Capl. 
(Todfrey  _vears  ago,  and  was  Second  Lieutenant  in  it. 
Fro-ii  Arcadia  his  command  had  an  engagement 
with  Jeff  'I'hompson's  guerrillas  at  Fredericktown. 
Mo.  Later  jMr.  Lockwood  was  taken  sick  and  was 
obliged  to  resign  in  the  spring  of  1864.  When  he 
entered  the  army  he  weighed  one  hundred  and 
ninety-fiv(^  pounds  aud  when  he  came  out  one  hun- 
dred and  forty-three  jwunds.  In  1876.  our  subject 
was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  has  been 
serving  ever  since.  He  has  tried  many  cases  and 
has  ever  displayed  excellent  judgment  in  dispos- 
ing of  them.  His  otHce  is  ai  No.  217  North  Fiftii 
Street  and  he  has  a  comfortable  residence  at  No. 
424  North  Eighth  Street. 

On  the  5th  of  March,  1845,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Sarah  ^'illcellt,  a  native  of  Northumberland 
Count,  Pa.,  but  who  was  reared  in  Erie  County,  that 
Slate.  Two  children  have  been  the  result  of  this 
union,  viz:  Robert  C,  assistant  cashier  of  the  Na- 
tional Bank  in  Denver,  and  W.  K.,  Jr.,  engaged  in 
the  agricultural  business  in  t^uincy.  i\Ir.  Lockwood 
is  a  liiuiiiber  of  tlie  Jude^eiulent  Ovd,erof  Odd  i'el-- 


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lows,  and  .ImIiii  \V»hk1  Post, (i.  A.  K.,  •^•iiiiK  v.  Ik- 
is  .1  ineinlK'i-  of  tin-  Presbjterian  Cliuri-li  nl  (^uiiK-v 
ami  was  'rrusU-f  of  tlie  same.  In  i)olilics.  he  was  a 
Rc|iiiliik-an  iinlil  .lolinson  was  cU-rU'd,  since  wliicli 
lime  he  lias  lieen  a  DenioiTal.  Ilr  has  heen  a  dele- 
•I'.iU'  to  count V  and  Stjite  conventions,  an<l  lias 
held  many  l<K-ai  positions.  Duiintr  the  aduiinis- 
tralion  of  President  Johnson  he  was  appointed 
Postmaster  in  (^uincv  and  served  four  tiionlhs,  hut 
tlie  Senate  did  not  conlirm  him.  (Ol.  !,ocl<wood 
is  one  of  tiie  representative  men  of  the  counly  and 
has  a  host  of  wriirn  friends. 


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<«  »il.l.lA.M  WII.LAWI).  Pioneer  life  always 
\  /  means  liardsliip.  The  pioneers  of  the 
yV  Prairie  State  can  tell  t.ales  of  privation 
and  endurance  which  it  would  do  the  pre.sent  gen- 
eration fjood  to  hear.  Among  tiiose  who  came 
here  in  1H.$2,  and  who  lias  ht)rne  a  good  part  in 
the  uphuilding  of  Houston  Township,  and  one 
whose  experience  would  till  a  volume,  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketdi.  He  was  i)orii  in  Overton  County, 
Tcnn..  June  7.  1»11.  His  fatiier.  James,  was  born 
in  Virginia,  October  26,  17tt!»,  and  his  grandfather. 
William,  was  also  boni  in  the  Old  Dominion. 

William  Willard,  Sr.,  came  from  Ireland  and 
was  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  liecame  a 
farmer  in  Tennessee,  but  came  to  Illinois  at  an 
early  day  and  died  in  McDonough  County. 
James  Willard  became  a  farmer  in  Tennes.see  and 
came  to  Illinois  with  his  family  in  1M2X.  He  lirst 
located  in  Morgan  County  and  lived  for  a  time 
near  Jacksonville.  The  removal  was  made  in 
primitive  fashion,  in  wagons  and  with  ox-t«ams.  In 
Ih:\2.  he  moved  again,  this  time  to  .Vdams  Counly, 
and  settled  on  section  "22,  in  Houstfui  Township, 
where  he  lifuight  land.  Very  few  families  were 
then  there.  He  built  .-i  log  house,  and  deer  and 
wolves  were  |)lentiful.  This  family  endured  all 
the  vicissitudes  of  pioneer  life,  (^iiincv  was  the 
nearest  market,  and  it  was  but  a  poor  one,  All 
(jlougliiug  was  Uouc  with  ox-t^aiuii. 


.Mr.  Willard  broke  up  and  pl;iiil<'d  thirty  acres 
with  c<un.  and,  of  coui-se,  did  all  the  cultivation 
with  the  hoe.  NotwilhsUinding  his  life  of  labor, 
he  lived  to  the  age  t)f  seventy-five  yeai-s.  His 
marriage  with  Polly  Dillon. a  native  of 'IVniiessec, 
(xrurred  .Viigust  ;UI,  1^1(1.  They  lived  together 
li fly-four  years,  as  her  death  came  a  few  \  ears  after 
her  husliand's.  They  both  wire  members  of  the 
.Methodist  Kjiiscopal  Church,  and  ten  iliijilicii 
grew  up  around  them. 

Our  .subject  was  the  eldest  of  this  pioneer  fam- 
ily and  had  few  school  advantages,  consisting  of 
several  terms  in  a  log  sclux)lhouse.  He  was  nine- 
teen when  he  came  to  Illinois  and  twenty-one 
when  he  Itecame  a  resident  of  this  township.  In 
lb:58.  he  purchased  his  present  farm  and  in  that 
year,  he  built  his  lirst  house  and  has  lived  in  it  to 
this  day,  a  period  of  lifty-four  years. 

Mr.  Willard  was  married  February  8,  1838,  to 
Carrie  Morrow,  of  Clark  County,  Ivy.,  who  was 
born  November  24,  1817.  Her  parents  were 
Thora.as  1".  and  Margaret  K.  ((Jibson)  ^lorrow,  both 
natives  of  Kentucky.  Their  marriage  tot)k  place  in 
F.ayette  County,  Ky.,and  here  Mr.  .Morrow  carried 
on  farming  and  blacksmitliing.  His  death  occurred 
at  the  age  of  forty-four.  His  wife  sold  out  and 
moved  to  Illinois,  and  located  in  Adams  County 
in  183.1.  where  she  died.  Mr.  and  Mi-s.  Willard 
have  had  four  children,  as  follows:  .Vdelia.  whodieil 
in  infancy;  William  11.,  who  married  !iii(l  is  a  fanner 
on  the  old  liomeste.ad;  \'irginia  K..  the  wife  of 
William  Kcles,  a  farmer;  and  .lames  .Madison, 
deceased.  This  son  was  a  well-educated  man  and 
studied  for  the  ministry,  but  never  followed 
the  profession  on  ai-couiit  of  failing  health.  He 
'  was  lirst  graduated  from  a  college  in  La  Orange, 
Mo.,  and  then  spent  a  year  in  a  theological  col- 
lege at  Oreenville,  S.  C.  He  then  spent  three 
years  at  a  seminary  at  Louisville,  and  was  there 
graduated.  He  preached  a  few  months  and  then 
taught  languages  at  I'.oliyar.  Mo.  He  died  .lanii- 
ary  8.  1880. 

Our  subject  was  raised  In  the  faitli  of  Demo- 
cratic principles  and  clings  to  the  same  party,  be- 
lieving It  to  be  right.  He  is  not  ideiitilied  with 
any  ehiiich,  but  is  a  deeidy  religioii>  man,  perinit- 
.  tiug  every  one  to  Uave  Uis  owu  oijiniou,  ami  cou- 


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trilmting  to  all  elmiclies.  In  this  connection,  we 
ma}'  mention  that  his  parents  were  great  Method- 
ists, and  the  hrst  sermon  preached  in  this  town- 
shi|)  was  delivered  in  their  log  cabin  bv  tlie  Rev. 
Jl.  Summers.  The  noted  Peter  Cartwiight  was 
often  a  guest,  as  he  was  a  great  friend  of  the 
family. 

Mr.  Willard,  of  this  sketch,  has  over  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  in  his  farm  in  this  township 
on  section  27,  ail  in  a  fine  state  of  cultivation, 
which  he  has  brought  about  bj'  his  own  efforts. 
Tiie  biographer  is  loath  to  bring  this  imperfect 
sketch  to  a  close  without  a  reference  to  the  faith- 
ful wife  of  our  subject,  who  has  so  bravely  sup- 
ported her  husband  in  his  past  and  is  spared  to 
be  a  comfort  to  his  declining  years.  In  some  fu- 
ture record  of  the  Pioneer  AVonien  of  Adams 
County,  Mrs.  AVilliam  AVillard  may  properly  be 
remembered. 


^  jiALUXM  E.  KENDALL.  Tiie  question  of 
\/jJ//  fi'i'i'^l'Oi't'iitiou  is  one  of  primary  nnport- 
W^  ance,  both  in  the  location  and  develop- 
ment of  any  town  or  cit\'  wliich  aspires  to  pros- 
perity. Before  the  d.ays  of  railroads,  in  frontier 
times,  when  the  strategic  advantages  of  a  location 
were  considered  of  more  importance  than  the  pos- 
sible development  of  commerce  and  industry-,  the 
leading  characteristics  of  availability-  related  prin- 
cipally to  its  advantages  for  navigation.  When 
the  iiioneers  of  (Juincy  reared  their  rude  log  cabins 
in  the  bottoms  of  the  famous  Mississippi  Hiver, 
the  moving  attraction  was  the  fact  that  that  river 
flowed  by  and  promised  what  was  then  tlie  easiest 
mode  of  transportation  above  and  below.  Since 
then  the  country  has  been  cut  up  with  innumera- 
ble railroads,  and  not  tiie  least  among  them  is  tiic 
Chicago,  Burlington  it  (^uincy  Railroad. 

William  E.  Kendall,  who  is  the  most  etlicient 
Baggagcmaster  on  tliat  line  of  railroad  at  t^uincy, 
is  a  uative-horu  citizen  of  this  place,  having  been 


born  on  the  1st  of  December,  1860.  Ilis  father,  F. 
C.  Kendall,  was  originally  from  the  Buckeye  State. 
where  he  had  followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer, 
and  where  he  resided  until  the  }-ear  1840.  He 
then  brought  his  family  to  Adams  County,  111., 
and  has  here  followed  agricultural  pursuits  since. 
He  is  one  of  the  hard-working,  ui)right  citizens  of 
the  county  and  a  man  universally  esteemed.  He 
married  Miss  Sara  McCormick,  a  native  of  Ohio, 
and  five  children  blessed  this  union,  our  suliject 
being  the  second  son. 

The  latter  passed  his  youthful  d.ays  in  attending 
the  common  schools,  where  he  received  a  good 
practical  education,  and  in  assisting  his  father  on  the 
farm,  where  he  became  very  familiar  with  all  the 
details  of  farm  life.  Until  thirteen  years  of  age, 
he  remained  in  the  common  schools,  and  when 
eighteen  years  of  age  he  entered  the  (Jem  City 
Business  College,  where  lie  pursued  his  sludies  for 
two  years.  In  1880,  he  learned  telegraphy,  and, 
after  perfecting  himself  in  this,  accepted  a  position 
,as  night  clerk  in  the  freight-house  of  the  Hannibal 
i-  St.  Joe  Railroad,  which  position  he  held  for  a 
year.  So  creditably  and  ably  did  he  fill  this  posi- 
tion, and  so  efficient  were  his  services,  that  he  was 
promoted,  and  served  as  Car  Accountant  for  one 
year. 

After  this  he  was  appointed  Bill  Clerk,  filled  that 
position  capalily  for  a  year,  and  ui)on  the  consolida- 
tion of  the  Hannibal  ct  St.  Joe  and  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  A-  Quincy  Railroads,  he  was  appointed 
Car  Accountant,  which  he  held  for  two  years.  In 
September,  1889,  he  was  ai)pointed  Baggagemaster 
of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  ct  t^uincy  Railroad, 
and  this  position  he  fills  at  the  present  time.  He 
is  one  of  the  jnominent  citizens  of  the  city,  and  has 
exhibited  notable  ca|iabilities  for  whatever  position 
he  has  filled.  He  and  tiie  other  officers  of  the 
road  render  etlicient  aid  to  the  President  in  sus- 
taining the  reputation  of  this  railroad  as  the  most 
admirably  managed  of  the  great  transportation 
lines  centered  in  the  (iem  City. 

In  his  political  views,  ]\Ir.  Kendall  is  a  firm  Re- 
publican. He  is  a  member  of  Bodley  Lodge  No.  1, 
F.  &  A.  M.;  w.as  a  cliarter  member  of  Orient  Coun- 
cil No.  ,S28,  1{.  A.,  and  is  now  Regent  of  the  samt 
lodge,  which  position  he  has  held  for  tiie  last  thruu 


ruKTKAlT  AM)  IMOCKAl'IIICAL   KKCOHD. 


i:?l 


3-cai-s.  On  the  1st  of  June,  1884,  his  nuptials  with 
MIns  l\:ithrriiK-  Howt-r,  of  Hiinv.  111.,  wltp  soloni- 
nizi'd.  Shi'  is  u  fhiujihter  nf  ('.  K.  nowcr.of  Huriv. 
I'ike  Coiiutv.  III.  To  Mr.  mikI  Mis.  KiikIjiII  h:is 
hwn  horn  one  son,  MjuccIIus  K..  an  iinusuiillv 
hriirlit  and  allr:u'tivi> child,  who  has  iiiadi'  llio  pleas- 
ant honu-  of  his  |iari-nt.s  al  No.  .'i21l  North  .Sixth 
.Street   still  more  plea.siinl  since  his  coinin;;. 


^^■•^=NI^€-'^ 


ll.M.V.M  ('.  W.  STKKNK.  who  resides  on 
Iti  section  .'),  I'^lliniilon  'rownship,  has  made 
his  home  in  thai  township  fur  a  longer 
period  than  any  other  person  who  n(tw  resides 
within  its  lujrders.  It  is  with  [ileasure  that  we 
present  to  our  readers  the  sketch  of  this  honored 
and  prominent  pii>neer. 

Mr.  Sterne  was  horn  in  K.-ilnmuth.  IViidleton 
County.  K\-..  Decern  her  ."5,  IS'il.and  is  of  Knijflisli 
descent.  His  grandfather,  ('h;ulcs  .Sterne,  was 
horn  in  A'irginia.  where  his  fatlier.  a  native  of 
Kngland,  had  located  during  Colonial  days.  The 
grandfather  served  for  eight  years  durinir  the 
l>evi)lulionary  War,  valiantly  aiding  in  the  strug- 
gles for  indei)endence.  Kniigrating  to  Kentucky, 
he  huilt  the  lirst  house  in  I'endleUui  County,  and 
aided  greatly  in  its  u|ihuilding.  He  was  .-i  very 
prominent  and  inlluiMitiai  citizen,  and  for  fifteen 
ycai-s  serveii  as  Count \-  Sheriff.  He  was  person- 
ally acipiainted  with  Daniel  IJoonc.  the  celehrated 
hunter  and  pioneer.  He  owned  four  hundred 
acres  of  land  adjoining  Kalinoutli,  and  his  death 
oeciH'red  on  his  farm  when  p:ist  the  age  <if  four- 
score years. 

.lohn  \V.  .Sterne,  the  father  of  luir  suhject,  was 
one  of  a  family  of  four  sons  and  one  d.-iiightei-. 
and  his  liirtli  wcurred  in  (iilpeper  County,  \'a.. 
April  11,  17'.l-2.  He  served  in  theWarof  IKTi 
under  Col.  Dick  .lohnson.  and  during  the  lirslye.-ir 
of  that  .struggle  was  located  on  the  present  site  of 
Chicago,  where  he  was  C:>pt:iin  of  a  sipiad  of  men. 
Living  on  the  frontier,  he  liec.-imc  :i  faiiions  hunter 
and    could   go   anywhere    in    the   forests    without 


losing  his  wa}'.  With  liis  wife  and  sou,  our  sub- 
ject, he  .started  with  teams  for  Adams  County,  III., 
in  IH2!>.  and,  after  spending  one  year  in  t^uiney, 
purchased  one  hundred  ami  sixty  acres  of  land  on 
section  .">.  Kllington  Township.  There  were  only 
two  or  three  cahins  in  this  part  of  the  comity. 
Wild  game  of  all  kinds  was  |>lcntiful,  and  the 
Indians  were  fre(|uent  visitors  to  the  neighhor- 
liood,  the  ^terne  homestead  heiiig  their  old  cainp- 
ing-grounds.  Jlr.  Sterne  was  very  fond  of  hiiiil- 
ing,  and  in  those  early  days  his  table  wjis  never 
without  fresh  venison.  To  his  first  purchase,  he 
afterwards  added  eighty  acres  and  cleared  and  de- 
veloped a  line  farm,  upon  which  he  made  his  home 
until  his  deatli,  in  1H«(),  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-eight  years.      He    twice  served   as  County 

j  Commissioner  and  was  a  leading  and  influential 
citizen.  He  was  widely  known  and  his  friends 
were  many.  His  estimable  wife,  who  lioie  the 
maiden  name  of  Klizabeth  Duncan,  was  born  in 
rendleton  County,  Ky..  in  18(11.  For  sixty  yens 
they  traveled  life's  journey  together,  their  mutual 

I  love  .•iiid  coiitidenee  increasing  year  by  j-ear.  and 
death  did  not  long  .seiiarate  them.  The  husliand 
passed   away   at  ten    o'clock  on   .Sund.ay  morning 

I  and  on  Tuesday,  at  the  same  hour,  the  mother  was 
called  to  her  final  home.     They   were  laid   to  rest 

■    in  the  same  gra\e. 

.Mr.  Sterne.  who>e  name  heads  this  sketch,  is  the 
onlv  child  of  that  worthy  couple.  .Since  a  lail  of 
live  years,  he  has   resided    upon    his   present  farm. 

,  His  education  was  acipiired  in  a  log  schoolhousc 
which  his  father  helped  to  luiild  on  the  old  home- 
stead, furnishing  the  timber  and  erecting  the  build- 
ing in  one  d.'iy  by  llie  aid  of  his  neighbors.  It 
was  furnished  with  slab  seats,  heated  by  a  huge 
riieplaee,  and     the     light    was    obtained    through 

I  grea.sed-paper  windows.  When  iweniy-lwo  years 
of  age.  he  took  charge  of  the  home  farm,  thus  re- 
lieving his  father  of  it.s  care.  He  remained  with 
his  p.'ircnts  until  their  deaths  and  made  for  them  .-i 
pleasant  home.  During  his  youth,  Mr.  Steriii' 
kilh-d  man.\'  deer  .•ind  ."iciinired  a  fondiie.ss  for 
hunting  which  has  iie\  i-r  left  him. 

On  the  l.ith  of  Maicli.  IS.'.!,  our  subject  was 
iiniled  in  niariiaL;e  willi  l'!li/:ibetli  Penrose,  of 
Washiiiirlon  Coiinl  \ .  I'a..  w|ioe:inie  with  her  falhii . 


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PORTRAIT  AKD  BIOGRATIUCAL  RECORD. 


Thomas  Penrose,  to  this  count}'  in  an  early  cla}". 
Five  children  were  horn  unto  them,  but  only  two 
arc  now  livini,^:  Charles  Thomas,  who  resides  with 
our  suliject,  and  Susan  E.,  wife  of  Dr.  Alhcrt  II. 
Smitli,  of  (^uincy.  In  18ti5,  Mr.  Sterne  was  called 
upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  his  wife,  who  died  in 
.luly.  lie  was  again  married,  in  February,  187(5, 
his  second  union  being  with  Sarah  F.  Benson,  a 
native  of  Warsaw,  111.,  and  daughter  of  Leven  and 
Susan  (Sharp)  Benson.  They  have  one  daughter, 
Anna  (lertrude. 

[n  I'.oiitirs,  Jlr.  Sterne  is  a  Republican  and  a 
prominent  memlier  of  his  partv.  He  has  frecjuentiy 
served  as  delegate  to  the  county  and  State  con- 
ventions and  has  held  various  township  offices. 
Himself  and  wife  arc  leading  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  in  which  ho  has  served  as 
Elder  for  &eve]al  years.  Their  farm  comprises 
three  hundred  and  thirty-five  acres  of  valualile 
land  on  sections  5,  6  and  7,  Ellington  Township. 
Their  home  is  a  large  brick  residence  several  rods 
back  fiom  the  road,  wliile  in  front  is  a  large 
lawn,  beautifully  shaded  with  various  kinds 
of  ornamental  trees,  including  evergreens  and 
sixty  bearing  chestnut  trees,  which  were  planted 
hy  his  father  in  an  early  day.  AVith  the  history 
of  Adams  County,  Mr.  Sterne  lias  been  identified 
from  its  infancy,  and  his  name  is  inseparably  con- 
nected with  the  upbuilding  and  development  of 
Ellington  Townsliip,  where  he  has  now  made  his 
home  for  sixty-tluee  years.  His  friends  through- 
out the  community  are  many  and  he  is  held  in  the 
highest  regard.  His  life  Las  been  well  and  worthily 
spent  and  success  has  crowned  his  efforts,  which 
enables  him  in  liis  declining  years  to  surround 
himself  with  many  comforts  and  luxuries. 


^T^      -r 


;|       ll^ARREN  T.  MUNROE  is  one  of  the  prom- 
\/iJ/l    'f"^"^  business  men  of  Beverly,  lieing  Post- 
W^      master  of  that  place  and  a  dealer  in   gen- 
eral merchandise.  He  was  born  intiuiiicy,  in  1837, 
;|imI  is  a  SOI)  of  Tlinf)(]ei)s  ;vi)<l  AhU  Munioe,     Tlie 


former  was  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  born  in 
179<i,  and  the  latter  was  born  in  New  Jersey  in 
18(10.  Both  were  descended  from  early  New  Eng- 
land families,  and  the  great-uncle  of  our  subject, a 
Kevolutionar\-  hero,  fought  in  the  battle  of  Bunker 
Hill,  and  his  name  is  now  inscribed  on  llie  Bunker 
Hill  IMonument. 

The  Munroe  family  numbered  nine  children, 
five  of  whom  are  yet  living:  Elizabeth,  born  in 
New  York  City  in  1824,  is  the  wife  of  T.  G.  E. 
Hunt,  a  retired  merchant,  formerly  of  Muscatine, 
Iowa,  but  now  residing  in  (^uiiicv;  William,  a 
jilasterer  of  (||uiiicy,  born  in  New  York  in  1827, 
married  Elizabeth  Foster,  and  after  her  death  wed- 
ded Elizabeth  Cole;  Frances,  born  in  1834,  is 
the  wife  of  Charles  S.  Grover,  of  Kansas;  John 
II.,  born  in  (Juincj'  in  1840,  married  Addie  Gor- 
don, and  is  a  priiminent  lawyer  of  Muscatine, 
Iowa. 

In  the  city  of  his  birth,  our  subject  spent  the 
days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth.  He  attended  the 
])ublic  schools  until  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  then 
liegan  learning  the  trade  of  a  saddler  and  harness- 
maker,  serving  an  apprenticeshij)  of  three  years 
with  the  firm  of  Bernard  &  Lockwood,  of  (^uincy. 
He  then  went  to  Meredosia,  111.,  where  he  carried 
on  a  harness  shop  in  his  own  interest  until  1859. 
After  the  breaking  out  of  the  late  war  he  responded 
to  the  country's  call  for  troops,  and  enlisted  among 
the  boys  of  Company  I,  Ninety-flrst  Illinois  Infan- 
try, in  which  he  served  three  years,  when,  on  the 
close  of  the  war  in  186y,  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. During  the  service  he  was  once  taken 
prisoner,  but  was  paroled  and  returned  to  his 
regiment. 

When  the  war  was  over,  Mr.  Munroe  resumed 
work  at  his  chosen  trade  in  (Juiiicy  for  one  year. 
He  then  removed  to  JMendon,  111.,  where  he  opened 
a  harness  shop  and  carried  on  business  for  ten 
years.  In  1879,  he  embarked  in  the  mercantile 
business,  and  carried  on  operations  along  that  line 
until  1883,  when  he  sold  nut  and  came  to  Beverly, 
where  he  has  since  resided. 

In  18()8.  Mr.  INIunroe  formed  a  matrimonial  al- 
liance with  Miss  Mary  A.  Iligby,  who  was  born  in 
Mendon  in  18411.  Five  children  have  been  born 
of  their  uiiioii,  ami  are  ali  still  under  tlic  j»arciital 


rOIMRAir  AND  IJIOfJRAnilCAL  UKC'ORI). 


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roiif  witli  llic  exi-eplion  of  Kilward.  wlio  is   now  a 
U'k'jjrapli  opt'iator  in  C'liicflgo. 

Sorially.  Mr.  Mnnrtu'  is  a  nu'nilifr  of  llio  Ancient 
OifUTof  I'niU'd  WorknuMi.  and  in  iiis  political 
allilialions  lie  is  a  IJcpnlilican.  lie  was  appointed 
i'oslniaster  of  IJcvcilv  in  1«'.M),  and  liy  his  faitlifnl 
disdiaiiic  of  dnty  is  proving  himself  a  uonipotcnt 
olliccr.  His  {general  merchandise  store  is  of  the 
licsl  in  this  locality,  he  cariics  a  f\ill  and  complete 
stmk.  and  is  eiijoyinj;  a  lar^c  and  constantly  in- 
creasing trade.  lie  i.s  a  man  of  jjood  bnsiness  abil- 
ity, and  l>y  his  fair  and  honest  dealinjr  .ind  co\irt- 
eous  treatment  has  secured  a  liberal  patronage. 


^KOKOK  W.  M.M{SIIAI,I„  M.  I).,  has  en- 
(=j  gaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Lima 
^^^1  since  1H()(I,  and  has  made  his  home  in  that 
village  since  1H4«.  None  of  its  residents  are  held 
in  higher  regard  than  the  gentleman  whose  name 
heads  this  sketch,  an<l  with  pleasure  we  |)resent 
this  record  of  his  life  to  our  readers.  A  native  of 
IVndleton  County.  Ky..  i»e  was  born  on  the  12th 
of  Ai)ril,  l?<2.j.  His  graixlfather,  a  native  of  l^ng- 
land.  who  was  dest>ended  from  a  distinguished  line 
of  ancestoi's.  was  the  founder  of  the  family  in 
America.  Locating  in  .Maryland,  he  there  attained 
wealth  and   prominence. 

The  father  ot  t)ur  subject.  Meplicn  Marshall, 
was  born  in  Maryland  and  served  in  the  War  of 
IMTi.  lie  became  a  car[)enter,  working  at  that 
trade  in  the  summer  months,  while  in  winter  ho 
taught  school.  He  was  a  man  of  excellent  educa- 
tion and  accumulated  considerable  property.  One 
of  his  rel.atives  w.as  Tliomas  .Marshall,  the  promi- 
nent Kentucky  oratoi-.  l-jnigraling  Westward  in 
an  early  day,  he  became  a  |>ionecr  of  Pendleton 
County,  Ky.,  where  his  death  (H-cnrred  in  iM.'il. 
He  married  llann:ih  Sinks,  a  lady  of  (iermaii  de- 
scent, who  died  in  Kentucky  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
five  years.  Her  mother  was  in  her  seventy-ninth 
year  when  she  departed  tlli^  life.  The  paienls  of 
the  jJoctor  were  l)ot|i   mcinbeis  of  the  Methodist 


Episcopal  Church.  He  and  a  sister  arc  the  only 
surviving  meml)ers  of  Ihe  family  of  eight  son.^ 
and  three  daughters. 

In  the  log  schoolhoiise,  with  its  slab  seats,  huge 
fireplace  and  other  primitive  appointments.  Dr. 
.Marshall  acipiired  his  early  education.  He  after- 
ward spent  about  a  year  in  an  academy  at  Fal- 
mouth, Ky.  He  was  only  ten  years  old  when  his 
father  died,  an<l  at  the  age  of  twelve  he  began  to 
learn  the  saddler's  trade  in  Falmouth.  He  subse- 
quently carried  on  business  for  himself  in  Alex- 
andria and  elsewhere  for  a  few  years.  In  1840.  he 
came  to  (iuincy,  but  after  a  year  returned  to  the 
State  of  his  nativity.  The  fall  of  181.'>  witnesseil 
his  removal  to  Hancock,  111.,  where  he  purchased  a 
farm  and  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits  for  three 
yeai-s.  On  the  1st  of  March.  18-18,  he  cstablishe<l 
a  saddlery  and  harness  shop  in  Lima,  and  carried 
on  a  successful  business  for  some  time.  In  1857, 
he  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  Davis,  of 
Lima,  and  after  three  years'  i>repai-ation  opened 
an  oflice  and  cf)minenced  practice.  In  the  winter 
of  1872-7.'5,  he  attended  a  course  of  lectures  in  the 
Iowa  Medical  College,  of  Kef)knk,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  the  folk)wing  spring.  He  then  re- 
sumed practice  at  Lima,  and  for  many  years  Inus 
l)een  the  leading  physician  in  this  part  of  the 
county.  He  is  a  member  of  the  .\dams  County 
Medical  Society,  and  among  his  professional 
brethren  ranks  high.  His  skill  and  ability  are  rec- 
ognized by  a  liberal  i)atronage,  of  whi<-h  he  is  well 
deserving. 
.  Di-.  ^Marshall  luus  been  twice  married.  In  181."), 
he  weddeil  Kli/.abetli  Tuesdell,  of  Kentucky,  who 
died  in  1885.  They  had  three  children,  but  all 
died  in  childhood.  On  the  15th  of  December, 
18K5,  he  w;is  united  in  marriage  with  Annie  N. 
Howers,  and  unto  them  were  born  two  children, 
Willie  anil  Kthel.  The  mother  was  called  to  her 
liiinl  rest  ill  .Inly.  18112.  She  was  a  consistent 
iiiciiilicr  of  the  Methodist  Kpiscopal  Church,  and  a 
cultured  .•iiid  kind-htarted  lady,  who.se  loss  is  felt 
throughout  the  entire  community. 

.Since  1851,  the  D<K-tor  h.is  been  a  Ma.son,  and  is 
the  only  .surviving  charter  nienilwrof  Lima  Lodge 
No.  i;i5,  .\.  F.  iV  .\.  .M.  In  politics,  lie  is  inde- 
|ieiK|('iit,  bU|ipoitiii^  till'  mini  whom  he  tliiii|{,>  best 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHIC^\X,  RECORD. 


([iislilied  for  tlie  position.  He  has  served  as  Su- 
pervisor of  Lima  Township,  and  was  twice  elected 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  but  has  never  been  an  otlice- 
seeker.  He  and  his  little  son  Willie  are  the  only 
surviving  male  members  of  his  branch  of  the  ilar- 
shall  family.  His  four  brothers  who  lived  to  have 
families  are  all  now  deceased  and  also  their  male 
descendants.  Since  1854,  the  Doctor  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  J^piscopal  Church,  and 
has  served  as  Class-leader,  exhorter  and  as  a  local 
l)re.acher.  He  has  been  an  active,  zealous  worker, 
and  has  been  the  means  of  bringing  many  into 
the  fold.  He  has  successfully  conducted  a  number 
of  revival  meetings,  and  is  ever  read}'  to  aid  in 
any  good  work.  He  is  modest  in  his  pretensions, 
but  firm  as  a  rock  in  his  convictions,  and  is  ever 
faithful  to  the  right.  The  Doctor  is  widely 
known  and  well  merits  the  universal  confidence 
which  he  receives. 


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^^ALMUNNA  MORTON,  one  of  the  rei)resen- 
tative  citizens  of  Honey  Creek  Township. 
*/  and  a  substantial  and  prosperous  farmer,  re- 
sides on  section  27,  where  he  owns  and  operates  two 
hundred  and  seventy-two  .acres  of  valuable  land 
under  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  The  farm  is 
improved  with  good  liuildings,  including  the  com- 
modious residence  and  barns  and  outbuildings, 
which  are  models  of  convenience.  He  carries  on 
general  farming  and  stock-raising  and  in  his  busi- 
ness operations  has  been  quite  successful. 

Mr.  Morton  was  liorn  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Sep- 
tember 24,  1830.  His  ancestors  were  among  the 
Pilgrim  Fathers  who  landed  from  the"I\[ayllower" 
on  Plymouth  Pock.  His  grandfather  was  horn  at 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  and  was  one  of  the  heroes  of  the 
Revolution.  He  became  a  prominent  contractor 
and  builder,  and,  emigrating  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
soon  after  that  city  was  founded,  aided  largely  in 
its  upbuilding  and  progress.  He  became  well 
known    throughout    lliat    community,    wheie    he 


spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  "With  the  ISIetli- 
odist  Ki)iscoi)al  Church  he  held  membership. 

Z.  Morton,  Sr.,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  the  15ay  State  and  was  one  of  live  children. 
He  learned  the  mason's  trade  with  his  father,  and 
with  him  did  contracting  for  a  number  of  vears  in 
Cincinnati.  In  1848,  he  ri'moved  to  Quincy, 
where  he  spent  the  succeeding  winter.  Having 
purchased  two  sections  of  laud  in  Cilmer  Town- 
ship, he  located  thereon  in  the  spring  of  1849,  and 
for  some  years  engaged  in  farming  on  an  exten- 
sive scale.  His  death  occurred  at  the  age  of  lifty- 
two  years.  In  his  business  oj)erations,  he  was  very 
successful,  and  besides  his  possessions  in  this 
county  owned  some  valuable  iiroijerty  in  Cincin- 
nati. His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Clarissa  Marshall,  was  born  in  Xevv  .Jersey,  and, 
with  her  parents,  emigrated  to  the  (^ueen  City. 
Her  death  occurred  in  18.52.  liotli  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Morton  were  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  were  people  of  sterling  worth. 

The  suliject  of  this  sketch  was  the  second  in 
order  of  birth  in  a  famil}-  of  six  children,  three  of 
whom  are  yet  living.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Cincinnati,  and  after  the 
removal  of  the  family'  to  this  county  started  out 
in  life  for  himself  as  a  farmer  of  (iilmer  Township, 
where  he  resided  for  eight  years.  In  1800,  he  iiur- 
chased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  oi  land  on 
section  27,  Honey  Creek  Township,  and  added 
considerable  to  this,  but  as  his  children  became 
grown  he  divided  his  farm  with  them. 

Mr.  Morton  h.as  been  three  times  mairied.  In 
18.5.5,  he  wedded  Sarah  Byler,  daughter  of  .John 
Byler,  Esq.,  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Honey 
Creek  Township,  who  had  come  to  this  county 
from  Tennessee  and  here  died  at  a  ripe  old  age. 
Mrs.  JMorton  departed  this  life  in  1865,  leaving 
three  children,  .lolin  W.,  Joseph  H.  and  Silas  Z., 
all  of  whom  are  now  married  and  are  prosperous 
and  enterprising  farmers  in  this  vicinity.  In  1868, 
Mr.  Morton  wedded  Lydia  E.  Laugh,  a  native  of 
Ohio,  and  her  death  occurred  in  1878.  They  had 
three  children:  Elmer,  Wesley  and  Annie.  For  his 
third  wife,  Mr.  Morton  chose  Olive  Allison,  and 
four  children  bless  their  union:  Gracie,  Eddie, 
Clara  and  .\rthur.    Mr.  Morton  m:iy  wellbe  proud 


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of  Ins  fftinily.  Tlie  (ildor  children  arc  liijihlv  w- 
spooted  and  uspfnl  nu'nilKM-s  of  society,  and  the 
yonnircr  ones  are  intere.stiiiir  anil  inlolliyent  sons 
an<l  il;uiL!hter>  u  ho  do  honor  to  their  parents. 

Mr,  Morion  is  11  sup|M>rter  of  tlie  Democratic 
jmrty  and  has  served  as  Road  Coniniissioner  and 
was  also  S'liool  Director  for  several  years.  lie  and 
his  wife  are  faithful  nicinl)ers  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  in  which  Mr.  .Mf)rton  has  serveil  as  Deacon. 
lie  isa  wcll-iiiforined  man.  a  iepre>cMtative  farmer 
and  a  valued  cili/.en.  who  well  deserves  representa- 
t ion  in   thi>  woik. 


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ONRAD  ilVU',.  The  subject  of  our  sketch 
owns  a  farm  of  two  liundre<l  and  ten  acres 
on  section  .'5,  Mendon  Township.  Although 
now  retired  from  active  lalmr.  lu'  ha>  led  a  very 
encrirctic  life  and  has  won  .-ill  the  comforts  that 
now  lirii;ht«'n  his  old  aire.  A  Inief  review  of  the 
events  of  his  life  will  imdnulilcdly  proveof  interest 
to  the  reader,  who  nia\-  ijlean  therefrom  much  to 
stimulate  .and  emulate. 

The  father  of  our  suhject,  William  <^iig,  came 
fnim  his  native  coinitry.  Ireland,  in  17!I8,  and  set- 
tlerl  in  .SomerM't  County,  I'a.  There  he  grew  to 
manhood  and  married  an  excellent  woman  named 
Catherine  Kiiopsnidcr.  who  was  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania. William  <^iig  w.-is  a  soldier  in  the  War 
of  1«12,  and  participated  in  the  liatlle  of  New  Or- 
leans. He  died  at  his  home  in  lH;tll.  and  his  wife 
pa.sscd  away  in  \MH.  They  were  parents  of  seven 
children,  only  two  of  whom  are  now  living. 

Conrad  Quig  was  horn  in  Somerset  Coniilv.  Pa., 
A|>ril  20,  l«IH.  lie  received  Imt  a  liniiled  .hIiooI- 
ing,  and  was  obliged  U:>  leave  home  to  work  at  the 
age  of  nine  years.  Notwithstnnding  his  youth,  he 
luliored  con>tanlly,  liis  life  iincheered  liy  the 
sports  common  to  the  hoys  of  to-day.  .\t  the  age  of 
s<'venteen.  he  w.is  apprenticeil  to  learn  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  in  Westmoreland  County,  Pa.,  wlu-rc 
lie  served  until  he   was  twenty -one  years  old.     lie 


then  worked  as  journeyman  for  two  years,  after 
which  he  began  building  threshing-machines,  and 
was  thus  engageil  for  a  year  and  a  half.  In  1H1:5, 
he  came  to  Illinois  and  settled  near  Wt'sley  Chapel, 
in  I'rsa  Township,  where    he   worked  at  his  trade. 

In  1H4;'),  oui'  subject  was  married  to  Margaret 
.Shiipc,  who  was  born  in  Lancaster  County,  P;i., 
August  10,  1S22.  llcr  father,  Michael  Shupe,  was 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  of  (Jerinan  descent;  her 
mother,  whose  maiilen  name  was  Calheiine  (Jrnbb, 
was  of  the  same  lineage  sis  her  husband.  The 
grandfather  of  Mrs.  (^nig  was  a  soldier  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary War,  and  served  until  its  close.  Mich- 
.lel  .Shupe  came  to  Illinois  in  1KI3,  and  settled  on 
.section  3,  Mendon  Townsliip,  where  the  land  was 
imi>roved  by  a  small  cabin.  There  he  made  a 
comfortable  home  and  resided  until  his  death,  in 
187(5,  his  wife  having  preceded  him  in  1H(;;1.  The 
latter  w.a.s  a  member  of  the  Lutheran  Church.  .Mr. 
.Shupe  was  a  Democrat  in  his  political  belief. 

After  his  marriage.  Mi-.  <^iig  bought  twenty 
acres  of  land  in  Irsa  Townshij),  and  lived  upon  it 
for  a  vear,  and  then  moved  to  section  .'id,  .Mendon 
Township,  where  he  remained  three  years.  When 
the  gold  fever  raged  in  this  country,  he  maile  the 
trip  .icross  the  plains  with  an  ox-team,  starling 
.April  10,  1S4'.>.  and  reaching  llaiiglown.  Cal.. 
August  1.")  of  the  .same  year.  He  worked  in  the 
mines  for  a  few  months  but  was  sick  during  the 
entire  time.  Next  he  worked  :it  his  trade,  and 
while  thus  employed  built  a  bridge  .across  the 
south  folk  of  the  American  River.  Later,  he 
worked  for  one  summer  in  .San  .lose  and  went 
back  to  the  mines  in  the  winter.  In  .May,  1H.1I. 
he  returned  home  li\  way  of  the  Isthnins,  anil  then 
followed  his  trade  until  IH.')(!,  when  he  moved  to 
his  farm  on  section  :!.j,  and  continued  there  until 
he  removed  to  Mendon  in  1871.  .\fter  seven 
years  of  village  life,  during  which  lime  he  fol- 
lowed lumbering  and  was  for  a  while  eng.aged  in 
business  as  a  butcher,  he  M'ltled  mi  his  pieseiil 
farm.  At  one  time  he  owned  six  hiinilred  and 
forty  acres,  but  he  h.as  divided    with   his  I'hildieii. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  '^nig  ai-e  parent.s  of  two  children. 
William  li..  who  lives  on  .section  .'{."i.  married  Isoin 
Mann,  and  they  have  five  cliildien.  Michael  P.,  a 
resident  of    M-elion    .'t.    nianicd    (lllie  McKarhinil, 


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and  has  two  children.  The  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  is  the  religious  home  of  the  family,  and 
Mr.  <^iig  organized  the  Sunday-school  there,  in 
addition  to  which  he  lias  always  been  a  strong 
supporter  of  the  church  and  sometimes  its  princi- 
pal stay.  He  has  been  Steward,  Trustee,  C'lass- 
leader  and  Sunday-school  Superintendent,  and  for 
many  years  was  a  teacher  in  the  school,  lie  has 
given  his  children  eveiy  educational  advantage  in 
his  power,  and  tliey  are  sons  of  whom  he  may  well 
be  proud. 

The  political  opinions  of  Mr.  Quig  are  those  en- 
dorsed by  the  Republican  party  since  1860,  and  he 
has  been  a  very  active  worker  in  the  ranks,  though 
no  office-seeker.  He  has  alwa3'S  set  an  example  of 
the  strictest  temperance,  and  with  his  family  is 
much  respected  throughout  the  county. 


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ylLLIAM  M.  McFARLAND,  one  of  the  old- 
est residents  of  Houston  Township,  now- 
residing  on  section  16,  was  born  in  fireene 
County,  Ohio,  six  miles  east  of  Xenia,  August  12, 
1814.  His  father,  .lohn,  w.is  born  in  Tennessee, 
and  his  grandfather,  .loseph,  came  of  an  old  Vir- 
ginian family.  The  latter  entered  the  Revolution- 
ary AVar  when  but  fourteen  years  old,  continued 
through  the  war  and  saw  hard  service.  He  re- 
moved to  Tennessee  after  the  war.  After  that  he 
removed  to  Kentucky,  and  from  there  to  Ohio, 
where  he  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty  four 
years. 

.lohn  became  a  farmer  in  Ohio,  and  came  to  Illi- 
nois in  the  year  1832,  landing  three  miles  north 
of  Camp  Point  October  8,  1832.  He  was  about  the 
first  to  make  a  permanent  seltlcnient  there,  and 
bought  a  tract  of  military  land,  and  built  a  double 
log  caliin.  His  family  consisted  of  himself  and 
wife  and  nine  children.  They  came  from  Ohio 
with  two  yoke  of  oxen,  an  old  Virginia  wagon  and 
a  Quaker  carriage  drawn  by  a  team  of  horses,  and 
they  were  four  weeks  on  the  way.  They  found  a 
wild  looking  country,  with  plent}'  of  game,  but  no 


neighbors,  and  with  not  even  the  necessities  of 
civilized  life.  All  they  had  was  strong  arms  and 
brave  hearts.  He  broke  up  the  prairie  and  im- 
proved a  farm  as  fast  as  he  could,  and  died  .Inly 
24,  1840,  in  his  lifty-third  year. 

Mr.  McP'arland,  Sr.,  served  in  the  War  of  1812, 
and  the  gun  and  powder-liorn  he  then  carried  aie 
treasured  relics  in  the  family.  In  1834,  he  was 
elected  Assessor  here  for  the  Fourth  District,  and 
was  well  and  favorably  known  all  over  this  sec- 
tion. The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Rebecca  Mc- 
Farland,  of  Tennessee,  who  died  in  1860.  She  left 
four  children  living  of  the  eleven   which  she  bore. 

Our  subject  was  the  eldest  of  the  family,  and  his 
early  life  was  that  of  the  usual  farmer  boy  of  that 
time,  going  to  school  a  few  months  in  winter  and 
working  the  farm  in  summer.  He  remembers  the 
little  path  through  the  woods  to  the  log  school- 
house  two  miles  away.  lie  had  no  schooling  after 
coming  to  Illinois.  Our  subject  was  married  No- 
vember 30,  1837,  to  Eliza  McFailand,  a  native  f>f 
(ireene  County,  Ohio,  born  February  3,  1814.  Af- 
ter this,  he  remained  on  the  farm  for  three  years. 
He  owned  in  northeast  range  one-fourth  of  sec- 
tion 1,  Camp  Point  Township,  and  broke  ground 
on  that  land  in  1836,  and  afterward  secured  a  pat- 
ent. He  located  on  it  in  1840,  built  a  log  house 
and  lived  on  it  two  3ears.  In  1842,  he  removed 
to  Houston  Township,  where  he  purchased  eighty 
acres  on  section  16.  Here  the  country  was  all  new, 
and  the  houses  were  few  and  far  apart.  He  has  made 
remarkable  improvements  on  his  land  in  his  life 
here  of  fifty  years,  and  he  now  has  about  two  hun- 
dred acres  of  fine  land,  a  beautiful  home,  and  one 
of  the  best  locations  in  the  township. 

Mrs.  McFarland  died  December  4,  18.S2.  leaving 
four  children.  They  are:  Rebecca  Jane,  wife  of 
L.  L.  Strickler,  and  removed  to  Sioux  City,  Iowa, 
but  she  died  while  on  a  visit  at  home  in  June, 
1886.  ^Martha  L.  married  William  Forsyth,  who 
died  several  years  ago.  Amy  II.  married  John 
Suter,  a  prominent  farmer  in  this  locality,  and  they 
live  at  home.     One  son  died  young. 

Mr.  McFarland  is  a  Democrat,  in  his  ixjlitical 
faith.  He  has  served  as  Road  Commissioner,  and  as 
Town  Clerk  also,  to  which  office  he  was  elected  in 
18.02,  and  has  held  it  ever  since.     Mrs.  McFarland 


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Wius  11  iiioiiil)er  of  llic  Mellioiliiit  Kpiscoiinl  Clnircli, 
ami  is  .•ilTi'ctioiKilcly  roiiu'inlHTtMl. 

Our  Milijci-t  li.t*  Iti'cn  ii  Itiei'dcr  iiiiii  niisfr  nf 
Ihilytcili  rattli"  f<ir  over  twelve  \enis.  lie  was  llie 
lirsl  to  luecil  these  cattle  ii)  tiie  eoiiiity  oiitMcIc  of 
l^iiiiifv.  lie  lias  raised  and  sold  a  trreal  inany.and 
ill  lt<!Hl  he  made  a  piililie  sale  and  sold  his  herd  of 
thirty-three  head.  I'revioiis  to  that,  however,  he 
had  sold  seven  hesid. 

Mr.  MeFarlanil  h:us  been  a  hard-working  man  all 
his  life,  and  has  honestly  j;ained  all  his  larue  pos- 
sessions. He  has  never  heeii  sick  eiioujjh  to  re- 
i|iiire  the  attention  of  a  phy.sieian  in  his  life,  lie 
is  a  fireat  authority  on  all  .sulijeets  pertaining  to 
the  earh'  davs  of  the  eountv. 


W  EWIS  G.  CARR  is  classed  among  the  in- 
T  fS  telligent,  keen  and  thoroughly  wide-awake 
I  \  farmers  of  this  county,  who  are  eoiitrihut- 
ing  so  much  to  its  material  prosperity,  lie  has 
one  of  the  model  f«rms  of  this  vicinity,  wliieli  is 
l<K-ate<l  on  section  '.I,  ius  it  is  kept  up  to  the  high- 
est point  in  every  respect,  is  supplied  with  neat 
.and  well-ordered  buildings  and  every  variety  of 
the  most  improved  modern  machinery,  and  is  also 
well  stocked  with  good  grades  of  animals. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  w.is  liorn  in  I'ike 
County,  Mo.,  in  182."),  whither  his  parentis  had 
emigrated  from  llopkinsville,  K_v.,  where  tlie\- 
were  both  Iwirn.  Lewis  (I.  was  the  youngest  in 
the  family  of  seven  children,  his  brothers  and  sis- 
ters lieiiig  .lack,  who  resides  in  this  county  and 
is  now  eighty-four  years  of  age;  Mary  A.,  de- 
cea.sed.  who  was  the  wife  of  .1.  M.  I'etre;  (Itcsham; 
Jyouisa,  the  wife  of  T.  II.  Walson:  .l.iiiies  .-ind 
William. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  came  to  .\danis 
C'oiinty  when  he  was  a  lad  of  seven  yeai"s,and  there 
they  passi'd  the  rcmaimler  of  their  lives.  He  ob- 
tained a  fair  education  in  the  district  schools  and, 
lieiiig  Ihoriuighly  trained  to  farm  pursuits,  when 
ready  to  choose  .a  life  occupation    bci'amc    an  :ii;ri- 


eultiirist.  and,  as  will  Ix-  seen  by  the  perusal  of 
this  sketch,  is  an  active  and  enterprising  business 
man  aii<l  has  accumulated  a  comforUtble  compe- 
tence. In  IHI8,  lie  w!».s  married  to  lihoda  Iiiman, 
and  to  them  have  been  born  the  followiiig-namecl 
five  children:  Jane  .\.,  Mrs.  \V.  1',.  IJowles;  .lona- 
tlian  T..  at  home;  l.,ouisa  M..  the  wife  of  .le.sse  A. 
Bowles;  Daniel.).,  residing  in  (^uincy,  and  Laura  C. 

After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Carr,  our  subject  duise 
as  his  second  wife  Mrs.  Elizabeth  McCullongh, 
who.  wilh  her  husband,  is  a  devoted  member  of 
the  Christian  Church.  His  fellow-citizens,  a|>pre- 
ciating  the  fact  that  a  man  of  his  understanding 
would  make  a  gftod  civic  ollicial,  elected  him  l<» 
the  |)osition  of  Supervisor  of  I-'all  Creek  Town- 
ship, which  position  lie  held  for  tweutj'-one  yeai-s, 
which  fact  alone  shows  him  to  be  deservedly 
iwpular.  His  son  .John  lirts  served  many  years  as 
the  incumbent  of  that  otiicc,  and  is  looked  upon 
with  great  respect  by  his  fellow-citizens  in  general. 

Mr.  Carr  is  the  proprietor  of  three  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  of  land,  which  has  been  the  accumu- 
lation of  lii<*  own  labors,  and  he  manages  his  af- 
fairs with  scrupulous  hoiu'sty  and  a  conscientious 
regard  lor  the  rights  of  others.  The  greater  por- 
tion of  his  land  is  under  cultivation,  and  the 
quality  and  ipiantity  per  acre  of  its  crops  will 
compare  favorably  wilh  any  in  the  vicinity.  .Mr. 
Carr  always  casts  a  Democratic  vote,  his  lirst  vote 
lieing  for  .lames  K.  I'olk.  As  before  stated,  he  is 
a  working  member  of  the  Christian  Church,  ami 
endeavors  to  advance  it,-  interests  in  his  coin- 
inunit  v. 


[L^ON.  .lAMIvS   K.   IM.W.MNC.     This  promi- 

fljli   neiit     statesman-farmer     of     Camp     Point 

J       Township    is  a  self-made   man   and    l)egaii 

y)      with  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres   of   wild 

land  in   IHIt'i.  and   now  has  sixteen    hundred   .acres 

of  the  most  lincly  cultivalcil  land  in  Ihc  township. 

.lames  K.  Downing  w.ts  born  iM-bruaiy   I'.',  ImIh. 

ill     Frederick    Count \.    \':i.      He    wa^    the    son    of 


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Reason  Downing,  who  was  of  Scotch  descent  and 
was  bora  in  Maryland  in  1780.  The  grandfather 
of  our  subject  was  James  Downing  who  emigrated 
from  Maryland  to  Frederick  County,  Xa.,  and 
after  lie  had  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War  had 
become  a  farmer.  Reason  Downing  became  a  farmer 
and  went  from  Vuginia  to  Indiana  in  1822  with 
his  family  and  there  farmed  in  Clark  County.  In 
1835  he  emigrated  to  Illinois  and  settled  in  Adams 
County.  He  bought  land  in  Camp  Point  Township 
at  a  time  when  the  settlers  were  ver^'  far  apart. 
He  improved  a  farm  of  four  hundred  acres,  and 
enjoyed  a  quiet  life  to  the  end  of  his  days  in  1881, 
at  the  ripe  old  age  of  ninety-two  years.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Jlethodist  Episcopal  Church.  The 
mother  of  our  subject  was  Nanc^'  Turner,  a  native 
of  Maryland.  Her  parents  emigrated  from  Mary- 
land. She  was  in  her  ninety-seventh  year  when 
she  died  in  1880,  and  was  called  to  meet  the  hus- 
band with  whom  she  was  permitted  to  pass  seventy- 
two  years.  They  were  the  honored  parents  of 
twelve  children,  eleven  of  whom  have  lived  to 
raise  families  of  their  own.  Seven  of  these  are  yet 
living. 

Our  subject  was  the  seventh  in  that  large  family, 
which  is  considered  bj^  the  soothsayers  to  be  a  ver^' 
fortunate  circumstance.  He  received  a  common- 
school  education,  which  meant  in  those  days  read- 
ing, writing,  spelling  and  arithmetic, and  no  doubt 
he  closely  applied  himself  to  his  books,  for  now  he 
is  a  man  of  broad  knowledge.  He  was  seventeen 
years  old  when  his  parents  moved  to  Illinois,  and 
he  remained  with  his  father  until  he  was  twent}'- 
eight  years  old.  He  took  up  and  improved  his 
present  land  from  a  military  tract,  in  1845,  and  has 
lived  here  since  1846.  In  his  early  days  he  averaged 
a  weekly  trip  to  (Juincy,  as  that  was  the  nearest 
market.  He  has  been  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser  on 
his  own  account  for  forty-seven  years,  and  has 
made  it  very  profitable.  He  has  about  fourteen 
hundred  acres  of  land  in  all,  it  licing  in  three  town- 
ships, Cla3'ton,  Camp  Point  and  Houston. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1846  to  Miss  Mar- 
garet A.  Adams,  of  Kentucky,  whose  parents,  Elijah 
and  Rebecca  (Wilkes)  Adams,  emigrated  from  Ken- 
tucky to  Illinois  in  1832.  They  were  very  early 
settlers  in  this    section.     Mrs.    Downinij    died    in 


1866,  leaving  five  children:  Eliza  Ann,  Thomas  J., 
William  A.,  Frances  E.,  and  Robert  E.  Mr.  Down- 
ing married  again,  in  1870,  his  wife  being  ,]ane 
R.  McClintock.  whose  people  came  to  this  county 
in  1840.  She  died  in  1888,  and  left  two  ciiildren. 
Bertha  O.  and  .lames  11. 

Mr.  Downing  has  been  a  very  prominent  Demo- 
crat in  this  section,  and  has  lieen  the  cliosen  dele- 
gate to  the  different  conventions  for  years.  He 
has  held  various  local  oflicesand  was  elected  as  the 
Representative  to  S])ringfield  in  1868,  and  served 
his  constituents  so  well  that  he  was  sent  back  in 
1882.  He  is  a  very  inlluential  man  in  all  puiilic 
affairs  and  is  one  tiiat  .\dams  County  is  proud  to 
have  sit  in  the  councils  of  the  Commonwealth. 


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(if!S?:^HOMAS  COLLINS,  formerly  an  honored 
pioneer  of  Adams  County,  and  one  of  its 
most  prominentand  inlluential  farmers  died 
at  his  home  near  Piainvillc,  .luly  22,  1890.  Not  to 
have  known  Mr.  Collins  was  to  admit  oneself  un- 
known, for  few,  if  any,  had  more  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances in  tills  community  tiian  lie.  A  native 
of  Kentucky,  he  was  born  February  20,  1815,  in 
Spencer  (.'oiinty,  Ky.,  and  was  quite  small  when  he 
was  taken  by  his  parents  to  I  iidiana.  In  1M3(I,  they 
took  up  their  aliode  in  Payson  Township,  this 
county,  with  whose  interests  they  were  identified 
until  their  decease. 

Our  subject  was  onein  a  family  of  eight  children 
born  to  lienjaiiiiu  and  Pluebe  (Lrowdie)  Collins, 
natives  of  Kentucky.  The  father  was  a  well-to-do 
farmer  and  during  the  War  of  1812  served  as  a 
soldier  in  its  ranks.  The  lady  to  whom  our  subject 
was  married  in  1835  was  Miss  Saiali,  daughter  of 
John  Abbott,  an  early  settler  of  Adams  County. 
To  them  were  born  ten  children,  six  of  whom 
are  living  at  the  present  time.  One  son,  Charles, 
was  graduated  from  the  Christian  College  at  Can- 
ton, Mo.,  and  after  completing  his  studies  in  that 
institution  Idled  the  chair  of  mathematics  for  three 
\-ears.     Later,  however,  he  began  the  study  of  law 


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uikI  W!is  nilinittoi)  to  the  Hjir  wliili-  residing  in 
Kansas.  Another  son.  (ioorjre.  who  was  given  an 
excclh'iil  eiliiealion  in  the  lionie  selioois,  in  IH'.KI 
€'nt<'re(l  the  American  Denial  College  at  Chicago 
and  received  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Dental  Snr- 
gery  the  following  spring.  Locating  for  pnictice 
in  I'lainville,  ho  is  liuilding  up  a  lucrative  trade, 
and  .-i."-  an  intelligent  and  pulilic-spiriled  citizen  is 
pronunent  anil  inlluential  in  the  coniinunity  where 
he  resides.  .S(H'iall_v  Dr.  Collins  isa  ineml>erof  the 
Masf)nic  fratcrnilv  and  in  politics  is  a  stanch 
Democrat,  as  was.nlso  his  father. 


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'^  *  A.I.  (;K()R(;K   O.  roNI).    M.    D..   a   prmn- 
inent  retired  phy>ician  of  Caniii   I'oint.   is 


the  gentleman  whose  honored  name  o[iens 
this  .-kelcli.  He  w;i.-  l)orn  in  llostoll.  M  v^.. 
.lime  H,  18(i;i.  Ills  father,  .lose|>li  I'ond.  a  shij)- 
liuilder  of  Massachiisett.s,  died  of  the  yellow  fever 
while  on  his  way  to  the  West  Indies  with  a  ship 
he  had  for  sale.  lie  was  a  memlier  of  the  firm  of 
I'ond  A-  Itarnes,  well-known  ship-lmilders  of  Bos- 
ton. Ills  wife  was  .loanna  I'omcroy,  horn  in  IJos- 
toii,  of  French  extiactitin.  She  remained  a  widow, 
and  die<l  in  ISoston  in  1K;'|K. 

Our  subject  is  the  youngest  .and  only  living 
meniher  of  the  family.  His  early  days  were 
passed  in  ISoslon.  from  which  city  he  went  to  live 
with  an  uncle  at  Warwick,  Mass.,  and  remained 
there  until  he  was  sixteen  yeai-s  of  .age,  after  which 
he  started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world, 
lie  had  the  advantage  of  a  common-school  educa- 
tion, and  was  variously  engaged  until  he  wjis 
twenty-one.  During  his  hoyliood  days  he  devcited 
consideralile  attention  to  i)enmansliip,  in  which  he 
liecame  an  expert,  and  when  he  came  West,  in 
l«;i(t,  he  made  u>c  of  his  proliciency  in  that  re- 
Sjiept,  and  taught  penmanship  in  various  places 
while  working  his  w.ay  still  farther  West.  When 
he  reached  (  Hiio,  he  stopped  at  Lancaster,  where 
he  at  once  secured  a  large  elass,  one  of  his  pupils 
heing  the  daughter  of  .S-natoi-   Tom    Kwing,  since 


the  wife  of  (Jen.  W.  T.  Sherman.  .Vt  Cincinnati, 
he  devoted  con>idcralile  time  to  music,  for  which 
he  had  great  n;iluiMl  talent,  and  for  a  time  he 
taught  music. 

I'rif>r  to  leaving  .Ma>sachuseiis,  our  snlijcct  had 
resolved  to  commence  the  study  of  medicine,  ami. 
had  devoted  some  lime  ti>  il.  liut  was  ohiiged  to 
lirst  earn  the  means  in  order  to  educate  himself  in 
the  profession.  lie  was  successful  in  teaching  his 
special  liranches,  and  in  lH;i(!  entered  the  .Medical 
I'niversily,  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  where  he  spent 
three  years,  meanwhile  teaching  pcnman-'hip  and 
music.  During  the  lirst  year,  he  received  ij'CdO 
for  leading  the  choir  in  the  I'rcsliylerian  Church 
in  Lexington,  and,  in  addition,  cleared  enough 
with  his  pen  to  make  his  salary  i\J)(W.  He  next 
entered  the  Medical  I'nivci-sily,  at  Louisville, 
where  he  wan  graduated  in  I M.'Jit,  and  afterward 
practiced  in  St.  Louis  for  a  short  time.  After 
visiting  St.  Paul  and  other  cities  in  the  .North- 
west, he  came  to  f^uincy,  and  sof)n  after  located  at 
('<phin)l)us,  in  this  county,  where  he  practiced 
several  years. 

In  the  spring  of  IK.jl.  Di'.  I'und  removed  lo 
( iriggsville.  Pike  County,  111.,  and  remained  there 
engaged  in  the  iiractice  of  his  profession  until  the 
war  liroke  out.  In  1H()2,  he  was  appointed  .Sur- 
geon of  tiu;  Seveiit\'-third  Illinois  Regiment,  with 
the  rank  of  Major.  This  regiment  cont.-iincil 
man}'  ^Methodist  ministers.  Maj.  Pond  saw  .some 
hard  fighting,  and,  except  when  on  lio>pital  (lut\', 
was  in  the  thickest  of  the  light  with  the  regiment, 
which  took  part  in  all  the  battles  of  the  .\rmy  of 
the  Cumberland  from  Perry ville,  in  October,  IH(i2, 
to  Nashville,  in  December,  IHCil.  After  the  war, 
he  was  associate<l  with  Col.  Hlaek  for  a  short  time, 
at  Clayton,  III.  In  1H(;;i.  he  removed  lo  Cainj) 
Point,  where  he  has  since  lived.  He  is  freipienlly 
called  in  consullntion.  but  does  not  practice. 

Maj.  Pond  w.as  married  in  183'.(,  to  Miss  .\iigusta 
M.  Ilariington,  a  native  of  New  York,  who  for 
more  than  lifty  year>  has  been  his  companion, 
'i'hey  have  one  daughter,  Lida,  now  the  wife  of  .1. 
M.  Ciee.  of  ( iriggsville.  111.  The  M.-ijor  was  an 
old  line  Whig,  and  now  is  an  uncompromising 
Republican.  Ilolh  be  and  bis  wifi>  aii>  Presbyteri- 
ans.      He  is  one  of  the  olde-l   .Masons  in   the    Slate, 


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also  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic, and  even  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  he  enjoys 
attending  the  re-unions  of  the  old  regiment.  In 
18i»l,  he  contiibuted  a  poem,  wliieh  was  read  at 
the  meeting  of  las  comrades  at  Springfield  and 
published  in  pamphlet  form  for  each  member  of 
llie  regiment.  He  has  the  respect  and  esteem  of 
all  wlio  know  him,  and  his  kindness  of  heart  and 
.sympathetic  care  of  his  patients  will  he  remem- 
bered after  he  h.is  passed  awa3'. 


aHARLES  BALI.OW,  a  i)rominent  .and  influ- 
-  ential  citizen  of  Clayton,  claims  Tennessee 
'  as  the  State  of  his  nativity.  He  was  born 
in  Williamson  County  in  1818, and  isason  of  Will- 
iam H.  and  Priscilla  (Menier)  Ballow,  tiie  former 
of  Scotch  descent  and  the  latter  of  French  lineage. 
The  father  served  under  Gen.  .Tackson  in  tlie  War 
of  1812.  Tlie  family  numbered  the  following  chil- 
dren: Ann  Rebecca,  who  was  boi'n  in  1807,  became 
the  wife  of  John  Ausmus,  a  farmer,  and  now  re- 
sides in  Adams  County  at  the  age  of  eighty-five 
years;  Patsy,  born  in  1811,  became  the  wife  of 
Peter  Ausmus,  who  removed  to  Linn  County,  Mo.; 
John,  born  in  1813,  married  Miss  Overby  and  re- 
moved to  Texas,  where  he  died  in  1880;  Temper- 
ance, born  in  1816,  is  the  wife  of  Lemuel  McAllis- 
ter, of  Kansas,  and  they  have  seven  children; 
Henrj-,  born  in  1821,  married  Miss  King,  by  whom 
he  had  nine  children,  and  resides  in  Exira,  Iowa; 
Albert  G.,  born  in  1824,  married  iSIiss  King  and 
resided  in  Clayton  County,  Iowa,  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  from  drowning  in  1849.  The 
fatiier  of  this  faaiily  was  again  married  in  1846, 
and  had  two  children  by  that  union. 

Tlie  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in  the 
subscription  schools  of  Illinois,  but  his  privileges 
in  tliat  direction  were  very  limited.  He  afterward 
worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade  for  a  number  of 
years,  wiien  he  devoted  his  energies  to  merchan- 
dising.     He    has    freijucntly  been    called    upon    to 


serve  in  public  positions,  and  for  fifteen  years  has 
been  Notary  Public.  In  1872,  he  was  elected  to 
represent  his  district  in  the  State  Legislature  and 
served  for  two  years.  He  was  elected  Justice  c>f 
the  Peace  in  1860  and  has  held  that  otttce  almost 
continuously  since.  He  held  the  office  of  Post- 
master under  Franklin  Pierce  and  again  under 
James  Buchan.an.  In  politics,  he  is  a  stanch  Dem- 
ocrat and  has  ever  taken  an  active  part  in  the  suc- 
cess and  growth  of  his  party,  and  for  six  years  was 
Chairman  of  the  Central  Democratic  Committee  of 
the  count3^ 

In  1848,  Mr.  Ballow  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  A.  P.  Barry,  in  Vermont,  Fulton  County,  III., 
and  unto  them  were  born  two  children:  Charles, 
born  in  1857,  is  an  employe  on  the  railroad;  and 
Martha  Jane,  born  in  1860,  is  a  milliner  of  St. 
Louis.  The  mother  died  in  1870,  and  Mr.  Ballow 
in  June,  1882,  wedded  Mrs.  Charlotte  Kinnear,  who 
was  born  in  New  York  Cit^'  in  1837,  a  daughter  of 
Arnold  Dickinson.  The  latter  served  in  the  War 
of  1812.  She  is  the  youngest  of  nine  children. 
The  Dickinson  family  was  one  of  prominence  in  liie 
Empire  State,  and  her  father  served  as  Congress- 
man. Mrs.  Ballow's  first  husband  died  in  1868, 
in  Trinidad,  Colo.,  where  Mrs.  Ballow  resided  ten 
yeais  ere  her  husband's  death. 

Mr.  Ballow  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  with  which  he  has  been  connected  since 
1848.  For  twenty  years,  he  served  as  its  Elder 
and  was  also  Trustee.  He  is  a  Ro3al  Arch  Mason 
and  is  the  onl3'  charter  member  belonging  to  the 
lodge.  He  has  also  been  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Odd  Fellows' society  for  twenty  years.  His  wife  has 
taken  the  Rebekah  degree  and  is  also  a  member 
of  the  El.astern  Star  Chapter  of  Masonry,  being  the 
first  Worth)-  Matron  of  that  order.  Mr.  Ballow  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Adams  and  Brown 
Counties  Old  Settlers'  Association,  and  .served  as  its 
President.  His  wife  has  been  a  member  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Clayton,  for  ten  \'ears  and  is  one 
of  its  active  workers.  She  is  a  member  of  both  the 
home  and  foreign  niissionarj'  societies,  is  inter- 
ested in  Sunday-school  work  and  is  a  piominent 
member  and  Vice-president  of  the  Woman's  Chris- 
tian Temperance  Union.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pialk)w  are 
charitable    and    lienevolent    |)eople.  in   whom   the 


P()Kli;\ri'  AM*  l'.Ii><;UAl'IIlCAL   IJF.(  hrd. 


II-, 


poor  ami  lu-t-ily  liiiti  a  fiicnd.  Tlicii  ii|)iij,'lil  li\i>, 
so  iiiucli  lU'votcil  to  cliiircli  Miiil  tin-  iiitiTcsl.s  of 
otlu'r*.  tiavo  won  tln'iii  the  coiilidiMice  and  osti'i'm 
of  all  tliioni:lioiit  till- roniniiinil  V.  In  his  Itiisini'ss 
cart'iT,  Mr.  liallow  has  won  sucfc'ss  and  is  now  one 
of  till'  snlistantial  citizens  of  Clnvlon. 


■»T*»*T<- 


JlAMKS  KNOX,  a  sucvpssful  and  roprpscnta- 
tivc  faiiner  of  Kllington  Township,  who 
I  roij ides  on  section  15,  was  born  on  the  old 
_  homestead  in  this  connt v.. lanuaiv  Ifi,  lH."il. 
He  is  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (MiLean)  Knox. 
Ixtth  <if  wiiom  were  natives  of  Ireland,  where  their 
marriage  was  ceh'liratfd  in  ln;{7.  The  following 
year  they  bade  good-bye  to  the  Kmerald  Isle  and 
crossed  the  broad  Atlantic  to  America,  locating 
in  Pennsylvania.  The  father  worked  in  the  coal 
niiiu's  of  Summit  Hill  for  six  years,  and  in  the 
autumn  of  1844  emigrat*,'d  to  this  county,  where 
he  purch.ised  a  wild  and  uninii>roved  trad  of  piai- 
rie  land  on  section  l.O,  Kllington  Township.  The 
county  W.1S  then  in  its  primitive  condition.  Deer 
and  other  kinds  of  wild  game  were  plentiful  ;iiid 
the  work  of  progress  seemed  scarcely  k'gun.  .Mr. 
Knox  built  a  log  cabin  and  broke  prairie  with  ox- 
teams,  lie  followed  farming  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  March  3li,  1H84,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-seven  years.  His  wife  p-issed  away  three 
<lays  previous.  Hoth  were  members  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Kllington,  and  on  its  organi- 
zation Mr.  Knox  w.is  chosen  an  Kldcr,  serving  in 
that  [Kisition  until  his  death.  He  was  one  of  the 
sulxstantial  citizens  of  the  community,  prominent 
and  influential,  and  was  held  in  the  highest  rc- 
g:ird. 

The  Knux  family  numbered  thiiteen  cliililrt'ii, 
but  only  two  are  now  living,  our  subject  and 
Samuel,  the  eldest  son.  The  former  wjis  born  in  Ire- 
land in  lK;iK,  and  during  his  boyhood  cime  with 
his  parents  to  this  country.  With  the  family,  he 
shared  in  the  hardships  ami  privations  of  pioneer 
life  and  diuvi-  the  oxen    for  his    father    while    he 


broke  tlie  wild  pi;iirie.  He  was  eilucuted  in  the 
log  schoolhoiise.  liy  his  industry  an<l  enterprise, 
lie  has  liccoiiic  :\  pros|>erous  farmer,  and  now  owns 
one  liuii<)red  and  twenty  acres  of  well-improved 
lan<l  on  section  !,■),  Kllington  Township.  He 
makes  his  home  with  our  subject. 

.Tames  Knox  liius  spent  his  entire  life  on  the 
farm  which  is  now  his  home.  He  was  educali'd  in 
the  district  school*  and  was  reared  in  the  usual 
manner  of  farmer  lads.  On  the  ,'ith  of  .l;iiiii;iry, 
lH»;t,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Kmma  .Meyer,  a 
native  of  this  township  and  a  daughter  of  Codlef 
Meyer,  who  was  born  in  (Jermany.  but  for  many 
veal's  has  been  a  resident  of  this  township.  Two 
daughters  gr.nce  the  union  of  this  couple:  Mary  K. 
and  ( Jracie  .1. 

The  Ue|iublicaii  parly  tinds  in  Mr.  Knox  a  stal- 
wart supporter,  who  does  all  in  his  power  to  pro- 
mote it,s  growth  and  insure  its  success.  The  cause 
of  education  liiids  in  him  a  warm  frienil,  and 
while  serving  as  l)irect(U-  for  eleven  years,  he  has 
done  eflfeetive  service  in  the  iuteri'sts  of  the 
schools,  and  has  also  tilled  the  ollice  of  Township 
Assessor,  lie  and  liis  wife  are  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  Cliurcli.  He  is  the  owner  of  eiglilv 
acres  of  excellent  fanning  laml  and  forty  acres  of 
timber,  and  is  one  of  the  well-to-do  agriculturists 
of  the  community.  He  is  a  m.an  of  excellent 
judgment  and  good  business  ability  and  lii>  -iir- 
cess  is  due  to  his  own  efforts. 


eAVV.  WILLIAM  H.  SIHNN.  This  gentle- 
man is  spoken  of  among  his  friends  as  Cap- 
tain, because  from  early  boyluwid  he  li.as 
been  very  .-ictive  in  the  (ire  department.  He 
has  been  Koreman  of  the  Ho.si'  Conip:iii\  and 
Assistant  Chief  of  the  Fire  IJrigade.  II. ■  is 
Superintendent  of  the  Cliannoii-Kmery  St<»ve 
Company,  of  which  he  is  also  a  st<K'kliolder. 
He  wiis  born  in  Cumberland  County,  \'a..  May  ."{(t, 
lull.  His  father,  Solomon,  was  born  in  Pennsyl- 
vania ill   I  SI  1 11.  and  died  in  t^iiincy  in  IK'.II.     Will- 


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iam  was  reared  in  Pennsylvania  until  he  was  eight 
years  of  age  and  was  then  taken  by  his  i)arcnts 
over  tlie  mountains  to  Pittsburgh, reaching  Warsaw 
HI.,  in  1851;  thence  they  went  to  Quinc.y,  111.,  Jh13' 
4,  1852,  and  here  our  subject  l)egan  working  in 
the  foundry,  at  this  tender  age,  for  Allen  &  Com- 
stock.  He  was  apprenticed  as  a  moulder,  and 
remained  in  that  department  for  three  years.  Mr. 
Comstock  took  a  liking  for  him,  encouraged  him, 
and  when  twelve  years  of  age  he  could  make  any- 
thing in  iron.  lie  continued  to  work  for  Mr. 
Comstock  until  the  strike  of  1863,  when  Thomas 
White  started  a  foundry  aiid  he  worked  for  him  a 
year.  He  then  went  to  Cincinnati  and  worked  as 
moulder  for  the  William  Reser  Stove  Works.  He 
onl}-  remained  three  months,  when  he  came  back 
and  went  into  the  grain  business  for  two  years, 
and  then  worked  for  Thomas  AVhite  for  seven  years. 
In  1872,  he  went  to  Kansas  C'it3'  and  started  a 
foundry  with  Shinn,  Foster  &  Co.,  in  the  manu- 
facture of  stoves.  He  onl^'  continued  in  this 
company  one  year,  when  he  again  returned  to 
(^uincy  and  became  foreman  of  Bonnet  &  Duffy's 
foundry,  where  he  remained  for  seven  years.  He 
then  became  foreman  for  Comstock,  Castle  & 
Co.  for  two  years,  and  afterward  became  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  C'iian non-Emery  Stove 
Company,  which  was  organized  in  1881  with 
twenty-eight  moulders,  but  whicli  now  requires 
sixt^'.  He  was  a  stockholder  and  Director  for 
a  time,  after  which  he  became  Superintendent, 
and  has  held  that  position  ever  since.  He  has 
been  a  moulder  longer  than  any  other  man  in  the 
city,  and  pays  all  his  attention  to  it.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Iron  ISIoulders'  I  iiion  No.  44,  of 
t^uincy. 

Our  Suliject  was  married  in  (^iiiiicy  in  1868,  to 
Miss  Harriet  Wood.  She  is  the  daughter  of 
Andrew  Wood,  an  old  settler  here,  who  was  a 
cousin  of  ex-Governor  Wood.  They  have  had  four 
cliildren:  Annie  M.,  now  Mrs.  William  AuU, resid- 
ing in  (.^uincy;  Kannie,  Lodie  and  Alvoid,  at 
home. 

From  boyhf)od,  the  Captain  has  been  very  much 
interested  in  tiie  fire  department,  to  which  we 
referred  in  the  opening  of  our  article.  Since  his 
return  from  Kansas  Cit}'.  he  has  retired   from   the 


office  he  held  in  it.  It  is  now  a  very  important, 
paid  department  of  the  city  of  Quincy.  The 
Ca))tain  is  an  intelligent,  wide-awake  man,  al- 
though his  early  education  was  somewhat  limited 
as  Quincy  was  a  new  town,  and  at  that  time  had 
very  poor  schools.  He  has  taken  all  the  degrees 
of  the  Royal  Arch  Masons  and  Knights  Temp- 
lar, of  Quincy.  He  is  a  true-blue  Republican 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  and  county 
committees,  and  has  l)een  a  delegate  to  the  county 
and  congressional  conventions. 


eYLON  I  in' IN  WALLACE  was  born  in 
Kentucky,  in  the  3'ear  1828,  and  was  the 
youngest  of  thirteen  children  born  unto 
Allen  and  Ann  Wallace,  but  there  are  now  only  two 
survivors  of  the  family,  a  brother  who  resides  in 
Adams  County  and  one  who  lives  in  Monmoutli, 
111.  Our  subject  spent  his  early  boyhood  da^'S 
under  the  jiarental  roof,  but  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
started  out  to  earn  his  own  livelihood.  He 
worked  as  a  farm  iiaiid  for  a  time,  but  afterward, 
when  liy  his  economy,  perseverance  and  industry 
he  had  secured  some  capital,  he  purchased  tlie  old 
homestead  and  began  farming  for  himself.  It 
comprises  one  hundred  and  thirty  acres  of  land  and 
he  placed  it  under  a  high  scale  of  cultivation.  He 
also  erected  good  buildings,  including  a  pleasant 
residence,  and  made  many  excellent  improve- 
ments. 

During  the  late  war,  Mr.  Wallace  enlisted,  in 
1862,  as  a  member  of  Company  I,  One  Hundred 
and  Nineteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  served  for 
eiglit  months,  proving  himself  a  valiant  and  faith- 
ful defender  of  tlie  Union.  He  was  ever  a  prom- 
inent citizen,  and  gave  his  support  to  all  that  per- 
tained to  the  welfare  of  the  community. 

Mr.  Wallace  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Ella  Turner,  who  was  born  in  the  year  1836, 
and  their  union  was  blessed  with  a  family  of  six 
children,  two  sons  and   four   daughters,  of  whom 


i'()i;Ti;\n    wn  r.K  k  ,i;  mmik  ai.  KKroRD. 


I  r.i 


tliii-c  aiT  \t't  liviiii;.  'I'lii-y  >|ieiil  iii()>l  <>(  Uieii- 
MiMiricil  life  upon  llic  farm  uliu-li  is  still  llif  home 
of  .Mis.  W:illa.c.  .•iii.l  Ih.IIi  .Mr.  ami  Mr-.  Wallace 
were  hiitlifiil  and  consistent  memlieis  of  the 
I'niled  I'le.sliyterian  (hnreh  for  many  years,  lie 
e<nitriliule(l  liberally  to  its  support  and  was  an 
earnest  worker  in  the  Master's  vineyaril.  Soeially, 
he  was  a  nienilKM-  of  K.  K.  MeCoy  I'osl  No.  .'ill, 
<•.  .\.  K.,  of  Clayton.  In  polities,  he  was  a  sUil- 
wart  snpporter  of  l>epnl>liean  prineiples  and  filled 
the  ollice  of  Koad  Commissioner. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Wall.iee  oeeiirred  .lanuary  2.5, 
\X'.)-2.  and  his  lo.ss  was  mourned  Ihrouuhont  the 
entire  eommunity.  lie  was  a  lfi\ini:  hushand  and 
falln'r,  a  kind  neighlKir,  a  faithfid  friend  and  a 
eoiisistent  Christian.  In  many  re>peet,s  his  life 
w.is  well  worthy  f)f  emulation,  lie  had  the  high 
regard  of  all  with  whom  he  c^nme  in  eontaet.  and 
when  ealled  to  the  home  lieyond,  his  family  in 
their  loss  had  the  sympathy  of  a  wide  eirelt  of 
friends  and  .<ic(|uaint:inccs. 


•^ 


I'iistor  of  St.  .lohn's  Church,  is  a  native  of 
1 'H  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  .-md  was  liorn  .lan- 
^P/  uary  22.  l«;")l.  His  parents,  Anthony  and 
iJarbara  (Itohner)  Looher,  were  alstt  natives  of  that 
country  and  uitizens  of  good  standing  and  known 
integrity.  Of  their  children,  three  in  number. 
Joseph  W!is  the  eldest  .son.  lie  pa.ssed  his  early 
school  days  in  Wurtemlvcrg,  and  then  entered  the 
college  ."it  Kllwangen.  Wurtemberg,  where  he  re- 
mained for  seven  years,  or  until  IKGfS.  Following 
that,  he  entered  the  I'niversity  of  Junsburk,  in  the 
Tyrol,  and  still  later  the  rnivei>ity  of  .Munich, 
liavaria,  giaduating  from  that  noted  institution  in 
the  spring  of  1K73. 

On  the  1st  of  September,  IMTU,  having  decided 
to  make  his  future  home  in  America,  <iur  subject 
took  pa.ssage  for  this  country,  [.binding  in  New 
York  City,  he  went  to  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  and  beg.-m 
teaching  in  Ml.  St.  Marx's  ('ollc^c,  where   he   won 


an  eviablc  reputation  as  an  educator.  However, 
this  was  not  his  aim  in  life,  and  he  remaincil  there 
only  until  .\ugust,  1H7I,  when  he  went  to  .\lton, 
ill.,  and  on  the  Sth  of  September.  1X71.  he  wa.- 
ordained  a  priest.  With  a  strong,  healthy.  an<l 
vigorous  intellect,  a  cap.acity  for  logical  rea.soning 
and  sound  judgment,  his  abilities  were  soon 
recognize<l  and  he  was  sent  to  Mt.  .Sterling.  Ilrown 
County,  1 11.,  and  was  I'astor  of  St.  Joseph's  Church 
at  that  place  up  to  July  I,  IKiMi. 

From  there  Father  Loclier  went  to  Carlinville, 
Macoupin  County,  I II,,  and  became  Assistant  I'astor 
of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  but  in  October.  IH'.tO,  moved 
to  (^nincy,  where  he  is  now  Assistant  I'astor  of  St. 
.lohn's  Church.  Personally,  he  lias  a  frank,  pleas- 
ing countenance,  and  a  personal  magnetism  that 
attract,'^  his  congregation  to  him.  His  delivery  is 
careful  and  finished,  and  his  .<iermons  are  charac- 
terized by  depth  of  thought  and  earnestnes'^.  Zeal- 
ous in  his  work  as  in  his  con  victions,  he  take>  hold 
of  the  church  work  with  a  determined  and  ener- 
getic purpose,  and  .•«iiice  his  residence  here  has  won 
a  host  of  warm  friends.  Although  young  in  years, 
he  has  won  his  way  to  the  front,  and  is  a  most 
worthy  and  exemplary  man. 

P'ather  Locher  is  Chaplain  of  the  St.  N'incent's 
Home  and  the  State  Soldier>'  and  Sailors'  Home  in 
(Juincy,  in  which  latter  place  there  are  .•tbout  two 
hundred  and  fifty  nieniliersof  the  Catholic  Church. 
He  is  active  in  all  good  wtuU.  and  takes  the  le.ml 
instead  of  following.  His  residence  at  present  is 
at  No.  \:VM<  North  Kleventh  Street,  but  he  will 
soon  move  to  his  new  parsonage,  now  being  erected 
on  Locust  .Street  near  Twelfth. 


Dll.N  1).  .Ml  COY.  a  highly  respected  farmer 
residing  on  section  84,  Clayttm  Township, 
has  spent  his  entire  life  in  this  county,  be- 
ing a  reprcMHtative  of  one  of  its  honored 
l)ioneer  families.  His  father.  .IoImi  McCoy,  came 
to  the  contily  in  lH;i2.  and.  securing  two  hnndied 
and  foi  I  \   acre.-,  of    land  from  the  ( io\  t'l  liiiicnl,  be- 


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PORTKAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD 


gaii  the  improvement  of  a  farm.  At  the  time  of 
his  deatli,  the  homestead  was  one  of  the  model 
farms  of  this  community.  Mr.  McCoy  was  ever  a 
l)roiiiinent  and  leading  citizen  and  held  a  number 
of  township  ottices.  In  politics,  he  was  a  sup- 
Ijorter  of  Republican  princi])les.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  1886.  Martha  J.  McCoy,  the  mother  of 
our  subject,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1821,  and  is 
still  living.  The  parental  familj-  numbered  the 
following  children:  William  P.,  born  in  1832,  is 
deceased;  James  A.  is  man  led  aud  follows  the 
transfer  business  in  Eureka,  Kan.;  Charles  H.,born 
in  1842,  married  Rebecca  Biuk,  and  resides  in  Col- 
orado; Francos,  born  in  184(),  died  in  1857;  Emma, 
born  in  1849,  died  in  1860;  Blatchford,  born  in 
1856,  is  married  and  resides  in  Clayton:  Alta, 
born  in  1861,  died  in  1874. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  reared  under  the 
parental  roof,  his  boyhood  days  being  quietl}- 
liassed  in  the  usual  manner  of  farmer  lads.  On 
attaining  his  majority,  he  married  Eliza  A.  Hoskins, 
a  daughter  of  Thomas  A.  Hoskins.  She  was  born 
in  1845,  and  their  marriage  was  celebrated  in  1864. 
Two  children  have  been  born  unto  them:  Pearl, 
horn  in  1869,  is  the  wife  of  H.  M.  Williams,  of 
(|uincy;  and  Mary  E.,  born  in  1873,  who  is  still 
under  the  parental  roof. 

Mr.  McCoy  received  from  his  father  I2,60(i, 
with  which  he  purchased  a  tract  of  land  of  eighth- 
acres  for  §50  per  acre.  His  life  has  been  a  busy  and 
industrious  one,  and  he  has  increased  his  landed 
liossessions  until  Ins  farm  now  comprises  one  hun- 
dred and  forty-six  acres  of  laud,  all  under  a  high 
state  of  cultivation.  The  home  is  a  commodious 
and  pleasant  ten-room  residence,  and  all  other  im- 
provements are  in  keeping  with  the  dwelling.  In 
all  its  appointments  the  place  seems  complete,  and 
the  McCo3-  homestead  is  known  as  one  of  the 
model  farms  of  the  community. 

Mr.  JMcCoy  is  a  member  of  the  Modern  \Voo(l- 
mcn  Lodge  und  of  the  Orand  Army.  His  wife  is 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
Prom])tcd  l)y  patriotic  impulses,  he  responded  to 
his  country's  call  when  only  seventeen  years  of 
age,  enlisting  on  the  17th  of  April,  1861,  as  a 
member  of  the  Tenth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  was  a 
member  of  that  regiment  threo  moiiths  when,  Jus 


time  having  expired,  he  re-enlisted  in  the  Seven- 
tieth Illinois  Infantry,  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected for  about  four  months,  when  he  re-enlisted 
in  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-first  Illinois  In- 
fantry, and  served  one  year.  He  was  then  dis- 
charged and  returned  home.  He  h.as  ever  been 
a  supporter  of  the  Republican  party,  and  has 
served  in  several  local  ottices.  He  takes  an  active 
interest  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  the 
community,  and  he  is  known  .as  a  valued  citizen 
as  well  as  a  rci)rescntative  farmer. 


ylLLIABI  F.  (tIVLER.  station  agent  on  the 
Wabash  Railroad  at  Clayton,  and  agent 
for  the  Pacific  Express  Company,  was  born 
in  Cumberland  Count}-,  Pa.,  in  1844,  and  is  a  son 
of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Goodheart)  Givler.  The 
father  was  born  in  1817,  and  was  a  son  of  Henry 
Givler,  a  native  of  Germany.  His  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  John  Bricker,  one  of  the  wealthiest 
citizens  of  the  community  in  which  he  resided. 
The  Goodheart  family  is  also  of  German  ori<j-in 
and  was  quite  prominent  in  the  Fatherland.  Henrv 
Givler  was  one  of  several  children,  including  the 
following:  Samuel,  born  in  Cumberland  County. 
Pa.,  was  married  and  followed  farming  in  that 
State.  Mar}'  is  now  the  wife  of  Jacob  High  and  re- 
sides in  this  county.  Nancy  became  the  wife  of 
John  Rhine,  and  came  with  her  husband  to  Illinois 
in  1852.  She  has  since  died,  but  her  family  resides 
in  Mt-  Morris,  III.  Betsy  Ann  is  the  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Stone,  a  Presbyterian  minister.  After 
the  death  of  his  first  wife,  Henry  Givler,  Sr.,  mar- 
ried Miss  Kline  and  they  had  three  sons:  Daniel: 
William,  who  resides  in  this  State;  and  Jeremiah, 
who  makes  his  home  in  Pennsylvania.  All  are 
married. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  married,  in  1836. 
to  Miss  F^lizabeth  Goodheart,  who  was  born  in 
1815.  Her  death  occurred  in  1873,  He  is  still 
living  upon  a  )";trm  at  lola,  Kan,     Tljp  broUiers 


rolMliAil    AM)  l;i(M;i;\rii"(  \i.  i;i;(()in). 


I.il 


.■iiul  >i>l<TS  iif  (Uir  >uliji'Cl  arc  a>  Inllnws:  l>;i:ic 
.M.,  luini  in  ('iiinlirihiiKl  Ciiiinly,  l':i.,  in  1^12.  is 
marrioil,  and,  willi  liis  fHinily  of  four  vliildifii,  rv- 
lilies  ill  Missouri;  Mary  IC  lioni  in  ('uiiil)i'rliiii(l 
County  in  IHlii,  married  'riicodorc  Kit/.millcr. 
who  fnli>ltMi  in  llio  Niiiety-foiirtli  Illinois  Infan- 
try in  till'  lati'  war  and  was  kilii'<I  at  tiic  liattic  of 
I'rairii- drove  in  IHC>:{;  David  A..  Iioin  in  CuiiiIm-i- 
laiid  (oniity,  I'a.,  in  \s[S,  married  Miss  I-'itz- 
j:erald,  l>y  wIkuii  he  lia>  one  sou.  and  folhiws 
lijaeksmithiiig  III  lola,  Ivan.;  Anna,  lioni  in  IH.'id, 
is  till'  wife  of  Tihiiaii  Morrison,  of  New  Or- 
leans, liy  whom  she  has  three  ehildreii;  Sainuel. 
iiorii  ill  IH.")  1.  married  Miss  Morrison  and  is  I'liited 
suites  Mai-shal  in  Meade  Center.  Kan.;  l.iiia.  Iiorii 
in  18.')><.  is  the  wife  of  James  Hilley.  a  farmer  of 
Kaiis:i>.  and  they  have  three  ehildren. 

The  Siuliject  of  this  sket<;li  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools  and  in  Lexinirton,  111.  lie  aided 
his  father  in  the  lilaeksmith  siiop.  and  <it  the  age 
of  seventeen  res|ionded  to  the  eouutry's  call  for 
troo()s, cnlistini;  in  the  Thirty-third  Illinois  Infan- 
try. In  Septeinlier,  he  was  sent  to  the  front  with 
his  command,  wiiieli  iliil  duty  in  the  Southwest. 
He  received  a  sunstroke  in  Arkansas  and  was  sent 
to  St.  Louis,  lyiiii;  in  the  hospital  therefrom  Octo- 
ber until  Decemher.  when  he  \v;is  discharged  on 
account  of  physical  disahility.  He  still  suffers  from 
injuries  sustained  in  the  service  and  receives  a 
pension  from  the  Government. 

After  his  dischaiire.  .Mr. Ciivler  returned  to  Lex- 
ington, III.,  where  he  learned  telegraphy.  In  Lex- 
ington, in  18(iG.  he  wedded  Mary  M.  Kent,  ilanghter 
of  Klisha  and  Mary  (.Mien)  Kent,  and  a  native  of 
Cherry  Creek,  N.  Y.,  liorn  in  1817.  I'lito  them  have 
been  born  two  sons  and  a  daughter:  /..  II.,  born  in 
Lexington  in  18(38.  is  an  engineer  on  the  Wabash 
Railroad:  .lessie  L.,  born  in  1870.  is  at  home;  and 
Hugh,  born  in  1H72.  is  a  forem.-in  on  the  Wabash 
Railroad. 

For  twelve  years,  .Mr.  (iivler  has  held  member- 
ship with  the  Ba|)tist  Church,  to  which  his  wife 
also  belongs.  Their  daughter  is  a  member  of  the 
church  choir,  al.so  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday-school, 
and  isa  young  lady  of  more  timii  ordinaix  ability, 
StK'ially,  Mr.  <;i\h'r  is  conuecled  with  the  .Masonic 
fralernily.llieOdil  IVjIow.i'  lodge  and   llie  (.iraml 


.V  liny  of  the  Republic.  1  le  i>  a  st:il\vai  I  Republiciii. 
He  proves  a  popular  and  ellicient  agent  and  has 
many  friends  in  Clayton  and  thr  suiroiinding 
ciuiimiinit  v. 


m^-i-^-m^ 


I1AK1.I>  W.  (  Ar(;ill.lN.  tiie  well-known 
editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Obnei-cer,  is  a 
'f  progressive  and  public-spirited  citizen,  de- 
voting his  best  energies  to  the  work  of  making  a 
newspaper  that  !*liall  be  a  potent  factor  in  the 
upbuilding  of  IMainville.  The  Ohsr-rrpr  is  a  sound 
family  paper,  well  sii])plied  with  solid  and  useful 
information,  and  one  of  its  interesting  features  is 
the  correspondence  from  various  localities  in  the 
county. 

Mr.  Caiighlin  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Fill- 
more. .\ndrew  County,  .Mo.,  .luly  ."i.  IHCiO.  and 
was  tlie  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  .lohn  W.  Caiigh- 
lin. a  pioneer  minister  in  the  Methodist  Church. 
His  boyhood  days  were  spent  in  different  por- 
tions of  Mi.ssoiiri.  wherever  his  father  w.as  called 
u|)on  to  preach,  and  early  in  life  his  inclin- 
ations and  t.'istes  caused  him  to  enter  a  priiitlng- 
odiee.  where  he  became  ac(piaiiited  with  the  art 
of  printing.  When  only  nineteen  years  of  age, 
young  Caughliii  began  business  for  himself,  pub- 
lishing the  Slandunl  a.\  .Savannah.  .Mo.,  with  which 
he  wiis  actively  connected,  together  with  various 
other  journ.'ils  in  the  State,  until  the    fall  of  \MH. 

In  the  spring  of  |8H!t.  our  subject  came  to  Illi- 
nois and.  associating  himself  with  C.  II.  Chiibliack. 
established  the  IMainville  0<<S'';'C(>/',  an  undertaking 
which  at  that  time  wjus  regarded  as  very  hazard- 
ous by  newspaper  men.  The  enterprise,  however, 
was  .'I  success  from  the  very  lirst,  and  id  Novem- 
ber, I8!il,  Mr.  Canghlin  bought  his  partner's  in- 
terest in  the  plant,  whicli  he  has  since  conducted 
alone.  The  usual  ainoiint  of  praise  and  fault- 
liiiiling  li.'ts  l)een  iicasiired  out  to  him  as  an  editor, 
but  his  character  .'is  a  man  of  honor,  iiitrgiitN  and 
public  spirit  li:is  never  been  ipieetii>ned. 

The  lady  to    whom  our    subject    w.-js  married 


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October  23,  1890,  was  Miss  Aiiira  M.,  daughter  of 
Ileiirv  and  Elvina  C.  Long.  Tlieir  union  lias  been 
blessed  by  the  bhth  of  one  cliikl,  a  son,  who  bears 
the  name  of  .John  II.  Mr.  and  iMis.  C'aughlin  are 
highlv  respected  in  their  coninuinit.v  .nnd  number 
tlieir  friends  among  its  best  residents. 


fi?  ORKNZO  BULL.  In  bringing  before  the 
I  (©  iHiblic  the  characteristics  aud  career  of  a  suc- 
jJL^^  cessful  and  prosperous  person  in  life,  a 
lesson  should  be  drawn  thereforin  that  will  scrre 
some  purpose.  Life  Is  a  struggle  at  the  best,  in 
which  onl.y  a  moderate  number  of  the  human  fam- 
ilv  achieve  marked  success  in  its  varied  affairs;  and 
when  an  example  can  be  presented  showing  that 
lluough  methods  of  integrity,  industry  and  per- 
severance the  percentage  of  business  and  social 
success  can  be  augmented,  it  should  inspire  a  spirit 
of  emulation,  especially  in  young  men.  Thus  it  is 
was  with  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Lorenzo  Bull,  President  of  the  State  Savings, 
Loan  &  Trust  Comjiany,  and  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  L.  &  C.  II.  Bull,  (^uincy.  111.,  was  born  in  Hart 
ford,  Conn.,  March  21,  1819,  and  is  on  both  sides 
of  the  house  a  descendant  of  the  Puritans,  his 
ancestors  having  been  of  the  |)artv,  who  under  the 
Uev.  Thomas  Hooker,  settled  in  Hartford  in  16.34. 
The  grandfather,  Isaac  Bull,  was  a  native  of  that 
State,  as  was  also  Lorenzo  Bull,  father  of  our  sub- 
ject. The  latter  married  Mi.ss  Elizabeth  Goodwin, 
and  of  the  children  born  to  this  worlhy  couple  our 
subject  was  the  eldest.  His  oiiportunities  for  an 
education  were  limited  to  the  district  schools  of 
his  native  citj',  which  he  left  at  the  age  of  thirteen 
years  to  remove  to  Quincj',  arriving  there  on 
the  11th  of  May,  18.33,  being  then  fourteen  years 
of  age.  Owing  to  the  long  and  expensive  journey 
to  Illinois  from  Connecticut,  occupying  more  than 
a  month,  the  money  considered  ample  for  his  ex- 
pen.ses  when  he  left  home  hecame  exhausted,  and 
young  Bull  reached  Quiiicy  in  debt  to  hi.s  com- 
panions for  necessary    traveling  expenses  to   the 


amount  of  13.50,  and  entirely  dependent  upon  his 
own  efforts  for  his  support. 

This  debt  he  soon  paid  off  out  of  the  small 
salary  earned  in  the  office  of  Judge  Henry  II. 
Snow,  who  then  held  most  of  the  county  otHces, 
being  at  one  time  Clerk  of  the  County  Commission- 
ers' Court,  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  Recorder, 
Judge  of  Probate,  Notary  Public  and  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  from  all  of  which  he  derived  but  a  mea- 
gre support.  The  writing  and  practical  work  of 
these  offices  was  at  once  turned  over  to  the  young 
clerk,  under  the  direction  of  Judge  Snow,  who,  al- 
though skilled  and  competent  for  all  the  duties  of 
his  various  offices,  was  somewhat  indisposed  to  the 
performance  of  the  labor  incident  thereto,  and  pre- 
ferred to  instruct  and  direct  his  clerk  than  to  keep 
records  and  prepare  papers  himself.  He  remained 
with  Judge  Snow  about  two  3'ears,  receiving  for  his 
services  the  first  \ear  *6  per  month,  and  for  the 
second  year  HO  per  month,  besides  his  board  in 
Judge  Snow's  family.  lie  next  accepted  a  situa- 
tion in  the  store  of  Messrs.  Holmes,  Brown  &  Co., 
then  one  of  the  most  prominent  business  houses  of 
the  city,  and  continued  his  connection  with  that 
business  through  the  various  changes  of  firm 
which  succeeded  one  another — .S.  &  .S.  Holmes, 
Holmes  et  Co.,  and  Holmes  cVr  Wood — until  the  year 
1844;  then,  upon  the  settling  up  of  the  business  of 
Holmes  <fe  Wood,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his 
brother  under  the  firm  name  of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull,  and 
opened  a  store  for  the  sale  of  hardware  and  crock- 
cry,  at  the  place  lately  occupied  by  Holmes  it- 
Wood,  where  the  business  was  continued  for  about 
five  years.  Finding  the  buildings  too  small  for 
their  increasing  business,  they  built  the  large  store 
now  occupied  by  JNIessrs.  Austin  A-  Kohl  and  re- 
moved to  it  in  1849,  shortly  afterward  adding  to 
their  business  agricultural  machines  and  new  farm- 
ing implements,  then  being  introduced  for  the  first 
time. 

These  brothers  continued  a  successful  business  in 
this  line  until  the  year  1861,  when  they  sold  out 
their  mercantile  businessand  embarked  in  the  bank- 
ing business,  removing  to  the  corner  of  Fifth  and 
Maine  Streets,  at  which  location  the  business  is 
continued  at  the  ])resent  time.  The  firm  of  1>.  it  C. 
II.  Bull  now  (1892)  being  forty-eight  years  old,  is 


T^ 


rditriJAir  and  I'.iocnAniicAL  kixokd. 


40.5 


the  oldcsit  luisiiicss  tinn  in  t^iiiiu'V.  or  in  tliis  purl 
of  till-  Stale  of  Illinois.  Mr.  I.oronzo  Hull  wa.< 
niarrii'd.  in  IHll.  to  Mj.ss  Marirana  II.  IJcncilirt, 
(lau-jlitt-r  of  Dr.  William  M.  IVnodii-l.  of  Millliiir\ . 
Worri'sti'r  County.  Mass.,  and  sister  of  Mrs.  N. 
Itii>lini-li.  of '^iiinc'v.  'I'liey  liavc  had  six  cliildren: 
WiJIi.-un  Benedict,  Kli/.alietli  Coodtvin,  Marv  Hra- 
nian.  Martraret  Hunter,  Lorenzo  and  .\niia  Louise, 
all  iiviiiir  exerpt  Lorenzo,  who  died  at  the  ajre  of 
ten  years.  Thesnlijeet  of  this  sketch  is  also  senior 
partner  of  the  lirni  of  L.  .v  W.  15.  linii,  owners  of 
the  i^nincy  Water  Works.  For  ahout  twenty 
years,  Mr.  Uull  was  President  of  the  (^uincy  Horse 
Kailway  Company,  and  is  interested  in  several 
other  puhlic  and  piivate  enterprises.  He  has  al- 
ways tiiken  an  active  part  in  all  matters  pertaininif 
to  (^nincy's  best  welfare,  and  has  always  rontri- 
liuted  largely  to  the  iirowth  and  prosperity  Of  this 
city  during  his  long  residence  here,  extending  over 
a  period  of  almost  sixty  years.  His  residence  is  at 
Nti.  l.').'i()  Maine  Street,  a  sulistJintinl  hou.sc  situated 
in  the  center  of  a  large  hlock;  the  grounds  are 
lieautifully  laid  out  and  are  graced  with  numerous 
shade  trees.  Mr.  Hull  has  been  n  uieniher  of  the 
Ct)ngregational  Church  for  the  i)ast  Ihiity-live 
years,  to  which  he  has  licen  a  lilierni  contribu- 
tor. In  politics,  he  has  been  a  l{(i)ul)lican  since 
the  organization  of  that  paity. 


^.DHKKT  S.   HKNNKsoN.  a   wealthy   retired 
lumberman  of  (^uincy,  111.,  w.is  born  near  the 


village  of  Newark.  Del.,  December  .'».  I8M7. 
^  His  fathei,  'I'honias  Henneson.  was  a  native 
of  the  Isle  of  Krin.  ami  by  occupation  was  a  boot 
and  shoe  dealer  the  greater  portion  of  hi--  life. 
He  was  also  a  preacher  of  the  Congi'egation:il 
Church,  though  he  woubl  never  receive  pM\  for 
his  services.  The  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  ,Iano  Carlyle,  also  a  native  of  lr  ' 
who  emigrated    lo  the  liiiled    Sv,  , 

tier  marriage,  and   in    ;' '     ....iiin\    passed  the  re- 

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mainder  of  her  ilays.  HoU'rl  .S.  Henneson  pisseil 
his  bo\  hood  in  his  native  town,  wheie  his  .schol- 
astic education  was  aciiuired  in  private  schools, 
but  when  a  mere  lad  he  began  carrying  the  mail 
between  Christiana  Hridge  and  Newark;  but  in 
IH-2H  he  gave  up  this  occupation  and  wont  to- 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  where  he  began  learning  the  trade 
of  a  carpenter,  and  after  becoming  familiar  with 
its  intricacies  he  followed  it  in  I'hiladelphia  for  a 
number  of  years  as  a  builder  and  eontr.actor.  On 
the  Hith  of  August,  1h:{7,  he  came  to  (^uincy,  111., 
ami  after  a  few  years  devoted  to  his  trade  he  em- 
barked in  the  lumber  business. 

While  occupied  as  a  contractor,  he  erected  many 
of  tlic  best  houses  and  residences  and  assist<>d  in 
the  erection  of  "Hoscoi)eI,"  the  home  of  (Jen. 
.Singleton,  three  miles  from  (^uiucy.  In  1K12.  he 
went  to  (iraud  Ua|iids,  Wis.,  and  engaged  in 
running  lumber  on  the  Wisconsin  River,  and  a  few 
months  later  he  returned  to  </uincy  and  foiined  a 
|>artnership  with  William  Dickhut.  who  died  in 
August,  lH!t2.  They  continued  t<i  do  business  as  a 
tirm  for  sixteen  years.  At  the  end  of  this  time 
these  gentlem.an  dissolved  the  partnership,  which 
had  been  very  profitable  to  each  from  a  flnancinl 
slaiidpf>int.  as  well  as  a  thorough  and  practical 
.school  of  experience.  During  these  sixteen  vears, 
Mr.  Henneson  w.a.s  a  member  of  the  School  Hoai-d 
and  for  several  years  was  President  of  that  honor- 
able and  useful  body.  He  was  a  strong  ailvocate 
of  the  public  school  system,  ."ind.  in  fact,  all  educa- 
tional institutions,  while,  assisted  by  ('apt.  .losepli 
Artus,  he  was  largely  instrumental  in  bringing  the 
public  school  system  of  t^uincy  up  to  its  present 
high  standard.  He  w.as  also  the  prime  mover  in 
having  a  law  passed  that  has  resulted  in  much 
good  for  the  schools  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Heiiiieson  served  as  .Mderman  three  veai-s. 
and  III  IHl'il  was  elected  Mayor  of  (^iiiiicy  on  the 
Kepublican  ti<'ket.  He  w.as  a  st<K'kliolder  and 
Director  of  the  «^uiiicy  S.-ivingsand  Insurance  Coiii- 
paiiv.  which  was  sub^e<plenlly  merged  into  the 
Kiist  National  Hank  of  (^iiiiicv.  .•ind  for  several 
vears  was  one  of  its  Directors.  He  w;is  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  .\,  II.  Whitney  Organ  Company 
■  ::v,  which  Is  ouo  of  its  most  sniisi.antial 
eiiler|irises,     H''    lb''"*  •ver  boeii   the  soul  of  geit» 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


erositv.  and  donated  the  ground  on  which  the 
riiiiaiiaii  C'hiinl]  of  (^iiincy  is  erected.  lie  has 
been  a  wortiiy  member  of  this  church  for  over 
half  a  century,  and  lias  served  as  one  of  its 
trustees  fur  a  niiinber  of  years.  During  his  hnig 
years  of  residence  in  tliis  city,  he  h.as  been  a  quiet 
and  unostentatious  dispenser  of  charily  in  that 
practical  way  wliich  experience  has  demonstrated 
as  giving  the  best  results.  His  accumulation  of 
weallli  lias  been  very  considerable,  and  besides  be- 
ing the  owner  of  a  line  brick  block  and  a  f.actory 
building  he  is  the  owner  of  many  dwelling  houses 
wliich  he  rents. 

December  4,  lb42,  our  subject  married  Electa 
Ann.a  daughter  of  Daniel  H.  and  Wealthy  Park.  She 
was  born  in  Hoyalton,  Vt.,  October  o,  1810,  and 
dieil  December  14,  1879,  having  become  the 
nioilier  of  four  daughters:  Alice  A.,  wife  of  HeniT 
A.  Farwell  of  Massachusetts;  Anna  .1.,  wife  of  Dr. 
Robert  W.  McMahan,  surgeon  of  the  Soldiers' 
and  Sailors'  Home  at  Quincy;  Susan  C.  wife  of 
George  M.  Janes,  attorney  at  (Quincy,  and  Cora 
Agnes,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Michigan 
as  well  as  of  the  law  department  of  that  institu- 
tion. She  has  also  the  honor  of  having  had  a 
fellowship  at  Bryn  Mawr  College,  Pennsylvania. 
Her  education  has  been  supplemented  l)y  extensive 
travels,  she  having  recently  made  a  trip  around  the 
world.  At  present  she  is  engaged  in  literaiy  work 
in  Cambridge,  Mass.  Mrs.  McMahan  is  also  a 
woman  of  broad  literary  attainments.  She  has 
been  a  contrilmtor  to  the  Forum  and  other  maga- 
zines and  iieriodicals  of  like  character,  besides 
having  recently  edited  publication  of  the  best  let- 
ters of  Cowper  and  Walpole.  For  several  terms 
she  has  been  President  of  the  "Friends  in  Council," 
the  leading  literary  club  of  (Quincy.  It  ma_y  be 
here  stated,  tliat  all  the  daughters  of  Jlr.  Benneson 
have  received  careful  and  liberal  educational  ad- 
vantages. 

Tlie  present  wife  of  Mr.  Benneson  was  Miss 
Pliiebe  -\.  Xorris,  a  resident  of  INIelrose.  near  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  whom  he  married  in  October.  1884.  She 
is  a  lady  who  has  liad  fine  advantages  for  education 
and  culture  in  the  best  schools  of  Massachusetts, 
M;id  for  some  years  she  was  a  to.acher,  while  for  ten 
yc;i:  <  previous  to  lier   lunri'iage   slic  was  ;x  iiiembec 


of  the  School  Board  at  Melrose,  also  Trustee  of 
the  Pulilic  Lilnary.  As  a  woman  of  refinement 
and  culture,  she  has  been  received  into  the  best 
circles  of  society  in  this  part  of  the  State,  and  her 
energies  are  ahvays  directed  toward  promoting  the 
best  interests  of  education  and  philanthropic  ob- 
jects. While  a  resident  of  Boston,  she  had  the 
rare  advantage  of  an  acquaintance  with  the  most 
renowned  literary  men  and  women,  whose  genius 
has  shed  luster  on  the  literature  of  our  country. 
Altliough  Mr.  Benneson  is  now  in  his  eiglit3- 
fiftli  year,  he  sliows  but  little  the  ravages  of  time, 
either  mentally  or  physically,  for  he  still  has  an 
upright  and  dignified  carriage  and  his  mind  is  as 
clear  as  of  jore.  His  knowledge  of  men,  like  his 
knowledge  of  business  affairs,  is  of  a  broad  char- 
actei',  ac(iuiied  by  years  of  experience  and  close 
observation,  and  his  accumulation  of  wealth  has 
in  no  way  affected  his  manner  or  his  customs  in 
dealing  witli  those  who  are  brought  in  contact 
with  him.  He  is  at  all  times  thoroughly  Demo- 
cratic, and  as  genial  and  kindly  as  he  was  in  the 
days  of  his  early  struggles.  Politically,  he  is 
a  stanch  Reiiublican,  but  has  never  been  a  seeker 
after  preferment. 


/  ^^^*^*^*^"^^«^^^-" 


ENRY  B.  VOLK,  F'oreman  of  the  Barlow 
Corn  Planter  Foundry,  of  Quincy.  III.  Hu- 
man energy,  composed  of  will  power  and 
physical  strength,  is  a  force  that  usually 
secures  great  achievements.  When  it  is  fonnd  in 
a  man  otherwise  well  balanced,  be  is  generally 
found  successful  in  whatever  vocation  of  life  he  is 
engaged.  It  is  a  restless  gift  of  nature,  which  in- 
spires activity,  and,  when  iiroperly  directed. carries 
forward  plans  and  pur|»oses,  and  secures  tiie  de- 
sired results  A  man  without  energy  is  like  an 
engine  without  steam.  I'lie  talents  of  men  are  as 
varied  as  are  the  fields  of  their  employmenl.  and 
when  a  boy  or  young  man  can  discern  his  gifts 
and  will  apply  his  energy  in  the  direction  they 
point,  he  is  generally  sure  of  success, 


roIMlJMT  AMJ  JnuiJUAI'IlH  AI,    liKCdlM). 


\: 


An  illii.-tinliiiii  of  tins  \.\\iv  of  iii;in  is  found 
in  IK'urv  It.  \'olk.  wlio  inliciitoil  liis  eni'ijfv  and 
licrscvfrnnci'  fioni  liis  .slurdv  (loiinan  aiK'i'>li\. 
Ill"  i.x  H  njitivo  of  Itatnviii.  (W-ncsct'  County,  N. 
Y.,  wluTC  lie  \vii;i  liorn  AulmisI  31.  IK-Ki,  a  i>on 
of  CoiiU'lius  (i.  \olk  ami  Maithn  I..  (Harlow) 
X'olk.  till'  lalti'i-  a  >istci'  of  Joscpli  V.  IJnilow.  one 
of  <^uin(\'s  nio>t  honored  c-ilizi'ns.  (A  >ki'kli  of 
CoiMu'liiis  (I.  N'olk  occurs  elsewhere  in  this  vol- 
ume.) 'I'lip  ?^ul>jert  of  this  sketch  wa.-^  tiie  cldcsl  of 
two  children,  the  other  niemher  of  the  family 
beinfi  C,  f!.  \oIk.  .Ir.,  President  of  the  linn  of 
\'<)lk,  .Tones  A-  .McMein,  of  <^uiney.  111.  Henry  B. 
was  {^iven  the  advantajjes  of  the  well-eondiicted 
schools  of  \)iiiniy  in  his  hoylioiMl,  anil  while  pur- 
siiinji  the  |>athsof  learninir  his  career  was  marked 
liy  rapid  |iro<;ress  and  I'nriiesl  apiilication. 

Ipon  le.-ivinfr  school,  he  hejian  his  business  ca- 
reer as  a  diy-sjdods  clerk  in  the  store  of  .loseph 
Neike,  of  (^uiiicy.  where  he  continued  to  remain 
until  IM(il,when  the  threatening  attitude  of  po- 
litical affairs  occupied  his  serious  attention  and  he 
became  an  ardent  >upporter  of  the  cause  of  the 
I'nion.  and  so  enlisted  in  Company  C,  Si.vteenth 
Illinois  I  nfantry.  servinj;  under  Col.  Sniilh  from 
IMtil  until  the  close  of  the  eonlllct,  in  the  capacity 
of  Orderly.  He  wa.'-  in  the  engagement  at  Nash- 
ville. Tenn.,  and  was  mustered  out  of  the  service 
at  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  returned  home  to  once 
more  take  upon  himself  the  affairs  of  everyday 
life.  He  entered  the  i-mploy  of  .lo>^eph  C.  IJarlow 
.as  Foreman  and  Superintendent  of  the  foundry 
department,  which  position  he  has  held  for  the 
past  twenty  yeai-s,  and  has  hcen  with  the  liiin 
twenty-seven  yeai-s.  He  is  a  natural  machini^t 
and  has  shown  much  executive  aliilitv  in  linrid- 
ling  the  lurge  force  he  h.a>  uniler  him.  pi'oving 
himself  most  faithful  and  ellicient.  lie  has  con- 
ducted his  department  of  the  work>  in  a  manner 
that  merits  the  approval  of  all  who  have  an.\ 
knowledge  of  it.s  numerous  and  <iiierou>  dulio, 
and  has  done  hi>  full  >hare  in  making  the  estali- 
lishmenl  one  of  the  laigest  of  the  kind  in  the 
State.  His  ha.*  Iiecn  the  career  and  succes-  of  a 
man  of  purpose  :inil  energy,  who  started  in  life 
«illiout  means,  who  >aved  his  earnings  ami  who  is 
niiw  in  good  cirCUinstanci-  as  H  lesiill, 


In  l.tTo,  lie  was  niarrieil  to  .Mis,s  s.  .1.  (;avett,  of 
Louisa.  Ky.,  and  their  union  has  prtived  a  very 
happy  iMie.  Mr.  \'olk  i>  a  mendier  of  Lamliert 
Lodge  No.  ti.">!l.  A.  F.  A-  A.  M.;  the  K.  of  P.;  John 
Wood  I'ost,  (J.  A.  H.;  the  .Modern  Woodmen,  and 
the  Moulder>'  liiion.  Politically,  he  is  a  !{ep»il)- 
lican  and  he  has  long  heen  connected  with  the 
Wrniont  Street  Haiitisl  Church, 


-^=^3?' 


i>-^^^^ 


OHKIM'  W  UK. Ill'  was  liorn  in  Virginia  in 
HH(l,  and  was  one  of  six  sons  and  six 
il.'iughters,  three  of  wlK)m  are  now  living 
>^  The  parents.  .lolm  and  Sarah  Wright,  were 
liotli  natives  of  the  Old  Dominii^in.  I'nder  the 
|)arental  loof  our  sulijeet  was  reared,  and  in  the 
common  schools  ac(|iiired  his  education. 

.Mr.  Wiight  wa>  joined  in  wedlock  with  Vir- 
ginia Fealheringil.  on  the  2.'?d  of  .lanuary,  I8.">3. 
The  lady  wa>  horn  In  Kentucky  in  \Mi.  They 
liecanie  the  parents  of  eight  children.  Imt  two  .sons 
died  in  infancy.  The  reniainiuir  children  are  Clara, 
who  was  horn  In  IH;-»."),  and  l~  the  wife  of  .lohn 
Dcrrcnkanip,  a  lailroad  man  of  St.  Louis;  Charles, 
horn  in  IH,")7.  ni.-irried  Lizzie  Hartoldrus,  aii<l  is  a 
farmer  of  Kellervillc;  .lohn.  horn  In  1  H,")!),  wedded 
Mary  Nokes,  and  resides  in  I'eoria:  Olla,  horn  in 
IKiil,  married  A.  1).  Canipliell,  andri-sides  in  I'lay- 
ton;  .\nna,  horn  in  1804,  is  the  wife  of  F^d  Kerley, 
a  farmer;  Delia,  horn  in  1H(18.  is  the  wife  of  .lohn 
Ki'ilcy.  also  an  agriculturi.>-f. 

'I'hroughout  his  enlii'e  life.  .Mr.  Wright  followed 
the  occupation  of  farming.  He  was  a  successful 
husiness  man.  sagacious  and  far-sighted,  anil  met 
with  a  wcll-rle.served  pre)Sperity.  ,\t  the  time  of 
lii>  death,  he  owned  a  well-improved  farm  of  two 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  which  le.-ives  his  widow 
in  comforlahle  cirgumslances.  In  politics,  he  was 
a  stalwart  Kepuhllcui,  hut  was  never  an  ollice- 
seeker.  Soon  after  their  marriage,  he  and  his  wife 
imiliil  with  the  Haptist  Church,  and  he  was  ever 
afterward  activi'  in  Its  work,  and  one  of  its  coii- 
sjsteill  incinlieis,      Hi'  ^aM>  llher.ilU   to  its  Mi|(|K>|t, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


and  was   ever  earnestl}'  laboring   to  promote  its 
best  interests. 

Among  his  last  works  was  liis  establishment  of 
the  Bai)tist  Cliureli  in  Kellerville.  He  gave  the 
ground  and  1.50  to  start  a  subscription,  and  w.as 
tlie  eflleient  Cliairnian  of  the  Building  Committee. 
At  the  time  of  iiis  death,  the  church  building  was 
finished  ready  for  seating,  but  had  not  yet  been 
cleaned,  and  the  family  arranged  to  hold  the  fun- 
eral services  in  the  home.  That  his  friends  and 
fellow-members  appreciated  liis  labors,  is  shown  by 
tiie  fact  that  before  the  hour  of  the  funeral  they 
cle;ine:l  the  church,  wreathed  the  pulpit,  windows 
and  doors  in  black  and  evergreen,  made  other  ap- 
pro|)riate  decorations,  and  seated  it  for  the  congre- 
gation. Then  word  was  sent  to  the  familj',  who, 
even  in  their  sorrow,  were  happily  surprised,  and 
ihankfully  accepted  the  invitation,  and  repaired 
to  tiie  church.  Thus  the  first  service  held  in  the 
house  of  worship  was  for  the  noble  man  who  had 
been  instrumental  in  its  building.  He  passed 
away  in  August,  1883, at  the  age  of  fiftj^-two  years, 
two  months  and  twelve  days.  He  was  a  kind  and 
loving  husband  and  father,  a  faitliful  neigiibor 
and  a  devoted  Christian. 


/^  HHISTOPHER  WEBER,  Police  Clerk  at  tlic 
(ll  n  ^^^y  Hal'i  is  <i  'Infill  t)f  more  than  ordinary 
^^^'  executive  ability,  and  lu  his  present  capa- 
cit3'  is  serving  the  city  as  a  most  efficient  officer. 
He  is  a  native  of  Switzerland,  born  in  the  Canton 
of  Glarus,  September  2,  1838,  and  is  the  son  of 
Jacob  and  Ursula  (Stusee)  Weber,  both  born  in 
Switzerland,  the  fatlier  being  a  wood  engraver  by 
occupation.  About  1843,  the  parents  crossed  the 
ocean  to  America  and  landed  in  New  Orleans, 
wliere  they  remained  but  a  short  time,  and  then 
went  up  the  river  lo  St.  Louis;  from  there  they 
came  direct  to  Highland,  Madison  County,  III., 
where  there  was  a  Swiss  settlement,  the  same  hav- 
ing been  formed  in  1H32. 
()U)' subject  was  but  live  years  of   age    when  hy 


crossed  the  ocean  to  America,  and  consequently 
but  little  is  remembered  by  him  of  his  native 
country.  I'litil  eleven  years  of  age,  he  attended 
the  district  schools,  after  which  he  left  home  and 
came  to  t^uincy.  He  received  the  remainder  of  his 
education  in  the  schools  of  this  city.  After  put- 
ting aside  his  scliool  books,  he  started  out  lo  fight 
his  own  way  in  life  and  make  his  own  living.  He 
was  first  emi)loyed  in  the  drug  store  of  Dr.  Doway 
which  position  he  held  until  Feliruar}',  IHGl,  when 
he  made  a  tri[)  to  Europe,  visiting  England,  Ger- 
many, France,  Italy  and  Switzerland.  He  spent 
one  year  abroad,  and,  returning  lo  (.^uinc3-  in  the 
s[)ring  of  1802,  took  charge  of  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  hospitals  in  this  city,  five  in  numlier, 
and  this  position  he  filled  for  about  a  year  and  a 
half. 

In  1864,  a  desire  to  engage  in  some  laudable  en- 
terprise on  his  own  account  took  possession  of  him 
and  he  embarked  in  the  drug  business.  This  busi- 
ness he  conducted  until  1867.  when  he  was  aj)- 
pointed  by  the  Interior  Department  as  Govern- 
ment store-keeper  for  Curtis  &  Bush's  distillery, 
located  in  (^nincy.  This  position  he  held  for  a 
year  and  a  half,  and  from  1868  to  1870  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  insurance  business.  In  1871,  he  was 
elected  for  the  term  of  one  year  as  Collector  of 
Taxes,  and  re-elected  to  the  same  position  in  1872. 
From  1873  to  1876,  Mr.  Weber  was  engaged  in 
the  insurance  business,  and  in  the  spring  of  1877, 
he  was  appointed  as  First  Sergeant  of  Police  at 
t^uincy.  He  discharged  the  duties  of  this  position 
in  a  very  satisfactory  manner  until  1884,  when  he 
was  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Health, 
and  was  .an  incumbent  of  that  position  for  two 
years.  In  1887,  he  was  appointed  Police  Clerk, 
and  is  now  discliarging  the  duties  of  that  position 
in  a  manner  tliat  redects  credit  upon  himself  and 
his  constituents. 

As  a  politician,  Mv.  Weber  is  a  stanch  supporter 
of  the  platform  of  the  Republican  party,  and  ex- 
pects lo  see  the  good  old  jiarty  triumph  over  all 
opposition.  September  1,  18f!4,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Caroline  Hutf,  (laughter  of 
Jacob  Ruff,  of  (^uincy.  and  they  have  three  sons 
and  two  daughters,  who  are  in  the  order  of 
\.\my    births    as   follows;     Carl   K,,  a   machinist; 


HON  .J.     M  .    RUDDELL. 


PoKTUAir  AM)  r.IOGKAl'IIICAI.   ur.rnui). 


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l.iiui>  r..  jcwi-liT  ill  (iaiiv-liiirjf.  III.;  IniUi  iik  (  .. 
!i  iiiMcliinist :  Ncttio  K..  ii'.-idiiii;  in  (inlc^luiif;.  III.; 
and  Kinnin  r..  :it  luniic.  .Mr.  Wclior  lin.s  ii  very 
nice  lioiiip  !il  No.  .">!  1  State  Street,  niul  is  a  man  who 
lia.s  won  tlie  re<;aitl  of  all  by  lii."  staliilily  ami  np- 
ri^'lit.  lioiKiraltle  condiiet  in  every  walk  of  life. 
lie  is  wiile-a\v:ike  ;iii(l  the  rijjlil  man  in  the  riijhl 
place. 


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It^^  ()N.  .lOlIN  .M.  KlDDKl.l..  The  statesman- 
fanner    whose   hioiiiaiihy    it   now    becomes 

,yy  our  ple.isure  to  write  has  lived  upon  his 
i(^  present  faiin  in  section  1,  Trsa  Township, 
since  IH.'J.'i,  and  he  and  his  faithful  wife  have  re- 
sided together  in  this  township  for  sixty  years. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Rev.  Stephen  Huddell, 
was  a  native  of  C'ulpeper  County,  Va..  and  was 
Itorn  in  176X.  He  wius  the  son  of  Isaac  Kuddell, 
who  also  was  lM)rn  in  \'irsrinin  and  moved  his 
family  to  Kentucky,  settling  in  Hourbon  County, 
where  he  built  what  is  still  known  as  Hiiddell's 
.Mills.  lie  was  a  soldier  in  the  Hevoliitionary  War 
and  a  Captain  in  a  Kentucky  company  against  the 
Inilians.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  in  her 
maiilcn  days  Su.san  David,  ami  was  a  native  of 
C'ulpeper  County,  born  in  1780.  Iler  father, 
William  David,  emigrated  from  (ierniany  to  \'ir- 
giiiia.  later  moved  to  Kentucky  and  settled  in 
liourlton   County. 

In  178(t.  during  a  fight  between  the  whi'es  and 
1  ndians,  the  Huddells  were  in  a  fort  at  Huddell 
.Martin  .Station  and  the  Indians  captured  the  whole 
party.  They  took  Capt.  I.saac  to  Canada,  and  the 
rest  to  the  liig  Miami  Kiver.  and  kept  them  among 
the  Shawnces  and  the  Delawares  until  all  were  re- 
deemed except  two  boys,  the  father  of  our  subject 
and  a  younger  brother.  .Stephen  Kuddell  lived 
with  the  Indians  for  liftccn  years,  and  then  re- 
turned hoiTie,  niariied,  and  afterward  went  back 
and  remained  several  years  preaching  among  them. 
He  nioveil  fnuii  Keiituckv  to  I'ike  Countv.  .Mo.,  in 


1817  and  sfitled  on  a  farm  there.  Iiul  in  IH2'.t  he 
sold  out  and  came  to  Illinois  and  made  a  home  on 
section  IM.  I'rsa  Township.  \'ery  few  families 
were  there  at  that  time,  and  the  distances  resembled 
the  present  miles  between  towns.  .Vt  the  time  of 
his  death,  in  IK  10.  he  left  four  cliiidreii  by  his 
thir<l  marriage  and  three  by  a  former  one.  (hir 
subject  and  two  sistei-s  by  the  third  marriage — 
Mi's.  Susannah  (Jrimcs,  of  Dixie,  Wash.,  and  Mrs. 
Mary  K.  .U)rdan.  of  I'leasanl ville.  Iowa — are  the 
only  survivors.  Ste|ihen  Huddell  joiiieil  the  Bap- 
tist Church  at  an  early  day.  but  later  Itecamo  a 
preacher  in  the  Christian  dciioinination.  He  es- 
l.ablished  the  lii-sl  Christian  Church  in  I'lsa  Town- 
ship, and  continued  his  ministry  for  thirty-live 
years.     He  was  a  Whig  in  politics. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Hotirboii  Ctmiily,  Ky., 
September  28,  1812,  and  was  seventeen  years  old 
when  he  came  to  I'rsa  Township.  He  received  a 
very  limite<l  amount  of  sclujoling  from  books,  but 
with  such  a  father  he  could  not  grow  up  ignorant. 
He  has  always  followed  an  agricultural  life,  and 
when  a  young  man  w.as  considered  a  good  hunter. 
He  remembers  seeing  many  Indians,  and  the  woods 
around  his  luune  were  full  of  fleer,  wolves,  In-ars. 
and  even  panther. 

When  twenty  years  old.  our  subject  began  for 
himself  by  first  providing  liiiiiseif  with  a  gixid 
wife.  He  w.as  married  .March  2»,  1832,  to  .Martha 
Ann  Diinlap,  who  was  born  April  28,  1813,  in 
Mercer  CVmiity,  Ky..  a  daughter  of  .lohii  and  Nel- 
lie Dunlap.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Huddell  was  a 
native  of  .'^oulli  Carolina  and  was  born  iii  177o. 
llr  was  married  in  Kenliick\'.  and  lived  there  until 
1H26.  His  wife,  who  was  also  a  native  of  South 
Carolina,  was  born  in  17(>'.l  and  died  in  1H2;!.  In 
lH2li.  Mr.  Dunlap  moved  to  Missouri,  whenc*'  he 
came  in  18;{0  to  Illinois  and  settled  on  section  '.t, 
.Mendon  Township.  He  died  in  18.')4  at  the  home 
of  our  subject  while  on  a  visit  there. 

In  18:i.'i.  .Mr.  Huddell  came  to  the  home  where 
he  lia-s  ever  since  lived,  and  he  and  his  wife  are 
bs'  far  the  oldest  settlei-s  here.  He  cleared  and 
imprt)ved  the  farm  and  soon  began  to  enjfiy  pio- 
neer life.  When  he  began,  he  had  no  land,  but 
he  pre-empte<l.  later  sold  out  and  bou<;lit  this 
place,  and  ihhv  Ii:i>  one  limidied    and    forty   acres. 


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He  and  his  wife  have  had  eleven  children,  but  only 
four  are  now  living:  Margaret,  who  is  the  widow  of 
Jacob  Wiester,  1ms  one  child;  Oeorge,  wliose  home 
is  in  Andrew  County,  Mo.,  married  Miss  Josephine 
Feathenngill  and  has  six  children;  Mary  C,  Mrs. 
James  R.  Nelson,  lives  in  Idaho  and  lias  ten  chil- 
dren; James  T.,  a  resident  of  I'rsa  Township,  mar- 
ried Sarah  E.  Jenkins,  and  has  four  children.  Mr. 
Rnddell  had  three  sons  and  a  son-in-law  (Jacob 
Wiester)  in  the  Civil  War.  William  D.  was  Cap- 
tain of  Company  B,  Seventy-eighth-lllinois  Infan- 
try, and  was  wounded  at  Savannah,  Ga.;  John  D. 
served  as  Lieutenant  in  Company  B,  Fiftieth  Illi- 
nois Infantry;  George  H.  and  Mr.  Wiester  were 
members  of  Compan\'  B,  Seventj'-eighth  Illinois 
Infantry.  Mr.  Ruddell  saw  some  jniiitary  service 
himself,  as  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  IMartin's  company 
in  the  B\a.ck  Hawk  War. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ruddell  and  their  children  are 
members  of  the  Christian  Church,  and  he  has  been 
an  Elder  in  that  body  for  forty  years.  He  has 
been  an  active  Democrat  all  his  life,  and  liis  first 
vote  was  for  Andrew  Jackson,  on  his  second  term. 
He  has  been  Supervisor  of  Ursa  Township  for  fif- 
teen years,  and  served  in  the  State  Legislature  in 
the  sessions  of  1846-47.  He  and  his  wife  are  pass 
ing  the  twilight  of  their  lives  together,  with  every 
comfort  of  life  around  them,  and  the  wish  of  theii' 
many  friends  is  that  tliey  may  long  be  spared. 


ON.  SAMUEL  MILEIIAM,  M.  D.,  a  prom- 
'  inent  ph_ysician  and  skillful  surgeon  of 
Camp  Point,  is  a  native  of  Crittenden, 
^  Grant  County,  Ky.,  born  December  22, 
1830.  His  father.  Ebenezer,  who  was  born  near 
Guilford  (Jourt  House,  N.  C,  was  a  Methodist  min- 
ister who  came  to  Kentucky  when  young  and 
became  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  that  State, 
where  he  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  and  where 
he  died  in  18.32,  when  yet  a  young  man.  His 
wife  was  Ann  Dougherty,  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
but  of  Scotcli-hish   descent,   her    parents    having 


emigrated  from  Ireland.  She  died  in  1876,  aged 
seventy-four  years.  The  grandfather  of  (uir  sub- 
ject, for  whom  he  was  named,  emigrated  from 
England  and  settled  in  North  Carolina. 

Our  subject  is  the  eighth  of  nine  children,  five 
of  whom  are  living.  His  boyhood  days  were 
passed  on  a  farm  and  his  eai-ly  education  was  ob- 
tained at  the  district  school,  with  its  log  house, 
slab  seats  and  greased-papei-  windows.  In  1849, 
he  entei'ed  the  Baptist  College  at  Covington,  Ky., 
and  in  1850  he  entered  the  Ohio  Medical  College 
at  Cincinnati.  He  had  previously  read  medicine 
with  Drs.  Chambers  and  E^■ins,  two  prominent 
physicians  of  Covington.  He  graduated  in  18.')6, 
and  immediately  located  in  Cynthiana,  Ind..  and 
began  pr.acticing,  but  in  a  few  months  lie  returned 
to  Covington  and  spent  several  montlis  in  a  gen- 
eral review  of  his  medical  studies  in  the  Ohio 
Medical  College.  He  has  done  this  several  times 
since.  In  1857,  he  came  to  liuincy.  111.,  and,  after 
practicing  there  a  short  time,  he  located  at  Cam|) 
Point,  where  he  has  since  built  up  a  splendid  [irac- 
tice. 

The  Doctor  entered  the  army  as  a  surgeon  and 
w.as  ordered  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  where  he  jiassed 
the  examination  and  was  assigned  to  dutj'.  His  first 
duties  were  performed  in  the  Cumberland  Field 
Hospital,  three  miles  from  N.ashville.  He  was 
then  ordered  to  the  general  hospital,  No.  15,  in 
that  city,  where  he  remained  until  the  capture  of 
Atlanta,  and  in  the  fall  of  1865  he  returned  home 
and  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

In  1879,  our  subject  was  elected  a  Representa- 
tive to  the  Thirty-fourth  (Jeneral  Assembly  on  the 
Democratic  ticket,  and  served  with  great  credit  to 
himself  and  his  constituents,  and  Avas  re-elected  to 
the  Thirty-lifth  (ieneial  Assembly,  running  far 
ahead  of  his  ticket.  He  was  the  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  State  Institutions,  and  a  member  of 
the  Committee  on  State  Revenue  and  Education, 
and  not  only  was  very  prominent  on  these  com- 
mittees, but  introduced  several  bills  that  have  since 
become  laws.  He  was  the  first  man  in  his  State  to 
introduce  a  bill  to  compel  druggists  to  pass  an 
examination  and  be  (jiialified  l\v  service  in  a  drug 
store  licfore  engaging  in  the  drug  Iiusiness. 
Another  of  his  bills   provide(l    that    railroad   con- 


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diictors  and  sleniiiLxmt  captaiii>  slioiild  liavu  the 
right  III  arrol  ami  compel  all  passengers  to  |tre- 
serve  a  proper  (ilisfrvance  of  ilwciicy  and  the 
rights  of  others.  lie  al.-o  introdiued  a  liill  ex- 
empting cMlizens  from  i>aying  Ijixes  on  land  used 
ax  liigliway,--.  He  has  always  licen  a  DenKK-rat.  liiit 
lately  has  not  tak<'n  as  active  an  interest  in  poli- 
tics as  formerly.  He  is  ;i  nicmher  of  the  .Vdanis 
I'onnty  Medical  .Vs'iociation  and  the  State  Medical 
.Society.  'I'lie  Doctor  has  not  confined  himself  to 
his  pra<-ticc  entirely,  as  he  has  a  nice  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  in  Iowa,  and 
alM>nt  eight  hundred  acres  in  Illinoi-^.  and  he  gives 
some  of  his  attention  to  farming.  He  also  has 
consideralilc  city  property  :ind  owns  a  nice  home 
in  Camp  I'oint. 

The  l)">clor  has  heen  twice  married,  his  first  wife 
U'ing  Harriet  Newell,  hy  whom  he  had  one  daugh- 
ter, Lotta  I.,  wife  of  (uant  Newell,  a  lawyer  in 
Chicago.  His  second  marriage  was  with  Martha 
.1.  Castle,  of  Camp  Point,  III.,  the  ceremony  taking 
place  Novemlier  ."),  IHH'2.  He  has  heen  very  suc- 
cessful in  lii>  practice  and  has  never  refused  assist- 
ance to  any  one,  whether  lich  or  poor.  He  is  a 
highly  respected  citizen  and  a  self-made  man. 


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AMIKI.  II.  K.MI'.UV.  .Ii;..  is  ihc  well-known 
^^^  .Manager  of  the  Illinois  I>i\'ision  of  the 
.Vnicric.nn  .Straw  Hoard  Company  of  Chi- 
<;iiri>.  III.,  which  company  has  pl:int>  at 
i^uincy,  I'.ockporl  and  Wilmington,  III.,  the  gen- 
eral olllcc  lieini:  in  the  Piillm.-ui  Hiiildiiig.  Chicago. 
Tlic<^uin<-y  plant  was  purchased  in  .Inly.  1889, 
ami  «a.-  placed  under  .Mr.  Kmery's  management, 
which  position  he  filled  prior  to  its  piiich!i>c.  He 
is  tlK»ronghly  acipiaintcd  with  .all  the  dcpni  imi(iiI> 
connect^'d  with  the  works.  'I'his  is  an  industry 
thai  h.as  grown  to  vast  proportions  in  this  coun- 
try, and  the  .\iiici  ican  Straw  Ho.ird  Companv.  Iiv 
reason  of  ib*  rcMMirees  and  the  extent  of  its  opera- 
tions, is  recognized  as  the  leading  represent.-itive 
in  this  line  of  li;ide.     This  company  is  the   largest 


concern  of  the  kind  on  the  two  hemispheres, and  the 
secret  of  its  rapid  growth  lies  in  the  fact  that  the 
eom])any  started  out  on  the  principle  of  supplying 
the  trade  with  the  hesi  class  of  go.)ds  at  the  lowest 
possible  prices.  It  was  i)rompt  in  siii)plying  its 
orders,  and  dealt  liherally  with  its  patrons. 

.Mr.  Kmery  was  horn  in  Taunton.  Mass.,  in  Aug- 
ust, 184(1,  and  is  the  eldest  living  son  of  l{ev.  S. 
H<»l>kins  Kincry.  I).  D.,  who  is  now  a  resident  of 
Taunton,  .Mass.,  where  he  is  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational  Church,  although   he  was  a  resident   of 

•  ^uincy  from  l«.jj  to  tHG'J.  The  maiden  name  of 
his  wife  was  .lulia  Heed,  of  Taunton,  a  daughter  of 
William  Heed,  who  was  of  Knglish  descent.  The 
siihject  of  this  sketch  w.as  educated  at  Bristol  .\cad- 
emy,  in  the  city  of  Taunton,  where  he  was  thor- 
oughly fitted  for  college,  and  in  IS.")-!  he  entered 
thai  noted  and  admirahle  institution  of  learning, 
Harvard  College,  hut  left  it  the  following  year  to 
enter  Amherst  College,  where  he  pui-sued  his  stud- 
ies for  one  year.  In  18')(;,  he  came  to  (^uiney.  III., 
and  remained  here  until  IKT'.t.  when  he  rclurned 
to  Ma.ssacliusetts  and  entered  the  Law  School  of 
Harvard  rniversilv.  which  he  attended  from  IHTlP 
to  IHHl,  after  which  he  practiced  his  profession  in 
Boston,  Ma.s.s.  After  some  time,  he  decided  to  re- 
turn to  the  West,  and  upon  reaching  the  city  of 
(■iiiincy  he  as.sociated  himself  with  the  (^iiincy 
Paper  Comi)any.  of  which  liichard  I-".  Newcomli 
w.as  President.  .Mr.  Kmery  becoming  \' ice-president. 
It  was  under  this  management  up  to  IHK'.),  when 
the  mills  were  sold,  and  the  company  was  re- 
organized and  became  the  .\merican  Straw  Bo:iid 
Com|iany,  Mr.  Kmery  becoming  .Manager  ol  the 
(iiiincy  plant,  which  is  one  of  the  .solid  institutions 
of  the  city. 

Mr.  Kmery  is  a  stockholder  and  Direclor  of 
the  Channon-Kinerv  Stove  Company,  as  well  a.s  of 
the  Klectric  Wheel  Company  of  (^uincy.  In  IHC.'i. 
he  was  married  to  Miss  .Mary  M.  .McCliire.  dauirli- 
ter  of  the  |{ev.  Alexander  \\  .  .McClure,  I).  D..  of 
Cai nsbiirgh,    P:i.      .Mr.    and    .Mrs.    Imiumv   have 

•  inly  one  child,  Constance.  In  IHTn.  .Mr.  Ivmerv 
received  the  degree  of  .\.  M.  from  Amherst  Col- 
lege, and  LL.  B.  from  Harvard  College  in  1mm2. 
He  pos>esses  an  intellect  of  a  high  order,  which 
has  Im-cii  strengtheiiecl  and  enriched  b\   ihe  hiirjiot 


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culture,  and  his  flue  mind  has  had  ample  scope  in 
enlarging  and  extending  the  business  connections 
of  the  establishment  with  which  he  is  connected. 
He  is  a  sagacious  and  far-seeing  man  of  business, 
and  in  all  the  relations  of  life  he  is  a  most  estimable 
citizen.  Quietl}-  and  unostentatiously  he  gives 
generouslj^  to  such  charities  as  commend  them- 
selves to  his  judgment,  and  his  steadfast  friend- 
ship, his  wise  counsels  and  substantial  assistance 
have  been  the  means  of  helping  Jiiany  over  rough 
and  rugged  paths.  i\Ir.  Emery  is  of  the  stuff  of 
which  model  citizens  are  made,  and  his  career  has 
been  a  clean  and  honorable  one.  He  has  always 
been  a  stanch  supporter  of  Republican  principles, 
and  he  and  his  estimable  wife  are  worthy  members 
of  the  Church  of  the  Good  Sliepherd. 


^  AV.  MEYER  is  the  competent  and  faithful 
Cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Quincy,  111.,  with  which  noted  flnancial 
institution  he  has  been  connected  for  a  number  of 
yeare.  He  was  born  in  Berne,  Oldenburg,  Ger- 
many, December  9,  1830,  was-  educated  in  his 
native  land,  and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years  emi- 
grated to  the  United  States  and  for  some  time  was 
a  resident  of  Milwaukee.  In  1851,  he  went  to  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  followed  the  calling  of  a 
clerk  for  ten  years,  but  since  18G1  has  been  a 
resident  of  Quinc}".  Soon  after  locating  here,  he, 
in  company  with  Louis  Buddee  and  G.  F.  Meyer, 
opened  the  first  wholesale  grocery  house  in  the 
city;  and  such  admirable  business  men  were  they, 
that  their  connections  were  rapidl}'  extended  and 
they  were  soon  doing  a  successful  business;  but 
owing  to  failing  health,  Mr.  Meyer  was  compelled 
to  give  up  the  work  and  retire  from  the  business 
in  1867.  He  concluded  that  a  trip  to  Europe 
would  be  beneficial,  and  soon  after  reaching  that 
country  was  rejoiced  to  find  that  he  was  almost 
completely  restored  to  his  old-time  vigor,  and 
accordingly  returned  once  more  to  (Quincy. 


iMr.  Meyer's  active  disposition  did  not  long 
allow  hun  to  remain  in  a  state  of  idleness,  and  he 
at  once  formed  a  co-partnership  with  his  former 
associate,  INIr.  Buddee,  and  the  firm  was  soon  do- 
ing a  business  of  enormous  proportions.  Two 
years  later,  they  consolidated  with  Mr.  W.  S. 
AVarfield,  and  some  time  after  Mr.  Buddee  retired 
from  the  business  and  the  firm  then  became  known 
as  Warfield  &  Meyer.  Mr.  Me^-er  was  extensively 
interested,  financially,  in  the  First  National  Bank, 
and  with  the  view  to  bettering  his  flnancial  condi- 
tion, as  well  as  to  engage  in  an  occupation  more 
congenial  to  his  l.astes,  retired  from  the  grocery 
business  to  accept  the  position  of  Ca?hicr  of  the 
Bank.  This  position  he  still  holds,  and  directs 
its  affairs  with  the  same  remarkable  judgment  and 
clearness  that  have  characterized  his  business  meth- 
ods from  early  manhood  and  have  placed  him  in 
a  position  of  wealth  and  affluence  at  the  present. 
He  is  a  banker  of  experience  and  sound  judgment, 
and  his  services  in  this  bank,  in  the  interest  of  its 
customers,  have  been  characterized  b}'  fidelity-  and 
a  strict  adherence  to  the  most  equitable  consider- 
ations. 

In  addition  to  the  onerous  duties  of  Cashier, 
he  discharges  the  duties  of  Ti'easnrer  of  the  Street 
Railway  Company  of  (Quincy,  is  Treasurer  of  the 
Arrow  Rock  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  a 
Director  in  the  A.  H.  Whitney  Organ  Company, 
and  was  formerly  Treasurer  of  the  Wellman  Ar  Dwire 
Tobacco  Company.  He  is  also  Treasurer  of  the 
Quincy  Library  Association.  In  disposition,  he  is 
agreeable,  cordial  and  sincere,  very  conscientious 
and  energetic,  and  is  ever  ready  to  extend  a  hand 
to  those  who  have  been  less  fortunate  than  him.self, 
and  to  aid  with  both  purse  and  influence  enter- 
prises for  the  good  of  his  communit}'.  His  busi- 
ness career  has  been  characterized  by  the  strictest 
honesty,  and  to-day  be  is  in  the  enjoyment  of  a 
handsome  competency,  the  result  of  his  own  labors, 
and  the  well-deserved  regard  of  his  acquaintances. 
A  Republican  in  politics,  he  is  a  believer  and  sup- 
V)Orter  of  a  protective  tariff,  and  at  all  times  sup- 
ports the  measures  of  that  party  with  earnestness 
and  zeal.  In  1861,  he  was  married  to  Miss  I-Clea- 
nore  Reyland,  of  (Quincy,  and  they  are  the  parents 
of  three  interesting  children.     He  has  a  very  fine 


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l'oi;ri;\ir  and  i;1(«.i;  M'Iik  \i.  ukcoud. 


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and  hiiiiic-liki-  resilience  at  No.  .H2ti  Nnitli  Fiftli 
Slieet.  anil  it  is  the  ileii<;lit  of  liis  niinieiuns 
friends  to  jjallier  heneatli  the  lio.-pitnlile  slieiter  iif 
liis  i'iii>f-lre»*. 


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ri/.  ilNUV  ilAlC  II.  M.  I).  llie  eallinu  i.f  a 
plivsieian  is  not  nnlv  une  of  tlie  most  avdu- 
iius,  Imt  one  of  the  most  responsilile.  pnr- 
suil>  ill  wliieli  man  ean  engaice,  and  he  who 
attains  a  hi>;li  repnlntion  in  tins  profession  must 
neeessaiilv  lie  endowed  with  physical  endni-anec, 
keen  intelligence  and  excellent  judgment.  Dr. 
Hateh  is  one  whose  pxteiisive  practice  and  liisjh 
standiiiir  in  professional  circles  prove  conclusively 
his  mental  and  physical  endowmeiit>,  careful  cul- 
ture and  painstakinsj  efforts  to  cunti'iiually  add  to 
his  theoretical  knowledge  and  practical  skill.  As 
a  private  citizen,  he  is  esteemed  for  his  public 
s|>irit,  pei-sonal  example  and  interest  in  all  that  is 
heuelicial  to  the  menihers  of  the  cominunily. 

Dr.  Hatch  was  horn  in  I'liiladcljiliia.  I'a.,  on 
the  22d  of  February,  1X17,  whence  he  came  to 
this  State  in  1M.')6.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools,  alternatinjj  the  periods  of 
study  with  work  on  a  farm  near  (Jrifj^ville.  He 
was  thoroughly  drilled  in  the  various  branches 
which  he  undertook,  and  in  l><(!;5-t;i  took  a  literary 
course  in  the  State  rnivei>ily  at  Hloomin<rton. 
Three  yeai-s  later,  itoinu;  West  to  Kansas,  he  em- 
barked in  the  dry-goods  business  .ts  a  clerk:  but  a 
commercial  life  not  suiting  his  tastes,  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine,  and.  entering  the  college  at 
Louisville,  Ky.,  w.as  graduated  therefrom  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  February  28,  l«7.'{. 
Later,  .lune  IC,  IHHO,  he  took  a  post-gradunte 
course  at  the  Long  Island  llospitjil  .Medical  Col- 
lege, after  which  he  went  to  Kurope.  continuing 
the  study  of  medicine  iliiclly  in  Berlin  and  I'aiis. 
In  .Inly,  \hh\.  when  returning  to  this  country,  he 
located  in  (.^uincy,  where  he  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  the  active  and  >nccessfid  practice  tif  his 
prolession. 


Scviial  years  ago,  while  a  resident  of  (liiggs- 
ville.  Dr.  Hatch  was  elected  President  of  the 
School  Hoard  of  that  city,  and  after  locating  in 
this  place  was  appointe<l  physician  in  charge  of 
Blessing  Hospital,  .\side  from  these  positions,  he 
has  never  sought  or  held  pid)lic  ollice,  but  has  de- 
voted his  entire  lime  and  attention  to  the  con- 
stant pi'aclice  of  his  profciision.  llebearsa  promi- 
nent part  in  social  affairs  in  the  city,  and  enjoys 
the  friendship  of  a  large  circle  of  its  best  citizens. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Hatch  to  Miss  Clara  K., 
daughter  of  .lesse  ('<.  Crawford,  of  (Iriggsville, 
was  solemnized  in  Ih.at  city  November  2.'>.  IH72. 
One  son  w:is  born  to  them,  Herman,  who  died  De- 
cember 7.  1HH2.  at  the  age  of  eight  yeai-s.  To  his 
memory  and  to  that  of  his  inother.  who  died  .lune 
12,  1«'.I2,  a  iieautifiil  lecturn  has  recently  Ijeen 
dedicated  in  the  cathedral  of  St.  .lohn's.  Mrs. 
Hatch  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Kpiscopal 
(  huich,  and  a  lady  of  rare  nobility  of  character, 
whose  death  was  a  personal  loss  to  a  large  circle  of 
friends. 

The  Doctor  is  a  ineiiiber  of  the  State  .Medical 
Society .  the  Adams  County  Medical  Society  and 
the  American  Medical  Association.  For  seveial 
years,  he  was  a  professor  in  the  medical  de- 
partment at  Chaddock  College  and  a  professor  in 
the  (^uincy  Medical  College.  He  represents  a 
number  of  com|ianies,  including  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington ik  C^uincy  Hailroad,  !xs  their  surgeon.  His 
ollice  is  in  his  residence,  which  is  a  commodious 
and  handsome  brick  structure  surrounded  by 
beautiful  grounds  and  pleHsantl\  located  at  No. 
40(1  .lersev  Street. 


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ACDB  C.  I'iriNtt.  If  the  Old  World  had 
not  <-oiitributed  to  the  population  of  the 
^  New.  Illinoi>  would  not  have  reached  its 
y^y  present  high  slate  of  ilevelopment.  Cer- 
niany  has  furnished  her  full  ipiot.t  of  excellent 
men.  and  among  thi-m  .Mr.  I'ipino,  a  resident  of 
C^uincy,  and  oiii>  ••(   its  -iili~iMiiii;d    liii/cn-       He 


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irilieiits  all  the  energy  and  perseverance  of  bis 
Teuton  ic  ancestors,  and  is  now  one  of  the  prominent 
business  men  of  (^uincy.  His  Inisiness  is  located 
at  No.  612  Hampshire  Street,  and  he  deals  in  guns, 
fishing-tackle  and  sportsmen 'ssui)plies  of  all  kinds. 
Courteous  and  pleasant,  Mr.  Pipinohas  won  many 
warm  friends,  and  is  highly  esteemed  in  all  trade 
circles.  He  is  a  thorough-going  exponent  of  these 
enduring  principles  of  equity  and  honor,  and  well 
merits  the  success  attained  in  his  active  and  enter- 
l)rising  career.  lie  was  horn  in  Germany,  on  the 
22d  of  November,  1828,  and  is  a  descendant  of 
the  old  and  prominent  Pipino  family  of  sunny 
Italy,  in  the  military  history  of  which  country  his 
ancestors  were  ver}'  prominent. 

Mr.  Pipino's  parents  were  Louis  and  Catherine 
(Weis)  Pipino,  and  the  father  was  Government 
Inspector  of  Arms  in  Bavaria.  Ilew.asan  intluen- 
tial  man,  and  prominent  in  all  matters  of  moment. 
Our  subject  was  thoronghly  educated  in  the  schools 
of  Havaria,  and  passed  his  youthful  days  in  his 
native  land  until  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he 
crossed  the  ocean  with  his  parents  to  America. 
They  landed  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1844,  and  he 
was  apprenticed  to  learn  the  gunsmith  trade,  the 
parents  following  the  custom  of  their  native  coun- 
trj'  in  having  their  sons  learn  a  trade.  Our  sub- 
ject worked  at  his  trade  until  1852,  when  he  em- 
barked in  his  present  business,  opening  a  store  in 
Baltimore,  where  he  carried  on  business  success- 
fully until  1871. 

Jn  August,  1871,  he  started  towards  the  setting 
sun,  and  reaching  (iuincy.  III.,  embarked  in  his 
])resent  business,  which  he  has  conducted  in  a  very 
successful  manner  ever  since.  He  is  a  gentleman 
very  popular  with  all  classes,  while  on  S]X)rting 
matters  he  is  a  keen  authority  and  judge.  He  car- 
ries a  full  line  of  goods,  and  gives  entire  satisfac- 
tion to  those  who  have  business  dealings  with  him. 
He  is  now  (iame  Warden  of  the  State  of  Illinois. 
In  politics,  he  is  a  Prohibitionist,  and,  socially,  a 
member  of  Pride  of  the  West  Lodge  No.  94,  A.  O. 
V.  W.  He  is  also  a  meml)er  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Mutual  Aid. 

In  the  year  of  18,')1.  .Mr.  Pipino  was  married 
to  Miss  Susan  Ilickernell,  daughter  of  Henrv 
Ilickernell,    of    Lancaster,    I'a.      This    union     was 


blessed  by  the  birth  of  live  children,  two  only  of 
whom  survive,  as  follows:  William  C,  a  successful 
and  prominent  physician  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa;  and 
George  Henry,  another  skillful  physician,  residing 
in  Quincy,  111.  IMr.  and  Mrs.  Pipino  are  worthy 
and  exeinplaiy  members  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
and  now  have  a  very  cozy  home  at  No.  618  North 
Eighth  Street.  They  are  surrounded  by  every  com- 
fort, and  as  their  entire  career  has  been  marked  by 
integrity  and  uprightness,  they  are  honored  and 
respected.  Mr.  Pipino  has  passed  man\'  years  of 
his  life  in  this  city,  and  is  thoroughly  identified 
with  the  interests  of  the  place,  and  is  recognized 
by  all  as  one  of  its  representative  and  venerable 
citizens. 


'»/  ENRV  DURIIOLT.  The  life  and  character 
|]  of  Henry  Durholt,  of  <^uincy,  Adams 
County,  III.,  will  bear  a  much  more  de- 
^)  tailed  account  and  analysis  than  is  here 
given,  for  he  has  wielded  a  wide  influence,  and 
the  manner  in  which  he  has  reached  his  present 
financial  standing  denotes  him  to  be  an  individual 
above  the  ordinary.  He  is  at  present  pro]jrietor 
of  the  II.  Durholt  A-  Co.  Bottling  Works,  at 
Quincy,  III.,  one  of  the  most  flourishing  and 
prominent  industries  in  the  city,  and  is  a  man 
of  more  than  ordinary  business  acumen.  He 
was  born  in  Prussia,  Germany,  in  182,>,  and  is 
a  son  of  Anton  and  Mary  A.  (Stoppelkamp)  Dur- 
holt, natives  also  of  the  Old  Country.  The  father 
was  a  mechanic  and  shoemaker  by  trade,  and  fol- 
lowed these  occupations  all  his  life,  passing  his 
last  days  in  Germany. 

The  original  of  this  notice  w.as  the  only  son  born 
to  the  above-mentioned  couple,  and  attended  the 
schools  of  his  native  country  until  fourteen  years 
of  age.  (In  the  2,ith  of  December,  1846,  he 
took  passage  for  America,  landing  in  New  Orleans, 
La.,  eight  weeks  later.  He  first  settled  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  but   only    remained   there    until    18,")5, 


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wlien  he  cume  to  Qiiin'-y,  in  tlie  spriiif;  of  iliiit 
year.  Ilo  began  tlit'  nmniifacliirt'  (if  .-^oda  water, 
pop  and  all  kinds  of  summer  drink.*,  in  pai-tnor- 
sliip  with  ('.  II.  (Jrone,  but  on  the  deatii  of  Ihc 
latter  Mr.  Dm  holt  .i.^suined  full  control.  He  i.s 
now  doing  husines.*;  under  the  lirni  name  f)f  Ilenrv 
Durliolt  A:  Co..  and  his  estahlishment  is  fitlx2.') 
feet  and  tiiree  st<u-ies  in  heifjlit.  all  three  Boors 
lieiiij;  occupied.  About  eight  men  are  employed, 
and  they  ship  principally  to  I'etaileis. 

(>ur  subject  is  a  man  of  genuine  populaiity, 
especially  in  the  ranks  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  held  the  position  of  City  Trea-surer  of  l^uincy 
for  one  year.  In  1878,  he  was  elected  City  .Su- 
pervisor of  <iuincv.  and  this  position  he  has  held 
for  fourteen  years  and  is  still  the  incumU-nt  of 
the  same,  lie  is  a  member  of  .St.  Boniface  Benev- 
olent Society,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Cerman  Insurance  Company,  organized  in 
18;')'.!.  lie  has  liecn  a  Director  ever  since,  and  1 
still  holds  that  [xisition.  Mr.  Durholt  is  a  Trus- 
tee of  St.  Boniface  Catholic  Church,  of  which 
he  is  now  Treasurer.  He  has  been  active  in  all 
enterprises  for  promoting  the  be.st  interests  of  the 
county,  is  public-spirited  and  thorough-going, 
and  a  man  whose  career  has  ever  been  above  re- 
proach. 

With  the  assistance  of  others.  .Mr.  Durholt  or- 
ganized the  German  Publishing  Company*,  of 
l^uincy,  111.,  and  is  a  Director  of  the  same.  He 
is  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability,  and  no 
worthy  enterpri.se  is  allowed  to  fail  for  lack  of 
support  if  he  can  prevent  it.  In  the  year  1849,  he 
selected  his  life  companion  in  the  person  of  Miss 
Catherine  Grone,  daughter  of  Henry  Grone,  of 
St.  Louis.  Mo.,  and  his  first  sorrow  was  the  loss  of 
this  excellent  lady  in  the  year  1879.  She  .lx>re 
him  eight  children,  who  are  named  in  the  order  of 
their  births  .as  follows:  Henry,  .lohn.  Kve,  Casper, 
Conr.ad.  Anna,  Charle.^  and  Adelbert.  These  chil- 
dren arc  all  living  except  two,  Henry  a!id  Charles, 
and  are  doing  well  in  their  different  occupations 
and  are  a  credit  U>  Mr.  Durholt.  His  next  ven- 
ture in  the  matrimonial  fieUl  was  in  1881,  when  Mrs. 
Mary  ()tt«n,  of  (.^uincy,  liecame  his  wife.  She  is 
a  lady  of  fine  character  and  has  been  a  true  mother  ' 
It)  the   orphan   children  of  Mr.  Durholt,  watching 


after  ihcir  interest*  in  every  way.  They  have  a 
good  home  at  No.  418  South  Seventh  Street, 
and  are  in  every  way  lirst-cla.ss  citizens.  Both 
hold  membership  in  the  St.  Boniface  Catholic 
Church  and  contribute  liberally  to  its  support. 


I  ii"i  I  ■W"^.*'^*^— 1 


I-;NHV  TF.NK.  In  reviewing  the  various 
branches  of  industrial  and  couMnercial  en- 
terprise in  the  city  of  (^uincy,  it  is  our  dc- 
V^;^  siie  to  mention  in  this  volume  only  those 
housi's  which  are  thoioughly  representative  in  the 
])arlicular  line  of  business  in  which  they  are  en- 
gaged. In  following  out  this  intention,  we  know 
of  no  honsc  in  thecity  nuire  worthy  of  special  men- 
tion tliMU  that  of  the  Tenk  Hardware  Company, 
one  of  the  most  flourishing  enterprises  in  thecity. 
Mr.  Henry  Tcnk,  President  (»f  this  company,  is 
a  native  of  Prussia,  (iermany,  born  on  the  7tli 
of  September,  182'.»,  and  the  son  of  W.  H.  Tenk, 
who  folUtwed  the  occupation  of  an  agriculturist  in 
that  country.  In  1844,  the  elder  Mr.  Tenk  emigrat- 
ed with  his  family  to  the  I'nitecl  States,  the  voyage 
lasting  eight  and  a-half  weeks.  He  reached  New 
Orleans,  but  went  from  there  to  St.  Louis,  .Mo., 
where  he  resided  for  three  months,  and  then  enlei- 
ed  the  city  of  (.^uincy,  III.  There  his  death  <K-curred 
in  18()8.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Kliza 
.Selle.  also  passed  away  in  (^uincy. 

The  original  of  this  notice,  the  eldest  .son  of 
seven  children,  two  sons  and  live  daughters,  reach- 
ed mature  years  in  his  native  country,  and  until 
thirteen  yeai-s  of  .ige  attended  the  common  .-.chools 
of  his  birthplace.  He  crossed  the  ocean  with  his 
parents  and,  on  coming  to  (^nincy,  remained  until 
his  twenty-third  year.  From  there  he  went  to  SI. 
Louis.  Mo.,  found  employment,  and  there  nmile  his 
home  for  one  year.  He  then  went  up  the  Missouri 
River  to  St.  Joseph,  and  there  clerked  in  a  har<l- 
warc  store  for  four  yeare.  Then  returning  to 
t^uincy,  having  accumulated  ctmsiderable  means, 
he  embarked  in  business  for  himself  with  hisbioihcr, 
John  II.,  under  the  firm  title  of  II.  A    .1.   11.    Tcnk 


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and  started  in  with  a  full  line  of  sliclf  hardware  and 
farming  implcnifnts.  at  Xo.  512  Maine  Street.  The 
huihlinu  they  ()C'eiip\-  i.s  28  x  190  feet,  four  stories 
in  lieight,  and  all  the  floors  are  oeciiiiied. 

In  lIS'.K),  this  was  merged  into  a  stock  company 
and  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Tenk  Hard- 
ware Company,  with  Henry  Tenk,  President;  F.  W. 
Hnfendick,  A'iee-i]resident,  A.  C.  Stroot,  Secretary, 
and  John  H.  Tenk,  Treasurer.  These  gentlemen 
are  highh'  regarded  in  l)nsinegs  circles  in  (^uincy, 
and  justly  merit  the  liberal  and  inHuential  patron- 
age they  have  secured  b}  their  well-directed  efforts 
to  |)lease  all  their  customers.  The  business  is  very 
large  and  is  represented  by  traveling  salesmen  on 
the  road  in  the  States  of  Illinois,  Missouri  and  Iowa. 
From  fifteen  to  tvventy  men  are  employed,  and  this 
company  has  established  a  high  reputation,  both  as 
to  the  superiority  of  the  goods  handled,  and  the 
excellence  of  the  work  executed. 

Mr.  Tenk  is  a  Director  and  stockholder  in  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Quincy,  also  a  Director  and 
stockholder  in  the  Menke  A  Grimm  Planing  Mill 
Company,  a  stockholder  in  the  Collins  Plow  Com- 
l)any,  and  a  stockholder  in  the  (Quincy  Gas  Light  & 
Coke  Company.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the 
Central  Machine  &  Foundry  Company,  and  stock- 
holder in  the  (Quincy  Shoe  IManufactiuing  Com- 
pany. He  is  one  of  the  most  enterprising,  thorough- 
going business  men  of  (Juincy,  and  by  his  upright, 
honorable  conduct  has  won  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  all.  In  politics,  he  is  Democratic.  He  has 
a  comfortable  residence  at  No.  212  South  Third 
Street,  (Quincy,  and  is  one  of  the  city's  repre- 
sentative citizens. 


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RANK  U.  TUUHFSING.  Special  aptitude  for 
i>  architecture   is  a   requisite    to    success    in 
IAS  '  liis  dillicult  profession,  and  unquestionably 

no  one  who  has  been  connected  therewith  has 
achieved  a  higher  reputation  or  developed  a  more 
desirable  one  than  Mr.  Frank  H.  Tubbesing.  Proofs 
of  his  skill  are  numerous  in  this  city  and  vicinity, 


as  embodied  in  the  many  splendid  buildings  he  has 
designed  and  erected.  These  buildings  are  much 
admired  by  experts  for  their  stability  and  elegance, 
while  the  elaboration  of  details  and  care  bestowed 
upon  every  department  of  the  work  reflect  the 
utmost  credit  on  the  methods  of  the  architect.  He 
devotes  his  whole  time  and  attention  to  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession,  and  faithfully  discharges  his 
duty  to  all  favoring  him  with  commissions.  Ilis 
plans  are  always  accurate  and  complete  in  every 
detail,  while  his  estimates  and  calculations  are 
based  on  the  most  practical  and  comprehensive 
knowledge  of  quantities  and  values. 

Our  subject  is  a  nativeof  Quincy,  Adams  County, 
111.,  born  April  0,  1854,  and  inherits  his  persever- 
ance and  industry-  from  his  Teutonic  ancestors. 
His  parents,  Frank  H.  and  Barbara  (Habel)  Tubbe- 
sing, were  natives  of  Germany,  but  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1851.  He  was  an  honest,  indus- 
trious man  and  died  in  tjuinc}'  in  1865.  Their  fam- 
ily consisted  of  three  children,  of  whom  our  subject 
was  the  eldest.  The  latter  secured  a  good  practical 
education  in  the  -schools  of  Quincy,  and  when 
seventeen  years  of  age  hired  out  as  an  apprentice 
to  W.  A.  AYilliams,  who  was  at  that  time  one  of 
Quincy's  leading  carpenters  and  builders.  After 
serving  his  apprenticeshiii,  young  Tubbesing  deci- 
ded to  become  a  professional  draughtsman  and  en- 
tered the  architect  office  of  Robert  Brunce,  wlieie 
his  originality  and  skill  as  an  architect  soon  won 
him  recognition. 

In  the  spring  of  1878,  Mr.  Tubbesing  oijened  an 
office  of  his  own  and  has  since  l)een  actively  en- 
gaged as  an  able  architect.  He  has  designed  and 
superintended  the  erection  of  many  handsome  resi- 
dences and  leading  business  houses  of  (^luincy,  all 
of  which  are  admired  for  their  beauty,  finish  and 
artistic  design.  Mr.  Tubbesing's  plans  and  specifi- 
cations are  always  complete  in  details  and  based 
upon  the  practical  plans  of  utilizing  the  least  space 
to  the  greatest  advantage.  lie  is  a  gentleman  of 
pleasing  address,  whose  liberality  in  his  dealings 
with  jiatrons  has  secured  him  a  wide  popularit\'  in 
Quincy,  and  has  jjlaced  him  among  the  most 
reputable  and  able  architects  of  this  flourishing  city. 

The  nuptials  of  our  subject  with  Miss  Hannah 
Pcllmnnu  were  celebrated  in  (^Uiincy  on  the  Gth   of 


roRTiJM  r  AM)  i;|(k;i;ai>iii(  Ai>  kkcoud. 


A7:\ 


A|>iil.  lf»7.>.  :iiiil  tliey  have  oniMin,  1  rank  H..  who 
is  now  foiirtocii  vears  old.iuxln  luiaht.  sifli  vc  liov. 
Mr.-*.  'riilil>i'>iiif;'s  fnllipr,  Willi:tin  IVIlmann.  was 
killpil  in  till'  Civil  War.  Mr.  ami  Mrs.  Iiihln'siny 
liavoa  very  ki/.v.  i>li'asaiil  lionii'  alNii.  1..1II2  SUitc 
Strci't,  .anil  an-  anumi,'  llii'  (irst-cliiss  cili/.t'us  of  the 
(.■ity.  'l"lit\v  art' artivp  in  their  suiijiort  of  all  jjood 
w<irk.  i;ivo  liln'rally  of  their  iiu':ins  to  further  all 
worthy  enterprises,  and  are  hijihly  esteemed.  A."*  a 
liusiness  man  the  Doetor  is  as  popular  as  in  social 
cireles.  In  polities,  he  snpport.s  the  platform  of  the 
Deinocralie  party  and  adheres  .strictly  to  its  princi- 
ples. 


OllN  II.  V.KSV.  Traltic  .Manau'er  of  the 
(^uincy.  Omaha  \-  Kan,«as  City  Railroad,  is 
a  wide-awake  man  of  affairs  and  a  <;enial, 
cordial  and  acooniniodatinj;  ollicial.  His 
headiiuartersare  at  (^uincy,  wherehismany  worthy 
qualities  have  won  him  a  liost  of  friends.  In  this 
city  he  was  born  on  the  l.'ilh  of  Septemlier,  1811, 
the  eldest  child  of  the  family.  His  parents,  ,1.  H. 
and  \.  J.  (Adams)  Best,  wei-e  natives  of  the  North 
of  Ireland.  Iieing  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  and  were 
married  in  Philadelphia.  In  lS."i7,tliey  removed 
to  (Juincy.  where  the  father  died  in  1882.  The 
mother  pas.»ed  away  in  California  in   iKltl). 

To  .loll n  II.  Best  the  advantajres  of  the  piililic 
schools  of  l^uincy  were  sjfiven,  after  which  he  fin- 
ished his  commercial  education  \>y  taking  a  liusiness 
eoiir.se  in  Bryant  *  .Stratton's  Business  College  of 
Chicago,  where  he  made  the  most  of  his  op|)ortuni- 
ties.  and  was  lictter  fitted  than  the  average  young 
man  to  liegiii  the  liatlle  of  life  for  himself.  !li~ 
career  as  a  railroad  man  liegan  when  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  A'  l^iiiiicy  Kail- 
road  as  operator  and  agent.  For  nine  years  he  w.-is 
in  the  employ  of  that  road  and  w.as  a  faithful, 
hoiioralile  and  energetic  official.  lie  next  liec.'ime 
an  employe  of  the  SI.  Louis,  Keokuk  it  North 
Western  Railroad  as  (iciieial    Fieight   and   Ticket 

Aypiii,  which  position  he  contimii'd   to  hold   for 


eight  years,  .\fterward  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the  (^nincy,  Omaha  \'  Kansas  City  Railway  Com- 
pany H,H  Trallic  Manager,  which  position  he  c<in- 
tiniies  to  hold.  In  this  line  of  liusiness,  Mr.  Best 
is  popularly  known,  and  liy  his  upright  conduct, 
genial  and  .igreeaMe  nature,  together  with  his 
readiness  to  olilige  lho.se  who  seek  his  services,  he 
li.as  gained  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  a  large 
circle  of  friends  in  social  and  liusiness  life. 

Mr.  Best  has  alw.-iys  manifested  a  marked  interest 
in  the  upluiilding  of  the  city  of  (^uincy  and  is  one 
of  the  una.ssuming,  intelligent  men  of  the  county, 
relialile  licyond  suspicion  in  all  his  operations, 
and  whose  career  is  worthy  of  emulation.  lie  is  the 
efficient  Treasurer  of  the  <iem  City  Building  A- 
Loan  .Vssociation.  in  which  he  is  also  a  Director. 
Politically,  he  has  always  aflilialed  with  the  Repiili- 
lican  party,  the  principles  of  which  he  has  ever 
upheld. 

On  the  l.'ith  of  Septemlier,  187:i.  .Mi.  Best  mar- 
ried Miss  S.  A.  Daneke,  .-i  daughter  of  Albert  and 
Sophia  A.  Daneke, and  their  union  has  proved  .1 
very  happy  one.  They  have  one  daughter.  .Mlia. 
Mr.  Best  is  spoken  of  by  his  friends  as  a  man  of 
broad  and  com]irehensive  business  ability,  and 
careful  and  painstaking  as  a  railroad  official,  one 
who  has  made  a  success  in  the  Imsinejjs  walks  of 
life. 


^    IIARLKS    W.  SlIINN.       The    sulije.t    of    the 

..  present  sketch  is  the  very  pleasant  ami 
-Jf'  capable  gentleman  who  is  the  superinten- 
dent of  the  Bonnet  iV  Nance  Stove  Company  of 
tlii-  cily.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  (^iiincy  since 
ls."r>,  and  w,as  born  in  Cumberland  Furnace,  in 
Cumberland  County,  I'a.,  Sepli'iiiber  20,  1K17.  He 
is  the  s«jn  of  Solomon  .Shinn.  Iiorn  In  (iloiicester 
County.  X.  Y.,  in  1810,  ami  the  gramlson  of  Isaac 
Shinn.  who  was  liorn  in  New  .ler.sey,  was  a  farmer 
ami  served  in  the   Revolutionary'  War. 

The     father     of     our    subject     was    a     pia<'lical 
moulder,  having  learned  his  trade  in  Cumberlftinl, 


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Pa.,  and  in  18,52  he  came  West  and  worked  at  St. 
Louis,  at  Warsaw,  and  at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  and  then, 
on  July  4,  1852,  he  began  work  for  Allen  Com- 
stoek  as  a  moulder  in  the  first  stove  shop  on  the 
Mississippi  River  outside  of  St.  Louis.  He  worked 
at  moulding  until  he  was  seventy-two  years  of  age, 
and  in  1892  he  died,  ten  years  after  ceasing  from 
hard  labor.  He  had  been  an  active  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  his  absence  was 
much  felt  in  the  neighborhood.  He  was  a  believer 
in  the  tenets  of  the  Republican  party.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  was  Margaret  A.  Miller,  who  was  born 
in  Baltimore,  Md.  Her  father,  who  was  a  moul- 
der, came  AV'est  in  1852  and  died  at  Warsaw  of 
pneumonia, aged  sixty-two  years.  Mrs.  Shinn,Sr., 
is  still  living  and  resides  at  No.  522  York  Street, 
Quinc}',  and  bears  her  seventy-two  years  with 
ease.  She  has  been  the  mother  of  sixteen  children, 
four  of  whom  are  yet  living:  W.  M.,  who  is  super- 
intendent of  the  Channon-Emery  Stove  Company; 
Addle,  now  Mrs.  .Toiinson,  who  resides  in  (^uincy; 
and  Sarah,  who  lives  in  ( iuincy,  but  spends  her  win- 
ters in  Denver. 

Mr.  Shinn,  our  subject,  was  reared  in  Pennsyl- 
vania until  he  was  five  years  old,  and  then  was 
brought  over  the  mountains,  down  the  Ohio  and 
up  the  Mississippi  to  Keokuk  and  thence  here.  He 
attended  tiie  public  schools,  and  when  he  was  fif- 
teen years  old,  he  was  apprenticed  under  his  father 
to  the  trade  of  moulder.  When  the  moulders  had 
their  strike,  they  took  him  out  and  he  went  with 
his  father  to  Cincinnati,  and  obtained  a  place 
with  the  Adams-Peckover  Stove  Company,  and,  as 
he  was  a  practical  workman,  he  kept  on  with  them 
from  March  1,  18G2,  until  .June  14,  1862,  and  then 
came  back  to  C^uincy  and  was  employed  in  other 
cities — two  months  in  St.  Louis,  eight  in  Detroit, 
two  in  Toledo,  six  in  Leavenworth,  and  two  in 
R<;ck  Island.  He  went  to  some  other  places  as 
much  for  pleasure  as  for  work  and  did  not  return 
here  until  1880,  when  he  became  foreman  in  the 
Thomas  White  Stove  Company  for  seven  3'ears. 
He  then  became  the  foreman  for  the  Bonnet  it 
Nance  Stove  Works,  which  was  incorporated  as  the 
B.  At  N.  Stove  Company,  and  later  became  a  stock- 
holder and  was  elected  to  bo  superintendent,  lie 
is  a  practical  moulder  aud  has  eiiliro  charge  of  Hie 


works.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Quincy  Paint  and  Color  Company  some  years 
ago  and  was  treasurer  until  he  sold  out.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Minneapolis  Protective  and  Loan 
Association,  a  stockholder  in  the  Inter-.State  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association  of  Bloomington,  also  of 
the  Adams  County  Building  and  Loan  Association. 

Mr.  .Shinn  was  married  in  Ralls  County,  i\Io., 
April  3.  1884,  to  Miss  Mollie  M.  Burroughs,  a  na- 
tive of  Soberton,  Mo.,  and  they  have  two  children. 
The  names  of  these  are  Thomas  and  Charlotte. 
The  residence  where  Mr.  Shinn  receives  his  friends 
and  performs  his  social  obligations  is  located  at 
No.  401  South  Twelfth  Street. 

In  1862,  Mr.  Shinn  became  a  volunteer  in  the 
fire  department,  and  in  1874  he  became  assistant 
chief  under  .1.  H.  Steinbach,  and  then  filled  the 
same  position  under  his  successor,  filling  the 
office  in  all  twelve  j-ears.  He  is  an  honored  member 
of  Bodley  Lodge  No.  1,  F.  and  A.  M.;  of  Quincy 
Chapter,  R.  A.  ^I.,  and  of  the  Knights  Templar. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Independent  (Jrder  of 
Odd  Fellows  and  an  honorary  member  of  the  Iron 
Moulders'  Union  of  North  America  No.  44.  He  has 
held  every  office,  and  has  been  a  delegate  to  every 
convention  since  1872.  and  w.as  the  corresponding 
secretary  of  the  native  union   from  1872  to  1871. 

Mr.  Shinn  is  a  Republican  and  thinks  his  party 
with  its  ideas  on  protection  will  save  the  country 
from  ultimate  ruin.  This  family  is  one  of  promi- 
nence in  Quincy. 


^^ 


WjILLIAM  pike  MOORE,  City  Comptroller 
of  Quincy,  III.,  was  born  in  Knox  County, 
„  „  Mo.,  near  Newark,  November  10,  1844, 
liis  parents  being  William  Butler  and  Eliza  H. 
((Tlover)  Moore,  the  former  of  whom  was  born  in 
Virginia  and  was  reared  in  Kentucky,  but  removed 
to  Mi-ssouri  in  1842.  He  was  a  son  of  (ieorge 
INIoore,  whose  ancestors  came  to  America  about 
1658  from  near  Bristol,  Eiijiland.  and  settled  in 
\Vesluiui'elaiid  Cuitnly,  \  a,     'I'lie  malenial  graiuU 


K)RTKArr  AM)  ni(;(;KAriii(  Ai.  rfxord. 


father  of  <iiir  siiMjcct  was  .Toliii  (Ukvit.  h  iialivo  of 
Nii'^inia  aiitl  also  of  Kiiglisli  ilescciit.  ( )iir  subject's 
father,  Willinin  liutler  Moore,  ilied  on  lln'  old 
homestead  in  Kiu)X  Coiiiitv,  Mo.,  In  JH.'i^.  lli.s 
widow  survived  him  until  lH(i;{.  her  death  oi'ciin- 
injj  in  Kenliiekv. 

William  I'ike  Moore  was  the  sixth  in  a  family 
of  eiulil  ehildron,  ami  his  youthful  days  were 
spent  in  atloii(1in<;  !H;huol  and  nssislinj^  in  the 
numerous  duties  of  the  faiiii.  lie  went  to  Ken- 
tucky duiiii'^  the  war,  and.  after  some  time  spent 
there,  went  to  ."^t.  Louis  and  entered  Stewart  A- 
llenclerson's  (omniercial  (olleire.  and  here  he 
improved  every  opportunity  foi-  advancen\ent,  :ls 
he  was  anxious  to  lit  himself  for  future  responsi- 
liililies  in  life. 

In  IHti.j,  he  caiiu'  to  (^uincy,  111.,  and  for  two 
years  thereafter  he  acted  in  the  capacity  of  liook- 
keeper  for  the  respective  linns  of  Smith.  (Jarth  A- 
Co.,  and  ('.  K.  Richardson  A-  Co.  In  the  month  of 
Deeeniher,  18(!(!,  he  was  appointed  Deputy  Coliec- 
tor  and  had  his  headipiarters  at  I,aOran<re,  Mo.; 
for  two  years  he  was  also  Deputy  and  Acting  Col- 
lector f)f  the  Third  Di.strict.  St)me  timcafter  this, 
he  determined  to  emtiark  in  business  on  his  vvu 
res|>onsibilily,  and  to  this  end,  opened  a  hardware 
business  at  LatJrange,  Mo.,  which  he  conducted  in 
a  successful  manner.  In  IHSO,  he  went  to  Colo- 
rado, where  he  began  woiking  in  the  mines,  and, 
while  thus  engaged,  he  was  appointed  to  the  posi- 
tion of  Deputy  SherilT.  under  Lucien  .1.  Morgan, 
which  position  lie  held  until  the  death  of  his 
superior. 

In  1H82,  he  ret\irued  to  his  old  home  in  i^uincy. 
and  for  some  time  thereafter  devoted  his  atten- 
tion to  book-keeping  and  newspaper  work,  for 
which  he  seemed  to  have  a  natural  aptitude  and  a 
decided  taste.  In  |>olitics,  he  is  a  Democrat  of 
pronuuneed  type,  with  the  courage  »{  his  convic- 
tions, but  is  so  courteous  in  the  consideration  of 
the  opinions  of  others,  that  some  of  his  warmest 
friends  arc  among  men  of  opposite  political  faith. 
With  decided  and  clcarl\ -ff>rined  opinions,  he  is 
so  broad-gauged  and  tolerant  that  he  is  never 
arbitrary  exce|>t  with  di.«honesty  and  wrf>ug.  In 
isx'.t,  he  was  elected  by  his  friends  as  Collector  of 
S>pi.cial  Taxes,   :ii(4   in    l«'JU    was   fleeted    to    his 


pre.sent  jKisition  of  City  Comptroller,  receiving  a 
re-election  in  1K91  and  1M92.  In  ISM  I.  he  organ- 
ized a  Cleveland  Club  in  tjluiucy.  of  which  he  was 
elected  cliairm;ui. 

In  his  friendships  he  i.-  loyal  and  generous,  but 
critical  in  his  selection  of  intimates,  and  any  man 
is  indeed  fortunate  who  has  secured  him  for  a 
friend.  He  was  married  in  IHTd,  to  .Miss  C.-itli- 
erine  I,.  Threlkeld.  of  l,a  ( ir.iuge.  Mo.,  a  daughter 
of  T.  C.  Threlkeld.  Mi'.  Moore  is  a  member  of 
the  Christian  Church. 


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yfcll.l.lA.M  11.  I'KWKI.NS.  Among  all  the 
residcnt.s  of  .\dams  County,  none  show 
^^^  greater  aptitude  for  business  transactions 
or  better  judgment  in  the  conduct  of  affaii-s  than 
Mr.  I'erkiiis.  who  is  at  present  resiiling  in  .Mclro.se 
Township,  where  he  li.-vs  a  tine  fruit  farm  compris- 
ing eighty  acres  on  section  m.  In  Ih;)2.  lie  set  out 
over  two  thousand  trees,  including  apple,  peach. 
]>ear,  etc. 

A  native  of  this  county,  our  subject  was  born 
a  short  distance  from  where  he  is  at  present  resid- 
ing, .March  il,  IH|1,  and  is  the  son  of  Jacob  and 
Mary  (\"ining)  Perkins,  who  emigrated  from  Mai- 
den. Mass.,  as  early  as  lH;l.j.  The  parental  family 
included  three  childi-en,  of  whom  Mary,  who  mar- 
ried .leremiali  Parsons,  is  now  decejised.  Adaline 
became  the  wife  of  Lewis  Turner  and  makes  her 
home  in  Denmark,  Iowa. 

The  lirst  representative  of  the  Perkins  famih  in 
America  dates  back  to  the  landing  of  the  •'  .Mav- 
llower,"  in  l(!2i'.  The  gentleman  of  whom  we  write 
was  the  recipient  of  but  limited  schooling,  as  he 
lived  in  the  country,  had  to  walk  to  school,  and 
had  many  home  duties  to  perftu'in  even  in  early 
boyhood,  when  the  usual  chores  of  a  farmer's  home 
fell  to  his  lot.  The  schoolhoiise  of  his  early  yeai-s 
was  a  log  structure,  having  slab  benches  with  pin 
legs  and  all  the  primitive  surroundings  of  that 
day.  .March  It),  1«7I,  when  ready  to  establish  a 
home  of  Ills  own,  he  was   married    to   Miss   Mary, 


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daugliter  of  Jeremiah  Felt,  and  to  them  have  been 
boin  four  diiltlreii:  Cornelia,  Arthur,  Mar}-  and 
William. 

Mr.  rLM'kiii.s  folliiwed  the  occupalion  of  a  fanner 
until  1875,  at  wliifh  lime  he  engaged  in  fruit- 
irrowing,  and  now  has  his  beautiful  estate  devoted 
to  tliat  braneh  of  agriculture,  of  which  he  is  mak- 
ing a  success.  He  gives  his  political  adherence  to 
the  iirincii)les  of  the  Republican  party  and  is  held 
in  high  esteem  by  his  fellow-citizens,  who  duly  ap- 
preciate the  services  he  has  rendered  this  section 
bv  his  careful  and  conscientious  life.  lie  uses  sound 
|n-actical  sense  in  his  caUing  and  stands  high  among 
the  members  of  liis  class  in  this  township.  His 
Inisiness  ability  lias  always  been  recognized  in  his 
neighborhood  and  he  possesses  the  good-will  and 
esteem  of  the  entire  community. 


NDREW  D1':\'(_)RE,  wiio  owns  a  fine  farm 
of  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  on  sec- 
tions «  and  9,  Honey  Creek  Townsliip,  to 
which  he  gives  his  personal  supervision, 
was  born  in  Washington  County,  Pa., May  4, 1819t 
and  is  descended  from  one  of  tlie  Revolutionary 
heroes.  His  grandfather,  Andrew  Dcvore,  was  a 
native  of  France,  and  came  to  America  witli  La 
Favette  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  in  which 
he  served.  He  then  located  in  Penns3-lvania  and 
spent  thirty  .years  among  the  Indians.  He  could 
speak  several  of  their  languages  and  was  conver- 
sant with  the  French,  English  and  (ierman 
tongues.  He  afterward  becam(>  a  farmer  and  owned 
a  large  tract  of  land.  He  had  five  sons  and  two 
daughters,  and  to  each  of  them  gave  a  farm.  He 
was  a  well-knovvn  and  prominent  citizen  in  the 
community'  where  he  rcsidiid,  and  died  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-six  years. 

Henry  Devore,  the  fatlier  of  our  subject,  was 
born  and  roared  in  Washington  County.  I'a.,  anil 
)))aile  his  homo  there   thi'oughout  hi'"*  entire  life, 


He  served  as  a  volunteer  in  the  War  of  1812.  He 
became  an  extensive  farmer  and  operated  over 
three  hundred  acres  of  land.  His  wife,  who  bore 
tlie  maiden  name  of  INIargaret  Conners,  was  born 
and  reared  in  Washington  County,  and  was  of 
Irish  descent.  She  died  at  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety-two.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Devore  were  faitli- 
fiil  members  of  the  Baptist  Church.  Tlieir  family 
numbered  thirteen  children,  .six  of  whom  are  yet 
living. 

Our  subject,  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth,  is  the 
only  member  of  the  family  who  ever  came  to  the 
West.  In  the  usual  manner  of  farming  lads,  his 
boyliood  days  were  passed,  and  his  education  was 
acquired  in  a  subscription  school,  which  he  at- 
tended for  about  three  months  during  the  year. 
When  quite  young,  he  began  to  earn  his  own  live- 
lihood. He  served  a  three-years  apprenticeship 
to  tiie  miller's  trade  in  Monongahela  City,  and 
was  then  an  apprentice  to  an  engineer  in  Pitts- 
burgh for  three  years.  He  received  $3  a  month 
and  his  board,  but  had  to  furnish  his  own  clothing. 
When  his  term  of  service  had  expired,  he  worked 
at  his  trades,  sometimes  as  an  employe  in  a  mill. 
and  again  as  engineer,  either  in  a  mill  or  on  a 
steamboat.  Thus  five  j-ears  of  his  life  were  pas.sed. 
In  1846,  he  came  to  Illinois,  boarding  a  transit 
boat  with  his  family  at  Pittsburgh,  and  all  the  wa^' 
down  the  Ohio  and  up  the  Mississippi  to  St.  Louis 
he  served  as  engineer  on  the  boats.  Locating  in 
Quincy,  he  was  employed  for  six  j-earsas  engineer 
in  the  mill  of  Wheeler  A-  Osborn.  In  18.').'>.  he 
rented  the  William  Iloman  mill,  which  he  operated 
for  two  years,  and  in  1857  he  removed  toMendon, 
where  he  operated  a  large  mill  for  sixteen  j'ears. 
The  capacity  of  that  mill  was  two  hundred  bar- 
n-Is of  Hour  per  day,  and  they  sent  out  about  one 
huiidicd  and  lift.\'  barrels  daily. 

Ill  IsCl.Mr.  Devore  purchased  eighty  acres  of 
land  on  st'ctioii  8,  Honey  Creek  Township,  two 
and  ii-lKilf  miles  east  of  iMendon,and  the  following 
year,  building  a  frame  residence  thereon,  he  lo- 
cated on  his  farm.  AVlien  he  abandoned  milling, 
he  turiuMi  his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits, 
and  now  oversees  his  farm.  He  was  an  expert 
workman,  thoroughly  understood  the  business  of 
milling,  and  liis  excellent  siieces.s  in  Ihnt  line  was 


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due   to  his   t'liU'rprise,   perseviTaiR'i'  and    wi-il-di- 
ri'ctod  pfforls. 

()ii    till-   •Jli'l   of   AlllIll^t.    \M'.K  ill   WashiiiyUni    ! 
Cotnity.  Pa..  Mr.  Dt-vorc  iii;ii  i  ii-d  KIk'ii.liiiics,  n  ii.i- 
livt'  of  tli:il  (.•ouiity.     Ilei  father  was  lioiii  in  Wak-s. 
Thoy  hccainc  the  paieiits  of  .six  children:  William,    i 
Sara'i.  Klinira.  Alex, and  <;eor;:e  and  Chailcs.  who 
arc  both  decc-Uicd.     The   mother  died   in  Meiidon. 
ill   1858,  Mr.  Dcvore  was  ajfain  nianie<l.  l-"el)ni:ii_v 
1,  IHOd.  in  ('onnellsvilie.   Kavelte  Coimty.  I'a..  his 
second  union  lieinir  with  Harriet    K.    Koiiik.     She 
was    a    native  of   the    Keystone   Stale  and  was  of 
(;erinan  deseent.     On  the  2mh   of  .luly.    l^Hl.slie 
was  called  to  her  final  rest.     Of   the   live  ehildreii 
born  of  that  union,  only  the   ehlest  and   youngest   ' 
are     now    livin<j.     Harriet    and    Knoeh.      .\ndrew, 
Martha  and  Ruth  A.  are  now  deceased. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Dcvore  is  a  Democrat  Imt  has  I 
never  lieen  an  otlice-seeker.  He  started  out  in  life 
for  himself  at  an  early  age,  and  from  that  time  was 
dependent  upon  his  own  resources.  He  had  a 
young  man's  bright  h(>pe  of  the  future  and  a  de- 
terniination  to  succeed,  and  .so  he  steadily  worked 
his  way  upward,  overcoming  the  obstacles  and 
difficulties  in  his  path  until  he  has  aci|uired  a 
handsome  property.  Although  now  in  liis>eveiity- 
foiirth  year,  he  is  still  hale  and  hearty.  His  life 
has  been  an  upright  and  honorable  one.  and  there- 
by he  has  secured  the  coulidence  and  good-will  of 
all  with  whom  he  has  l>een  brought  in  contact. 


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^^ OHNKI.irS  (;KSNKK  VoI.K.  Among  the 
[ll  most     noted    and    repie.-eiitati ve     men    of 

^^^T  Qiiincy,  stands  the  name  of  ('oineliu>  (ie^- 
iier  Volk,  whose  high  reput.'ition  and  material 
pro?perity  came  .is  the  reward  of  unusual  natural 
abilities,  industriously  applied.  He  was  born  in 
Essex  County,  N.  V..  September  .-),  1822,  to  the 
union  of  <;:irrett  and  Klizabelh  ((iesner)  Nolk. 
Originally  the  \'olk  family  eame  from  the  land  of 
the  Rhine,  (iermany,  but  the  gr.-iiidfathi-l-.  .Vbraiii 
\olk.  was  an    ••.•uly  settler  of   New  Jersey,  having 

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eiiULTiated  to  this  cniinliy  at  an  early  dale.  He 
wa>  .1  lievolutionary  soldier,  was  taken  prisoner 
and  sent  to  ICngland  and  dierl  in  prison.  lie 
married  .a  French  lady. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Ihh  ii  in  Harrington, 
Uergeii  County.  N.  .!.,  December  I.  I78S,  and  was 
reared  on  a  farm  in  that  Stale.  He  was  a|ipien- 
ticeil  to  learn  the  stone-carving  trade  aixl  worked 
at  this  in  the  old  city  hall  on  the  angle  of  Hroad- 
wav  aiul  Chatham  Slieets.  New  York.  The  last 
))iece  of  work  he  performed  was  in  carving  one 
of  the  six  Corinthian  capitals  of  the  old  city  hall. 
He  was  in  the  War  of  1812  and  was  on  duty  at 
Staten  Island.  He  became  very  wealthy  and  was 
intimately  .ic(|uainted  with  .h>hn  .lacob  Astor  and 
was  a  friend  of  Martin  \'an  liuren.  He  died  in  the 
year  IHf!2.  The  mother  of  our  suiijecl  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Knickerbocker  slock  and  her  ances- 
tors were  early  settlers  of  Manhattan. 

Cornelius  (<.  Volk,  the  .seventh  in  order  of  birth 
of  twelve  children,  eight  sons  and  four  daughters, 
was  about  four  years  of  age  when  his  father  moved 
to  Long  Island.  ;ind  he  remembers  many  incidents 
that  liap|ieiic(l  aliout  lh;it  time.  His  father  was 
one  of  the  largest  breeders  of  line  trotting  horses 
on  Long  Island,  and  was  also  the  owner  of  several 
farms  in  New  York  Slate,  where  he  kepi  fine 
blooded  imported  stock.  He  sold  his  pro|)erty  in 
the  Kmpire  State,  and  sul)senucnlly  moved  to 
Berkshire  County,  .Mass.,  settling  near  the  little 
town  of  Olemlale  on  the  floiisatonic.  There  the 
vtiuthfnl  days  of  our  subject  were  spent,  and  until 
thirteen  years  of  age  he  attended  the  district  school. 
Later,  he  entered  the  Old  Stcme  .Vcndemy  at  Lanes- 
borough,  Herkshire  County,  and  while  there  was  a 
schoolmate  of  .losh  Hillings  (Henry  Shaw),  .\ftor 
this,  he  altelKleil  the  old  Lancaster  ScIkm)!  at  .\l- 
banv,  N.  v..  one  winter,  ami  while  there  Zachary 
Ta\lor.  with  lil.-ick  ll:iwk  and  a  number  of  Western 
chiefs,  pa.ssed  through  .VIbany  <»ii  their  way  to 
Washington.     This  was  in  the  winter  of  \Mn. 

Ill  ix.'!7.  our  subject  iimveii  with  his  parents 
to  .Vvon,  on  the  Oenesee  Kiver  in  New  York,  ami 
there  atleiuled  school  for  two  winters.  In  the 
spring  of  1 8.'P,t.  he  returned  with  his  pareiit.s  to  the 
old  liay  Slate,  traveling  on  the  Lrie  Canal.  In 
the  fall  of  the  same   year,  he  again  went  to  Avon, 


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N.  Y.,  where  he  made  his  home  with  liis  eldebt 
brother.  Tiiere  he  tooiv  his  fust  lesson  in  the  art 
of  marble  chiseling  anil  from  the  first  showed 
marked  ability, soon  becoming  master  of  the  eliisel. 
During  the  w'inter  of  1839-40,  he  went  with  his 
elder  lirother  to  Bethany,  Oenesee  County,  N.  Y., 
and  there  worked  nntil  1842,  when  he  was  called 
to  Coburn,  Canada,  to  execute  a  piece  of  work  for 
Capt.  Hiley,  of  the  British  navy.  Although  only 
twenty  years  of  age  at  that  time,  young  Volk  was 
considered  one  of  the  finest  workmen  in  the  United 
States.  lie  was  solicited  by  parties  to  go  to  Georgia 
t<i  work  and  was  offered  ^8  per  day,  but  declined 
on  .account  of  the  prevailing  fevers  in  the  South  at 
that  time.  \Vhile  in  Bethan3',  Jlr.  Volk  made  his 
home  with  Dr.  .Jonathan  K.  Barlow,  whose  daughter 
afterward  became  his  wife.  The  mother  of  Mrs. 
A'olk  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Honor  Douglas, 
was  a  native  of  Brandon,  Vt.,  and  an  aunt  of 
Stephen  A.  Douglas,  tiius  making  Mrs.  Volk  an 
own  cousin  of  that  noted  man.  She  was  a  lady  of 
cultivated  taste  and  noble  character. 

Our  subject's  marriage  to  Miss  INIartha  L.  Barlow 
occurred  in  Bethany,  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  on 
the  8th  of  June,  1845,  and  the  ceremony  was  per- 
formed by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Byron  Sunderland,  late 
Chaplain  of  the  United  States  Senate.  Mr.  Volk  is 
one  among  the  many  heirs  to  the  contested  estate 
of  Anneke  Bogardus,  upon  which  now  stands 
Trinity  Church,  and  for  which  the  heirs  are  still 
contesting.  Our  subject  came  toQuincyin  1848, 
but  has  been  a  freijuent  visitor  to  other  cities  of  the 
United  States  for  the  study  of  art  and  for  the  com- 
parison of  master  works.  He  has  sent  work  to  the 
finest  cemeteries  throughout  the  United  States. 
He  is  no  copyist,  but  is,  in  evcrj'  sense  of  the  word, 
original  in  his  works,  knows  no  schools  or  masters, 
and  is  tndy  a  representative  man  in  his  profession. 
Among  the  most  elaborate' pieces  of  sculpture  and 
arc'hitccture  is  his  ideal  bust  of  "Embodied  Puritv," 
a  poem  in  and  of  itself,  in  Grecian  marble,  which 
the  press  has  placed  among  the  finest  conceptions 
in  ideal  creation.  Theodore  Tilton,  in  1868,  while 
in  Mr.  A'olk'sstudio,  said,  in  speaking  of  the  ideal 
bu.st  (tailed  ''Sweet  Sixteen,"  •'!  have  seen  much  of 
this  work  while  on  my  travels  through  Europe, 
bill  have  not  seen  so  nnicli  portrayed  in  one  figure 


as  is  manifested  in  this  one  piece,  it  being  beyond 
my  conception  in  the  Held  of  beauty." 

Mr.  \'olk's  designs  for  the  Lincoln  and  Elijah  1'. 
Lovejo_\'  nioiiuments  have  been  pronounced  by 
the  best  scholars  of  the  land  masterpieces  in  original 
creation.  They  are  a  complete  history  of  the  anti- 
slavery  cause,  giving  its  labor  and  the  consumma- 
tion of  the  same;  they  are  symbolic,  emblematic  and 
suggestive  in  their  details  of  history,  giving  the 
past  and  inescnt,  and  foreshadowing  the  future. 
The  following  is  taken  from  the  Alton  Te/ograjih 
of  .luly  H).  18G7:  '•Among  the  most  noted  men 
connected  with  the  Lovejoy  Monument  Associa- 
tion were  Theodore  Tilton,  of  New  York;  Rev. 
Henry  Ward  Beecher,  D.  D.,  of  Brooklyn  ;  and  Wen- 
dell I'hillips, of  Boston.  Mr.  C.  G.  Volk, of  (^uincy, 
being  present,  was  requested  to  make  a  rough 
draught  of  such  a  monument  as  he  deemed  suitable 
for  the  consideration  of  the  Directors.  One  design 
represented  the  cross,  suggestive  of  the  labor  which 
was  performed  in  that  early  day  by  Elijah  P.  Love- 
joy;  while  to  Lincoln  was  given  the  crown,  or 
the  victory  and  the  triumph,  the  consummation 
of  the  struggles  of  the  former,  it  being  in  form 
a  star  cluster,  called  l\y  the  press,  'the  star 
monument.'  In  studying  the  designs  of  these 
two  monuments,  Mr.  Tilton  said:  'Mr.  Volk,  they 
are  a  hundred  years  ahead  of  the  time.'  He  fur- 
ther said:  'If  you  could  but  live  to  see  the  time, 
there  is  not  a  doubt  luit  what  they  will  be 
built  and  appreciated.'  Dr.  Patterson,  professor 
of  languages  at  the  college  in  Alton,  III.,  where 
Mr.  ^'olk  exhibited  these  works  to  the  faculty  and 
professional  men  of  the  city,  ex-Govs.  Palmer 
and  Wood  being  present  also,  remarked:  'All  I 
have  to  say  is  simiily  this — I  would  not  take  from 
nor  add  to.'  " 

Mr.  Volk  was  also  the  designer  for  the  Sol- 
diers' Monument,  which  he  placed  in  [losition  in 
Woodland  Cemetery  at  (^uincy,  in  the  fall  of 
18G7.  On  the  4th  of  July,  188.3,  the  statue  of  John 
Wood,  Governor  of  Illinois  and  the  Father  of 
Quincy,  was  unveiled,  Mr.  Volk  holding  the  post 
of  honor.  The  above-mentioned  statue  of  ex-Gov. 
John  Wood  stands  in  Washington  Park.at  (^uinc}-. 
Mr.  Volk  has  the  commission  to  execute  a  bust  i^f 
the  lute  Mrs.  Hatch,  of  (.^uincy, 


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Mr.  Volk  is  a  National  rr()liil)itif»iiist  in  politic.-. 
Ilo  :in(l  lii.s  family  Imld  nu'inlHTsliip  in  tin'  Baptist 
t'liiiic-li.  altli<>u;;li  lie  is  no  sectarian  luit  luoad  and 
liU'ial  in  his  viows.  Ik'  is  a  man  of  j;ran(l  pli.v- 
!-i(ini'.  well  pri'served,  lompi-rati-  in  his  haliit.s  and 
enjoys  the  Ijesl  of  health.  Tt)  Mr.  and  Mrs.  NOlk 
have  Ix-en  l>oi-n  two  sons:  Henry  1!..  foreman  of 
the  HiirUtw  torn  I'hmter  Works,  of  (ininey;and 
Cornelius  (lesner,  .Ir.,  who  i.s  senior  niemher  of  the 
firm  of  \olk.  .lones  \-  .McMein.  joli  printers  in 
(^uinoy.  Mr.  Volk  resides  at  No.  207  Vermont 
Street. 


L1\KK  II.  (OLLl.NS  lias  di>|.iayi'd  much 
1  enterprise  and  ability  in  carryin<>  on  liis 
Vtj/''  l)usines-s  operations  as  a  general  merchant, 
and  has  won  for  himself  a  high  place  among  the  men 
of  his  class  in  the  village  of  Liherty.  He  has  a 
neatly  fitted  up  estalilishment,  which  is  .stocked 
with  all  goods  necessary  for  the  country  and  vii- 
age  household,  and  hy  courteous  treatment  of  cu.s- 
toniei-s  has  liuilt  up  a  good  trade.  Among  his  ex- 
cellent traits  of  character  are  a  sturdy  self-reliance, 
thrift,  and  ca[iacity  for  doing  work  well,  and  they 
have  been  important  factors  in  placing  him  in  Ins 
pre.sent  comfortable  circumstances. 

.\  native  of  this  State.  Mr.  Collin.'-  was  born  in 
Naples,  Scott  County,  in  18;{.^,  whither  his  parents 
had  removed  in  1832.  He  was  two  years  of  age 
when  brought  to  Columbus,  .\dams  County,  this 
State,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Collins  resided  for  two 
veal's,  and  then  loi-ated  in  Liberty  Township,  where 
Oliver  H.  giew  to  mature  years.  He  receive<l  a 
common-school  education  in  a  subscription  school, 
and,  being  an  ajit  pupil,  gained  n  good  knowledge 
of  books. 

He  of  whom  we  write  is  one  of  a  family  of  nine 
children  liorn  to  Michael  and  Caroline  (  Hlakeman  ) 
Collins,  natives  of  Connecticut.  The  parents  came 
to  the  Prairie  State  and  were  married  in  M.nilison 
County,  where  the  father  of  our  subject,  in  com- 
j>any  with  his  four  brothers,  Amos,  Kraslus,  W'ill- 


i:im  anil  Fiederiik,  w.is  engaged  in  the  raanufac- 
lure  of  malt  licpiors.  Soon  aftei-  Lyman  IJeecher 
beg:in  lii>;  crusade  against  Inteinpeiance.  they  were 
convinced  of  the  evil  connected  with  the  manu- 
facture of  whi.skey,  and,  selling  their  m.achinery. 
lliey  turned  their  brewery  into  a  tlouring-mill.  The 
beautiful  village  of  Collinsville.  which  was  named 
in  liipiior  of  his  brothers,  through  their  intlueiu-e 
was  free  from  the  sale  of  whiskey  for  forty  years. 
Collins  Itro*.  hail  the  honor  of  erecting  the  first 
steam  gristmill  in  this  State,  which  was  located  at 
Naples. 

The  lady  to  whom  Oliver  II.  tollins  was  mar- 
ried in  lH.")j  was  Miss  Laura,  daughter  of  George 
Pond,  and  to  them  have  been  tnirn  three  chihh-en: 
Amos  M..  who  is  engaged  in  business  in  the  vil- 
lage of  Liberty;  Clara,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Wagner,  whose 
husband  is  part  owner  in  the  store  with  our  sub- 
ject: and  Harry  W.  Our  subject  followed  farming 
pursuits  all  his  life  until  the  year  1882,  when  he 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  at  Liberty,  and 
has  won  for  himself  an  assured  jtosition  among 
its  business  men. 

.Mr.  Collins  and  his  family  are  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  and  for  more  than  twenty- 
eight  years  he  has  been  Superintendent  of  the 
Sunday-school  and  has  filled  the  oHice  of  Klder 
since  18G."i.  His  social  (|ualities  give  him  popularity, 
and  his  kindly  spirit  and  energetic  ways  insure 
the  friendship  of  his  more  intimate  asst)ciates. 
Throughout  his  entire  career,  he  hits  sh(»wn  him- 
self to  be  alive  to  the  duties  and  responsibilities 
of  citizenship,  ami.  in  politics,  always  casts  a  Re- 
publican vote. 


1^.^  r.MNKR  I".  ROSS  is  the  oldest  millwright 
S*s^  of  the  city  of  (^iiincy,  and  is  considered  an 
exceptionally  fine  and  skillful  mechanic, 
and  through  his  own  exertions  has  become 
po.-ses>edof  a  competency.  He  was  lM)rn  in  Niible- 
boroiiijh.  Lincoln  County,  Me..  February  17.  181<i. 


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a  son  of  Danfel  Ross,  who  was  born  in  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  and  became  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812. 
He  went  to  Maine  when  yonng.  wliere  he  became  a 
tiller  of  the  soil,  first  in  Lincoln  County  and  after- 
ward in  Somerset  County,  dying  in  the  latter  coun- 
ty at  the  age  of  ninety-three  years.  In  politics,  he 
was  a  Henry  Clay  Whig  His  father  was  born  in 
this  country,  of  .Scotch  descent.  The  mother  of 
Sumner  V.  Ross.  Mary  Caldwell,  was  first  married 
I.)  a  Mr.  Boardnian.  then  to  Mr.  Ross.  She  came  of 
an  old  Hay  State  family  and  was  born  in  Ipswich. 
Her  death  occurred  at  the  age  of  seventy-four 
years. 

Sumner  F.  Ross  was  one  of  nine  children,  and 
in  the  duties  of  farm  life  he  received  a  thorough 
training  in  his  boj'hood  days,  and,  like  the  major- 
ity of  farmers'  boys,  received  his  first  scholastic 
training  in  the  district  schools,  but  later  supple- 
mented this  by  a  few  j'ears'  attendance  in  the 
Waldo  Count}'  Academ}'.  At  the  age  of  twenty, 
he  began  teaching  school,  but  soon  abandoned  this 
calling  to  become  an  apprentice  at  the  millwright's 
trade,  at  which  he  worked  for  three  years  in  Free- 
dom. He  superintended  the  building  of  several 
large  mills,  and  in  the  fall  of  1854  came  to  t^uincy, 
111.,  as  he  considered  that  this  Western  country 
offered  a  lietter  field  for  a  young  man  of  push  and 
energy  to  make  a  reputation.  He  had  also  been 
advised  to  this  course  by  his  doctor,  his  health 
having  failed.  He  came  iiere  by  railroad  and 
steamboat,  and  so  beneficial  did  lie  find  the  climate 
that  he  was  soon  enabled  to  again  commence  mill- 
wrighting,  becoming  a  Superintendent  of  that  bus- 
iness. He  erected  mills  at  Hannibal,  Clarksville, 
Piitsfield,  Mcndon,  Rockport  (Ark.)  and  Sherman 
(Tex.),  three  in  Wisctmsin,  besides  others,  all  of 
which  were  substantially  built  and  were  a  credit  to 
his  genius.  He  has  done  a  great  deal  of  work  for 
Hill.  Smith  &  Co.,  and  is  a  skillful  mechanic.  He 
has  a  l)eautiful  home  in  Quincy,  finely  located  at 
'So.  222  South  Tiiird  Street,  his  lot  having  a  front- 
age of  ninety-three  feet.  His  house  was  erected 
in  18fi.'),  and  is  in  an  excellent  stale  of  preserva- 
tion. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  Sclicf,  .Mc,  in  18i(), 
t:^  Miss  Kliza  .\.  Bradford,  u  native  of  Farmington. 
.Me,     'I'liey  have  four  eliiUlren    living:  Lorcng  T., 


a  dry-goods  merchant  of  Brookfleld,  Mo.;  AbbieL., 
Mrs.  Provine,  of  Macomb,  111.:  Adah  E.:  and 
Charles  .S..  head  book-keei)er  in  a  laundry  in 
(Quincy. 

Socially.  Mr.  Ross  is  a  member  of  the  Indepen- 
dent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  he  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Methodist  P^piseopal  Church.  Po- 
litically, he  has  always  been  a  Republican  and  cast 
his  vote  for  John  C.  Fremont  for  the  Presidency, 
having  cast  his  first  vote  for  William  Heurv  Har- 
rison in  1840.  Mr.  Ross  has  lived  a  very  useful 
life  and  has  been  a  model  Ameiieau  citizen,  patri- 
otic, public-spii-ited,  law-abiding  and  honorable. 
In  the  domestic  circle,  he  is  kind  and  considerate, 
and  in  social  life  is  esteemed  for  his  many  noble 
qualities  of  heart  and  head,  lie  lias  given  to  his 
children  the  heritage  of  an  honorable  name,  which 
is  rather  to  be  desired  than  great  liches. 


'i  I    I  I 


EUBEN  J  ALEXANDER,  who  is  engaged 
f  in  farming  and  stock-raising  on  section  2(), 
North  East  Townshij),  is  a  native  of  this 
county.  He  was  born  in  1843,  and  comes 
of  a  family  of  Irish  origin.  His  father  was  born 
in  Virginia  in  18118,  and  in  \>^'^'^  emigrated  to 
■  this  county.  Purchasing  land  from  the  Govern- 
ment upon  which  not  a  furrow  had  been  turned  or 
an  improvement  made,  he  began  its  development, 
and  in  course  of  time,  acre  after  aci'e  was  placed 
under  the  plow,  and  soon  well-cultivated  fields 
yielded  to  him  abundant  harvests.  In  1841,  he 
married,  and  unto  himself  and  wife  were  born  five 
children:  The  first  son,  Daniel,  b(nn  in  1841,  is  a 
farmer;  our  subject  is  the  next  younger;  Thomas, 
born  in  1845,  wedded  Miss  Elizabeth  Burke,  and  is 
an  agriculturist  in  this  county;  JNIargaret,  born  in 
1847,  died  in  ISIll:  Ouy.  born  in  is.')2.  died  in 
1889. 

The  bo\hood  days  of  our  subject  were  (luietly 
(lassed  upon  the  home  farm,  his  time  being  si>ent 
ill  farm  lalior  or  in  attendance  at  the  district 
schools;  but  ;ifter  the  lireakiii"  out  of  IJu^  late  war, 


Dij^y  <^,  ^^^a^uy 


PORTltiUT  AND  HIOGKAI'IIK  Al.    KKfOUD. 


IS- 


at  tho  iiiji'  iif  twenty  veais,  lie  ilomicd  tlie  liliie  iiikI 
eiili'ieil  tlie  x'lvicc  a.-^  a  iiit'inl>cr  iif  the  Kinlit v-liist 
Illinois  Infnntiy,  in  wliicli  he  reiniiinod  until  the 
close  iif  the  war,  when  he  was  honoralilv  ilischarjied. 
in  IHC").  lie  then  returned  to  his  home  and  re- 
sumed farmiui;. 

In  IHC.T,  Mr.  Alexaniier  was  married,  luil  his 
wife  died  in  \H7:\.  Two  ehildren  had  lieeii  horn 
of  their  union,  hut  both  are  now  <leec'ased.  Kva, 
Uirn  in  IHdH,  died  in  IHC,;);  and  ( )sear  (!.,  horn  in 
I.S71.  died  ill  IMT.'i.  Mr.  .Mexander  was  ajfaiii 
Miariie<l.  in  1M77,  his  seeonil  union  lieint;  with 
Sopliia  lliirke. 

After  the  war.  Mr.  .Mexander  returned  to  the 
South  and  for  seven  years  made  his  home  in  Miss- 
issijipi.  Me  then  aj^ain  earne  to  .\daiiis  (oiinty, 
and,  purchasinij  a  farm  of  fifty- four  acres  of  land, 
gave  his  time  and  attention  to  its  develoimieul 
for  live  years,  lie  has  siiU'C  made  other  jiunOiasps, 
and  now  has  a  laiuje  farm,  well  imiiroved.  1 1  is 
eomplete  in  all  its  a|ipoiiitiiu-iits  and  the  neat  ap- 
pearance of  the  place  indicates  the  thrift  and 
enterprise  of  the  owner.  In  addition  to  the  care 
and  culiivatiuii  of  the  land,  he  engages  in  stoek- 
raisin>r.  m.nUiiig  a  s])eci:dty  of  .Short-horn  cattle,  of 
which  he  has  a  line  herd,  lie  has  led  :i  liusy  and 
useful  life,  yet  has  found  time  to  serve  his  feliow- 
t^(wiismeu  in  some  ollieial  positions.  In  politics, 
he  is  a  supporter  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  for 
twenty  years  has  lieen  a  memlier  of  the  I'leshyter- 
ian  Church.  His  success  in  life  has  been  achieved 
through  his  own  effort.--,  and  he  may  well  be  termed 
a  self-made  man. 


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'^OllN  H.  CLASS.  .Vmoiii;  the  prominent 
manufactories  of  (^iiincy  i>  that  of  the  Menke 
<(;<M'iinni  I'laiiin;f  .Mill  t'ompany,  which  was 
established  in  tH:U  by  Mr.  Hiinson.  I'lic 
title  of  the  lirni  afterwaril  became  ISiinson.  .Menke 
.V  Co.,  and  still  later  was  changed  to  .Menke  A- 
(•rimm.  In  18Hl.it  was  made  a  stock  company-, 
with  .1.  II.  Menke  as  President.  The  latter  died  in 
IMH'.t,  and  oui  siibji'ct,  .lohn  15.  (Jlass.  -iicceeded   t<i 


tlie  presidency.  1 1 llier  otiiceis  being  l-red  .Menke. 

X'ice-president :   .\.  Havse,  Secretary;  and    II.  F.    .1. 

I    Hieker, Treasurer.   The  company  manufactures  $:is||, 

doors,  blinds,  boxes,  and  conducts  a  general  plan- 

intr  mill  with  the  latest  anil  most  hi^lilv  improved 

I   inacliinei'v,  employing  lifty-llve  men.     They  make 

'    a  speci.'ilty  of    pine    stairs,  store    lixtnres    and    ice 

boxes. 

Mr.  (xIass  is  a  native  of  the  I'rairie  St.ate.  lioin 
in  <Juincy  .luly  il.  IK  lit.  and  is  the  only  son  of 
■loliii  15.  and  .\nna  M.  ((Jrampe)  (Ihiss,  early  .set- 
tlei-s  of  Qiiincy.  The  father  wxs  a  man  of  much 
enterprise  and  ambition,  and  followed  the  occu- 
pation of  a  llorist  for  many  years  inthi.*  city.  His 
j  death  occurred  in  lHol.  lie  was  a  [uiblic-spirited 
;  citizen  and  took  an  active  interest  in  all  enter- 
prises c»f  a  laudable  natur*-.  ()ui-  subject  w.as 
educated  in  the  parochial  schools  of  <^uincy.  and 
at  an  early  age  showed  a  marked  t.aste  for  busi- 
ness. From  IMC?  until  IKdit,  he  w.as  cli-rk  for  II. 
Ording,  of  i^iiiiic\ ,  and  from  lH(j!i  to  IKT.'i  he  was 
ill  partnership  with  that  gentleman.  In  IH7.'!, 
having  purchased  .Mr.  Ording's  share  in  the  busi- 
ness, our  subject  assumed  full  control  and  .soon 
after  admitted  Mr.  Farrell.  the  linn  name  then  bp- 
coniing  (JIass  A-  Farrell.  This  connection  con- 
tinued until  18711.  when  Mr.  (JIass  sold  his  interest 
to  Mr.  Farrell. 

In  \HH\.  our  subject  became  book-keeper  for 
the  Menke  A-  Grimm  Planing  Mill  Company,  and 
continued  in  that  capacity  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
.Menke.  which  occurred  on  the  2f!th  of  September, 
1889.  .\t  that  time,  our  subject  was  made  Presi- 
dent, which  po>itioii  he  still  holds.  In  the  year 
1H74.  he  was  united  in  marriagt'  with  Miss  Anna 
Ohnemus,  a  native  of  •^uiiicy.  and  the  daughter 
of  Matthew  ( )liiieiiius,  a  siieee.ssful  businessman 
and  a  representative  citizen  of  t^uincy. 

The  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  (1  Lass  has  been  ble.s.sed 
by  the  birth  of  the  following-named  children:  .lohn 
Clemeiis,  born  .\ui;iist  II,  |H7.'>;  .Viiiiie  Therisa, 
October 'iH.  1M77;  Mary  Hernadiiia,  .September  2(i. 
|m7'.I;  Claia  Meriha,  February  l.'».  IMH2:  .Mary 
llenriette,  .\ugusl  2.'),  I8H4:  Charles  Lawrence, 
August  1;'),  ISHCi;  an<l  Mary  .Juliana.  February  17. 
\HX\>.  The  family  residence  is  at  No.  IPil  .Maine 
Street. 


486 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


lu  polilifs.  Ml.  (ilass  is  a  pronounced  Democrat, 
and  at  all  times  advocates  the  principles  of  that 
party.  For  two  j-ears  he  lield  the  position  of 
Assistant  Assessor,  and  in  whatever  capacity  he 
has  been  called  upon  to  serve  has  had  at  heart  the 
progress  of  the  city  and  the  interests  of  his  fel- 
low-citizens. He  and  his  wife  are  faithful  members 
of  St.  Boniface  Catholic  Church,  and  are  well 
known  for  their  benevolence  and  liberal  support 
of  all  important  enterprises. 

Mr.  Glass  stands  ver\'  high  in  liusiness  circles  and 
has  an  enviable  financial  record.  He  is  possessed  of 
more  than  the  average  ability  as  a  business  man, 
has  sound  judgment,  and  is  highly  esteemed  by 
all.  His  life  of  industry  and  usefulness  and  his 
record  for  honesty  and  uprightness  have  given 
him  a  hold  upon  the  community  wliich  all  might 
well  desire  to  share.  Tlie  enviable  position  which 
the  city  of  Quincy  enjoj'S  to-day  as  an  industrial 
and  mercantile  center  is  due  to  the  energy  and 
ability  of  such  men  as  our  subject. 


So~ 


II.  IJACOX,  who  is  engaged  in  general 
merchandising  in  La  Prairie,  was  borii  in 
Missouri  in  1825,  and  is  a  .son  of  lienjamin 
and  Elizabeth  Bacon,  the  former  born  in 
A'ermont  in  1795,  and  the  latter  in  North  Carolina 
in  1799.  Their  family  numbered  the  following  chil- 
dren: Alvin  G.,  born  in  Missouri  in  1822.  is  man  led 
and  resides  in  Iowa;  Nancy  1^..  born  in  1828,  died 
in  1847;  Louis  E.,  born  in  183(1,  died  in  18.')9;  Ben- 
jamin F.,  born  in  1832,  died  in  1887;  Margaret, 
born  in  1834,  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  S.  C.  Moss; 
llirani  M.,  born  in  1836.  is  married  and  resides  in 
Hunlsville,  111.;  William  IL,  born  in  1838,  makes 
his  home  in  this  State;  and  Mary  Ellen,  born  in 
1841,  is  the  wife  of  E.  G.  Hoyt. 

Tiie  father  of  this  family-  emigrated  to  Illinois 
in  1836,  locating  in  Hancock  County,  where  he 
purchased  an  improved  tract  of  one  hundred  and 
sixt}'  acres.  He  was  a  prominent  and  influential 
citizen,  and  after  his  removal    to    Missouri  served 


as  County  Clerk.  He  then  embarked  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  until  his  removal  to  Illinois  in 
1848.  when  he  formed  a  partnersliip  with  A.  G. 
Bacon  in  a  general  store  at  lluntsville.  111.,  and 
in  18,56  formed  a  partnership  with  IJ.  II.  Bacon  in 
the  mercantile  t)usincss  at  La  Prairie,  III.  He 
died  in  1860,  and  his  wife  died  in  1884. 

R.  H.  Bacon,  whose  name  heads  this  record,  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  at  ]SIeKen- 
drce  College,  of  Lebanon,  111.  Completing  his 
education  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  learned  the 
tanning  trade  in  Ruslnille.  111.,  and  commenced 
the  tanning  business  for  himself  in  Astoria,  Fulton 
C(.)unty,  111.,  in  1843,  cari-ying  on  oi)erations  in 
that  line  for  six  years.  He  then  added  a  flouring- 
mill  in  ISiJO.  and  in  18.')1  a  sawmill,  but  in  18.')6 
sold  out  the  liusiness  and  moved  to  La  Prarie,  III. 
After  coming  to  La  Prairie,  in  18.')6,  he  was  in 
[larlnershii)  with  his  father  until  the  latter's  death. 

In  1847,  Mr.  Bacon  was  married  to  Miss  Char- 
lotte E.  Giiftin,  who  was  Ijorn  in  New  York  in 
1823,  Their  family  numbered  six  children:  Alice 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1848,  w.as  married  and  died  in 
1878;  Eliza  Ellc!i,  liorn  in  18,")(i,  was  married  and 
died  in  1872;  Edward  li.,  born  in  18.52,  mar- 
ried Miss  Jennie  Walden  and  is  a  merchant  of  La 
Prairie;  EfHe  E..  born  in  18;)o,  is  the  wife  of  A. 
B.  Hurke.  Carlton,  Ijorn  in  18.')7,  married  Annie 
Bently  and  resides  in  La  Grande,  Ore.  He  was 
graduated  from  Rush  Medical  College  in  1883, 
and  is  now  a  )iioniinent  physician.  Lillia,  born 
in  18.i9,  is  the  wife  of  L.  E.  Thomas,  a  resident  of 
(iolden. 

JSIr.  Kacon  is  engaged  in  general  niercliandising 
in  La  Prairie  and  keeps  a  well-stocked  store.  By 
his  fair  dealing  and  courteous  treatment  he  has 
received  a  liberal  patronage  and  is  now  enjoying 
an  excellent  trade.  He  is  also  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  owns  a  highly-improved  farm  of  three 
hundred  acres,  valued  at  *6.)  per  acre,  Ilim.self 
and  wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Church 
and,  socially,  he  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason. 

In  politics,  our  subject  is  a  Repulilican,  and  has 
been  honored  with  a  number  of  pulilie  offices  of 
trust.  For  twelve  years  he  served  as  Assessor  of 
North  East  Township,  was  also  Collector  of  Taxes 
and  School  Trustee.     Mr.  Bacon    is  a    highlv    re- 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIornjAPITirAL  RKCORD. 


487 


spt'i'ted  citizen  of  the  coinnuinity  where  he  makes 
his  luinie.  and  his  stcrliiiji  worlli  has  won  liiin 
nianv  frii'nds.  Ills  life  has  l>een  a  siicfpssful  one. 
owing  to  his  industrious  and  well-directed  efforts. 
His  perseverance  and  "rood  nianajretnent  have 
won  him  a  handsonu'  cunipt'tence.  and  he  is  now 
classed  among  the  wealthy  citizens  of  the  coiimni- 
nitv. 


L«^r^ll().\l  As  |;AI  l.i:V.  nlired.  was  l.nni  in  I'u- 
r(^\  land.  Cuinlicrland  (  now  Androscoggin  ) 
V^  founty.  Mc..  Oetolier  M.  1H17.  Mis  father. 
Levi  Uailey,  was  horn  in  what  is  now  Anlmrn,  Me., 
April  9,  IT'.tl.  Ilis  grandfather,  Thomas,  was  born 
in  Newhmy.  .Mass..  Fehruary  H.  174(>.  and  his 
ureal-graiidfalluT.  Kdnuind,  was  horn  in  the  same 
old  town  of  Newhuiv  November  10,  ITH'.  Tlie 
fanidy  came  fmin  Kngland  about  the  year  IG.So. 

'I'he  grandfather  moved  to  what  is  now  the 
town  of  Auburn,  Me.,  during  the  Hevolution- 
ar\'  War.  and  engaired  in  lumbering,  .\boul  the 
year  18(H(,  he  removed  to  the  town  of  I'oland,  Me., 
and  settled  on  what  is  now  known  as  Hailey 's  Hill, 
and  died  at  l>aile\  ville.  Me.,  in  1811.  lie  wasone 
of  the  leading  men  in  the  .section  of  country 
where  he  lived.  Levi  Bailey  inherited  his  father's 
rocky  farm  in  I'oland.  where  he  lived  until  183."). 
lie  then  removed  to  the  town  of  I'hillips,  Jle., 
where  he  lived  for  twenty  years,  and  afterward 
located  in  .Vnburn.  5Ie.,  where  he  died  in  .March, 
18(i7.  He  was  a  Deacon  in  the  Congregational 
Church,  as  had  I)een  his  father  and  grandfather. 
Ili^  wife  was  Nabliy  Haskell,  who  was  born  in 
.Minot,  Me.,  .March  12,  I7'J1.  Her  father,  William 
Haskell,  came  from  Kingston.  Mass.  .She  died  in 
May.  1 8(1'.).  She  and  her  parent.s  ha<l  been  ncailv 
life-long  members  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

Our  subject  was  the  second  of  eleven  children, 
and  he  had  no  advantages  for  an  edu<'ation  ex- 
cept those  obtained  in  the  common  schools  of  that 
.suite,  during  two  or  three  months  in  the'  winter. 
Shortly  :ifter  he  was   twrnty-one   years   of   age,  he 


left  home  on  foot,  with  his  entire  outfit  and  assets 
tied  up  in  a  cotton  handkerchief.  He  went  to 
ISoston.  Mass.,  and  workc<l  on  a  farm  and  in  a 
brickyard  in  the  vicinity  until  latf  in  the  fall, 
when  he  started  for  Illinois  with  a  young  man  by 
th<'  name  of  Drake;  arriving  at  liiiffalo.  N.  V., 
they  disagreed  as  to  the  route  they  should  go  and 
separated.  Mr.  liailey  stopped  in  Ceaiiga  Coiiiit  v, 
Ohio,  and  taught  school  during  the  winter  of  IH.'i'.t- 
10.  Karly  in  the  spring,  he  traveled  to  the  Ohio 
River  and  t(M)k  deck  p.ossage  on  a  steamboat  to 
Cincinnati,  thence  to  .St.  Louis  and  up  to  (^niiicv, 
arriving  in  the  latter  city  March  20,  18(0.  He 
w;ilked  tuit  to  Columbus,  then  a  tlourishing  village, 
and  secured  a  school  two  miles  west  of  the  now 
village  of  Camp  I'oint.  He  taught  school  for  live 
years  with  but  little  loss  of  time. 

In  tlie  fall  of  1K4.'?.  .Mr.  liailey  bought  a  (piarlcr- 

[  section  of  land,  on  a  part  of  which  he  now  resides, 
and  a  part  is  now  the  village  of  Camp  I'oint. 
This  section  of  country  at  that  tiuie  was  sp.arselv 
settled,  and  most  of  the  settlers  lived  in  cabins. 
.\fter  breaking  up  and  fencing  forty  acres  of  land, 
our  subject,  .March  13,  l«lj,  married  Rebecca 
1*.  Seatoii,  a  native  of  Jefferson  County,  Ky.,  and 
a  ilangliter  of  Richard  and  Nellie  .Seaton,  both  of 
Kentucky.  They  came  here  in  183.'(  and  farmed 
in  this  township.  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Hailey  had  but 
one  child,  who  became  the  wife  of  .\.  15.  Kelle\ .  a 
jeweler  of  Camp  I'oint,  and  died  in  18fi2. 

Mr.  Bailey  was  a  Whig  in  politics  and  anti- 
slavery,  and  he  became  a  Republican  on  the  f<jinia- 
tion  of  that  party.     He  formerly   took  an   active 

;  part  in  politics.  Imi  of  late  years  does  not.  Since 
1872  he  has  been  more  or  less  an  independent. 
He  was  electe<I  the  first  Sui)ervi»or  of  the  township, 
and  has  served  fifteen  yeai-s.  He  was  Chairman  of 
the  County  Board  for  five  years,  and  h.as  been  a 
.lustice  of  the  I'eace  between  thirty  and  fortv 
years;  having  tried  many  ca.ses  and  pei  formed  man  v 
marriage  ceremonies.  In  1868.  he  establisheil 
Bailey's  Bank,  and  continued  in  the  business  for 
thirteen  years,  but.  owing  to  ill  heallli,  sobl  out. 
He  has  been  for  thirty-live  yearsadininistrator  and 
executor  of  many  estates.  In  the  winter  of  1«73, 
in  connection  with  (ieorge  W.  Cyrus,  he  com- 
nieiiceil  the  publication  of  the  Caiiip  I'oint  ./»<»///((/. 


488 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


Iiut  three  years  afterward  sold  out  to  Mr.  Cyrus. 
Jn  1855.  lie  laid  out  a  i>art  of  the  town,  and  lias 
built  quite  a  number  of  houses  and  stores,  erected 
a  foundry  and  m.aehine  shop,  and  with  three  others 
built  the  Caseo  rtourintj-mill. 


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-#?. 


^.|  LEXANDKR  BELL  COWAN.  This  affa- 
(@^J|i  ble  young  man  is  the  Manager  of  the 
Western  L^nion  Telegraph  office  of  Quinc^', 
and  is  also  the  Superintendent  of  the 
telegraphic  service  of  the  Quincy,  Omaha  it  Kan- 
sas City  Railroad,  and  is  a  member  of  tlie  Cowan 
&.  Stalil  Electric  Company,  jobbing  and  retail  deal- 
ers in  electrical  supplies.  He  is  the  son  of  .John  D. 
Cowan,  a  native  of  Tennessee,  and  his  grandfather 
also  named  John  came  from  Scotland  and  settled 
in  Tennessee  on  a  farm.  This  ancestor  fought  with 
Jackson  at  New  Orleans  in  the  War  of  1812.  He 
was  a  great  hunter,  and  was  killed  by  the  accident- 
al discharge  of  his  gun.  FIc  was  a  Presbyterian, 
as  are  so  many  of  our  Scotch  residents.  His  son, 
John,  who  was  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  reared 
in  Tennessee,  and  after  the  death  of  his  parents 
went  to  Louisiana,  and  became  overseer  on  a  plan- 
tation, and  was  in  the  Seminole  War.  He  then 
came  to  Kentucky,  and  there  attended  Princeton 
College, and  graduated  from  there  with  the  degrees 
of  A.  B.  and  M.  A.  He  then  turned  his  mind  to- 
ward teaching  for  a  time,  but  finally  entered  the 
Presbyterian  ministry.  His  first  charge  was  at 
Evansville,  Ind.,  and  the  next  at  A'irginia,  Cass 
County,  111.,  and  after  that  he  went  to  Macon 
County.  He  was  obliged  to  resign  this  preferred 
life  on  account  of  ill-health.  He  then  engaged  in 
farming,  at  which  he  grew  better,  but  died  in  1865. 
The  mother  of  our  subject  was  born  in  Macon 
County,  111.,  and  was  named  Mary  Hell.  Her  father 
was  Alexander  W.  Hell,  who  was  born  in  1812, 
and  came  from  X'irginia  to  Illinois  in  1826,  when 
fourteen  years  old,  and  located  in  Macon  County 
on  a  farm.  When  the  Black  Hawk  War  broke  out, 
he    volunteered    in     Aliralmin  Lincoln's  company. 


and  fought  through  that  war.  He  then  settled  on 
a  farm,  and  continued  there  until  he  retired  from 
active  labor.  He  now  resides  at  Mt.  Zion,  where 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Cluirch.  The 
mother  of  our  subject  resides  at  Decatur.  Her 
only  son  beside  our  subject,  Robert,  is  the  Post- 
master at  Harrisburgh,  Ark. 

Mr.  Cowan,  of  this  sketch,  was  reared  by  his 
mother  until  he  was  thirteen  j'ears  old,  when  he 
was  sent  to  High  School  at  Evansville,  Ind.,  but  he 
did  not  remain  to  graduate.  He  returned  to  his 
home  and  learned  telegra[)liing  in  the  Mt.  Zion 
railroad  office,  and  in  six  months  he  had  a  posi- 
tion as  night  operator  at  Hervey  City,  where  he 

remained  two  months,  and  was   then    stationed  at 

I 

Williamsburg  as  opeiator  and  agent.  .4fter  six 
months,  he  went  to  Midland  City  as  agent  and 
operator,and  eight  months  later  he  was  made  chief 
clerk  in  the  Superintendent's  office  in  Decatur.  This 
|)lace  he  resigned  and  went  to  Minnesota  on  atrip, 
and  upon  his  return  he  came  to  t^uincy,  August 
16,  1882,  as  an  operator.  In  six  months  he  was 
placed  on  the  Associated  Press  work,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1886,  when  he  was  appointed  Mana- 
ger. Since  that  time  he  has  had  charge  of  the 
office  here,  and  in  tlie  last  five  years  the  business 
has  nearl}-  doubled.  It  now  is  the  third  largest  in 
Illinois,  and  there  are  eight  operators  and  sixteen 
employes. 

Mr.  Cowan  is  also  a  partner  with  (ieorge  H. 
Stahl  in  the  electric  supply  business,  of  which  the 
jobbing  and  retail  department  was  started  in 
February,  1892.  He  is  also  Sui)erintendent  of  the 
telegraphic  business  of  the  (.^uincy.  Omaha  & 
Kansas  City  Railroad. 

The  talented  gentleman  of  whom  we  are  writ- 
ing was  married  in  this  city.  May  22.  1884,  to 
Eliza,  the  accomplished  daughter  of  Francis  Gausli- 
ell,a  native  of  France.  The  latter  was  an  early  set- 
tler here,  and  in  this  place,  his  daughter,  now  Mrs. 
Cowan,  was  born.  Three  lovely  children  grace 
their  home:  Francis.  Mary  and  Anabel.  They 
reside  at  No.  16  Kentucky  Street,  and  attend 
the  Presbyterian  Churcli,  being  among  its  most 
valuable  members. 

Mr.  Cowan  believes  the  principles  declared  bv 
the  author  of  the  Declaration  of    lndei)en(lence  to 


PORIRAir  AND   liloCItAPriKAL  UK(()KI). 


CM 


be  tilt'  I'oiiPil  oiie.s  for  llie  lili/.ciis  4)f  llic  I'liiliil 
States  1(1  follow.  luMicc  lip  is  .1  stanch  Di-iiioriat. 
IK'  is  Secietaiv  of  IaiiiIiciI  Lotljro  No.  (•;')!),  A.  F. 
A-  A.  M.  He  is  a  vi'iv  shirwd,  fai-s»'piiisi  biisiiipss 
man.  and  woulil  ensure  sucees-s  to  any  cnteriirise 
1(1  wlilcli  he  gave  his  altPntion. 


ON.  IKtl'i;  S.  |)A\  is.  \u\  consideration 
of  the  Bar  of  (^niney  that  faiU'<l  to  make 
mention  of  the  services  or  personality  of 
Hon.  IU)])e  S.  Davis  would  be  defective,  for 
he  has  been  a  resident  of  this  city  for  the  past 
forty  years  and  has  gained  a  place  among  the  fore- 
most members  of  his  ])rofession.  •  lie  was  born  in 
Parma,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y.,  November  2:?,  1«2«. 
His  parents  were  Hope  and  IJet.-iey  K.  Davis,  early 
settlers  of  ^Monroe  County,  N.  V..  where  they  en- 
gaged in  farming  nine  miles  west  of  Rochester. 
The  father  was  born  in  Lee  County,  Ma.ss.,  March 
29,  1784,  one  of  eleven  children  born  to  Samuel 
and  Priscilla  Davis.  His  death  occurred  at  his 
farm  near  Parma,  September  2',t,  IH\:\.  The  pa- 
Icrniil  great-grandfather  wa.s  Hope  Davis,  of  Lee 
County,  Mass.,  in  which  State  he  resided  until 
alMjut  180.5.  wlien  he  removed  with  his  family  to 
the  State  of  New  York.  He  had  been  a  Revolu- 
titMiary  soldier  in  his  time  and  wa.s  active  in  >\\\i- 
porting  the  cau.^e  of  the  Colonists. 

Hope  Davis,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  married  to  Uetsey  Elizabeth  Scott,  and 
in  1810  .settled  on  a  farm  near  Rochester.  N.  Y.. 
later  becoming  a  Captain  in  the  War  of  1m|2. 
Hon.  Hope  S.  Davis  w:us  left  fatherle.-is  at  the  age 
of  fifteen  year?,  and  was  soon  after  .sent  to  Hrnck- 
(lort  and  Lima  Seminaries  near  Rochester.  In  I  lie 
winter  of  his  seventeenth  year,  lie  l>egan  teaching 
in  a  country  school  and  continued  this  ficcupation 
for  live  winters.  He  was  an  intelligent,  studious 
and  industrious  j'oung  man,  and  s(Mjn  formed  the 
idea  of  turning  his  talenl.s  in  the  direction  of  law. 
On  the  2.'»th  of  .March,  I8.')0,  he  entered  a  law  oflice 
for  the  purpose  of  preparing  for  admission  to  the 
Bar.  and  studied   to    good    purpose  under  Messrs. 


BiiwiH'  ,V-  llciiedicl.  111  the  .\icadc  Building  in 
Rochester.  On  llie  7tli  of  September,  lH,')2.hewas 
examined  before  .liidges  Strong,  Harris  and  (iard- 
iier  at  Roche-ler.  pa.^scd  a  sii<-cessfiil  exaininatiuii 
and  was  admitted  to  pr.acticc  in  the  courts  of  the 
State  of  New  York.  He  soon  alter  resolved  to  seek 
a  new  held  of  operations  in  the  ^Vest.  and  for  this 
purpose  left  the  lioliie  of  his  youth  on  the  1  Itli  of 
O.  toiler.  IM.')2,  and  on  llif  llili  of  ilie  fulldwiiig 
November  ilccided  that  (^uiiicy.  111.,  offereil  excel- 
lent inducements  to  a  young  man  of  push  and  en- 
terprise to  make  fame  and  fortune  for  himself,  and 
here  opened  a  law  olllce.  In  .lanuary,  185.0,  he 
returned  to  his  ohl  home  on  a  visit,  and,  while  in 
.Monroe  CViiiiity.  he  was  married  to  Miss  Persis  C, 
dniiglilcr  of  Kdwin  S.  Root,  of  Chili,  Mnuide 
C'ouiit\.  With  lii.>  young  bride,  he  returned  to 
t  ^iiiiicy.  and  atonce  entered  actively  upon  the  prac- 
ticc  (if  his  profession. 

In  If^.'ifi,  .Mr.  Davis  was  appointed  by  the  City 
Council  Superintendent  and  Kx-Ollicio  Treasurer 
fif  the  Public  .Schools  of  (^uincy.  which  ollice  he 
lilled  ill  a  most  satisfactory  manner  for  six  years. 
During  that  time,  he  secured  the  (la-S-sage  of  a  special 
act  of  the  Legislature  creating  the  Board  of  Kdu- 
cation  for  the  city,  and  established  the  first  High 
School  under  a  graded  system.  In  18,08,  he  formed 
a  law  partnership  with  .liidge  Pliilo  A.  (ioodwin, 
which  continued  until  the  hitter's  death, .seventeen 
years  later,  the  firm  being  known  as  (ioodwin  A: 
Davis.  It  has  not  been  chance,  nor  the  coinbin.M- 
tion  of  any  circumstances  of  happy  accident,  that 
I  has  placed  Mr.  Davis  where  he  is  to-day.  Natural 
ability,  haril  work,  and  a  courage  that  was  never 
put  out  of  countenance,  contributed  to  his  success. 
Few  men  iiave  more  pei-sistently  and  exclusively 
dev(ilc<l  tliein.selves  to  their  profession  than  has 
he.  His  devotion  has  been  of  that  chivalric  kind 
uhiili  li.as  led  him  to  follow  it  with  genuine  ardor, 
not  alone  for  the  rewards  it  has  brought  him,  but 
because  he  has  found  it  an  occupatjon  perfectly 
congenial  to  his  Ijustes.  He  never  undertakes  a 
case  unless  he  issati>tied  that  he  has  a  fair  legal 
defense,  and  then  he  becomes  one  of  the  most  per- 
.  sisteiit  fighter--,  .-ind  no  defeat  is  aivepted  jus  final 
until  a  rleci>ion  i-  reached  in  the  court  of  hibl 
'   resort. 


492 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


In  the  fall  of  1862,  Mr.  Davis  was  elected  totlie 
ottice  of  Supcrinteudent  of  llie  Count}'  Schools  for 
four  years,  and  in  this  capacity  he  acquitted  him- 
self witli  distinguished  aliility.  In  1803,  he  was 
elected  City  Alderman  to  represent  the  .Sixth  Ward 
of  tiie  city,  and  in  187(;  he  was  elected  to  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  tlie  State  of  Illinois,  as  a  member 
of  the  House  of  Re|)rescntalives,  fiom  tlie  C^uincy 
District.  He  became  the  author  of  an  important 
general  law  of  the  Slate,  known  as  the  Voluntary 
Assignment  Law,  under  Chapter  II  of  tlie  Revised 
Statutes  of  Illinois.  In  July.  1H8(;,  his  wife  died, 
leaving  her  laisliand  and  eight  surviving  children, 
five  daughters  and  three  sons,  to  mourn  her  k>ss, 
the  youngest  of  her  childien  being  Wait  H.  Davis, 
who  was  at  that  time  about  twelve  years  of  age. 

In  conclusion,  it  may  be  .said  that  Mr.  Davis  has 
gained  a  foremost  place  among  the  members  of  the 
legal  profession  of  his  section,  and  that  his  public 
career  is  marked  by  good  judgment,  correct 
principles  and  keen  discernment.  Personally,  he 
possesses  the  qualities  which  have  surrounded  him 
with  warm  friends,  whose  loyalty  he  warmly'  re- 
ciprocates. 


,J  LBERT  H.  SCHMIDT,  M.  I).  The  future 
^EM  prosperity  of  the  United  States  depends 
upon  its  young  people,  and  in  exact  pro- 
portion a.s  they  are  enterprising,  industri- 
ous and  lionorable,  will  the  nation  flourish.  It  is 
always  a  pleasure  for  the  student  of  human  nature 
to  read,  as  it  is  for  the  biograi)her  to  record,  the 
events  in  the  lives  of  those  whose  intelligence  and 
piogre.ssive  spirit  have  placed  them  in  the  front 
ranks  of  the  citizenship  of  their  communities.  The 
gentleuian  of  whom  this  sketch  is  written  is  num- 
bered among  the  prominent  residents  of  Quincv, 
where  he  lias  made  a  name  and  place  for  himself 
as  a  member  of  the  medical  fraternity. 

Since   Dr.  Schmidt  commenced   the  practice  of 
liis  profession  in  (.Quincv,  he  has  won  the  honors  of 


the  skillful,  conscientious  physician,  and  has  a 
large  and  lucrative  practice,  which  requires  his 
close  and  constant  attention.  He  w.as  the  recipient 
of  the  best  of  medical  instruction,  both  from  his 
father,  under  whom  he  read,  and  in  the  various 
schools  which  he  attended,  and  has  continued  the 
pursuit  of  knowledge  regarding  the  profession, 
making  various  scientific  investigations  and  in 
other  ways  gaining  broader  knowledge  regarding 
medical  discoveries. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  February  18,  18.58.  His  father,  Dr.  .John 
•Schmidt,  was  a  native  of  Bavaria.  (Tcrmany,  whence 
he  emigrated  to  America,  locating  in  Baltimore  in 
1839,  and  continuing  his  practice  for  several  years 
in  that  city.  He  i)racticed  there  and  in  other 
places  until  18.57,  when  lie  came  to  (^uincy,  and  has 
since  continued  to  make  his  home  in  the  Gem  City. 
His  marriage  united  him  with  Mi.ss  Pauline  Meise, 
who  emigrated  to  the  I'nited  .States  when  a  young 
girl,  coming  hither  from  her  native  countiy,  Ger- 
many. She  is  the  daughter  of  Leopold  and  Julia 
iSIei.se.  and  still  survives,  her  union  having  been 
blessed  by  the  birth  of  five  children. 

In  Quincv,  whither  he  accompanied  his  parents 
in  childhood,  our  subject  attended  the  common 
school,  and  later  entered  Chaddock  College,  a  well- 
known  institution  of  learning  located  here.  His 
literally  education  completed,  he  commenced  to 
read  medicine  under  his  father,  and  took  a  course 
of  lectures  in  the  medical  department  of  the  Mis- 
-souri  Medical  College,  from  wiiicli  he  was  graduated 
in  1879.  After  graduating,  he  went  West  to  Col- 
oraf'o,  where  he  engaged  in  silver  mining  at  Web- 
ster, and  sojourned  in  that  .State  until  .lune.  1883. 
Then  returning  to  Quincy,  he  commenced  to  prac- 
tice medicine,  and  has  since  resided  here,  devoting 
his  attention  to  his  duties  as  practitioner. 

Tlie  Doctor  is  popular  in  various  social  aii<l 
medical  organizations,  where  liis  genial  qualities 
and  recognized  ability  make  him  a  general  favtu- 
ite.  He  is  prominently  connected  with  the  .State 
Homeopathic  IMedical  .Society.  Socially,  he  is  iden- 
tified with  the  following  organizations:  <^uiiic3' 
Lodge  No.  296,  A.  F.  &.  A.M.;  Quincy  Chapter,  R.  A. 
M.;  El  Aksa  Commandery  No.  55,  K.  T.:  (^uinc\' 
Consistoiy  A.  eV:  A.  .S.  Rites; also  the  Royal  Arcanunu 


Pl^RTRAir  ANM   UK  M  i  ItAl'lIM  Al.    inX'ORD. 


4;t.1 


the  National  Union,  the  Select  Kniglits,  and  tiio  An- 
cient ( Jider  of  I'nited  Woiknion.  lie  is  a  nieniU'r  of 
llie  Adams  (oiiiitv  Ituildiii';  Soi-ietv.  in  wliicli  lie  is 
at  present  >ervinp  as  Treasurer,  and  is  in  other 
ways  eonnceted  with  prominent  assoeiations  of  the 
eommunitv. 

A  very  important  event  in  the  life  of  the  Doe- 
tor  was  his  inRrriaire.  whieii  occurred  M.iy  7.  ll<XI. 
and  united  him  with  Miss  Susie  K..  <lau<rhter  of 
W  .  t  .  \V.  Sterne,  and  a  native  of  Adams  County, 
where  her  entire  life  has  heen  passed.  Four  chil- 
dren have  heen  horn  to  tliem,  two  livini:,  named, 
re.spei'tively.  Florenc-e  fi.  and  Allwrt  II.,  .Ir.  The 
family  residence  is  an  attractive  alvide  with  heriu- 
tifiil  surroundin^rs.  and  is  liK-ated  at  No.  22ti  Nmlli 
Ki^hth  Street. 


*#^^-f^P=- 


FNKY  HAHTI.K'IT.  a  meinhcr  of  the  hank- 
ing tiriu  uf  liartlett  .V  Wallace,  of  Clayton, 
and  one  of  the  prominent  business  raen  of 
.,,^^_,  that  place,  waslMtrn  at  Kingston.  111..  Octo- 
lier  9,  1847.  He  comes  of  an  inlluential  fnmil.\-  of 
Knglisli  origin,  founded  in  America  during  early 
Colonial  days.  Ills  father,  Nathaniel  (Jorham 
Hartlett,  a  grandson  and  namesake  of  Nathaniel 
<iorham,  of  Ma.ssaehnsetts  (one  of  the  two  signers 
of  the  Constitution  of  the  Cnited  States  from 
M:i.s.sjichusetts),  was  horn  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in 
1791,  and  at  the.ige  of  seventeen  years  was  gradu- 
ated from  Philips'  .\cademy,  .\ndover,  Mass.  lie 
hecame  a  clerk  in  a  hardware  store,  where  he  re- 
mained for  .some  time,  leaving  that  position  to  l)e- 
eonie  a  clerk  in  the  Hecorder's  ( ittice.  of  Hostoii. 

After  several  years  spent  in  the  Recorder's  ( tllice, 
Nathaniel  (1.  Hartlett  went  to  Canada,  where  he 
resided  for  aUuit  fourteen  years, engaged  in  teach- 
ing sehotil  and  farming.  At  the  end  of  that  time. 
he  returned  to  Boston,  where  he  remained  a  short 
lime  and  then  emigrated  Westward,  locating  in 
Beverly  Township,  Adams  County,  III.,  in  \MX. 
In  1841,  he  married  I.AUra  Mills,  who  wrs  born  in 
Canton,  Conn.,   in  IHll.     The\' settled   on  a  farm 


near  Kingston.  111.,  and  lesided  there  until  18,')(i, 
when  they  removed  lo  LiU-rty  Township.  There 
they  lived  until  18('):t,  removing  in  .March  of  that 
year  to  Cl.ivton,  III.,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death,  in  November,  1871,  at  the  age  of  sevcnt\- 
four  years.  His  wife  survived  him  twenty  years, 
and  departed  this  life  in  Ciayton,  .lanuary  "i", 
lx'.t2,  aged  eighty-one  years. 

Of  the  brothers  and  sisters  of  .N.  i>.  Barlletl,  the 
f<dlowing  is  noted:  Relwcea  married  .Mr.  Nose,  a 
hardware  merchant,  of  Boston,  ami  to  them  were 
born  live  children,  one  of  whom  wa>  tin-  late  Judge 
lleiiiy  \ose,  of  Boston;  Catherine  was  the  wife  of 
the  Rev.  .lames  Wjilker,  for  many  years  rresidciit 
of  Harvard  College:  Henry  Barllett  was  n  leailiiig 
physician  of  Roxbiiiy.  M.-iss.:  CJeorge  was  lost  at 
I  sea,  while  engaged  on  a  merchant  marine  ves.sel; 
i  and  .loliii  C.  wiis  a  physician  and  resided  at  Chelms- 
ford, Mass. 

The  brothers  and  sisters  of  our  subject  are  as 
follows:  .lames  Bartlett.  born  in  Kingston,  111.,  in 
184"2.  married  Catherine  .Vyei-s  and  resides  in 
Wayne.  Neb.,  where  he  has  accumulated  a  coiisid- 
I'l'.Mblc  property,  being  a  large  land-owner  ami 
prominent  business  man.  He  served  three  years  dur- 
ing the  war.  as  a  member  of  Coiii|>any  K,  Seventy- 
eighth  Regiment  of  Illinois  I  nfantry.  Charles,  lM>rn 
in  1844,  enlisted  in  Company  K,()ne  Hundred  and 
Fifty-lirst  Regiment  Illinois  Infantry,  in  Febiuar\-, 
18(;,'),  and  died  at  Colninbiis,  (Ja.,  in  Oclol)er,  ISfl.'i, 
and  is  now  buried  in  the  National  Cemetery,  at 
.\ndei-sonville.  fia.  .Mary,  born  at  Kingston  in 
l«l.»,  died  at  Clayt^>n  in  Octoln-r,  Ih'.M.  never 
having  man ied.  .loseph  died  in  infancy.  I.auniC, 
born  in  Kingston  in  18.17,  married  Frederick 
Kunt/.,  of  Clayton,  and  resides  in  this  place. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the  common 
■H-hools  of  his  native  town  and  was  a  student  in  a 
private  school  at  I'ayson,  111.,  under  .Mr.  Wallace, 
for  one  year.  He  w.is  reared  on  the  farm,  but 
when  he  attained  his  majority  his  father  dispo>ei| 
of  hi*  f:irni  and  removed  to  Clayton  with  the  fam- 
ilv.  In  18(;y.  he  purchas<'<l  a  half-interest  in  the 
drug  busines,-  of  l.oyd  .V  .Miller,  of  Clayton,  suc- 
ceeding .Mr.  l.oyd,  and  remaine<l  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness for  nearly  five  years.  He  has  lieen  connected 
with  various  business  enterprises.     At  one  time  he 


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was  a  member  of  the  grocery  firm  of  A.  M.  Lackey 
&  Co.,  and  in  the  firm  of  Henry  Bartlett  &  Co., 
merchants.  lie  has  continiierl  his  business  career 
until  now  we  find  liim  engaged  in  conducting  the 
banking  business  of  Clayton,  as  a  partner  of  J.  R. 
Wallace,  under  the  firm  name  of  Bartlett  i<r  Wallace. 
This  is  one  of  the  leading  mone3'ed  institutions  of 
the  community,  and  the  enterprise  and  thrift  of 
the  members  of  the  firm  enable  them  to  conduct 
an  excellent  business. 

In  1H75,  Mr.  Bartlett  .married  Susan  M.,  daugh- 
ter of  Abel  M.  Lackey,  of  Lrown  County,  111. 
Unto  them  have  been  born  two  children:  Charles 
L.,  born  in  1879;  and  Bertha  E.,  in  1881.  The 
parents  are  widely  known  in  this  community  and 
rank  high  in  social  circles.  Their  home  is  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  residences  of  Clayton,  a  modern 
dwelling  containing  twelve  rooms.  It  was  erected 
bv  our  subject  at  a  cost  of  84,000,  is  tastefully  and 
elegantly  furnished,  and  supplied  with  all  the  com- 
forts and  many  of  the  luxuries  of  life. 

In  earl}'  manhood,  Mr.  Bartlett  united  with  the 
Baptist  Church  and  has  since  been  a  faithful  .and 
consistent  memlier.  He  takes  an  active  interest  in 
church  and  Sunday-school  work,  and  has  been 
Treasurer  several  terms.  In  politics,  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  his  ardent  adherence  to  the  interests  of 
his  part}'  ncme  would  ever  doubt.  He  has  served 
his  township  as  Supervisor  for  nine  years,  was 
Duector  of  the  School  Board  for  six  years,  and 
was  the  efficient  President  of  the  Town  Board  for 
one  vear. 


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\A-SIVA.  I).  MEHIAM.  It  is  impossible  to 
pl.ace  too  high  an  estimate  on  the  impor- 
tance of  the  real-estate  business  in  compari- 
son with  the  various  other  elements  of  commercial 
and  Ihiuncial  value;  certainly  none  other  rests 
iipdu  a  more  conservative  and  highly  honorable 
basis  as  regards  methods  and  trans.nctions.  There 
are  numerous  persons  who  [jursue  the  occupation 
of  real-estate  agents  with  credit  and    success,  and 


earn  a  well-merited  reputation  for  the  conscien- 
tious and  erficient  manner  with  which  the}'  con- 
duct affairs  intrusted  to  their  charge.  Among 
those  of  this  class  may  be  mentioned  Daniel  D. 
Meriam,  of  Quiney,  III.  Hew.as  born  in  Brandon, 
Vt.,  February  9,  1821,  to  David  and  Betsey  (Co- 
nant)  JMeriam,  the  former  of  whom  was  born  in 
Concord,  Mass.,  . January  28,  1760,  a  son  of  Isaac 
Meriam,  also  a  native  of  the  Bay  State,  where  he 
first  saw  the  light  of  day  in  173(1.  He  was  of 
French  Huguenot  stock,  but  his  early  ancestors  re- 
moved to  Scotland,  and  from  there  to  America, 
during  the  early  history  of  this  country.  The 
mother  was  of  Welsh  descent,  but  her  people  were 
residents  of  England.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  Conant,  and  bore  her  husband  nine 
children,  all  of  whom  are  deceased  except  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch. 

Daniel  D.  Meriam  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Brandon,  Vt.,  and  in  the  town  of  his  birth  he 
remained  until  he  attained  his  majority.  In  18.52, 
he  left  the  (^recn  Mountain  State  to  seek  a  home 
for  himself  in  the  far  West,  and  in  time  became  a 
resident  of  Wisconsin,  remaining  there  until  18;")7 
and  becoming  interested  in  the  lumber  and  mercan- 
tile business.  When  he  came  to  Quiney,  on  the 
26th  of  .lune  of  that  year,  he  embarked  in  the  lum- 
ber business  dealing  principally  in  pine  and  hard- 
wood lumber.  To  this  business  he  devoted  his 
attention  with  good  results  until  188.5,  when  he 
closed  out  the  business.  In  1887,  he  opened  an 
insurance  office  on  the  corner  of  Sixth  and  \er- 
mont  Streets,  north  of  the  Court  House,  where  he 
lepresents  some  of  the  prominent  insurance  com- 
panies of  the  country.  He  gives  his  attention  to 
the  real-estate  business  also,  .and  his  varied  ex- 
perience, keen  appreciation  of  values,  present  and 
prospective,  coupled  with  a  large  acquaintance 
with  business  men,  render  his  services  of  peculiar 
value  to  parties  dealing  in  realties. 

Mr.  Meriam  was  married  in  Pittsford,  Vt.,  to 
Sarah  W.  Spencer,  who  died  .luly  9,  1881,  having 
become  the  mother  of  three  children:  Cassius  M., 
Albert  S.,  engaged  in  the  liiml)er  business  in  Wis- 
consin; and  Ella,  wife  of  Charles  A.  Btonnough, 
a  prominent  merchant  of  California.  JNIr.  Meriam 's 
second  union  took  |)lace  in  tjuincy,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 


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T.  Hall,  a  iliuijjIiU'r  nf  Dr.  ( iotxlliiio,  of  Ivnrkfnid, 
111., ami  widow  of  Dr.  Hall,  liucomini;  iiis  wife.  Dr. 
( Joodliiio  was  one  *)f  llio  |iruinincnt  pliv.'<ici»ii.'' ff 
Illinois,  and  lifl|)i'd  to  organize  Knsli  Medical  Col- 
lege, wliieli  is  one  of  the  most  noted  ineiiieal  in- 
stitution!) of  the  I'nited  Stales.  Mr.  Meriam  is  a 
|)roniiiient  nienilier  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
( »dd  l-ellows.  and  helped  to  organize  the  lirsl 
Couneil  of  the  Hoynl  Arcanum  of  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois, and  was  made  (ieneral  Or.ator  of  the  (irantl 
Conneil  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  He  has  been  a 
representative  to  the  (liand  Lod-ie  of  tiie  State, 
and  has  in  olhei-  wa\s  lieen  prominent  in  the  or- 
Jiani/.ation.  lie  has  n  handsome  and  commodious 
hrick  house,  surrounded  by  a  beautiful  lawn, 
in  one  of  the  linest  residence  portions  of  the  city. 
He  and  his  wife  move  in  the  highest  circles  of  so- 
ciety, and  are  justly  considered  among  the  lust 
citizens  of  t^uincy.  They  are  ver\- charitaltly  in- 
clined, having  donated  substantial  aid  to  many 
religious,  charitable  and  educational  institutions, 
besides  giving,  in  a  (piiel  way.  many  useful  gifts 
to  the  need\'. 


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II.M.\.M  SIMMONS.  One  of  the  best 
/^/f|  farmers  of  this  favored  section  is  the  sub- 
'  '  ject  rif  our  present  sketch.  .\s  he  stands 
before  the  stranger  in  the  dignity  of  his  eighty- 
two  years,  and  shows  a  frame  of  wonderful  strength, 
with  a  height  of  .-ix  feet  and  two  inches,  we  are 
naturally  eager  to  learn  something  of  his  life.  He 
has  Ik-cii  a  man  of  might  in  his  day,  and  considered 
at  one  lime  that  the  cutting  of  two  and  one-half 
cords  of  wood  made  only  a  day's  work  for  him. 

The  father  of  our  subject.  (leorge  Simmons,  wa.s 
horn  in  I'cnn>yl\  ania.  on  the  banks  of  the  beauti- 
ful Sus(piehanna.  and  moved  when  a  boy  to  West- 
moreland County.  Ilisparent.s  went  farther  West, 
and  tinally  located  near  .Mliens.  Ohio,  long  Ijefore 
<  Ihio  iH'came  a  Stale  ami  wliile  Ihe  Inilians  Ntill  lived 
there.     The  self-reliant  niollier  of  our  sulijecl    was 


I  Margaret  .lackson.  a  native  of  I'ennss  1  vaiiia,  who 
came  to  (Hiio  with  her  p.arent-'-  when  a  little  girl. 
The  trip  was  made  on  a  Mat-boat  down  Ihe  Ohio 
Hiver,  the  usual  mode  of  transit  at  that  lime.  One 
of  the  brothers  of  Mr-.  Simmons  became  a  solilier 
in  the  War  of  1812,  .'iiiil    the   father   was   the   first 

\  representative  in  the  Ohio  Legislature  from  .Vthens 
County.  Mi..Iackson  was  one  of  a  party  of  twelve 
.sent  out  to  the  Wabash  Ki\er.  in  Indiana,  to  sur- 
vey the  ciuiiilry.  and  found  a  irrave  in  the  wil- 
derness. 

After  the  death  of  the  father  of  our  subject,  his 
mother  K-ft  their  log  Ikuisc  in  .\thens  County, sold 
her  farm  and  moved  to  Illinois,  where  for  a  time 
she  made  her  home  with  our  subject.  Subsequently, 
she  went  with  her  youngest  stm  to  Hancock  County, 
where  she  died  at  the  age  of  seventy  years.  The 
subject  of  oui'  notice  was  Ihe  second  of  a  family  of 
six  children,  and  was  born  .lanuary  21,  ISIl,  in 
Athens  County.  Ohio,  in  a  little  log  house.  He 
grew  to  manhood  on  a  faiiii.  where  he  had  the 
usual  experiences  of  the  farmer  boys  of  that  day. 
The  schools  of  the  time,  which  were  conducted  on 
the  subscription  plan,  afforded  meagre  opportuni- 
ties for  learning,  and  his  educational  advantages 
were  very  limited  in  consequence. 

Mr.  Simmons  was  married  in  1833  to  Klizabeth 
.Shields,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  who  was  born  in 
181 -1.  .^fter  his  marriage  he  rented  a  farm  in  .\tliens 
County,  and  two  years  later  lx»ught  the  place.  In 
1848,  he  came  to  Illinois  and  settled  on  his  present 
farm,  which  was  then  brush  land.  He  cleared  it, 
and  MOW  has  eighty  of  the  one  hundred  acres  under 
cidlivalion.  The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Simnxuis  died 
Februaiy  2(1,  18(;7.an<l  he  again  nmrried.  Ft'bruary 
21,  I8G;t,  his  bride  being  Mrs.  Klizabeth  I.ightfoot, 
nee  (Iray.  who  was  .a  native  of  Pittsburgh.  I'a.. 
and  a  daughter  of  .lohn  and  .Amelia  (lirittingham) 
(1  ray,  both  natives  of  Pennsylvania.  Her  father 
was  a  tailor  by  trade  and  was  a  soldier  in  the  War 
of  1812,  and  was  taken  [irisouer  in  C:niada.  .Mrs. 
Simmons  is  the  only  survivor  of  her  family,  and 
was  born  .Inly  II.  I.^2H,  m  Pillsburiih.  Her  lirsl 
husband  was  lieujamiu  l.iglitfoot,  a  native  of 
Philadelphia,  who  died  at  St.  I,«(uis,  Mo. 

.Mr.  Simmons  now  belongs  to  the  l{epubli<-an 
parly,  although   his    lirsl    vole    was  cast    for   (.ien, 


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Jackson  on  his  second  term.  In  1856,  lie  voted  for 
Fremont,  and  just  before  the  late  war  became  a 
Republican.  He  has  been  an  influential  man  in 
liis  section,  not  only  in  political  n  atters,  but  he  has 
served  as  School  Director,  Road  Commissioner, 
and  has  been  on  the  list  of  jurors.  He  belongs  to 
liie  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 


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EVI  DA^■IS,  a  representative  farmer  of 
Adams  County,  owns  and  ojjerates  two 
hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  land  on  sec- 
tions 17,  2ii  and  21,  Lima  Township.  This  is  a 
valuable  and  desirable  farm.  Its  well-tilled  fields, 
which  3'ield  a  golden  tribute  to  the  owner,  indicate 
his  thrift  and  enterprise,  and  the  many  improve- 
ments upon  the  place  stand  as  monuments  to  his 
good  management.  His  home  is  an  elegant  and 
commodious  frame  residence,  and  his  barns  and 
outbuildings  are  models  of  convenience.  The 
place  seems  complete  in  all  its  appointments,  and 
its  neat  appearance  is  an  index  to  the  character  of 
the  owner. 

Levi  Davis  was  born  near  llairisburg,  Cumber- 
land County,  Pa.,  February  18,  1828.  His  grand- 
father, Samuel  Davis,  was  a  native  of  England, 
who  emigrated  to  America  prior  to  the  Revolu- 
tion, locating  in  Harrisburg.  The  father  of  our 
subject,  John  Davis,  was  there  born  April  12, 
178().  AVhen  a  young  man,  he  learned  the  tailor's 
trade,  Init  later  in  life  became  a  railroad  contractor 
and  graded  a  section  on  the  Cumberland  Valley 
Railroad.  Deciding  to  try  his  fortune  in  the 
West,  he  came  to  Adams  County  in  18;);j.  For 
several  years  he  lived  retired  in  Payson.but  after- 
ward removed  to  ]\Ieiidon,  wliere  his  death  oc- 
curred in  1871,  in  the  eighty-fourth  year  of  his 
age.  He  served  as  .Sergeant  in  the  War  of  1812 
under  Gen.  Scott,  and  participated  in  the  battle 
of  Lundy's  Lane.  He  was  a  life-long  member  of 
the  Church  of  (iod,  and  was  one  of  nature's  iio- 
Vilemen.  He  married  Harliaia  Scliafcr,  of  ('\iiii- 
berland  County.  Pa.,  wiio  died  in  1831.     In  their 


family  were  twelve  children,  five  of  whom  are  yet 
living.  The  father  was  again  married,  his  second 
union  being  with  Barbara  Poorman.  Only  one  of 
the  five  children  yet  survive. 

( )ur  subject  was  the  tenth  in  order  of  birth.  In 
liie  pioneer  log  schoolhouses  he  acquired  his  educa- 
tion and  in  early  life  was  inured  to  the  hard  labor 
of  developing  and  cultivating  a  new  farm.  He  re- 
mained under  the  parental  roof  until  twenty  years 
of  age,  but  in  the  meantime  worked  as  a  farm 
hand  at  *6  per  month.  He  then  left  home  and 
began  serving  an  apprenticeship  to  the  carpenter's 
trade  in  Mt.  Pleasant,  Pa.  In  1851,  he  came  to 
Illinois,  and  worked  for  a  year  at  his  trade  in 
(^uincv.  The  following  spring  he  went  to  Cali- 
fornia, by  way  of  New  Orleans  and  the  Isthmus, 
reaching  his  destination  after  exactly  four  month's 
travel.  He  worked  in  the  mines  of  Southern 
California  from  July,  1852,  until  April,  1854,  re- 
ceiving 15.50  per  day  when  working  at  his  trade. 
He  also  followed  his  trade  for  about  two  months. 
His  Western  trip  proved  a  successful  one,  and  with 
enlarged  financial  facilities  he  started  homeward. 
Leaving  .San  Francisco  May  1,  1854,  he  returned 
by  way  of  Central  America  and  Pliiladeli)hia, 
where  his  gold  dust  was  coined. 

In  October.  1854,  Mr.  Davis  married  Jane  Bing- 
aman,  of  Adams  County,  Pa.,  in  which  State  her 
parents  were  born  and  reared.  Her  father  was  a 
stone  mason  and  plasterer,  and  died  in  Mt.  Pleasant, 
Pa.,  after  which  the  mother  came  with  her  family 
to  Illinois,  and  spent  her  last  days  in  this  county. 
Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  liave  been  born  six  chil- 
dren: Emma,  now  the  wife  of  Alfred  Bitlleton,  a 
farmer  of  INIarion  County,  Mo.;  P^lla,  wife  of 
Charles  Wallace,  a  farmer  of  Hancock  County, 
111.;  John,  deceased;  Frank  A.,  who  is  married  and 
resides  on  (he  home  farm;  and  Levi  and  Jennie  at 
home. 

On  his  marriage.  Mr.  Davis  located  in  McLean 
County,  111.,  purchasing  a  farm  in  Normal  Town- 
ship, where  he  resided  until  186(),  when  he  sold 
out  and  removed  to  Lima  Township,  Adams 
County.  Two  years  later,  he  purchased  his  pres- 
ent farm,  upon  which  he  has  made  extensive  im- 
provements, devoting  his  time  and  attention  ex- 
clusively \v    its    operation.     In    politics,    he    is    a 


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F)em()fiiit  and  !.••  !i  pioniinciit  ami  iiilhuMili.-il  mem- 
l>»>r  of  till'  |)«it.v  in  this  l<K'alitv.  He  lias  fiv- 
iHi<ntl\  iK'tii  <lfU'ji;atv  to  it;>  county  and  Conirress- 
ional  convonlions.  For  iiini'  vcars  lie  served  as 
.liistii-e  of  the  IVaee  of  Lima  'rownsliip.  for  four 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  County  Hoard  of 
Supervisoi-s,  for  the  loufr  period  of  twenty  years 
was  Si-1k)oI  Treasurer,  and  has  also  been  School 
Director  and  Hoad  Commissioner.  The  cause  of 
education  has  ever  found  in  him  a  warm  friend, 
and  while  connected  with  school  ollices  he  did 
effective  .service  in  its   interests. 

.Since  IHI'.t,  Mr  Davis  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Odd  Fellows'  society.  His  wife  holds  membcr- 
•.hip  with  the  Christian  Church.  Of  the  Adams 
County  Fair  A.ssocialion,  he  has  been  a  Direct<ir 
and  stockholder  for  several  years,  and  it*  success  is 
<lue  in  no  small  deirree  to  his  earnest  efforts.  We 
see  in  Mr.  Davis  a  self-made  man,  who  st;iited  out 
in  life  empty-handed,  but  by  hard  labor,  persever- 
ance an<l  well-directed  efforts,  he  has  aopiired  a 
handsome  property.  l'ublic-spirit«'d  and  progres- 
sive, he  is  a  valued  citizen  of  the  coinniunity,  and 
to  every  public  and  private  tiii>t  lie  i>   alike    true 


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Y  VIU  .s  II.  lU  KKi:,oneof  the  leading  and  in- 
fluential a<jriculturistsof  North  Fast  Town- 
''\^  ship,  residinjr  on  section  if!,  where  he  was 
lK)rii  on  his  father's  farm  in  this  l<K'ality  in  IH.'id. 
is  a  worthy  representative  of  an  honored  pio- 
neer family.  His  parent*  were  William  and  .M.-ir- 
^aret  Hiirke:  the  father,  a  native  of  N'iiirinia. 
was  born  in  1>*1:!,  and  the  mother,  a  native  of 
North  Cariilina,  in  IHIM.  The  family  is  of  St-olch- 
Irish  oriijin.  William  liuike  came  to  Illinois  in 
1831,  and  resided  in  Schuyler  County  until  1K.3G. 
when  he  came  to  this  county,  locatiiiff  on  the  farm 
of  eighty  acres  which  had  been  entered  from  the 
(iovernment  by  his  father.  The  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  .lolin  IJiirke.  on  coming  to  Adams 
County,  located  in  Clayton  'I'ownship,  on  a  farm 
of  two   hundred    acres,  but   increased   his   landed 


!  possession."  until  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  owned 
lifteen  liiiiidred  acres.  William  Hurke  began  tlie 
tlevelopnicnl  of  his  farm  and  continued  its  culti- 
vation the  rcniaiiKler  of  his  life.  He  became  (piite 
well-to-do.  and  .'it  his  death  owneil  six  hundred 
and  twenty  .Hcres  of  highly  improved  land,  which 
he  divitled  among  his  children.  He  was  called  to 
his  liiial  rest  in  Ihm:i.  and  his  wife  passed  away  in 
.lulv,  1«71.  They  were  the  parents  of  three  sons 
and  two  daiight<-rs:  F.li/.a  A.,  born  in  1841,  re- 
sides in  Ca.s.-  County.  .Mo.:  I'alrick  II..  burn  in 
is|:i,  died  ill  infancy;  .Sarah,  born  in  18  K!.  is  the 
wife  of  ( ieorge  W.  I'iiikeiis.  a  farmer  resirling  in 
Augusta.  III.;  .Andrew,  born  in  1h|h.  married  Miss 
Kflie  liacon  and  owns  a  large  sheep  ranch  in  Kan- 
sas; and  Cyrus  H.  conii)letes  the  family. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  has  knuwn  no  other 
home  than  that  of  .\dams  County.  In  the  usual 
manner  of  farmer  lads  he  was  reared  to   manhood, 

I  and  his  education  was  acquired  in  the  common 
schools  and  at  Abingdon  College,  where  he  pur- 
sued his  studies  foialnput  two years.  Tlironghoiil 
bis  business  career  he  ha-  fullowed  agricultural 
pursuits.  He  coninienced  farming  for  himself  on 
his  father's  iaml.  and  from  the  beginning  success 
has  attended  his  efforts.  Industry,  |)erseverance 
and  enterprise  have  characterized  his  life.  and.  by 
the  exercise  of  good  busines>  ability,  he  h.as  be- 
come the  owner  of  two  hundred  and  ninety  acres 
of  valuable  land,  which  yields  to  him  a  golden 
tribute.      He    also    engages    (piite   extensively    in 

i  st*)ck-raising,  and  in  this  branch  of  his  business 
adds  not  a  little  to  his  income. 

In  IKX.'i.  Mr.  ISiiike  was  united  in  marriage  with 
.Mr^.  I.illie  A.  liullei-.  and  by  their  union  two  chil- 
dren have  been  born:  ^\'illianl  .\.,  born  in  IH87, 
.•iiid  Ira  II..  liKin  in  IHK'.l.  H\-  her  former  marriage, 
.Mr».  Uiirke  had  two  sons,  Charles  and  Willie.  The 
parents  arc  both  membeisof  the  .Metliodi>t  Church, 
and  socially,  he  is  a  meml>er  of  the  .Masonic  lodge 
ami  the  ( >ild  Fellows'  .society,  of  I,a  I'l-.-iirie.  III. 
In  his  political  affiliations,  he  is  .■>  Kepnblican.  He 
lilled  the  oflice  of  .\s.-essor.  and  for  the  past  three 
years  has  been  Justice  of  the  I'eaee.  His  entire 
life  has  been  passed  in  .\danis  County,  and  those 
who  have  known  him  from  his  IhivIiooiI  an-  niim- 
bereil  aiiKuig  his  slaiichest    friends,  a   fact    which 


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indicates  the  upright  life  which  he  has  lived.  He 
i.s  known  throughout  the  community  as  a  man  of 
sterling  worth,  and  is  classed  among  the  re|jreseiita- 
tive  and  substantial  farmers  of  North  Kast  Town- 
ship, a  position  he  has  won  by  his  own  iiidustiious 
and  well-directed  efforts. 


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JOSEPH  WEBSTER.  One  of  the  most  valu- 
able and  highly  improved  farms  of  Adams 
County  is  owned  and  cultivated  by  the 
/  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  |)ara- 
graph.  It  is  located  on  section  !(!,  Concord 
Township,  where  general  farming  and  stock-rais- 
ing are  carried  on  successfully'.  Our  subject  was 
born  in  Cass  County,  this  Stale,  in  1846,  and  is  a 
son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Masterson)  AVebster. 
Their  family  numbered  four  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, three  of  whom  are  >et  living:  Daniel,  wiio 
served  for  three  years  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Fifteenth  Illinois  Infantry-,  is  a  Postmaster  in 
Morgan  County,  111.;  Thomas,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  Fourteenth  Illinois  Infantrv,  serving  for 
tJiree  years  and  three  months,  is  a  resident  of 
Cass  County,  111.;  our  subject  completes  the  fam- 
ily circle. 

A  glance  at  the  early  boyhood  of  almost  au\ 
farmer  lad  would  teli  us  the  early  history  of  our 
subject,  who  was  reared  upon  his  father's  farm. 
As  soon  asold  enough  to  follow  the  plow,  he  be- 
gan to  aid  in  the  cultivation  of  the  home  place, 
and  remained  under  the  parental  roof  until  four- 
teen years  of  age,  when  he  started  out  in  life  for 
himself.  He  worked  by  the  month  until  his  mar- 
riage, Marcii  11,  1868.  Farmingh.as  been  his  chief 
occupation,  and  in  following  agricultural  pursuits 
his  career  has  been  a  pi'osperous  one.  lie  first 
purchased  land  in  Cass  County,  and  at  different 
times  sold  and  purchased  farms,  making  his  home 
in  the  county  of  his  nativity  until  1882,  when  he 
came  to  Adams  County  and  bought  two  hundred 
and  thirty-five  acres  of  higlily  im|n-o\c(l  l:inil  in 
Concord  lownship,  Ihr  pMichuM'  jjricc  bcing$8,6(»U. 


This  is  one  of  the  model  farms  of  the  community, 
complete  in  all  its  appointments  and  supplied  with 
all  modern  conveniences.  In  connection  witii  the 
cultivation  of  his  land,  ]\Ir.  Webster  also  engaged 
in  stock-raising,  his  cattle,  horses  and  hogs  being 
ail  of  the  best  grades. 

In  1868,  Mr.  Webster  was  married  in  (ass 
County.  Unto  himself  and  wife  were  boin  ten 
children,  eight  of  whom  are  now  living,  four  son? 
and  four  daughters.  The  eldest  children  were  all 
well  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  are  tiiereby 
fitted  for  the  practical  and  responsible  duties  of 
life.  The  younger  members  of  the  family  are 
now  pupils  in  the  common  schools,  where  the}-  are 
being  carefully  trained. 

Mr.  Webster  is  ever  true  t<(  his  duties  of 
citizenshi|).  A  public-spirited  and  progressive 
man,  he  takes  an  active  interest  in  all  that  jier- 
tains  to  the  welfare  of  the  community  and  the 
promotion  of  its  leading  enterprises.  His  business 
efforts  have  been  crowned  with  success,  and,  as  a 
result  of  his  good  management,  his  enterprise  and 
business  ability,  he  lias  won  a  handsome  property 
and  ranks  among  the  well-to-do  agriculturists  of 
Concord  Township. 


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DDISON  L.  LANODON.  It  would  be  dif- 
"■  ficult  to  find,  at  least  within  the  city  of 
Quincy,  a  gentleman  more  highly  re- 
spected than  the  one  above  named,  who 
has  been  prominently  identified  with  the  public  life 
of  the  community  for  many  yeais.  He  possesses 
sound  judgment,  ripe  intelligence  and  an  accom- 
modating disposition,  which  qualities  have  made 
liim  useful  to  his  fellow-citizens,  and  have  gained 
for  bini  a  high  (ilace  in  their  regard.  He  is  well 
known  as  the  editor  of  the  Quincy  SatunJay 
Jificietr,  one  of  llic  leading  newspapers  of  Adams 
County,  the  success  of  which  is  due  to  his  ability 
and  tact. 

()ur   sul)jcc1    was    born    in    New    Haven,   Conn., 
.June  2M,  1814,  and   accoinpanicd    lii>   ['areiits,  Mr. 


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!iii(l  Mi>.  .1.  \\.  l/iii<;(kiii.  til  Cliiciiiiii  ill  1h1;i.  mihI 
llii'iT  llii'  cailiiT  yi'!ii>  (if  liis  lifi-  wt-ie  uiii'vciit- 
fiillv  passed  in  llic  usual  niutiiif  i>f  si'lmol-lmy  fx- 
isleni'i'.  In  IXIKI.  Iio  cniiic  to  <^uiney  ami  ciilcicil 
till'  ollicf  of  the  Whiii.  his  liist  work  lioiii'i  tlial  of 
odici'  lioy :  later.  Ill' cari'ifd  llif  soutlii'in  route  of 
papers  for  one  year:  jifterwanl  lieeaine  a  eoiiiposi- 
tol.  .-iik)  for  two  yeai-s  w.'is  eii<,'ai;e<l  in  >eltiliir  type, 
from  wliieli  ilepartnieiit  lie  was  liaii.-feiied  to  Joli 
wtM'k.  one  year  beinj;  spent  in  that  way. 

Keturnintr  to  ('liiratio.  Mr.  l.:in>,'iloii  took  a  full 
eoiirse  of  study  in  liryant  A-  Stralton's  (.'olie;L;e. 
and  thus  gained  a  }foort  coniinercial  education, 
lie  was  not  eontent,  however,  to  ninke  Cliieairo  his 
home,  and.  retiirninii  onee  more  to  the  (iem  City, 
look  eliarj^e  of  the  hooks  in  the  U7//f/  olHee.  eon- 
tinuini;  in  that  position  until  \M1.  when  the 
jiropei-ty  was  sold.  He  then  eiilt'ied  the  serviee 
of  the  (ioverniiieiii  a>  an  Inspector  of  l,i(pioi>, 
whieli  olliee  he  has  lit  Id  for  twenty-live  ye.ars,  and 
still  retains.  In  1«72,  he  founded  the  Saliirtlcu/ 
]{pn'en\  of  whieli  he  is  still  propiielor  and  whieh 
IS  one  of  the  alilest  journals  of  IliiiHii^.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  labor  involved  in  editiiiji  this  paper, 
he  has  published  nine  direct<n-ies  <if  the  eil\  of 
t^uiney,  several  eity  and  eouiity  histories,  and  is 
the  orifjinator  and  publisher  of  the  volume  en- 
titled Quincy  IllunlraM.  a  daiiit\-  and  allraetive 
iHiok,  containiiiu'  views  of  prominent  resideiiees 
and  business  establishments  of  the  plaee,  as  well  as 
It  description  of  its  principal  manufactories,  busi- 
nes>  houses,  etc. 

In  politics,  Mr.  l.aiigdoii  is  a  Kepiililieaii,  .-iiid 
hi-  iiirtuence  can  nhv.ays  be  depended  upon  to  for- 
ward the  interests  of  the  party.  For  twelve  ve.ars 
he  was  Secretary  of  the  .\dams  County  Republican 
Cential  Committee  and  .Vctiii};  Chairman  one  year. 
In  IKs:!,  he  wa>  elected  clerk  of  a  i.'rou|)  of  com- 
mittees in  the  Illinois  Mouse  of  Representatives 
and  served  durinjjr  the  continuance  of  the  Thiit\- 
tliird  (Jeneral  .Vsseiiibly.  Diirinj,'  the  followin-r 
year,  he  >eived  .-is  Speci.al  Commissioner  appointed 
by  (iov.  Ilaiiiilton  to  represent  the  Slate  of  Illinois 
at  the  I)eii\er  (Colo.)  Kxpositioii.  In  .liiiie,  1HH«. 
he  was  electeil  one  of  the  .Vs-ist.'int  Serfjeant-.-it- 
Aniis  of  the  Republican  National  Convention  at 
Chicago.     .V.'>  a  w idi'-iiwake,  eulurprisinjj   mau.   he 

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is  a  potent  factor  in  adxancinj;  the  prosperity  of 
<^•uincy,alld  is  repiided  as  one  of  it.s  most  desir- 
able citizens.  Mr.  I,aii};don  is  thor(>u<r|ily  domestic 
ill  his  tjistes;  he  cares  nothing;  ffu'  society,  but 
devotes  his  leisure  monients  t<^i  the  happiness  of  his 
wife  and  two  <l:iuirhters.  and  to  the  care  of  his 
beautiful  home,  a  lianie  that  is  lilled  with  every 
modem    invention    for  comfort    .•ind   convenience. 


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KFFKRMi.N  1'.  l.li.Hr.NKR.  I'roprielor  of 
the  New  Orleans  House  of  (^uincy,  was  Ixjni 
in  I.atMaiiije,  Lewis  County.  Mo..  .lanuary 
12,  l)S(;;i.  His  father.  .Monla<j:ue  (;.,  was 
born  ill  Kentucky,  whither  his  parents  had  removed 
from  Pennsylvania,  tlu'ir  native  St.-ile.  M.  (i. 
I.iifhtner  was  a  blacksmith,  as  wius  his  father  before 
him,  and  was  one  of  the  early  scttlci-s  of  LaGrange, 
where  he  had  a  blacksmith  shop.  He  li.ns  now  re- 
tired from  active  work  and  lives  with  his  son. 
His  wife,  (divia  Speiice.  a  n;itive  of  Kentucky, 
died  in  l.athanjife  in  IM'.Kt.  They  had  eleven  clul- 
dren,  eii;ht  of  whom  are  yet  living. 

The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject  were  passed  on 
the  banks  of  the  Mississippi  River  at  La  (irange. 
lie  received  his  eilucation  in  the  common  schools, 
but  began  to  learn  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith  in  his 
father's  smithy  when  only  thirteen  years  tif  age. 
As  his  father  was  somewhat  deaf,  hi'  attended  to 
the  business,  which  was  conducted  under  the  name 
of  Lightner  A-  Son.  He  continued  with  his  father 
until  he  was  twenty-one  years  old.  after  which  he 
engaged  in  the  liipior  business  for  one  year.  He 
then  seltleil  in  McDonoiigh  Coiint\-.  111.,  .•iiicl 
remained  there  for  two  years,  when,  in  1><77,  he 
(•■■line  to  <^uinev  and  entered  the  brewery  busines-*, 
luiiningthe  bottling  dep:irlnieiit  in  the  Windsor 
Ihewery  for  nine  months,  when  he  bought  out  .1. 
K.  lliiniell.of  the  Ni'W  ()rleans  Hou.se,  and  has 
been  the  proprietor  of  it  ever  since.  It  is  a  good 
"one  dollar  liousi',"  conducted  on  stpiaie  business 
principles  and  is  well  and  favorably  known.  He 
started  »illiout  am   nione\ ,  but  b\   hard  work   Uw> 


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become  successful,  withereiy  promise  of  continued 
prosperity  in  future  years. 

In  1885,  Mr.  Lightner  married  Miss  Katie  Zier, 
who  wa*  born  in  La  Grange.  Socially,  he  is  a 
member  of  Lodge  No.  12,  I.  O.  O.  F.  He  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat in  politics  and  very  active  in  local  affairs, 
always  seeking  to  advance  the  principles  of  liis 
party  and  the  good  of  the  city.  lie  has  been  a 
delegate  to  county  conventions,  and  in  whatever 
position  he  has  been  called  upon  to  serve, has  ever 
been  devoted  to  the  highest  principles  of  right 
and  justice. 


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I'OHN  McCOY  was  born  in  Garrard  County. 
Ky.,  in  1801,  and  was  a  son  of  Daniel  and 
^^^  ,  Agnes  McCoy,  who  were  natives  of  Vir- 
>^^  ginia.  Their  family  numbered  the  follow- 
ing children:  William,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky, 
aud  married  Miss  Sallie  Kemper;  Kenneth,  who 
married  Miss  Elsie  Cral);  -Tames,  who  died  at 
Natchez,  of  yellow  fever;  Charles,  who  married 
iNIiss  Watson,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Clayton; 
Reuben  K.,  Elizabeth,  Francis,  Harriet  and  Sally. 

Our  subject  spent  the  days  of  his  childhood  and 
youth  in  the  State  of  his  nativity,  and  in  1840 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Mary  Watson. 
I'nto  them  were  born  two  children:  William, born 
in  1834;  and  .lames,  born  in  1835.  The  latter  is 
now  a  resident  of  Kansas.  After  the  death  of  his 
first  wife,  Mr.  McCoy  married  IMiss  Martha  Wat- 
son, lier  sister,  and  by  their  union  were  born  the 
following  children:  Charles,  who  was  born  in 
Clayton  in  1842,  married  Miss  Rebecca  Uurk.  and 
resides  in  Colorado;  John  D..  born  in  1844.  mar- 
ried Miss  Eliza  Hopkins,  and  is  a  resident  farmer 
of  Clayton;  ?^rancis,  born  in  1841!,  died  in  in- 
fancy; Emma,  liorn  in  1848,  died  in  18fi0:  I'.latih- 
f(ird,  liorn  in  185().  maiiied  Eva  Flagg.and  lesides 
on  the  old  homestead;  and  Alta,  liorn  in  18()1, 
ilied  in   1871. 

Ml.  McCoy  of  lliis>keleli  emigrateil  \\'es|\v:ir(l  iji 
ls;',2,  .-iiid  seilled  in  Adams  County,  HI.;  locating 


on  lands  which  he  obtained  from  the  Government. 
He  built  a  log  cabin  in  Clayton  Township  and  be- 
gan the  development  of  a  farm,  transforming  the 
wild  prairie  into  rich  and  fertile  fields,  which  yielded 
him  a  golden  tribute.  He  cleared  and  developed 
one  hundred  and  sixtj'  acres  of  land  and  made 
many  excellent  improvements  upon  it.  He  is 
numbered  among  the  honored  pioneer  settlers  of 
the  county  and  with  its  history  was  prominently 
identitied,  doing  much  to  aid  in  its  upliuilding 
and  to  promote  its  jjrogress. 

In  political  sentiment.  Mr.  McCov  was  a  sup- 
porter of  the  Republican  party  and  held  the  office 
of  School  Trustee.  He  was  a  friend  to  education 
and  gave  his  support  to  ever}' enterprise  calculated 
to  prove  of  public  benefit.  In  religious  belief,  he 
was  a  Presb3'terian .  and  in  liis  church  held  the 
office  of  Elder  for  fifty-two  years.  lie  was  chari- 
table and  benevolent  and  gave  freely  of  his  means 
to  those  in  need  of  assistance.  He  died  in  188(i, 
at  the  .age  of  eighty-five  years,  and  his  death  was 
mourned  by  many  friends,  for  he  was  a  valued 
citizen  of  the  community.  Mr.  McCoy  and  two 
of  his  lirolhers  were  the  founders  of  the  village 
of  Clayton. 


I OHN  W.  VANCIL  is  one  of  the  representa- 
tive citizens  of  Adams  County.  111.  In 
business,  he  has  achieved  financial  success 
through  unflagging  industry,  unvar}'ing 
promptness  and  honorable  dealing.  The  sterling 
admirable  (pialities  that  brought  him  success  in  his 
private  liusiness  mai'ked  him  for  public  prefer- 
ment, and  in  the  discharge  of  an  important  trust 
he  has  realized  all  the  expectations  of  his  friends 
and  h:is  added  to  their  regard  the  esteem  and  con- 
fidence of  the  general  public.  He  is  at  present  the 
most  efficient  Sheriff  of  Adams  County  and  is 
noted  for  his  firm  convictions  and  unfaltering 
courage  inherited  from  sturdy  (!ernian  ancestors. 
He  is  a  prominent  man  in  the  couii I  \  and  possesses 


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cert.'iin  inrntnl  clmrai'tt'ristics  tliat  I'li.ililf  liiin  i^ 
('oiniiiMiid  the  ri'spect  jiiid  I'luilidi'iicc  <if  iidI  <iii1\ 
hi>  fiiciiils,  liiit  of  timso  wlm  upimsc  him  |)ipliti- 
v:i\\\. 

Mr.  \'iiiicil  W!i>  Imrii  in  l.ilx'ity  'l"ii\vii>hi|i.  Ailiiiiis 
County.  111.,  oil  Ihf  2.'(tll  o!"  Sc|itt'lillif|-.  1HI7.  :mr| 
is  a  son  of  William  and  Mary  A.  (  IVmniey )  N'ancil. 
Ills  <.'randfathrr.  Martin  \'ancil.  was  a  native  of 
South  I  arolina  and  of  (ierrnan  descent.  William 
X'ancil  wa.s  Imrn  in  I  iiion  (oiinly.  111.,  on  the  I'.lth 
of  .Vjjril,  1«22.  and  after  reiiehinu-  mature  years 
was  married  to  Miss  'I'onrney,  who  was  a  native  of 
I'laiiee.  Her  f;ilheiwas  a  soldier  in  Napoleon's 
army.  Ilotli  .Mr.  and  .Mr-s.  N'.aneil  were  leared  on 
the  old  homesteads  in  l.iherly  Township,  this 
eoiinty.  and  there  they  passed  lln'ir  entire  lives. 
Of  their  live  children,  our  -suhject  is  the  eldest  in 
order  of  liirth.  and  passed  his  youthful  days  in  !\s- 
sisting  in  the  arduous  duties  of  the  farm  and  in 
attending  the  district  scIkkjIs.  where  he  secuied  a 
fair  eiliication.  lie  continued  under  the  parental 
f(M>f  until  twenty -one  years  of  asje,  and  was  then 
married  to  .Miss  Hester  A.  .\kei-s,  of  CohiniKus, 
this  county,  dauirhlc  r  of  William  .\kers. 

Kollowiiig  this  union  oiu-  sulijcct  and  wife  set- 
tled on  a  farm,  lint  two  \ears  later  moved  to  Camp 
I'oint.  this  county,  and.  after  a  sIku-I  residence 
there,  returneil  to  the  faim  wImic  they  ni.-nle  their 
home  for  four  yeais.  Mr.  \ancil  then  tookacon- 
traet  t^)  furnish  tics  for  the  C'hicaifo.  liurlington  .V 
•  ^uincy  Railroad  Company.  Iieinij  thus  engaged 
for  two  years.  Later,  he  moved  to  (^uincy,  and 
was  janit<u'  of  the  Court  House  foi'  four  \ears. 
.\liout  this  time,  he  was  urgcil  liy  his  man\  frii'uds 
to  run  f«u-  oltice,  and  w:is  nomin.ated  for  Sheriff  on 
the  Democratic  ticket.  In  the  f.all  of  IMiMl.  he  was 
elected  to  that  position  for  .-i  term  of  four  vcars. 
having  received  a  majority  of  eiiihleen  hundred 
and  lifty-seveii  votes,  the  largest  majori'v  ever 
polled  in  till' county.  He  has  lilled  th:it  position 
in  a  very  alile  manner,  and  very  few  men  who 
have  liroken  the  law  escape  his  vigil.ance.  He  at  one 
lime  traveled  as  far  a-  Califoriii:i  for  a  law  lin  ;ikei 
and  returned  with  his  pri'.oiier  in  good  shape. 

Mr.  X'ancil  is  a  pronounced  Democrat  in  lii~  po- 
litical views  and  one  of  the  iiio>l  leliaMi'  iiitii  in 
the  city  of  (^uiucy,  Uurinjj  the  late  unpleasaiitms- 


lictwecii  the  North  and  South,  he  enlisted  as  a  re- 
cruit in  the  .Seventh  Illinois  Cavalry,  doing 
principidly  garrison  duty.  He  served  his  country 
faithfully  and  was  ever  to  lie  found  al  the  front. 
He  h.as  his  roiilencc  in  the  Court    House. 


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allARI.KS  M.  (iRA.M.MKR  is  one  of  the  lead- 
,  ing  .igricullurists  of  Adams  County.  He 
resides  on  section  :!."i,  lieverly  Township, 
where  he  first  purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
of  land,  lint  now  has  a  line  farm  of  two  hundred 
and  eighty  acres  of  aralile  land.  It  is  all  under  a 
high  state  of  cultivation  and  the  improvements 
upon  It  aie  such  as  are  found  on  a  luoclel  farm  of 
the  nineteenth  century.  The  home  is  a  heautiful 
two-story  residence  of  seven  rooms,  which  was 
erected  in  IM'.)1,  at  a  cost  of  *l7iiii. 

Oursuliject  is  a  native  of  the  old  Hay  State. 
He  was  horn  in  IH27.  and  is  a  son  of  Seth  and 
l.ydi.-i  (irammer.  His  paternal  grandfather  was 
.lo.-eph  ( iraniiner.  oneof  the  heroes  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, who  during  that  war  w.as  taken  prisoner  and 
sent  to  Kngland.  where  he  was  conlincd  in  Dart- 
niiKU'  prison  for  two  years.  The  maternal  granil- 
f.ather.  .losepli  .Marshall,  was  also  a  Revolutionary 
soldier  ami  fought  in  the  liattle  of  Rrandywine. 
.V  hiother  of  our  suliject.  Seth  W..  enlisted  iu  the 
Seventy-eighth  I  lliiiois  I  nfantry  during  the  late 
w.ir.  served  for  three  years  and  was  with  Slicrnian 
al  .\llaiita. 

Mr.  (;r;i  miner  of  this  sketch  was  one  of  a  fa  mi  I  v  of 
nine  sons  ;iiid  one  daughter,  liut.  with  the  exce|)- 
tion  of  himself,  the  sister  is  the  only  one  now  liv- 
ing. He  was  educated  in  the  piililic  schools  of 
Ma.ssacliusetts.  .and  al  Ilic  age  of  Ihiilecii  years 
accoiiipanierl  his  parents  cui  thi-ir  rcmov.al  to  I'errv. 
I'ikt' (  Ounly.  III.  .\fler  att.-iiiiing  his  maiiM'it\.  he 
wa-  unitcil  in  inarria-rc  with  .Miss  Marth.-i  i;.  Har- 
vey, who  was  horn  in  Rush  Coiiiit\.  Ind.,  in  1m:!|. 
rnlothein  were  horn  sixteen  children  and  with 
one  exception  all  are  yel   living. 

I  he  liisl  I'aiin  which  .Mr.  Crammer  uwiicU  coiii- 


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prised  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  land  in 
Pike  County,  and  he  engaged  in  its  cultivation 
and  made  it  his  home  for  seven  years.  On  the  ex- 
piration of  that  period,  lie  bought  a  tract  of  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  Be\erly  Townsliip,  a 
part  of  his  present  farm.  His  life  has  been  ver3- 
successful.  He  started  out  for  himself  in  limited 
circumstances,  but  by  perseverance  he  overcame 
the  obstacles  in  his  path  and  by  industry  and  en- 
terprise steadily  worked  his  way  upward  to  a  posi- 
tion of  affluence.  For  twentj-nine  years  lie  has 
been  a  Mason,  holding  membership  witli  King- 
ston Lodge  No.  "iGt),  A.  F.  and  A-.  M.,  and  for 
tiie  long  period  of  seventeen  j'eai's  he  has  held 
the  office  of  Wor-shipful  Master,  an  honor  of  which 
he  maj-  justly  be  proud.  He  exercises  his  right  of 
franchise  in  support  of  Repul)lican  i)rinci()les, 
and  is  a  stalwart  advocat.'  of  tiiat  party.  He  was 
elected  to  the  office  of  Township  Assessor  in  1851, 
has  served  as  Collector,  and  since  1871  has  served 
as  Supervisor  of  Beverly  Townsliip.  His  long 
continuance  in  office  well  indicates  his  faithful 
performance  of  duty  and  his  lidelity  to  public 
trust,  and  his  long  official  career  in  the  Masonic 
lodge  attests  his  personal  popularity  and  the 
high  regard  with  which  he  is  held  by  his  comrades. 
He  is  a  man  of  sterling  worth  and  a  well-spent 
life  entitles  him  to  high  regard. 


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/^  EOHG  E  W.  PEARCE.  A  residence  of  many 
flj  (— ^  yeai-s  in  Adams  County  has  given  thisgen- 
^\JAJ  tleman  a  tliorougli  knowledge  of  the  growth 
and  development  of  this  region  of  country,  its 
resources  and  advantages,  and  has  also  extended 
his  acquaintance  and  enabled  him  to  make  many 
friends  here.  A  life-long  farmer,  he  is  the  owner 
of  a  good  estate  in  Liberty  Township,  consisting 
of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  on  wliicli  are  a 
beautiful  residence  and  the  usual  farming  build- 
ings. He  mIso  devotes  considerable  time  and  at- 
li'iitioii  to  the  raising  of  stock,  an<1  besides  the 
iiumbei  of  :iiiiui;ils  rcipiircd   by  the  domestic  and 


farm  economy,  has  some  splendid  specimens  of 
horse  flesh,  together  with  good  breeds  of  cattle 
and  hogs. 

Horn  in  Sullivan  County,  East  Tennessee,  in  Oc- 
tober, 1826,  young  (ieorge  was  a  lad  of  Ave  years 
when  he  accompanied  iiis  parents  on  their  removal 
to  this  county  in  May,  1831,  and  here  lie  has  resided 
on  the  same  farm  ever  since.  His  first  attendance  at 
school  was  in  a  log  building  of  the  most  primitive 
description,  and,  as  he  aided  his  father  greatly  in 
carrying  on  the  home  estate,  his  attendance  was 
confined  to  the  winter  months.  When  reaching 
his  eighteenth  year,  his  father  having  died  in  183-1, 
he  continued  to  reside  at  home  and  operate  the 
farm  until  the  death  of  his  mother.  Mr.  Pearce 
then  purchased  the  interest  of  his  brothers  and 
sisters  in  the  estate,  which  is  still  in  his  i)Osses- 
sion. 

Miss  Sarah  E.  Knowles  became  the  wife  of  our 
subject  in  1871,  and  to  them  have  been  born  eight 
sons,  six  of  whom  are  still  living.  The  parents  of 
Mr.  Pearce,  .Joshua  and  Sarah  (Golden)  Pearce, 
also  had  a  famil}-  of  eight  children.  It  is  pre- 
sumed that  they  were  natives  resi)ectively  of  East 
'J'ennessee  and  Mrginia.  After  locating  in  this 
county  in  1832,  the  father  became  a  soldier  in  the 
Black  Hawk  AVar.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation, 
and  erected  on  his  place  a  mill  operated  b}'  horse- 
powei',  in  which  he  ground  corn  and  wheat  into 
bread  stuff.  He  later  in  life,  established  in  the 
mercantile  business  in  partnership  with  A.  A.  1). 
Butts,  they  operating  together  successfully  for 
some  time.  When  the  elder  Mr.  Pearce  came  to 
t  this  section,  his  nearest  neighbor  on  the  cast  lived 
eighteen  miles  distant,  and,  like  many  of  the  pio- 
neers, he  was  subjected  to  all  the  dangers  and  pri- 
vations incident  to  life  in  a  new  country. 

.\s  liefore  stated,  our  subject  is  the  proprietor 
of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  valuable 
land,  which  he  has  developed  into  one  of  the  finest 
farms  in  the  lownship.  He  has  on  his  estate  prob- 
ably the  best  barn  in  I  liis  section,  and,  as  he  started 
out  in  life  with  but  limited  means,  it  is  vevy  evi- 
dent that  his  prosperity  is  the  result  of  his  own 
hibors,  guided  by  good  judgment.  In  politics,  he 
has  voted  with  tiie  Kepublican  party  since  its  or- 
gauizalioii.  ami  although  he  tuUes  a  deep  inleresl 


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ill  wlmtcvi'i-  coiKxTiis  tlio  welfare  of  liis  t<pwn>lii|) 
and  f<niiil\.  (U'clinf*  to  aewpt  any  |)iililic  posi- 
tion. SiK'iaiiy.  lie  is  a  meinl>er  of  the  In(le])cn(Jent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  his  iiitliieiu-e  in  the 
eoininnnitv  ims  ever  iK-en  for  good. 


W.  NICHOLS.  The  siilijeet  of  our  sketcli 
is  a  very  |iroiiiineiit  and  sueees>ful  farmer  on 
seetion  17.  I'rsa  'rownship,  and  is  the  for- 
tunate owner  of  iiiiieh  valiiahle  land  and  line  stock. 
lie  is  the  eldest  son  of  .lames  and  Margaret  (Wal- 
laee)  Niehols.  and  was  horn  .laniiary  '2'.K  1K2G. 
When  seven  years  old,  his  parents  hrought  him  to 
lllinoi>,  from  Koiirhon  County.  Ky.  In  his  hfiy 
hood  he  had  the  advantage  of  a  common-school 
education,  and.  as  do  other  lads  in  his  jMJsition  in 
life,  liegan  early  to  assist  on  the  farm.  This  waseon- 
siilered  no  hardship,  for  he  had  always  lieen  anxi- 
ous to  do  his  diitx'. 

From  the  asreof  iiiiie  years  until  he  was  twenty- 
live,  .Mr.  Nichols  was  his  father's  main.-tav,  Imt  at 
that  time  he  felt  a  desire  to  establish  a  home  of  his 
own,  and  October  14,  1M41I,  lie  married  Miss  .Jane 
Wood,  who  was  born  July  1."),  iX'2'.K  in  Halls 
County,  Mo.  .She  was  three  years  old  when  she  was 
brought  to  Illinois.  Ilei  parents  were  Henry  Wood, 
who  was  born  in  South  Carolina  in  lK02,and  Sarah 
(Alljei-son)  Wood,  whose  birth  occurred  in  I«04. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood  were  married  in  the  State  of 
their  birth,  and  moved  to  Missouri  in  1M27  and  t<.> 
Illinois  in  1833,  where  for  a  short  time  they  re- 
sided on  section  18.  I'rsa  Township.  Mr.  Wood 
improved  the  land,  but  afterward  moved  to  section 
6,  in  the  same  township,  where  he  made  a  perma- 
nent home,  lie  died  in  1H7!I,  and  his  good  wife 
survived  him  ten  yeai-s.  They  were  the  |)arent.s  of 
eleven  children,  six  of  whom  are  yet  living.  .Mr. 
Wood  had  been  a  Whig  in  the  early  days  of  his 
voting  privileges,  Imt  in  liis  latter  life  he  sup- 
ported the  Republican  parly.  Mrs.  Wood  had 
been  one  of  the  pious  women  that  were  so  often 
found  among  the  lailv  settlers  and  wa5  a  iiieiiiber 


oi  tlic(  hristian  Church.  Three  of  their  sons  serveil 
in  the  Civil  War.  Calvin  was  in  a  caralry  regi- 
ment; .John,  who  was  in  the  Seventy -eighth  Illinois 
Regiment,  was  wounded  in  battle  and  died  from 
the  effect.--;  William  II.  was  in  the  Fiftieth  Illinois 
Regiment. 

After  his  marriage,  our  subject  rented  a  farm 
just  west  of  Ursa,  and  lived  there  seven  years,  but 
removed  thence  to  section  21,  Mendon  Township, 
where  he  resided  for  five  years  and  then  came  to 
his  present  faun,  in  the  spring  of  18(>2.  The  land 
had  Iwen  placed  under  good  cultivation  and  he 
built  a  fine  residence,  costing  him  ^.S.lOd,  and  a 
barn  which  cost  i!l,8(l(l.  lie  has  one  hundred 
and  ninety  acres  in  this  farm  and  also  owns  live 
and  one-fourth  shares  in  the  old  Wood  farm  in 
this  township.  Mr.  Nichols  rents  out  his  farm 
now  and  is  justly  entitled  to  some  ease  after  his 
life  of  toil.  He  has  done  much  to  improve  the 
st<x'k  of  this  section,  and  is  the  fiwner  of  valuable 
.Short-horn  cattle,  Percheron  horses,  Cotswold 
sheep,  and  Poland-China  hogs. 

.Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Nichols  have  two  children,  both  of 
whom  reside  in  Mendon.  Lorenzo  1).  married  Ella 
Willie  and  they  have  one  child;  .lohii  II.  married 
Kv:\  Thayer  and  has  two  Ixiys.  Our  subject  has 
devoted  his  whole  life  to  farming  and  has  not 
sought  oltice.  although  he  is  a  Republican  in  polit- 
ical faith.  He  has  consented  to  serve  as  Sehool 
Directfir  for  several  terms.  He  has  worked  hard 
all  his  life,  and.  being  bles.-ed  with  good  health. has 
been  enabled  to  amass  a  great  deal  of  wealth.  hI- 
thongli  at  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  possessed 
onlv  +21. 


■<^w^'ia^n:& 


A.Ml  i;i.  .M.   I'.AKTI.KIT. 


who   knew 


i^=^\  .A  .>i  I  i-i.  M.  i>.vixii*r-i  1.  .All  i\  no  hiii*^^ 
*~^^^  this  noble  man  in  lifetime  will  Ih-  plerused 
\vj_^  to  see  in  this  volume  a  sketch  of  his  career. 
To  keep  green  the  memory  of  the  departed 
\vho>e  lives  were  worthy  and  filled  with  good  deeds 
is  an  object  worthy  of  much  effort.  Mr.  Rartlell 
w;i>  born  III  SpriiiL'tield.  Mav*..  Seplc-niber   :{.    18in, 


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a  son  of  Pliny  and  Lucy  (Morgan)  Bartlett,  the 
former  of  whom  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  rifles  during  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  hoy- 
hood  days  of  Samuel  M.  H.irtlett  were  spent  in 
the  city  of  his  birth  in  attending  llie  [jublie  schools, 
and  after  attaining  a  suitable  age  he  began  learn- 
ing the  cabinet-maker's  trade  at  Westlield.  Mass., 
and  applied  himself  closely  by  learning  tlic  details 
of  this  business. 

In  1836,  he  l)egan  working  at  his  trade  in  ( Juincy, 
111.,  in  the  employ  of  George  Wood,  and  after  re- 
maining with  him  for  a  short  time,  he  embarked  in 
the  cabinet-making  and  undertaking  business  on 
his  own  account  and  conducted  the  same  verj-  suc- 
cessfully until  his  death  in  1867,  ever}'  year  of 
his  adult  existence  being  prolific  of  good  works. 
He  was  alvTays  noted  for  his  diligence,  his  industry 
and  his  great  perseverance  in  whatever  he  under- 
took, characteristics  which  appear  to  have  carried 
him  through  life.  His  private  business  affaii'S  were 
always  skillfully  and  judiciously  managed;  he  was 
a  careful  observer  of  the  trend  of  events,  and  the 
economic  training  he  received  in  early  life,  com- 
bined with  the  characteristic  thrift  of  the  native 
of  New  England,  led  him  to  the  conclusion  that  a 
wonderful  era  of  development  had  set  in  in  tlie 
Western  States. 

On  October  .5,  1838,  our  subject  was  united  in 
the  bonds  of  matrimony  with  Miss  Roseline  M. 
Robertson,  a  daughter  of  John  B.  and  Catherine 
Robertson,  worthy  and  honored  residents  of  Bev- 
erly, III.,  and  eventually-  their  union  resulted  in 
the  birtli  of  six  children,  five  of  whom  are  living 
at  the  present  time:  Eliza  C,  wife  of  Joel  .West, 
of  Hurlington,  Iowa;  Mary  F.,  at  home  with  her 
mother;  William  II.,  who  is  a  Master  Mechanic 
of  the  Chicago.  Burlington  iV  (^uincy  Railroad 
shops  at  Burlington,  Iowa;  John  W..  a  niacliiuist 
of  Quincy,  III.;  and  Lucy  M.,  wife  of  .1.  1!.  Wood, 
of  Ciardner,  Mass. 

For  twenty-five  years  he  acted  in  the  capacity 
of  City  Sexton,  and  socially,  was  a  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  Politicallj', 
he  alw.ays  supported  the  men  and  measures  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  for  one  term  of  two  years 
he  was  Alderman  from  the  Sixth  Ward.  Kindly 
in    disposition.   Cdrdial,   warm-hcaited  and  sympa- 


thetic, he  seemed  to  have  been  especially  gifted  b_y 
nature  Un-  the  calling  of  an  undertaker,  and  in 
this  most  necessary  business  his  services  were  in 
great  demand,  and  he  soon  gathered  about  him  a 
large  patronage.  In  tiie  domestic  circle  he  was  the 
model  husband  and  father,  was  kind,  considerate 
and  thoughtful  ftir  the  comfort  and  welfare  of  his 
family,  and  made  their  liai)piness  and  well-being 
the  chief  aim  and  object  of  his  existence. 

Mr.  liartlctt  was  a  model  American  citizen,  en- 
terprising, public-spirited  and  patriotic,  and  his  in- 
fiuence  was  ever  felt  on  the  side  of  justice  and 
right.  The  oppressed  and  weak  ever  found  in 
him  a  stanch  supporter,  and  although  usuallj'  un- 
known, his  charities  were  numerous  and  liberal. 
At  his  pleasant  residence  at  No.  72;')  Bixiadway, 
Quiucy.  III.,  when  just  in  Ihe  zenith  of  his  career, 
he  passed  to  his  reward. 


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[/  LEONARD  GRIESER.  The  history  of  every 
community  is  made  up,  so  far  .as  its  more 
interesting  features  are  concerned,  of  the 
'  events  and  transactions  of  the  lives  of  its 
prominent  representative  citizens.  In  any  worthy 
history  of  Adams  County,  an  outline  of  the  life  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  should  not  fail  to  be  given, 
together  with  a  sketch  of  his  family-.  Mr.  Grieser 
is  now  engaged  in  farming,  stock-dealing  and  gen- 
eral Itusiness.  He  enjoys  the  reputation  of  being 
substantial  and  progressive  and  a  man  who  is  thor- 
oughly posted  on  all  the  current  topics  of  the  day. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  identified  with  the  best 
interestsof  Adams  County,  and  ranks  as  a  notice- 
able illustration  of  that  indomitable  push  and  en- 
ergy which  characterize  men  of  will  and  determin- 
ation. 

Our  subject's  natal  day  was  September  3,  1834, 
and  he  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.  His  father, 
Leonard  (Jrie.ser,  was  born  in  Heidelberg,  Gerrcan^', 
and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  lie  continued 
to  reside  in  his  native  country  until  grt)wn  and 
then   came  to  America.      He  first  locateil   in  Bal- 


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"ill 


liniure.  MH.,  and  was  there  married  to  Miss  Dor- 
otliv  Hawk.  !i  nalivo  of  (iermaiiy.  wlio  emifjraled 
to  the  riiilt'd  States  with  iier  pari'iit.'>  wliilo  vniiiii;. 
Ih  183t;,  tlie  rich  a<,'riculturalrefj;i<>iis()f  the  Prairie 
.St«te  tenijited  liiin  to  make  a  settU'inent  within 
its  borders,  and  in  that  year  lie  hrought  liis  family 
to  t^ninry.  Adan)s  County.  After  makin>r  liis  home 
in  llial  city  for  some  time,  lie  piircli!i.-*e(l  a  farm  in 
Klhngton  Township,  tlial  county,  and  tliere  carried 
on  {general  farminjr  until  his  deatli  in  lf<ri/).  The 
mother  also  passed  her  last  days  on  that  farm. 
Their  family  consisted  of  six  cliildreu.  two  sons 
and  four  dauirhtei-s. 

The  orlirinal  uf  this  notice,  who  was  the  eldest 
child  born  to  his  parents,  received  the  advantages 
of  the  district  schools,  and  later  attended  school  in 
l^uincy,  thus  receiving  a  good  practical  education. 
lie  became  thoroughly  drilled  in  all  the  details  of 
the  farm  at  an  early  age.  and  assisteil  his  father  on 
the  same  until  eighteen  years  of  age  when  he 
branched  out  to  tight  life's  battles  for  himself. 
lie  was  employed  on  lioat-<.  and  was  engaged  in 
rafting  sawlogs  from  Keokuk,  Iowa,  to  (^uincy, 
Alton  and  St.  Louis.  This  business  he  has  followed 
for  the  Ifist  thirty  years,  being  part  of  the  time 
employed  on  the  Iwttom  land,  lie  was  one  of 
the  originators  of  the  levee  system  and  has  per- 
haps done  more  for  the  reclainting  of  Hooded  lands 
than  any  otlier  man  living  in  or  near  l^uincy.  He 
assisted  in  having  a  bill  passed  in  tin-  Legislature, 
which,  with  eoiisider:ible  effort,  went  thi'ough  and 
became  a  law. 

.Mr.  (o-ieser  had  the  .sagacity  early  to  perceive, 
that  as  agricultural  pursuit.-i  must  constitute  the 
basis  of  his  prosperity,  money  invested  in  land 
would  not  he  thrown  away.  He  is  now  ilic  owner 
of  two  or  thiee  good  farms  upon  the  bollom  lands 
upon  which  he  grows  corn,  hay  and  wheal,  holdes 
which  he  has  considerable  pasture  land,  and  some 
of  the  finest  corn  land  in  the  .State  of  Illinois.  He 
is  still  giving  the  levee  business  considerable  at- 
tention, and  is  often  called  upon  (i<v  .'iilvicf  in 
protecting  these  lands  in  time  vf  high  water.  Our 
subject  is  also  (juite  extensivel\'  engaged  in  the 
wood  ousiness,  shipping  wood  in  barges  to  the 
citieson  the  Mississippi  River.  In  connection  with 
this,  he   is  also  engr.ged   quite   extensively  in  the 


raising  of  live  stock   and   is  a  representative  man 
of  the  co\inty.     He  ranks  as  a  forcible  illustration 
of  what  indomitable  push   and  energy  can   accoin- 
]    plish  when  intelligently  applied. 
I        In  the  year  IHKl  he  was  united   in    marriage   to 
I    .Miss  Delia  Davis,  who  died   four  years  later,  leav- 
ing one  daughter.  Maud,  who  is  at    home.     Mr. 
(!rie.ser's  second  marriage  was  to  Miss  Ilattic  Ash. 
of    Taylorville,    Christi:iii    County,  111.,  by  whom 
he  has   had  seven   children,  four  sons  and    three 
daughters.     He  has  a  good   residence  at  No.    Il« 
Slate  .Street.     In  politics,  he  is  a  strung  sup|K>rler 
of  Kepublicaii  principles. 


ILLIAM  K.  HASKIAVOOD.  .Vmong  the 
\\\/V//  I'-nglish-American  families  of  (^nincy.  III., 
\^^^  none  is  better  known  for  earnest  industry 
and  devotion  to  duty  than  that  which  is  repre- 
sented by  the  name  at  the  head  of  this  paragraph. 
Mr.  Ilaselwood's  ancestors  were  natives  <if  Kng- 
land,  but  early  emigrants  to  this  country.  The 
grandmother,  .larvis  Haselwood,  was  born  in  that 
country.  The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Thomas 
.\.  and  Frances  A.  (Dance)  llaselwood,  and  the 
father  W.1S  a  substantial  farmer  and  stock-raiser. 

The  eldest  son  of  a  family  of  twelve  children, 
William  K.  llaselwood  was  born  in  the  blue-grass 
regions  of  Kentucky,  in  Willlamstown.  (JranI 
County,  in  February,  lM4n.  ami  inherits  F,ngli>li 
blood  from  both  sides  of  the  house.  He  pa.ssed 
his  boyhood  days  in  (^rant  County.  Ky..  and 
.'iltcnded  the  subscription  schools  until  seventeen 
vears  of  age.  when  he  went  from  there  direct  to 
(/iiincy.  on  the  I  Ith  of  .\pril.  I«."i7.  It  was  but 
natural  perhaps  that  when  starting  out  for  liim.oelf 
in  \xi>H,  he  should  choose  the  occupati<Mi  to  which 
he  had  been  reared,  farming.  On  the  I'.ith 
of  August,  IMt'iO,  he  was  niarii«'d  to  .Mi.v;  .M.-iitha 
\.  I.eehorn,  daughter  of  Fll  and  .Margaret  (lloir- 
gins)  Leehorn. 

Our  subject   I'ontinued    to    till  the  soil  until  the 


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19th  of  Augu.st,  1861,  when  his  pouiitrv  called  him, 
and  he  enlisted  in  Company  D,  Fiftieth  Illinois 
Infantry,  and  was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant, 
serving  in  that  capacity  until  April,  l><fi2,  when 
he  was  promoted  to  be  First  Lieutenant.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  many  desperate  engagements 
and  was  a  brave  (itlicer  and  gallant  comrade.  He 
participated  in  the  battles  of  Ft.  Donelson,  Ft. 
Henry,  Shiloh,  and  tiie  advance  on  Corinth.  He 
was  stationed  at  the  last-named  place  until  the  3d 
of  October,  1862,  and  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Cor- 
intli.  Owing  to  failing  health,  he  was  obliged  to  re- 
sign his  position  as  First  Lieutenant  in  November, 

1862,  and   was   mustered   out  of   service  in  June, 

1863,  as  Captain  of  the  .said  company.  Returning 
to  Adams  County,  111.,  he  located  near  Payson  and 
then  resumed  his  former  oo<'upation,  farming  and 
stock-raising,  up  to  1874.  His  health  still  contin- 
uing quite  poor,  he  began  traveling  ftir  the  Hfiwe 
Sewing  Machine  Company,  and  was  thus  engaged 
for  three  years. 

After  this  Mr.  ILaselwood  located  in  Memphis, 
Scotland  County,  Mo.,  and  was  tliere  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits  until  1878,  when  he  moved 
to  Kansas.  He  located  near  Anthon3',  Harper 
County,  and  tilled  the  soil  there  lor  some  time. 
In  1M80,  he  went  from  there  to  New  Mexico  and 
was  employed  in  the  construction  of  the  Atchison, 
Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad.  On  the  30th  of 
August  of  the  same  year,  he  engaged  in  railroad 
carpentering,  and  continued  this  successfully  until 
June,  1882,  when,  his  health  failing,  he  again 
resorted  to  traveling,  lie  represented  the  Huff- 
man <fe  Rujjp  Marble  and  Granite  C'oni]iany.  located 
at  (Juincy,  111.,  and  traveled  for  this  company  un- 
til November  of  the  same  year,  when  he  moved  to 
Mitchell,  Davidson  County.  Dak.  In  this  city  he 
was  engaged  in  carpentering  and  contracting  with 
the  firm  of  W.  A.  Cross  &  Co.,  with  whom  he  con- 
tinued for  four  years. 

In  December,  1886,  he  returned  to  (Juincy,  and 
in  the  spring  of  1887  was  api)ointed  on  the  police 
force  as  night  patrolman,  serving  in  that  capacity 
in  a  most  satisfactory  and  efficient  manner  for 
three  years  and  a  half.  In  1890,  he  was  appointed 
Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  Quincy,  III., 
for  a  term  of   one  year,  and   at    the  expiration  of 


that  time  he  was  re-elected,  and  again  in  1892, 
which  position  he  still  holds.  His  oflieial  career 
has  been  marked  by  faithfulness  and  capability, 
and  a  decided  iiu|)rovement  is  observable  in  the 
.sanitary  condition  of  the  city.  Mr.  Ha.selwood 
was  elected  without  oposition  in  the  last  election, 
receiving  twelve  \otos  out  of  a  |)ossible  twelve 
votes  ill  the  City  Council.  In  [lolitics,  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, .stanch  adherent  of  his  parly's  jirinciples, 
and  socially  is  identified  with  the  John  Wood 
Post,  No..96,  G.  A.  K.,and  with  the  Masonic  order. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ha.selwood  have  a  comfortable 
residence  at  No.  617  Maine  Street,  and  their  happy 
domestic  relations  have  been  blessed  by  the  birth  of 
two  interesting  children,  a  son  and  daughter,  as  fol- 
lows: Thomas  W.,  a  carpenter  in  the  State  of 
Washington;  and  Anna  M..  wife  of  (ieorge  C. 
Lawrence,  of  (Quincy,  HI.  JMr.  Ilaselwood  takes  a 
lirominent  part-  in  every  enterprise  that  promises 
to  be  to  the  advantage  of  the  county,  and  is  one 
of  the  representative  citizens.  In  the  positions  of 
trust  tendered  him  he  has  shown  a  marked  ability 
and  faithfulness  and  has  the  regard  of  his  consti- 
tuents. 


RS.  ELIZABETH  BIMSON,  who  is  lov- 
ingly and  familiarly  called  "  Aunt  Betsy," 
resides  in  Kingston,  Beverly-  Township. 
She  is  one  of  the  honored  pioneer  ladies 
of  this  community,  and  well  deserves  representa- 
tion in  the  historv  of  her  adopted  county.  She 
was  born  in  iMissouri,  in  1817,  and  is  a  daughter 
of  Michael  and  Catherine  (Mull)  Scliell.  During 
the  Rebellion,  the  rebels  liroke  up  the  home  of  the 
family,  destroying  all  their  goods  and  furniture. 
Under  the  parental  roof,  ^Mrs.  Bimson  was 
reared  to  womanhood,  and  in  the  common  schools 
she  acquired  her  education.  She  has  been  three 
times  married.  Her  first  husliand  was  William 
Hendricks,  by  whom  she  had  two  children,  one 
yet  living.  Her  second  husband  was  Dr.  McVay. 
In  an  early  day  she  emigrated  with  him  to  Adams 
County,  where  she  has  since  made  her  home.     The 


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Docioi  I  iiL;aircd  in  the  practiro  of  incduiiu-  in 
Marci-llinc  until  his  deiitli,  wliicli  was*  caused  by 
thp  fliolera  in  1H.")1.  IK'  also  eniiiarked  in  the 
lianiwnrc  liusines-s.  wliic-li  he  carried  on  sncccssfuliv 
for  fiirlit  ypai>.  I'nto  tlic  Doctor  and  hi*  wife 
were  horn  two  sons,  hut  one  is  now  deceased. 
Wdiiani.  who  was  murdered  in  (^uincv  in  .lan- 
uary.  IS'.ni.  Her  tliinl  liushand  w.as  Henry  Hini- 
son,  »ine  of  the  niiilerj"  on  McKee  Creek.  He  died 
on  the  2 1st  of  .Mardi,  1880. 

Mrs.  Hinison  is  a  member  of  the  Mcllnxlist 
Church,  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  its  work. 
She  owns  lier  lumie.  beside  llie  store  in  Kinifston. 
Kew  ladies  in  Adams  County  are  more  widely 
known  than  she  whose  name  heads  this  record. 
From  an  eaily  day  she  has  l>oen  one  of  its  resi- 
dents, has  witnessed  almost  its  entire  growth  and 
development  and  can  relate  many  interesting  inci- 
dents and  anecdotes  concerning  life  in  this  com- 
munity, when  .Vdams  County  was  on  the  frontier. 
She  Is  held  in  the  highest  regard,  and  her  many 
excellencies  of  char.icter  have  won  her  the  love 
and  esteem  of  all.  None  are  more  deserving  of 
representation  in  this  volume  and  it  is  with  ph'as- 
iirc  that  we  recoril  her  sketch. 


In  ;  : 


'IpyRANZ  HACIIER,  M.  I).  In  a  comprehen- 
1-^  -ivc  work  of  this  kind,  dealing  with  indiis- 
1,  trial  |iiii-uits.science.s.  arts  and  professions. 

it  is  only  right  thai  that  profession  on  which,  in 
simie  periofl  or  other  of  our  lives,  we  are  all  more 
or  less  dependent,  should  \>o  noticed.  In  1871).  Dr. 
llacher  Uwated  in  the  city  of  (iuincy,  ha-s  practiced 
his  profession  with  great  diligence  ever  since,  and 
is  one  of  the  most  popular  [ihysicians  of  the  city, 
doing  credit  to  his  profession  and  having  a  paying 
practice  in  the  city  and  country.  During  all  these 
years,  he  has  been  ever  ready  to  obey  the  call  of  all 
classes,  and  is  in  truth  a  physician  of  thorough 
learning  and  experience.  He  has  a  large,  pleasant 
ollicc  at   No.   '.127    .Maine   Street,  t^iiincy,  and   has 


shown  himself  eminently  worthy  of  the  contidcncc 
anil  trust  reposed  in  him. 

Dr.  Hacher  is  one  among  the  many  riti/.ens  of 
the  county  who  are  of  foreign  birth,  and,  like  the 
m.'ijority  of  Ihein.  claims  (ierinany  .-us  his  native 
land.  He  first  saw  the  light  of  day  in  Baden,  in 
the  year  1828.  and  was  one  of  eight  childi'en  born 
to  Franz,  Sr.,  and  Barbara  (Burckart)  Baclier,  both 
natives  of  ( lerinany,  where  they  passed  their  entire 
lives,  'riie  father  was  a  successful  agriculturist, 
and  by  industry  and  attention  to  his  chosen  call- 
ing accumulated  a  comf<irtable  coin|)etency.  (hir 
subject,  the  fourth  s<ui  in  the  family,  remained 
under  the  parental  roof  until  twenty-four  years  of 
.age,  and  attended  the  common  schor>ls  until  the 
age  of  fourteen.  He  became  familiar  with  the 
arduous  duties  of  the  farm  at  an  early  age,  and 
after  leaving  the  common  schfiols  entered  the  uni- 
versity at  Heidcliierg.  tiermany.  where  he  pursued 
his  studies  for  six  years,  being  graduated  from 
that  well-known  instiliilion  of  irarniii'r  in  the  year 
1818. 

.Vfter  being  graduated,  our  subject  read  medi- 
cine in  his  native  country, and  there  remained  until 
18."»2.  when  he  thought  to  better  his  condition 
tinancially  by  taking  up  his  residence  in  America. 
He  took  passage  for  this  country  in  the  Last-named 
year,  and  a  few  weeks  after  starting  landed  in 
New  Orleans,  where  he  tarried  but  a  short  time, 
however.  He  began  traveling  and  journeyed  all 
over  the  Southern  States.  He  also  tof>k  (ireeley"s 
advice,  and.  going  West,  spent  several  ycai-s  trav- 
eling among  mountain  scenery.  In  the  year  187<i, 
he  located  in  l^uiiicy,  began  practicing  his  profes- 
sion and  continues  this  at  the  present  time.  His 
success  was  assured  from  the  beginning,  and  he 
rf>se  rapidly  in  his  profession  to  a  prominent  posi- 
tion in  the  rank  of  physicians,  which  he  has  main- 
tained until  the  |>resent. 

Dr.  Bacher  has  been  twice  married,  his  liol 
union  being  with  Mrs.  Henrietta  .Staleii.  in  I8.'i2. 
His  second  marriage  was  to  Mrs.  Caroline  Meyer,  in 
the  vear  1878.  and  they  have  a  charming  home  at 
No.  12."5(l  North  Fourth  Street.  They  are  prominent 
jjeople  of  the  city  and  are  active  in  all  good  work. 
The  Doctor  is  a  man  of  stnuig  and  vigorous  mind, 
great  originality  anil    uncoiupieialile  will.     These 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


(lualities,  added  to  his  high  sense  of  honor,  kind- 
ness of  heart,  and  that  subtile,  undefined  power 
called  personal  magnetism,  with  his  great  knowl- 
edge of  iiuinan  character,  make  him  prominent  in 
all  circles.  Those  who  know  him  best  love  and 
appreciate  liim  most. 


^^  APT.  WILLIAM  SCOTT.  One  of  the  re- 
(\\  f-.  markable  men  of  Camp  Point  Township  is 
^^^^  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  whose  father, 
Samuel  Scott,  was  a  native  of  Scotland.  In 
the  year  1777.  when  the  seas  were  overrun  with 
jirivateer  shi[is,  and  the  relations  between  England 
and  the  United  States  were  in  a  very  unsatisfac- 
tory condition,  Samuel  Scott  made  up  his  mind  to 
go  to  America  and  started  on  the  7th  of  July,  on  a 
British  shijj.  When  off  Sand)-  Hook,  the  English 
ship  was  seized  by  an  American  vessel,  and  in  the 
confusion  Scott  leaped  upon  the  latter  ship  and 
claimed  the  protection  of  her  oflicers.  He  tiien 
enlisted  for  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  with  the 
band  that  surrendered  to  Gen.  Hull  at  Detroit. 
He  was  unfortunately  recognized  by  the  iSritish 
ofticers  and  was  in  danger  of  being  shot.  (Jen. 
Scott  heard  of  his  case  and  notified  the  British 
ofticers  that  for  every  man  shot  by  them  he  would 
shoot  twelve  of  their  men.  Scott  was  finally  ex- 
changed. He  had  served  three  years  in  that  war  and 
later  fought  under  Gen.  Jackson  at  New  Orleans. 
He  then  located  in  Ohio  and  was  a  pioneer  in  Cham- 
]>aign  County,  whore  he  followed  the  trade  of  miller 
and  built  and  owned  a  mill  in  West  l^iberty.  He 
lived  a  life  tiiat  was  measured  by  ninety-three 
years. 

I  lio  mother  of  our  subject  was  Mary,  the  daugh- 
ter of  David  Smith,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Scotland  and  identified  himself  with  the 
struggles  of  the  Cohmists,  and,  enlisting  under 
(ien.  Washington, suffered  with  the  soldiers  at  Val- 
ley Forge.  After  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  he  became  a  farmer  in  Virginia,  and  died  at 
the  remarkable  age  of  one  hundred  and  six  years. 


The  mother  of  our  subject  died  in  Champaign 
County  at  the  age  of  ninety-one  years,  and  both 
she  and  her  husband  had  been  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

The  Captain  is  one  of  six  children  and  is  the 
onl_v  one  living.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent  at 
home,  his  .school  advantages  being  poor,  but  betook 
advantage  of  the  best  there  was.  He  began  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  to  work  in  a  llouring-mill  owned  by 
his  father.  He  learned  this  good  trade  and  always 
followed  it.  In  1837,  he  enlisted  and  joined  the 
regular  army  and  served  three  years  in  the  Semi- 
nole war  in  Florida.  He  saw  some  terribly  hard 
service  during  that  time  and  sometimes  was  upon 
the  verge  of  starvation.  In  1841,  he  came  to  St. 
Louis  and  worked  in  a  mill  for  about  one  year. 
His  health  then  failed,  and  he  returned  to  Ohio. 
He  went  back  to  St.  Louis  and  followed  stage 
driving  for  nearly'  a  year,  and  then  bought  a 
farm  in  Wayne  County,  and  followed  farming  for 
a  while.  He  then  sold  out  and  came  to  .Schu^'ler 
County  and  there  engaged  in  the  milling  business. 
He  afterward  conHucted  a  mill  in  Clayton,  where 
he  was  living  when  the  war  broke  out. 

Capt.  Scott  raised  a  company  in  August,  18f!2, 
and  received  a  commission  as  Captain.  His  com- 
pany was  Company  I,  and  he  joined  the  Fiighly- 
fourth  Illinois  Infantry,  under  Col.  Waters.  At 
Stone  River,  he  was  wounded  in  the  left  leg  and 
was  sent  to  Nashville  and  placed  in  command  of 
the  military  prison.  He  resigned  February  l.jth, 
1863,  and  came  home.  His  health  was  rapidly 
giving  away  and  he  saw  he  would  have  to  go 
home  or  die. 

After  his  return  to  his  family  at  Clayton  and 
when  partially  recovered,  he  engaged  in  milling. 
In  1870,  he  removed  to  Camp  Point  and  bought  an 
old  flour-mill,  which  he  soon  tore  dt>wn  and  built 
a  new  one  in  its  place.  He  ran  this  for  eighteen 
years  and  then  sold  out  and  retired. 

Our  subject  married  July  21,  1842,  Eleanor  Mis- 
enhimer,  of  Clay  County,  111.  Her  father  was 
named  Mathias,  and  came  first  from  North  Caro- 
lina into  Indiana  and  then  into  Illinois,  wlieie  he 
settled  in  1819,  when  the  countiy  was  still  full  of 
Indians.     He  died  in  1^(44. 

Captain  and  Mrs.   Scott  have   thirteen  children: 


I'oIMMf.M  r   AND  llIOCliATMIIC.M.  nKfoKD. 


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Marv  .1..  wife  of  !•".  II.  Hatrs,  livis  in  (  :iiii|i  r<>int; 
■loliii  W.  si'r\<-<l  OIK-  yenr  in  tlie  wsir.  and  ilioil  in 
1  hTi':  Willii'  .-mil  Matliia^,  twiii>.Mip  deceased:  Win- 
lifid  S.  inari'icd  Anna  llnlicr.  and  lives  in  Canip 
Point;  Lovina,  Isaiah,  anil  Isalielle.  det-eased ; 
Mni'thn  K..  wife  of  ('.  I..  Heekett,  a  faiiniT  uf  Kan- 
sas; Franees  K..  wife  of  .1.  11.  (Janvlt.  a  incicliuni 
of  ('ainp  I'oinl;  Uilliani  W..  decea.sed:  Calvin  W'.. 
a  i-lerk  in  the  StiK.-k  Kxehanjje  Hiink  of  Cliicairo, 
and  Samuel.  <lccease<l. 

Till'  ('a|itain  is  a  Dcnioc  rut,  ancl  has  liccn  a  Ma- 
son for  more  than  liftv  veais.  He  aTui  his  wife 
are  worthy  nienihers  of  the  Christian  Church. 
Capt.  Seott  has  had  a  life  of  more  than  usual  in- 
terest and  has  numhered  anionjj  his  friends  and  ac- 
<(ualiitaiiee>sueh  men  as  Aiirnhani  I.ineoln,  .Slfplu'ii 
A.  Douglas,  and  (u-ii.  ( Jarheld.  lie  served  in  tin- 
same  company  with  (ien.  Hoherl  K.  l,ee  in  the 
Seminole  War.  lie  is  justly  proud  of  the  military 
reeoril  of  his  family,  as  well  as  that  of  himself. 


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(^,K()H(;i-;  \V.  l)i;.\N.  Burton  Township  is  a 
rich  agrieultural  center,  and  the  men  who 
conduct  its  farminji  interests  are  enterpris- 
ing, .self-reliant  and  shrewd  in  liuslnes.s.  Among 
these  the  suliject  of  this  sketch  orcupies  no  unim- 
portant place,  :vs  everything  ahout  his  estate  hears 
nil  air  of  neatness  and  order,  while  excellent  huild- 
ings  and  well-kept  fences  aild  to  the  ple.i>itig  pros- 
pect alTor<led  liy  well-cultivated  lields. 

.\  native  of  X'irginia.  our  suliject  was  horn  in 
Kluvanna  County  in  IK.'Sl.and  w.-is  only  two  ye:u> 
of  age  when  he  accompanied  his  parent.s  on  their 
removal  to  Pickaway  County.  Ohio,  lie  rem.Mined 
there  until  attaining  his  eighteenth  year,  the  last 
two  years  attending  the  .Mt.  Pleasant  Academy  at 
Kingston,  when,  with  his  mother  and  two  hrothers, 
he  came  to  this  .State  and  located  in  Sangamon 
County,  and  entered  the  Freshman  Class  of  the 
Illinois  state  rniversity.  remaining  two  years. 
lie  then  entered  the  law  department  of  the  Indiana 
I'niversity  at  1 1 leencastle,  graduating  in  Fehruary, 


1H.')I.  .\l  tireencastle  they  niatle  their  home  until 
the  fall  of  l«t;(i.  the  date  of  their  a<lvent  nilo  IJur- 
toii    Township. 

'I'he  lady  l<>  whom  .Mr.  Dean  was  married  in 
IM.')!!  was  Miss  .Mary  Hughes,  who  had  come  to  this 
county  the  pre\ious  year.  I>y  their  union  have 
heen  horn  live  children,  viz.:  K.  \\.  <>.;  C.  S.,  wIki 
is  now  decea.-ed;  (!.  ('.,  1).  .1.  and  IJertha  M.  Marl- 
lell  and  |-i:une>  (  l5owle^)  Dean,  the  parent^  <if 
our  >uliject,  were,  like  him,  natives  of  \iiginia. 
His  father  was  employed  in  the  capacity  of  ovcr- 
>eer  for  .Southern  planters,  and  proved  a  good 
task-master  to  the  negroes.  He  al.so  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  War  of  IHI2,  and  on  account  of  the 
exposures  and  hardships  endurol  on  the  iiattle- 
(ield.  colli  racted  a  disease  which  resulted  in  his 
death. 

He  of  whom  we  write  has  always  voted  with  the 
Democr.-itic  party  politically, and  is  a  memlierof  tin- 
Democratic  Central  Coinmiltee  and  the  Kxeciilive 
Coniiiiiltee  of  the  saiiic.  and  when  a  young  man 
was  elected  to  the  position  of  .llistice  of  the  Peace, 
which  oltice  he  holds  at  the  present  lime.  He  later 
hecame  a  member  of  the  Hoard  of  Supervisors, 
which  position  he  oeciipietl  for  four  years,  refusing 
a  re-nomin:itioii  on  ."iccoiml  of  lieing  elected  Stiile 
.Senator  m  the  fall  of  \t^X.'>.  He  was  likewise  the 
iiicumhent  of  the  latter  oHice  four  years,  during 
which  time  he  originated  and  caused  to  he  passed 
the  present  Slate  Library  liill.  lleal.so  introdiiceil 
and  caused  to  he  pas>ed  the  aincndmenl  t<i  the 
Stock-hreeders'  Hill,  anil  an  amendment  to  the 
Farmers"  .Mutual  Insurance  Company's  Hill  in  the 
district  in  which  he  resided,  he  heiiig  a  stiK-kholder 
in  the  Farmers'  .Mutual  Insurance  Company.  His 
:uiieiidment  made  it  possible  to  insure  churches 
.'iiiil  schools,  live  stock,  and  grain  in  the  Meld,  al.-o 
to  insure  against  cyclones.  .Mr.  Dean  ideiiti- 
licd  hiiiiseif  with  the  Farmers'  .Vlliance  |iarty  in 
|Ht(|,and  in  .Vngiislof  that  yi'.ar  w;i.s  m:ide  County 
Lecturer,  which  he  holds  at  the  present  time,  de- 
livering lecliires  in  this  and  other  counties  of  t  he 
State. 

He  who.-c  name  lie:ids  this  >ketch  is  the  owner 
of  nearly  a  section  of  line  farming  l:ind.  ami  is 
thus  one  of  the  most  extensive  and  snci'essful 
farmei-s  ill  the  county.      He  pursues    the   most  ap- 


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proved  methods  in  the  management  of  his  estate, 
keeping  it  above  pnv  in  its  improved  and  orderly 
ai)pearance,  and  making  of  it  an  attractive  as  well 
as  remunerative  piece  of  property.  During  his 
early  years  he  was  given  an  excellent  education, 
and  his  father  being  in  limited  circumstances  he 
taught  sciiool  for  tour  years,  and  in  that  way 
earned  the  money  to  carry  him  through  tlie  In- 
diana State  University.  After  completing  his 
studies,  he  went  to  Kansas,  where  he  remained  for 
two  years  and  then  returned  to  this  county,  which 
has  since  been  his  abiding-place.  He  has  been  the 
architect  of  his  own  fortunes  and  is  regarded  as 
one  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential  citizens 
of  the  county. 

The  sons  of  our  subject  are  all  farmers,  and  are 
liighly  respected  both  here  and  throughout  the 
surrounding  county.  In  social  matters,  Air.  Dean 
is  a  Mason,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Modern  Wood- 
men lodge  at  liiberty.  lie  is,  and  has  been,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Farmers'  Institute  of  Adams  County 
since  its  organization,  and  for  twenty-two  yeai's 
K  member  of  the  Adams  County  IJoard  of  Agricul- 
ture, and  for  five  years  has  occupied  the  position 
of  President  of  the  Adams  County  Agricultural 
Society.  IIo  is  a  man  of  true  religious  principles, 
and  with  his  wife  and  family  belongs  to  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church. 


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ANIEL  II.  CARLIN,  a  prominent  and  suc- 
cessful farmer  of  Houston  Township,  was 
born  July  31,  1836,  in  Harford  County, 
Md.,  and  his  father,  Josiah,  was  a  native 
of  the  same  place,  born  in  1806.  The  grand- 
father, William,  came  to  America  from  France,  an 
orphan  boy,  and  was  adopted  by  a  man  of  the 
same  name.  He  became  a  prosperous  farmer  and 
died  in  Maryland.  His  son,  the  father  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  a  blacksmith  by  profession,  but  also  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  his  native  county.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1872,  he  sold  his  interests  in  Maryland 
and    came   to    Illinois,   where  he   bought  land   in 


Houston  Township.  Adams  County,  and  here  he 
died  in  1880.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  in  which  he  was  a  Deacon,  and  left 
a  reputation  of  having  had  one  of  the  best  dispo- 
sitions in  the  world,  never  having  been  known  to 
get  angry  and  never  having  an  enemy.  He  was  a 
model  man  in  every  respect.  His  wife  was 
Elizabeth  Hughes,  of  Baltimore  County,  Md.  She 
died  in  1886,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  She  bore  her  husband  ten 
children,  nine  living  to  mature  .years. 

Our  subject,  Daniel,  is  the  eldest  son,  and  was 
educated  in  the  subscription  schools,  first  held  in  a 
log  house.  He  began  to  support  himself  in  March, 
1855,  when  he  was  eighteen  j'ears  old,  coming- 
West  to  Butler  County,  Ohio,  where  he  worked  for 
an  uncle  who  was  a  farmer.  In  the  fall  of  1855, 
the  uncle  moved  to  Illinois,  and  Daniel  drove  one 
of  the  teams  on  the  journey.  He  continued  to 
work  for  him  for  nearly  three  years,  but  in  Sep- 
tember, I860,  he  rented  a  farm  in  Gilmer  Town- 
ship, Adams  County,  He  lived  in  Burton  nd 
Columbus  Townships,  and  then,  in  the  fall  of 
1874,  moved  to  Houston  Township,  and  purchased 
two  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  land  on  section  5. 
He  now  has  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of 
excellent  land  here,  and  three  hundred  and  twent3' 
acres  of  land  in  Perkins  County,  Neb.  He  is  a 
breeder  and  extensive  raiser  of  the  famous  English 
Berkshire  hogs,  having  turned  off  a  large  number 
of  hogs  ever  since  the  war.  They  are  in  such  ex- 
cellent condition  that  they  command  the  highest 
market  price.  He  generally  tries  to  have  his  hogs 
ready  about  the  first  of  August,  and  has  from 
one  hundred  to  two  hundred  head  of  them  every 
year. 

Mr.  Carlin  was  married  in  185il,  to  Lucy  A. 
Pierce,  of  Jliddletown,  Butler  Connty,  Ohio, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  A.  Pierce,  of  Virginia. 
Her  parents  moved  first  to  Butler  County,  Ohio, 
and  subsequently  to  Adams  County,  111.  The 
father  was  a  farmer,  and  died  in  Adams  County  in 
the  '50s.  His  wife  is  still  living  and  is  more  than 
eighty  years  old. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carlin  have  had  six  children:  Ida, 
wife  of  Mathew  Finlay,  died  in  1886,  leaving  a 
son,  Mathew  M.,  a   bright    little   fellow,  who   has 


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since  lived  with  his  ffi-aiulfntlicr,  Mr.  C'arlin; 
Chftiles  ('.,  a  fanner  in  llancnx-k  County;  Floreni-e 
is  the  wife  of  Alfii'il  IJashen.  a  fanner  in  IVrkins 
{'(•nnlv,  Nell.;  Ivlwin  1'..  ;i  fniiuor  in  IVikins 
(  <mnt>  ;  Albert  N.  and  Annie  I,.,  twins,  me  at 
lionie.     AllK'it  is  a  Senior  in  (^iiine.v  College. 

Mr.  Carlin  is  a  Hepuhliean.  and  keeps  himself 
well  informed  as  to  the  event*  of  the  day.  He  has 
liiled  local  olliees  in  Cilmer  Township,  and  he  is  a 
prominent  and  inlluential  c-itizen.  lie  and  his 
wife  aie  liolh  Methodists,  in  which  ehureli  he  is 
.Steward  and  has  heen  Sunday-school  Superintend- 
ent for  eiffhleen  years.  lie  ha.-*  heen  a  delegate  to 
two  annual  conferences  of  his  chui'ch.  These  are 
amonij^  the  Injst  people  of  the  county. 


<«        lill.I.IAM    ('.  RALPH.     Althou-;h   our  suli- 
\/'J/'     J"'^  ''"'^  ''*"'""  "  ''uccessful  farmer,  and  con- 


V/  sidei-s  that  occupation  his  life  work,  he 
h:i(l  some  interestinj;  experiences  before  he  settled 
dowu  in  L'rsa  Township.  .\  few  of  the  incidents 
of  his  active  life  are  here  noted,  as  well  as  s(»me 
facts  regardinfj  his  parentage. 

The  father  of  our  subject  wa.s  .Mathias  Kalpli,  a 
native  of  Sussex  C'ouuty,  Del.,  born  in  IM(I7.  lli> 
mother  was  Comfort  (Townsend)  Ralph,  a  native 
of  the  same  county  as  her  husband,  and  born  in 
1«11.  Tliey  were  married  in  Delaware,  and  in 
18.{.j  came  to  Illinois,  where  they  settled  four  miles 
east  of  <iuiney.  on  a  farm  that  had  been  partially 
improved.  They  remained  on  that  place  until 
18(>2  and  then  settled  in  Irsa  Township,  mi  l:iiid 
just  north  of  that  now  owned  by  our  Nubjecl. 
Later,  they  moved  intoli-sii  X'illage.and  there  Mr. 
Ralph  died  in  the  fall  of  ISIM.  Mis  faithful  wife 
had  preceded  him  in  death,  pa.-sing  aw.-iy  in  1H7S. 
lioth  of  these  excellent  people  were  meml)ei-s  of 
the  Methodist  Kpiscopal  Church,  .-ind  .Mr.  Ralph 
had  been  very  active  in  its  service  for  mjuiy  years. 
In  his  political  faith,  he  was  once  a  Whi<^.but  after 
the  formation  of  the  Kepublican  party  joiuecl  its 
ranks, 


Our  subject  was  the  oldest  of  thirteen  cliildren, 
eleven  of  whom  are  yet  living;,  lie  was  boi-n  in 
Sussex  County,  J)el.,  .Iidy  21,  1H2H.  and  in  his 
l)oyhood  .-itteiided  the  public  school- of  Delaware 
and  Illinois.  When  the  gold  fever  agitated  the 
whole  country  in  18l".»,  he,  with  three  other-  from 
(iuincy,  joined  a  large  company  on  their  way  \\>>l. 
They  were  e<iuippcd  for  rougli  life, and  crossed  the 
Missouri  River  at  Oregon,  Mo.,  and  there  made  up 
a  train  of  thirty-three  wagons  and  struck  out 
across  the  plains.  They  took  a  diagonal  course  to 
Ft.  Kearney,  thence  to  Ft.  Laramie,  from  there  to 
Salt  Lake  City. and  tlnMi  one  hundred  miles  north, 
crossing  Hear  River  and  afterwanl  the  table- 
land to  Humboldt  River.  After  three  hundred 
mile.s  of  travel  along  that  river,  they  traveled 
forty-live  miles  over  the  desert  and  reached 
Truckee  River  and  there  crossed  the  .Sierra  Nevada 
Mountains.  Here  tUey  struck  the  Feather  River 
and  at  la.st  reached  Sacramento. 

Di  order  to  fnid  a  place  for  the  caravjin.  our 
subject  went  ahead  alone,  and,  overtaking  other- 
on  tlie  same  busini^ss,  linally  concluded  the  journey 
with  seven  of  them.  In  Sacramento,  he  found 
friends  and  returned  to  meet  the  train  on  the  trail. 
He  hired  out  to  drive  a  team  for  *  Id  a  day  and 
board,  as  he  had  his  t)wn  team  and  wagon  with  the 
train.  Later,  he  went  to  Ilangtown  an<l  w.as  a 
partner  with  Hen  Mickeweil  and  with  .lohn  Slike- 
sell,  the  present  Mayor  of  (^nincy.  At  lirst  these 
farmer  boys  had  wild  times,  .as  the  party  was  made 
up  of  men  of  all  dispositions.  After  a  short  time 
at  Ilangtown,  Mr.  Ralph  started  for  Sutter's  Mill. 
where  was  («ov.  Wood  and  his  party,  lie  reinaiiied 
there  until  late  in  the  f.ill  and  then  formed  a 
partnership  with  .lulm  Mike-i-ll. 

Ill  the  spring,  the  partners  went  to  the  old  mill- 
ing camp  and  were  jt^ined  by  .Mr.  Henne.son,  ami 
there  they  continued  to  work  for  a  time,  averag- 
intr  ^H>  a  day.  Next,  our  subject  went  to  Coloina 
an<I  engaged  with  Ktlian  .Mien  to  diivea  team. 
re<-eiving  ^\'i  per  day  and  his  board.  He  wa- thu> 
einplo\ed  during  the  sumni«>r.  until  he  was  taken 
with  the  chills  and  Wiis  forced  to  iplit.  He  then 
went  to  Sacramento,  where  he  rem.-iined  for  >ix 
weeks  and  receiveil  ♦MMJ  a  month  for  doing  the 
bu)  ing  for  W'esleruhuber  i  Cochran,  coufeclioiicrs, 


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While  there,  he  lielped  tosurve.v  the  levee  around 
Sacramento.  He  started  for  hoiiu'  in  Oflober, 
IXnO.  Before  he  left,  he  witnessed  the  great  street 
(ifiriit.  in  1850,  between  the  citizens  and  tlie  squat- 
ters, wliich  has  become  a  part  of  the  history  of 
CaliforniM.  lie  saw  jNIayor  Bigalow  and  his  horse 
fall  wounded.  Another  fact  of  history  was  the 
attempt  made  b^^  Sheriff  McKenny  to  arrest  Allen, 
and  this,  too,  came  under  the  notice  of  our  sub- 
ject. Both  he  and  Allen  liad  taken  passage  for 
home  bj'  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  they 
met  on  the  ship.  At  Sacramento,  he  met  Pegleg 
Sinitii.  wiio  amputated  his  own  leg  without  assist- 
ance. 

After  these  years  of  adventure,  our  subject  set- 
tled down  to  domestic  life,  and  in  1854  married 
I.UC3'  C'adwell.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Curtis 
Cadwell  and  was  born  in  Fall  Creek  Townshi|). 
After  this  important  event,  our  subject  settled  on 
his  present  farm,  where  he  has  continued  ever 
since.  lie  owns  two  hundred  fertile,  well-improved 
acres  and  has  given  his  undivided  attention  to  the 
managenient  of  this  large  estate,  lie  lost  his  esti- 
mable wife  eight  years  ago.  He  is  the  father  of 
three  children:  William  E.,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
the  Gem  City  Business  College;  .lames  A.  and 
Clinton  ('.,  who  have  received  good  educations. 

In  liis  political  convictions,  Mr.  Ralph  is  a  Re- 
pulilican  and  has  always  taken  a  very  active  part 
in  the  deliberations  of  the  (jarty.  Eight  years 
ago,  he  took  a  trip  over  the  scenes  of  his  former 
travels  and  extended  his  journey  through  Wash- 
ington and  Oregon  and  returned  by  way  of  New 
Mexico.  He  enjoys  telling  of  the  stirring  life  on 
tiie  plains,  and  his  travels  and  observation  have 
made  him  a  very  pleasant  conversationalist. 


#^|<^^^. 


g=^A.Mn:i.   IIKNRY.  M.  I).,  is   a    popuhii  and 
^^^^    able  physician  of  Camp  Point  and  .-i  bitter 
opponent   of    rroliibitioii,  although    a  be- 
liever   In    'rt'iii|icr;ince.      lie    was    lioin    in 
County  Derry,  Irelaiul,  Jajumry    Vi,   1828.      Hjs 


father,  John   Henry,  a  fanner  of  Ireland,  died  at 

the  age  of  eighty-five.  His  wife,  mother  of  our 
subject,  died  at  the  age  of  seventy.  Both  parents 
were  Presbyterians,  and  had  twelve  children,  nine 
of  whom  arc  living,  and  all  but  one  of  whom  came 
to  America. 

Dr.  Henry  is  the  seventh  child  and  p.assed  his 
boyhood  days  on  his  father's  farm,  receiving  a 
common-school  education,  and  coming  to  America 
at  the  age  of  twenty.  He  landed  in  New  York  after 
a  thirty-days  voyage  and  settled  in  Franklin, 
Warren  County,  Ohio,  where  he  taught  school  for 
two  years.  About  this  time,  he  began  reading 
medicine  with  Dr.  W.  L.  Schenck,  of  Franklin, and 
studied  with  him  for  three  years,  subse(iuently 
taking  a  course  of  lectures  in  Dartmouth  College, 
in  the  medical  department.  From  there  he  went 
to  New  York  and  took  a  course  of  lectures  in  the 
New  York  Medical  College,  receiving  his  diploma 
in  the  spring  of  1H5;).  lie  then,  having  thor- 
oughly fitted  himself  for  |)iaetice,  came  to  Adams 
County,  111.,  and  located  at  Adams  P.  O.  and  prac- 
ticed two  years.  From  there  he  went  to  Colum- 
bus, a  i)romising  town  at  that  time,  and  remained 
there  for  two  years.  Afterward  he  went  to  Clay- 
ton, Adams  County,  where  he  remained  eight  years, 
and  then  removed  to  Iowa  and  purchased  a  farm 
in  Wapello  County,  living  there  a  few  years.  In 
1870,  he  removed  to  Camp  Point,  Adams  Countj', 
III.,  where  he  has  established  a  lucrative  practice. 
He  has  won  the  entire  confidence  of  :i  large  num- 
ber of  the  best  people  and  has  the  icspect  and  es- 
teem of  everybody. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  ]^i55  to  Jlrs.  Har- 
riet N.  (Wells)  K.ay,  of  New  York.  She  came  to 
Illinois  with  her  parents  when  six  years  old.  and 
was  married  for  the  first  time  to  William  T.  Kay, 
of  Payson,  this  county.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  have 
had  seven  children,  namely:  L.  May,  a  graduate  of 
the  \Vestern  Female  Seminary,  Oxford,  Ohio,  who 
has  taught  several  terms,  and  is  now  the  wife  of  R. 
D.  Anderson,  a  farmer  in  Northwest  Kansas,  a  grad- 
uate of  Monnioutli  College.  III.;  AValter  O.,  a  grad- 
uate of  Maplewood  .School,  Camp  Point,  and  later 
of  Ucllevue  Ilospilal  Medical  College,  N.  Y..  ;uid 
now  the  plivsiciMii  in  charge  of  the  Presb\  leri;iM 
Hospital  at   (Jmaha,  Neb.;  Auuie,  who  graduated 


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r 

fioiii  till'  MaplewiMiil  Si-lioul  n\)i\  tlicn  di'voU-d  lior 
alU'ntiuii  til  limbic,  ;\ltlii>u<r|i  >lic  ilid  smue  tcacliiii;.'. 
and  who  i«;  iidw  tlic  wife  of  Naar  McFailaml,  a 
farmor  in  Wain-llo  Counlv,  Iowa;  llattio.  a  loaclicr 
of  inu>ic  who  lias  nivpii  inucli  of  hvv  lime  to  its 
snidy;  Kdwar<K'..  wlio  <;i\idiiatc>d  from  Mapli  wood 
Scliool  aii<l  from  thi-rc  wont  to  Knox  ('olloj;i',  tins 
State,  and  remained  two  years,  now  lieinj;  in 
CornoU  rni\ersiiv;  .lames,  deceased,  and  Fannie, 
at  home. 

Dr.  Ilenrv  li;is  lieen  a  Ke|iiililiean  since  the  es- 
tjililishment  of  the  partv.  lie  is  a  great  Temper- 
ance man,  luit  opposes  rrohihilion  with  tonnrue 
and  pen.  on  the  ground  that  it  is  immoral.  He 
defines  his  po.«ition  in  tlie  followinf;  words:  "A  j 
law  ]>rohil>itinu:  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  in- 
to.xicant.s  would  be  uniipie.  Every  other  law  is 
designe<l  to  teach  what  is  right  and  what  is  wrong. 
The  aim  of  a  prohibitory  law  is  to  make  it  impos- 
sible for  men  either  to  obey  or  to  disobey  the  com- 
mand, '  l!e  not  drunk  with  wine.'  Were  the 
State  to  do  this  (which  it  is  impossible  for  her  to 
do),  she  woulil  nullify  this  part  of  the  moral  law. 
This  fact  in  regard  to  Prohibition  has  been  ignored  , 
hitherto.  No  intelligent  Christian  can  believe  that 
the  St^ite  ought  to  interpose  her  authority  and 
power  to  prevent  her  citizens  from  obeving  a  com- 
mand of  their  Creator.  If  we  would  promote 
Temperance,  drunkenness  must  be  inaile  to  appear 
odious." 

The  Doctor  makes  no  pretense  to  lie  a  public 
speaker  or  lecturer,  but  he  h.is  delivered  some  very 
forcible  and  convincing  addresses,  among  which  is 
one  on  •'.Mcoholic  Intemperance:  Its  Criminalities, 
I  tsCau.ses,  and  How  to  Countei-act  Them."  Another 
way  he  has  of  bringing  his  views  before  the  pub- 
lic is  by  means  of  tracts.  A  very  convincing  one 
is  addressed  to  the  clergy  of  the  I'nited  States; 
another  di.scu.sscs  Prohibition,  and  >tiil  another 
discusses  in  an  able  manner,  the  ijuestion:  ''  Is 
the  Prohibition  Party  a  Moral  Party.'"  while  a 
fourth  <»iie  disciis,ses.  in  an  eipially  convincing 
manner,  the  <|uerv:  "Can  the  St;ite  Prevent  the 
.Manufjictnre  of  .Vlcohol?" 

.\ilgust  15,  18Bt<.  in  ."i  di.-russion  with  l-",lder  I. 
.M.  Itrowder.  of  M.'iconib.  111.,  on  the  i|iie>tiiiii, 
•'  Ucsolved;  That  there    is  a   better  means  of  pro- 


moting lempeiance  than  by  Prohibition  as  now 
taught,"  III-  took  the  allirmative.  'I'he  discussion 
has  Ihh'I)  publi'^hed  in  pamphlet  form. 

Both  the  Doctor  and  his  wife,  as  well  as  their 
children,  are  members  of  the  Presbyleri:in  Church, 
in  which  Dr.  11<mu\  was  an  KIder  for  many  yi'ars. 
He  still  owns  his  farm  in  Wapello  County. 
Iowa,  and  is  in  active  practice.  He  is  intelligent 
and  a  great  >tudent,  solving  problems  for  himself, 
and  IS  a  man  who  is  proud  of  his  family,  to  whom 
ho  is  greatly  .•ittached,  and  he  stands  very  high  in 
the  comniunil\ . 


v^  II.  KKI.I.HHMKVKK  is  one  of  the  wicie- 
1 1(  ^^  awake  iillicials  and  busine.-s  men  of  (^uincv. 
^^^  111.,  anrl  has  idontilied  himself  with  many 
enterprises  of  importance,  which  in  many  instances 
has  been  a  guarantee  of  their  success.  Like  so 
main'  of  the  pronuncnt  citizens  of  the  I'nited  State-s, 
he  is  a  ( ieiinan,  and  has  inherited  many  of  the 
most  worthy  altiiliutes  of  that  people,  among  which 
may  bo  mentioned  honesty,  industry,  tliiift  and 
sobriety.  He  was  I  orn  in  Prussia.  November  2X. 
1H:V2.  being  the  eldest  <jf  three  children  that  were 
given  to  William  and  Marie  Kellermeyer,  the 
former  of  whom  was  a  follower  of  the  plow. 

Like  the  m:ijorit_\'  of  (iernian  youths.  C.  II.  Kel- 
lermeyer was  given  a  practical  ecliicrilicin  in  the 
common  scluiols,  and  pursued  his  scholastic  studies 
until  he  attained  his  sixteenth  year.  Theenviron- 
nients  of  his  youth  were  such  a.s  contributed  in 
the  greatest  tlegree  to  the  development  of  high 
character,  intellectiuil  vigor,  true  manhood  and  an 
independent  spirit.  He  was  pos.sessed  of  an  enter- 
prising <lisposition,  and  in  IHIK  crossed  the  broad 
.\tlantic  to  seek  a  home  in  .America,  reaching  this 
country  aft^r  an  CK'oan  voyage  of  I  wo  months' dur- 
:itinn.  He  l:inde<l  al  New  <  >rleaiis,  but  left  tlii»Cies- 
ceiil  City  and  made  his  way  up  the  .Mississippi 
Uiver  to  St.  L<iuis,  which  city  was  the  scene  of  his 
liu>iues>  operations  until  I  M.'iM.  He  then  openeil  u 
mercunlile  ebtublishuiciit  in  iluiico«.'k  County,  ill., 


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where  he  becvime  known  as  an  honoraljle  and  suc- 
cessful man  of  business,  and  it  was  with  regret 
tliat  the  eitizens  beheld  his  removal  from  that  place 
in  1870,  at  which  time  he  became  a  resident  of 
C^uincy.  He  accepted  a  position  as  book-i<eeper 
in  the  ollice  of  \V.  D.  Meyer,  but  at  the  end  of  five 
years  he  formed  a  partnership  with  August  Rosen- 
koetter  in  tlie  manufacture  of  lime,  the  tirm  taking 
the  name  of  A.  Rosenkoetter  iV  Co..  which  associa- 
tion continued  for  one  year. 

During  this  time,  Mr.  Kellerineyer  liad  mani- 
fested a  decided  aptitude  for  business,  and  this 
fact  was  recognized  in  1887  by  his  election  to  the 
position  of  City  Treasurer  and  ex-Oflicio  Town  Col- 
lector, to  which  office  he  was  re-elected  in  1888- 
k;)_90-91.  In  the  month  of  May,  18!t2,  lie  was 
apiiointed  Collector  of  Special  Taxes  and  Special 
Assessments  and  is  discharging  his  duties  in  a  man- 
ner that  rellects  the  greatest  credit  upon  himself 
and  in  keeping  with  the  high  estimation  in  which 
he  is  regarded  by  the  public.  He  iias  shown  a  great 
deal  of  tact  in  tiie  management  of  his  affairs 
and  it  is  owing  to  his  own  pluck,  persistence  and 
unwearied  industry,  that  he  has  won  a  substantial 
position  in  life.  He  came  to  this  country  a  raw 
youtii  of  sixteen,  unfamiliar  with  tlie  Knglisli  lan- 
guage, but  his  talents  and  energy  found  employ- 
ment in  a  lucrative  channel  and  lie  is  now  a  well- 
known  and  hii;hly  honored  citizen  of  '^uincy.  He 
has  manifested  a  lively  intei'est  in  the  public  ijues- 
tions  of  the  <lay.  is  a  firm  supporter  of  the  Demo- 
cratic principles,  and  socially  belongs  to  Lallarpe 
Lodge  Xo.  !!•."),  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  As  a  man,  he  pos- 
sesses a  genial  nature  and  social  tastes,  which  (juali- 
ties  have  won  him  a  host  of  fiiends.  His  home 
life  is  singularly  happy  and  when  surrounded  by 
his  wife  and  children  he  is  seen  at  his  best. 

'I'lie  year  I8.")l  witnessed  the  celebration  of  his 
marriage  to  Miss  .Iose|)hine  Kippcnbrock,  a  daugh- 
ter of  (ierhard  Kijipeiibrock,  a  native  of  Prussia, 
■and  a  family  of  seven  children  has  been  given  to 
their  union,  six  daughters  and  one  son:  Augusta, 
widow  of  Clark  ( iardner,  of  (^uincy ;  Ida.  at  home; 
Lily,  wife  of  Anton  Weveiing;  .Matilda,  at  home; 
.Vniy,  wife  of  Anton  Tfifail;  Florence,  wife  of  Will- 
iam Smith,  a  fanner  of  I'rsa  'i'ownship,  Adams 
County,  and  lleury.     jNlr.  Jvellcruieyer  has  a  sub. 


stantial  residence  at  No.  1217  North  Tenth  Street 
where  he  and  his  wife  dispense  a  hospitality  that 
is  the  delight  of  the  many  friends  who  gather  be- 
neath their  roof. 


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1-3-i-**'^ 


R.  SCHOBEY  F.  MEACHAM.  The  call- 
])j  ing  of  the  physician,  when  properly  con- 
^^f^'  ducted,  is  one  of  the  noblest  to  which 
a  man  devotes  his  life,  and  to  say  that 
Dr.  Meacham  has  thus  far  made  a  proper  use  of 
the  (lowers  given  him,  would  l)e  stating  the  fads 
very  mildl.y  indeed.  'i"o  his  skill  and  talent  the 
gratitude  of  many  are  due,  for  although  young  in 
years,  he  is  already  one  of  the  prominent  physi- 
cians of  ilie  county,  and  his  welcome  face  is  ever 
to  be  found  at  the  bedside  of  the  sick  and  afflicted. 
His  long  residence  in  the  Prairie  State,  and  his  in- 
timate association  with  its  various  material  affairs, 
have  gained  for  him  an  extensive  and  i)opular  ac- 
quaintance. 

He  was  born  in  Illinois,  near  Brooklyn,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1857,  and  is  a  son  of  Seth  and  Cynthia 
(Outcal)  Meacham,  the  father  a  native  of  Connec- 
ticut, of  Scotch  descent,  and  the  mother  born  in 
Obit),  of  (Jerman  descent.  The  former  w.as  born 
in  Hartford,  in  181ti,  and  now  resides  on  the  old 
homestead  in  Schuyler  County.  The  mother's 
birth  occurred  in  the  year  182(1,  but  she  is  now 
deceased,  dying  m  Schuyler  County  in  18!)2. 
Ilcr  father  was  Schobey  Outcal,  after  whom  our 
subject  was  named.  Of  the  five  children  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  IMeacham,  our  subject  was  the  fourth 
in  order  of  birth.  He  passed  his  youthful  days  in 
attending  the  district  school  and  in  assisting  his 
father  on  the  farm,  liul  when  sixteen  yeais  of 
age  lie  began  teaching  school  in  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  county.  After  this,  lie  began 
stiidyiiii"  medicine  with  Drs.  Fugate  and  Wear,  of 
Fandiin,  McI )(inou^li  County.  III.,  and  subse- 
(pieiitl_\'  entered  the  college  of  physicians  :ind  sur- 
geons at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  graduating  fioiii  that  in- 
btilulion  in  1»«2, 


y<S^ 


^^^^^ 


rORTR.MT   AM)   "K  K  IKAl'IIK  Al.    IMKOin). 


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AfliT  i^rndualilifr,  lie  wi'iil  tn  .Iii|>liii.  Mn..  anil 
Im'cmiiic  a  I'riifcssor  of  .lii|iliii  Medical  ('ollcj,'!- at 
lliat  iilacc.  and  Tor  foiirtocii  iiiiintlis  was  on  nia- 
tpria  nu'dica  tlierapiMitics.  I'lnm  tln-io  lie  wrnl  In 
Ih's  Moini's.  !<i\vn,  took  clniiirc  nf  llic  |iiacticc  of 
a  iniiniincnt  pliysician  at  that  place,  ami  cnntiniieil 
willi  liin)  nntil  the  latter'^  deatli.  In  tlie  sprini;  of 
1>*!I2.  lie  took  a  posl-iiradnate  co\ir>c  at  the  ine<li- 
cal  school  in  New  ^'oi  k  (itv  anil  afleiwanl  came 
to  '^iiincy.  where  he  has  coniliicteil  a  >;eneial 
practice  up  to  the  picsent  time.  Allhouuh  hut  a  re- 
cent addition  to  the  medical  profession  of  this  cit\', 
he  has  alreaiU  huill  up  a  successful  practice,  and 
is  prosperin;Lr  in  every  way.  He  devotes  his  entire 
time  to  his  profes'-ioii  and  his  efforts  have  resulted 
in  sucee.ss.  lie  is  generous,  liher.al  .and  high- 
niinded.  and  has  already  won  many   w.-irm    friends. 

The  Doctor  selected  his  life  companion  in  the 
person  of  Miss  Dora  SlofFer.  a  native  of  Ilunts- 
ville.  .Vhuyler  County.  III.,  .and  a  lady  possessed 
of  more  than  the  ordinary  wojuanly  trait.-  of  cliar- 
Rcter.  Their  nuptials  wei-c  celehrated  in  IHUi,  at 
the  home  of  hci-  father.  Mathias  Stoffer,  and  tlic\- 
now  have  a  very  tine  home  at  No.  :>\  \  Voik 
Street. 

Dr.  .Meaeliani  is  a  memlier  of  Cyelonc  Lodge,  1. 
(I.  (>.  K..  at  <;uinc\ .  III.,  and  is  also  a  memher  of 
Mufltsville  Lodge  No.  Hi;'),  A.  I".  ,V  A.  M.  lie  is 
prominent  in  social  circles  and  is  also  very  prom- 
inent in  all  enterprises  that  .affect  the  city  or 
county.  As  a  physician  and  citi/.en  of  t.^uincw  he 
Is  hiirhlv  esteemed. 


-^ia 


>>^^<m^—^ 


'IL-^.   ON.    V    l;.     (  urn  KM  )KN.      Among     the 

l|     )|1   names  which    will    long  he   remomhered    in 

•>^     .Vdanis  County    :is    examples    of  thrift,  en- 

K§^,     ergy  and  devotion  to  the  pulilic  good,  tluil 

of  the  honorable  gentlem.'ui  wlm-e  ie<'ord  we    now 

attempt  to  give    will  hold  a  ver\   prominent  place. 

The    gran<lfather    of    our    sulijcct    was    Deacon 

Abraham  Cliillenden.  who  wasa  n.ative  of  (iuilf»>ril 

Coun.     Thero  Ue  married  Diuniia  Ward,  «  ho  died 

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.•1  few  years  later,  lie  afterward  married  Mrs.  Lydia 
l{i>-c,  the  widow  of  Sin  on  Kose  and  d.aughter  t>f 
Isr.'iel  Haldwin.  of  Noiih  Uranford.  He  lived  a 
useful  life  and  died  ;iged  alioni  ninety-six.  The 
f.'itlicr  of  our  subject  was  the  well-iemembeied 
.lohn  I!.  Chittenden,  who  was  born  in  (iuilford. 
Conn..  .I.auuary  HI,  IT'.ni.  lb-  was  the  fourth  in  a 
family  of  seven  cliildreii.  and  was  the  .son  of  the 
second  marriage  of  his  father,  lie  passefl  his  early 
life  .'Is  .a  f.armer  in  his  nati\e  place,  and  early  be- 
came interested  in  the  Congregation.al  Church  of 
that  place,  lu  his  tweiity-(ii>t  year,  he  wa.s  made 
Deacon,  and  held  that  important  position  until 
Ih:(L  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Kliza  Rob- 
inson, also  a  native  oftiuilford.  Conn.,  and  the 
daughter  of    Col.  S.amuel  liobinsoii,  of    that  place. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject's  parents  occurred 
the  rilli  of  .lanuary,  1^1  Land  they  made  their 
home  in  Connecticut  until  the  year  1X31,  when  Mr. 
Chittenden,  Sr..  decided  to  move  his  family  to 
Illinois.  Ills  objective  |)oint  was  '^uincy.  and  at 
Kast  Haven  lie  was  joined  by  Samuel  Bradly  .•ind 
others,  and  an  emigrant  train  of  live  wagons  and 
thirty-six  persons  >tarted  on  the  long  journey. 
The  leader  of  lhi>  b.aiid  li.ad  two  objects  in  view  n» 
reasons  for  this  change  of  location.  One  of  them 
was  to  establish,  strengthen  and  extend  the  Chris- 
tian religion  liy  the  organizntion  of  churches  and 
of  Sunday-schools.  The  second  reason  was  that  he 
might  better  provide  for  the  f:iniily  of  sturdy  fioys 
^rowiim  up  around  his  hearthstone. 

I'erhaps  the  start  was  made  loo  late  in  the  yearfor 
the  \Vcstei  11  climate:  at  any  rate,  when  the  travelers 
reached  Scipio.  .Mo.,  near  Hannibal,  they  found 
themselves  frozen  in.  Three  weeks  were  spent 
here  before  Mr.  Chittenden  could  obtjiin  teams 
from  i^iuincy  willi  which  to  transfer  his  family  to 
their  destination.  However,  after  privations  which 
we  can  scarcely  imagine,  the  family  reached 
i^'uincy,  where  they  were  received  hospitably  by 
t',i,\.  .lohn  Wood,  in  his  log  cabin  residence  below 
the  town,  under  the  bluff.  The  rest  of  the  winter 
was  p:i>.-cd  .al  i^iiincy.  and  wa»  employed  b\  Mr. 
(  hilleiiden  in  looking  up  a  favorable  location. 
.March  "i,  Ih;!:>,  he  purchased  of  .lacob  Croshong. 
an  old  I'rench  selllcr,  the  southwest  ijuarter  of 
section  1 1.  iii-ar  the  present  site  of  Mciiilon,  whicli 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


was  then  a  trackless  prairie.  He  was  more  fortu- 
natf  than  some  early  settlers,  for  he  found  ten 
acres  already  bioken,  and  a  log  cabin  on  the  place. 
There  the  family  settled  and  there  was  born  Sarah 
Chittenden,  April  19,  1832.  This  lowly  home  be- 
came an  historic  place,  for  here  was  held  the  first 
Congregational  meeting  in  the  State,  and  here  was 
organized  a  Smiday-school  and  a  weekly  prayer- 
meeting.  Under  this  humble  roof  was  organized 
the  first  Cojigregational  Church  in  the  State,  with 
a  membership  of  eighteen.  It  was  in  this  cabin 
tliat  JohiiB.  Chittenden,  February  7,  1833,  drafted 
the  Articles  of  Faith  and  the  covenants  of  the 
church.  These  same  Articles  were  afterward 
tampered  with,  and  later  the  subject  of  our  sketch 
was  called  upon  to  defend  them,  and  saved  them. 
In  February,  1833,  John  B.  Chittenden  bought  the 
northeast  quarter  of  section  11,  and  laid  out  and 
platted  the  village  of  Guilford  (now  Mendon),  and 
built  himself  a  residence,  which  he  occupied  three 
years.  Later,  he  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  town 
and  moved  out  to  his  farm,  which  was  two  miles 
north  of  Mendon.  In  that  home  Mr.  Chittenden 
lived  in  comfort  and  ease,  with  pleasant  surround- 
ings, until  the  death  of  his  excellent  wife,  which 
sad  event  took  place  October  30,  1862.  She  was 
an  estimable  woman,  with  a  disposition  as  placid 
and  even  as  a  Ma3'  morning.  Her  law  was  the  law 
of  kindness,  and  she  was  never  known  to  speak  an 
unkind  word  of  any  one  or  to  any  one.  She  was 
an  earnest  Christian,  and  was  honored  and  mourned 
by  all.  This  loss  overwhelmed  her  husband  with 
grief,  and  no  doubt  was  the  cause  of  his  rapid  de- 
cline and  death.  He  dei)arted  this  life  January  23, 
1863,  only  three  months  after  the  loss  of  his  com- 
panion. Possessing  a  clear  and  logical  mind,  he 
was  an  able  reasonei',  and  an  interesting  and  Hnent 
l)ublic  s|(eaker.  He  was  an  unselfish  worker  in  all 
causes  of  reform,  and  took  an  interest  in  everything 
that  promised  good  to  others.  Ilis  last  articula- 
tions were  a  few  woids  from  Ple^'el's  Hymn,  which 
was  a  great  favorite.  In  politics,  he  was  a  Whig, 
and  later  became  a  Republican,  and  at  one  time  he 
was  nominated  foi'  the  Legislature. 

Our  suliject  was  one  of  seven  childien,  tiiree  of 
whom  ai'e  iiiiw  living.  The  two  lirothers  of  Mr. 
Chiltendeii    iwv     lleiii'\     !{,,   of    \\';irsaw.   III.,  and 


Abram,  who  lives  in  this  township.  Our  subject  was 
born  in  Guilford,  Conn.,  October  2,  1817.  While 
young,  he  attended  the  district  schools,  but  aftei- 
his  arrival  in  Illinois  he  had  very  limited  advan- 
tages. He  was  the  eldest  of  the  living  children, 
and  was  tiie  one  upon  whom  the  hardest  work  fell, 
and  he  faithfully  performed  his  duty  by  remaining 
with  his  parents  until  after  his  twenty-second  year, 
meanwhile  employed  in  splitting  rails  and  haul- 
ing and  breaking  prairie.  At  that  time  he  saw  an 
opening  in  Mendon  for  a  geneial  store  for  the  ac- 
commodation of  the  growing  village,  and,  with  a 
partner  named  John  K.  Baldwin,  he  went  into  the 
mercantile  business,  under  the  firm  name  of  Chit- 
tenden &  Baldwin.  Two  years  after  this,  he  bought 
Mr.  Baldwin  out,  and  continued  by  himself  until 
he  tuined  it  over  to  his  sons.  This  same  store  is 
now,  after  a  lapse  of  fifty  j-ears,  conducted  by  his 
sons,  S.  F.  and  George  R.  Mr.  Chittenden  has 
been  a  large  land-owner  here,  and  now  owns  five 
hundred  and  seventy-five  acres.  His  surplus  cash 
is  loaned  principally  on  real  estate. 

Our  subject's  marriage  occurred  January  2, 1844, 
when  he  was  united  with  Caroline  B.,  daughter  of 
Lyman  and  Ann  (Barker)  Frisbie,  natives  of  Bran- 
1  ford.  Conn.  The  father  was  a  farmer  who  in  1837 
came  to  Illinois,  where  he  kept  an  hotel  and  car- 
ried on  farming.  The  estimable  wife  of  our  subject 
was  born  in  the  beautiful  town  of  Branford,  in 
1820,  and  was  educated  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
She  became  the  mother  of  three  children,  who  have 
grown  to  manhood  and  engaged  in  business  here. 
Their  names  are  John  R,,  Samuel  F.  and  George  R. 
They  have  all  received  good  educations  and  have 
proved  good  men  of  business. 

The  members  of  the  Chittenden  family  are  iden- 
tified with  the  Congregational  Church,  and  are 
among  the  most  prominent  of  the  peo])le,  in  a  pub- 
lic and  social  way.  In  his  political  opinions,  Mr. 
Chittenden  was  originally  a  AVhig.  but  in  1856  be- 
came a  Democrat,  and  lias  been  a  very  prominent 
man  in  the  political  life  of  his  county.  For  twenty 
years  he  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  for  four 
years  served  as  Supervisor.  In  LSCC,  he  was  elected 
to  the  Illinois  State  Senate  from  the  old  Thir- 
teenth District  of  Adams  and  Hancock  Counties, 
iiiid  served  four  vears.   \\'liilc  Ihere.lie  was  a  mem.. 


I'OinKAIT  AND  BlCKlRAPmCAL   UKCtlRD. 


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Irt  of  scvi'iiil  c(>ininitt«es,  notably  lliosc  on  Hanks 
and  CoriHiralions  anil  on  Stale  Institutions,  and 
made-  many  s|)i'i'riips.  While  lie  was  Suin'ivisor,  lie 
was  C'liairnian  of  the  .hidieiary  Conimilleo  of  the 
County  I5uaicl.  lie  has  lii'cn  a  ini'inber  of  tlie  State 
Hoard  of  Ki|uali;tation,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the 
St.  Louis  convention  whieh  nominated  'I'ildcn  f<»r 
President,  lie  was  honored  liytJov.  Palmer  with 
an  appointineul  to  the  convei\lion  at  St.  I.ouis, 
to  change  the  Capitol  from  Wivshington.  I).  C. 
■\Vliile  serving  in  the  Legislature,  he  was  insiru- 
menU-il  in  securing  the  railroad  known  as  the 
Carthage  Hraneh  of  the  Chicago,  Turlington  iV- 
(^uincy,  of  which  he  was  \ice-presi<lent.  The  liisl 
train  went  through  Mendon  in  Decemlier,  liST", 
and  the  road  has  contriliulcd  greatly  to  the  i)ro- 
gress  of  the  community. 


IIAHLKS  W.  KKMP.  One  of  the  most 
l)rominenl  and  enter|)rising  farmers  of  sec- 
tion 17.  Cam|)  Point  Township,  is  the  sul)- 
ject  of  this  sketch,  who  is  a  native  of  Kllington 
Township,  Adams  County.  Iiorn  X<»vend>er  7, 
1«17.  The  grandfatiier.  Charles  Kemp,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Pennsylvania,  who  emigrated  to  Uourlnui 
County,  Ky.,  and  liecame  a  farmer  there,  win're  he 
lived  ami  died.  Henry  S.  Kemj).  father  <if  our 
subject,  was  born  in  Itourbon  County,  Ky.,  in 
1«12.  In  1831,  after  his  father's  .leatli,  here- 
moved  with  his  mother  and  family  to  (^uincy.  III., 
where  he  kept  store  foi-  a  few  years,  and  later 
worked  at  phistering  and  bricklaying.  In  this 
wiiy  he  earned  means  to  support  his  nmther, 
brothers  and  sisters.  .Mmut  is^ii.  he  concluded 
to  try  farming,  and  reuioved  to  Kllinglon  Town- 
ship, where  he  purchased  a  farm,  and  here  devoted 
himself  to  f:irming  and  stock-raising,  and  spent 
the  remainiler  of  his  last  days  here,  lie  was 
clearly  a  self-made  n)an,  as  he  started  willnuitany 
means,  but  when  he  dieil,  A|iril  27,  1MX2,  he  owned 
about  one  thousand  acres    of    land,  well  iiiipi-o\cd 


and  stocked,  lie  was  inthicntial  politically,  and 
had  held  the  v;nions  local  ollices  in  t!ie  township. 
His  wife  was  Caroline  V.  Laughlin,  of  Clark 
County,  Ky.  She  died  .Vpril  17,  lK',t2,  and  both 
she  and  her  husband  were  members  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church. 

Charles  is  the  eldest  of  two  remaining  children 
in  a  family  of  six.  He  received  a  district-.school 
education  and  latcrattended  the  academy  at  (iales- 
burga  short  time.  His  youth  was  passed  on  the  farm, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  began  farming 
foi-  himself  in  I'^llington  Townshi|).  In  Decem- 
ber, IHitl,  he  purcliascil  four  hundred  acres  of  land 
on  sections  17  and  21),  Camp  Point  Township, 
known  as  the  Thomas  Males  farm.  In  l-'ebruar\ . 
1K',»2,  he  located  on  it. 

Mr.  Kem|)  was  married  for  the  lirst  time  in 
18(J8,  to  .Sally  Nicholas,  of  Kentucky  She  died  in 
1874,  leaving  four  children:  Martha  W.  and 
Henry  AV..  living,  and  .Vnnie  and  Lli/.abeth,  de- 
ceased. The  secontl  marriage  was  in  IHKl,  U)  Isa- 
bel Doran,  of  .\dams  County,  daughter  of  Madi- 
son Doran,  a  native  of  Ohio.  They  have  two 
children,  William  Madison  and  Daisy  licll. 

( )ur  subject  is  somewhat  independent,  but  gen- 
erally votes  the  Republican  ticket.  He  still  has 
an  interest  in  the  old  homestead  in  Kllinglon 
Townslii|i.  Kvi'r  since  his  eighteenth  year  he  has 
handled  slock  and  fed  a  great  many  cattle.  He 
has  a  choice  farm,  <|uite  rolling. and  well  improved. 
The  beautiful  residence  th;il  lie  calls  his  home  is 
in  a  thrifty  grove  of  trees.  He  and  his  wife  arc 
very  highly  respected  by  .all  who  know  them. 
Mrs.  Kemp  belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  is  a  valued  nu'mbcr  of  that  bodv. 


■»®J. 


^  llAKLi;s  1.  CoLr.lb'N.  One  of  the  best- 
known  business  nn-n  of  (^uincy  is  a  gen- 
'  tieman  who  ha->  traveled  (piite  extensively 
but  is  now  located  in  this  city  and  is  a  member  of 
the  wholeMile and  retail  linn  of  Colinan  and  Haker, 
purveyors  to  the  people. 


5S0 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


The  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  James  Col- 
burn,  who  came  to  America  from  the  Highlands 
of  Scotland,  and  settled  in  Massacliusetts.  There 
he  lived  an  industrious  life  and  died  at  tlic  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-  years.  The  grandmother  was  ' 
one  of  the  famous  Campbell  family,  and  ended  her 
life  far  from  the  glens  of  her  native  land.  The 
f.ithcr  of  our  subject,  .Tames  Colburn,  was  born 
in  Lucncnburgh,  Mass.,  and  followed  the  busi- 
ness of  a  moroco-dresser.  AVhen  about  two  years 
of  age.  he  located  in  Washington  Citj"  and  there 
carried  on  a  large  tannery  and  factory  for  a 
space  of  thirty-five  years.  In  1849,  he  desired  to 
make  a  change  in  his  life,  .and  the  family  moved 
b}-  stage  over  the  Alleghany  Mountains,  and  by 
boats  up  the  livers  until  the  city  of  Qnlncy  was 
reached.  In  the  spring  after  this  removal,  Mr. 
Colburn,  Sr..  Iiought  six  hundred  and  forty  acres 
of  land  in  (iilmer  Township,  and  went  into  the 
business  of  farming  and  stock-raising,  imiiroving 
and  adding  to  it,  until  when  he  became  tired  of 
this  life  of  toil,  he  had  seven  hundred  acres  to  turn 
into  dollars.  In  1887, he  sold  out  and  moved  into 
(Juinc3'  and  began  a  wholesale  grocery  and  liq- 
uor business.  He  died  in  1878,  aged  seventy -six  I 
years,  having  Ijeen  for  many  years  a  Universalist  I 
in  his  religious  belief.  He  had  been  an  old-line  ' 
Whig,  but  at  his  death  he  was  -a  Democrat. 

Our  subject's  mother  was  Susanna  Newton,  who 
was  born  in  Woodley  Lane,  Washington,  I).  C.  She    ' 
could  trace  her  lineage  directly  back  to  Lord  Bal-   i 
timore.    She  was  a  member  of  the  Catholic  Church    i 
iiiid  died,  aged   eighty  years,    in    1882.     Of    her 
twelve  children,  only  four  are   now  living;    Clau- 
dius, who  was  in  the  Civil  War;  Marcel  his,  who  lives 
in   Chicago;  Theodocia,  now  Mrs.  .Joseph  Du  A'aid, 
who   live>   in   Spring  Mills,  Berkeley  County,  \n.. 
and  our  subject. 

Our  subject  was  reared  in  Washiugion  milil 
four  years  of  age.  and  was  then  lirought  to  Quincv, 
and  grew  up  on  the  fanii.  He  attended  the  eoin- 
iiion  schools  and  reiiiained  at  home  until  (ifteeii 
years  of  age,  when  he  started  out  to  make  his  own 
way  in  the  world,  lie  leaeheil  Cliieago  in  18()(l, 
with  eighty  cents  in  his  poeket  and  w-ithout  a 
liiciid.  The  following  day.  he  obtained  emplov- 
iiiriii  !|t  a  shingle  mill  at  ?;)  ;t  weck.currviiig  shin- 


gles. Two  months  later,  his  wages  were  raised  to 
14,  and  in  six  months  lie  took  charge  of  a  shingle 
saw  at  %7.25.a  week,  three  months  later  being  paid 
$9,  saving  during  this  time  $2.50.  He  then  hired 
out  as  a  Government  laborer,  went  South  with  a 
number  of  others,  and  was  put  to  feeding  horses  in 
Nashville,  Tenn.  In  signing  his  name  to  the  pay 
roll,  some  one  said  "This  man  w-oiild  make  a  good 
clerk,"  and  he  was  made  ticket  clerk  and  then 
shipping  clerk  at  $75  for  sixty  days'  labor.  He 
was  then  made  receiving  clerk  at  18.5.  He  later 
made  the  accjuaintance  of  clerks  in  other  depart- 
ments and  then  .asked  Lieut.  Stebbins  for  an  honor- 
able discharge  at  Washington.  This  resulted  in  his 
securing  a  position  as  Assistant  Chief  Clerk  under 
L.  E.  Brown,  who  held  the  position  of  Assistant 
Traffic  IM.anager  at  Xashville,  at  a  salary  of  $2,00(1 
a  year. 

Ill  1. si; I,  our  subject  came  home  and  remained 
two  weeks,  and  then  returned  to  the  South  in  the 
employ  of  Lieut.  Nelson,  of  the  Thirteenth  United 
States  Regiment,  at  .Tohnsonville,  Tenn.,  as  Chief 
Clerk.  At  the  end  of  the  war,  he  returned  to 
Quincy  and  attended  the  Commercial  College  of 
Bry.ant  &  Bell,  and  was  graduated  in  four  months. 
He  returned  to  Chicago  in  the  fall  of  186.5  and 
opened  a  grocer3',  continuing  it  for  six  mon  ths,wlu n 
he  sold  it.  He  took  a  contract  for  piling  cord- 
wood  on  the  docks  for  twenty-five  cents  a  cord  for 
three  months  and  after  that   he  went   to  Quincy. 

In  1867,  the  produce  firm  of  R.  W.  Nace  &  Co. 
was  formed  with  Mr.  Colburn  as  partnei',  and 
there  he  remained  as  chief  clerk  for  three  years. 
For  five  years  he  was  clerk  for  S.  A.  Britting- 
han  it  Co.,  and  also  for  S.  P.  Bartlett  it  Co.  In 
1874,  he  opened  a  branch  house  for  Bartlett  & 
Co.  and  a  market  known  .as  Fulton  Market,  and 
this  was  run  and  managed  by  him  for  two  years, 
when,  upon  its  closing,  Mr.  Colburn  was  taken  in  as 
partner.  He  continued  with  them  until  1877  and 
then  withdrew  and  made  a  trip  to  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  took  the  position  of  traveling  salesman 
for  Meyer  it  Kesphorel.  He  remained  with  them 
seven  years,  Ijeginning  with  a  salary  of  $1,200 
and  leaving  at  $2400  a  year. 

In  .May,  188:i,  Mr.  Colburn  gave  up  traveling 
and   opened   -a    retail    grocery  store   and   associ. 


^ 


POUTUAIT  AM)  I'.KHiltAl'llRAL  UKCOUD. 


.-■nrt 


at^id  witli  liini  ('.  K.  Hiikcr.  Ttiev  <li<l  Imsiiie.v-  at 
No.  o2M  ll()ii>t'>n  StiTcl  until  IH'Jd,  when  tliov  ir- 
nioved  acrof*  the  street,  where  they  hniulle  i\  full 
lino  of  clitnoe  firoeeries  and  priMluce.  hutli  whuli'- 
.-.•ilf  and  ri'lail. 

.Mr.  (  cillvuin  liccainc  a  Director  of  the  l^uincy 
Hank  in  1H><H,  ami  in  I  HM'.I  hccnnie  Nico-president, 
l)Ul  in  IH'.II  he  withdrew  from  it.  In  IHH'.I,  he  wa.- a 
>locklinlder  and  Diicelor  in  the  .Shaw  CfiM' (orn- 
pan.v  and  the  IJonnet  .Manuf.aeturinu'  ('oni|iaii\. 

( )ur  >ulijeet  resi(U's  at  Seventh  Street  and  IJroad- 
wa\ ,  and  he  was  here  married,  in  187(i,  to  Mi.ss 
Kraiiee>  <  '•.  Williams,  a  dauiihter  of  ( 1.  K.  Williams, 
of  .Syracu.«e,  N.  Y.  lie  is  a  niemlier  of  l.odijr  No. 
1»,  K.of  l'..and  of  the  orderol  Druids;  of  the  Klks, 
also.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  his  political  faith,  and 
has  heen  an  e.\tensive  traveler,  traveling  from  the 
Coast  tolhe(!ulf  and  from  (  anada  to  Mexico.  He 
is  very  puhlic-spirited  and  is  a  success  as  a  liusiness 
man.  His  is  the  largest  house  in  his  line  In  the 
citv. 


>■»  '  -7 


'JIIdKI.  K.  .SCAUHOUortill.      The  agricullur- 
ll     ists  of  I'a.vson   Township  aii-,  as  a  rule,  pos- 


Jsessed  of  general  intelligence,  thorough 
understanding  of  their  calling,  and  great 
energy,  and  thev  therefore  rank  well  aniong  the 
fanners  the  world  over.  Among  those  who  arc 
successfully  pui'suing  the  peaceful  occupaticni  of 
tilling  the  soil,  is  the  gentleman  ahove  named, 
whose  comfortable  estate  is  located  on  section  7, 
'i'he  land  is  under  thorough  tillage,  hears  a  full 
line  of  adequate  iniprovemenls,  and  produces  :i 
g<x>dly  store  of  the  various  crops. 

Mr.  Scarborough  was  Ihuii  in  IJrookh  ii.  Conn., 
in  l»2l,  and  is  one  of  four  children  included  in 
the  family  of  .loel  and  Lueretia  (Smith)  Scarbor- 
ough, who  were  also  natives  of  the  Nutmeg  State. 
The  father  of  our  subject  died  prior  to  his  birth, 
and  his  mother  departed  this  life  when  he  was  a 
lad  of  twelve  years.  Two  years  after  that  .sad 
event.  y<iiing  Scarborough  came  t*)  this  county  and 


made  his  home  for  a  few  years  with  an  uncle  who 
lived  in  I'ayson.  Later,  .going  to  the  northein 
|)ortion  of  Ohio,  he  remained  for  two  years,  anil, 
with  that  exception,  has  made  this  place  his  home 
since  locating  here.  He  is  a  wide-awake,  energetic 
man,  and  one  who,  by  strict  integrity  and  good 
judgment,  has  succeederl  in  n  im.m iked  degree  in  the 
conimcrciid  world, 

III  all  woitliy  matters  that  affect  the  piililic  wel- 
fare of  the  community  in  which  he  resides,  Mr. 
Scarborough  maintains  a  deep  interest,  and  is  es- 
pecially zealous  in  promoting  the  religious  and 
educational  interests  of  this  locality.  He  ideiiti- 
lied  himself  with  the  t'ongregational  C'hiircli  early 
ill  life,  aii<l  is  fine  of  its  most  prominent  and  active 
members.  In  lH14,liewas  elected  Clerk  of  tli.-it 
liody,  and  .so  faithfully  has  he  discharged  his  duties 
that  he  has  been  the  inciiiiibenl  of  that  position 
for  forty-eight  years,  which  fact  in  itself  is  evi- 
ilence  of  his  fine  Christian  character.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  one  year,  he  has  heen  Superintendent  of 
the  Congregatifinal  Sunday-school  since  IHHH.  aiul 
it  was  chietly  through  his  intlueiice  and  efforts  tli;it 
a  union  of  the  Sunday-schools  of  Payson  and  the 
township  was  effected.  Mr.  Scarborough  was 
elected  Superintendent  of  this  new  organization, 
and  under  his  teachings  and  wise  management 
much  good  has  been  accomplished.  He  is  also 
earliest  in  his  etTort.s  to  forward  the  educational  in- 
terests of  this  locality,  and  is  a  man  whose  social 
and  moral  (jiialities  have  won  him  many  friends, 
and  have  made  him  an  influence  for  much  good  in 
social  and   religious  matters. 

The  lady  to  whom  our  subject  was  married  in 
IHIli  was  .Miss  .lulia  Seymour,  and  to  them  was 
l)orn  one  child,  wliti  is  now  deceased,  as  is  also 
.Mrs.  Scarborough.  The  second  wife  of  our  sub- 
ject bore  the  maiden  name  of  Harriet  .Spencer, 
and  by  their  union  were  born  two  children: 
llciiry  I".,  who  is  engaged  in  operating  the  old 
homestead  with  his  father;  and  .lulia.  who  died 
at  tin;  age  of  seven  years.  Mr.  Scarborough  is  n 
stanch  Republican,  in  politics.  :iiii|  is  extremely 
popular  in  his  neighborhood. 

Ksther  Delia  Scarborough,  iheejcler  >i»ler  of  mir 
subject,  was  married  in  Connecticut  to  the  Hev. 
Mason     (Irosvenor.     a    Congregational     minister. 


534 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD, 


His  second  sister,  Mary  A.,  came  with  our  subject 
and  an  older  brother  to  this  county  in  lf<3.S,  and 
was  married  to  C'eplias  A.  Lt'acli,atso  a  minister  of 
tlie  Congregational  Church;  tlic^'  are  both  de- 
ceased. 


♦^S*E 


^^  IIARLES  E.  SOULE.  One  of  the  most 
(ll^l,  genial  and  entertaining  gentlemen  of  the 
^^?'  citj'  of  t^uincy  is  tlie  subject  of  this  biief 
notice.  He  is  Superintendent  of  the  <^»uincy.  Omaha 
it  Kansas  City  Railroad  or  the  O.  K.  line,  and  was 
born  in  Canton,  Oxford  County,  Me.,  November  6, 
1854.  His  father,  Ezra,  was  born  in  the  same 
place,  and  his  grandfather,  Joseph,  came  from  Rox- 
bnry,  Ma«s.,  to  Maine  when  young.  His  father  came 
from  there  also.  The  family  tr.aces  its  descent  as 
far  back  as  the  ''jM.ayflower.''  and  is  of  old  Gov. 
ISradford  stock.  The  grandfather  was  in  the  War 
of  1812,  and  after  his  patriotic  service  he  lo- 
cated on  a  farm  where  he  lived  and  died. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  reared  on  the 
home  farm,  where  lie  engaged  in  farming  upon 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  the  Penol)scot 
River.  In  1861,  he  raised  a  company  and  was 
made  Lieutenant,  serving  until  his  health  gave 
out,  when  he  resigned,  and  in  two  years  l)egan 
farming  again.  In  1869,  he  sold  and  came  to 
Davis  County,  Mo.,  and  located  nine  miles  west  of 
Gallatin,  where  he  farmed  for  a  time,  but  linally 
returned  to  the  home  farm.  Mr.  Soule  is  a  great 
Re|)ublican,  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  and  a  valiant 
member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  of 
which  he  has  been  Commander. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  Mary  liaird,  was  born 
in  Rexford,  Me.,  and  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
the  Lovcjoys  of  Massachusetts.  Her  father,  Dan- 
iel, was  a  farmer,  but  left  his  peaceful  pursuits  for 
the  battlelield  in  1812.  Mrs.  Soule  died  in  Mis- 
souri, leaving  three  children:  Lizonia,  now  Mrs. 
Lindsey,  of  Utah;  Joseph  II.,  who  resides  in  Kansas  ; 
and  tlie  subject  of  our  sketch. 


Charles  E.  Soule  was  reared  in  Maine  until  he 
was  about  fifteen  years  of  age,  attending  the  free 
schools,  and   then  entered  the    Canton   Academy. 
In    the    year     1869,    with    his    parents,  he    came 
AVest    to  Missouri.     He    remained  al  home   until 
twenty   j-ears   of  age,  assisting  on  the  farm  and 
attending    the    private    schools   of    Gallatin,    hut 
about  this  time  he  started  mit   in   life   for   himself. 
He  fir-st  became   assistant  Agent  at  Kidder,  Mo., 
and    here    learned    telegraphing.      Eight    months 
later,  he  became  Relief  Agent  on   the   line  of   the 
Hannibal    it    St.  Joe,   and   then    was  made  Agent 
at  Kearney,  known  to  the   world  as  the  home   of 
the  notorious  James  brothers.     ]Mr.  Soule  had    the 
doubtful    honor   of   an    acquaintance    with   Jesse 
.Tames.     He  remained  here  five  m(mlhs,  and  then 
was    sent    to    Shelbina    as    operator  and    assistant 
Agent  for  one  year,  and   finally  to  West  Orange. 
He    remained  there  as  agent   for  the  (J.,  M.  ife  P. 
Railroad,   also    for  the   Ilannilial  it  St.  Joe  Rail- 
road,  and    the    old     line    St.    IjOuis,    Keokuk    it 
Northwestern.     He    was    then   dispatcher    for    the 
Hannibal    it    St.    Joe     at     (^uincy,    and     for    two 
years  was   train-master  for  the  Wabash   Railroad. 
After  this  he  was  dispatcher  on  the  Indianapolis  it 
Great  Northeiii  at  Palestine  and  Tiiuily,  Tex.,  for 
eleven  months.     When  he  returned  to  Quincy  as 
disiiatcher   for  the  Hannibal   it   St.   Joe,   he  con- 
tinued in  the  position  until  the   present  road    was 
formed  and  incorporated.     He  still  continued  with 
the  Quincy,  Omaha  .t   Kansas  City  Railroad   until 
May  1,  1889,  when  he  wa?  made  Superintendent  of 
it.  He  has  charge  of  all  the  oiierating  dejiartments. 
Our  subject  is  a  member  of  the  (^uiney  Building 
and  Loan   Association,  and  a  charter  member  of 
the  Gem  City  Building  and  Loan  Association.    He 
is  also  a  member  of  the   National   Order   of   Rail- 
road Supeiintendents'  Telegraphic  Association.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  but  desires  no  office.  So- 
cially, he  is  one  of  the  most  agreeable  fellows  in  the 
world.    He  owns  land  in  Davis  and  Grundy  Coun- 
ties, Mo.,  and  in  different  paits  of  Kansas,  and   is 
also  a  stockholder  in  silver  mines  in  the  West.    He 
was  married  here  in  1881,  to  INIiss  Lucy    l.aker,  of 
Quincy.    They  have  four  children:   Elmer.  Charles, 
Livina  and  a  baby. 

Mr.  Sonle  is  authority  on  all  railroad  affairs,  and 


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lli«-ir  lic-intifiil  home  is  one  of  Un'  iiic»t  (K'.-iiabU- 
in  t^iiiiicN.  Mrs.  Sonic  is  n  ilfvoU-il  iiiotlu-r.  iiiid  a 
lady  of  <;icat  taste  ami  irliiicinciit.  nml  i>  very 
|>rouil  of  the  jiositioii  lield  liy  lier  liiisliaiul.  and 
whii'h  he  has  irained  liv  striet    adherenee   (o    dnl\'. 


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W^J  life  record  of  one  of  llie  most  prominent 
and  inlluential  citizens  of  North  Knsl  Township. 
He  resides  on  section  1.  where  he  owns  a  highly 
improved  farm.  A  native  of  Orange  County,  N.Y.. 
he  was  born  in  1X30, and  is  descended  from  an  old 
and  prominent  'New  Kngland  family.  The  IIovl 
family  was  one  of  the  first  founded  in  America, 
being  established  in  New  Kngland  during  the  early 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Our  subject  now 
ha.s  in  his  possession  a  mahogany  box  which  was 
brought  to  this  country  by  his  great-great-grand- 
f:ither.  His  maternal  great-grandfatlier.  ^Vllliam 
Reynolds,  wa.-  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  his 
son  William  w.as  almost  one  hundred  years  of  age 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  The  Reynolds  emigrated 
from  Kngland  in  the  early  part  of  the  -i'\  iMitiM-nth 
century  and  settled  in  New  York. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Kbene/.er  11.  and 
Mary  .1.  (Reynolds)  Iloyt,  the  father  born  in 
Ridgclicld,  Conn.,  in  180;'),  and  the  mother  in 
^[onroe,  N.  Y.,  in  18il',i.  W.  R.,  of  this  sketch,  is 
the  eldest  of  their  ten  children,  two  of  whom  died 
in  infancy.  Mary  Kmily,  who  resides  in  Mis- 
souri, was  born  in  18."U,  and  m.arried  Dr.  T.  (i. 
Klep|)er,by  whom  she  luus  eigjil  children;  Joseph  S., 
born  in  1833,  wedded  Polly  N.  Benedict  and  makes 
his  home  in  .\ugiisla.  111.;  Kdwin  C;.,lioin  in  1«3."), 
wedded  Mary  K.  Hacon,  and,  with  their  three  chil- 
dren, resides  in  Houston  Township,  Adanis  County, 
111.;  Sarah  .)ane,boi-n  ii\  1x37.  married  .1.  11.  Oonid 
in  ISOG  and  died  in  IMIIT,  leaving  a  d.'iughler; 
Benjamin  Franklin,  born  in  1H3'.»,  wasa  member  of 
Company  C,  Seventy-second  llllinois  Infantry, 
fought  at  Champion  Mills  and  X'icksburg  and  died 


in  ixii.'!.  dm  ing  the  serviee;  l-'.bene/.er.  born  .Sep- 
tember 2",  ixl.'i,  m;irried  >[elis-.a  Kmbree,  and 
with  their  one  child  tlicy  reside  in  Kansas;  Marie 
I,.,  born  .lanuary  H.  iHld.  became  the  wife  of  Sam- 
uel RoMnson  and  died  in  August,  1H73. 

Ml.  lloU.of  this  sketch,  w.as  educate<l  in  the 
common  scIk)oIs  of  New  York,  and  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  began  to  earn  his  own  livelihood,  .as  his 
father  was  in  limited  circumstances.  The  family 
emigrated  to  this  county  in  1813  and  settled  on 
scctiftn  2,  North  K.ast  Township.  The  father  was 
a  successful  business  man,  prosperity  attending  his 
efforts,  and  at  his  death,  April  22,  IH'.Ml,  he  was 
worth  i«C.(l,(MM).  lie  was  one  of  the  first  settlers, 
and  was  one  of  the  first  oIKcers  elected  in  the 
towiishii),  serving  as  Assessor  for  several  yeai-s. 
While  in  New  York,  he  served  as  Captain  of  the 
militia.  He  wjus  a  leader  in  all  public  enterprises 
and  at  his  death  the  cfnnmunity  mourned  the  loss 
of  one  of  its  be^t  citizens. 

Our  subject  aided  his  father  in  the  cultivation 
of  the  home  farm,  and  after  alt,aining  his  majority 
he  embarked  in  farming  for  himself.  His  first 
purchase  of  land  comprised  a  part  of  his  present 
farm.  .\s  his  financial  resources  increa.-ed,  he  has 
added  to  his  possessions  until  he  now  owns  three 
hundred  acres  of  finel5--improved  land,  which  he 
h.as  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  He  has  been 
offered  >:2ii.(MMi  for  this  farm,  but  would  not  ac- 
cept. His  Inline,  a  pleasant  and  commodious  two- 
story  residence  conUiining  twelve  rooms,  was 
erected  at  a  cost  of  il,()(i(i  and  is  one  of  the  finest 
dwellings  in  the  community.  .Ml  other  improve- 
ments are  in  keeping  with  his  home,  ami  he  al,so 
raises  a  line  grade  of  stock. 

In  1H,"(2.  Mr.  Iloyt  was  united  in  iiinrriage  to 
.Miigail  1*.,  daughter  of  1'.  1'.  and  Sarah  A.  New- 
comb.  Her  father  was  born  in  .Mas.sachuseltsM.ay 
IS(,  181)1,  and  the  nKilher  in  New  Hampshire  .Sep- 
tember 1,  IMii.').  Mrs  Iloyt  was  born  in  Colchester, 
Vt.,  .lune  2(J,  l«2li,  and  in  I8.V2,  in  I'ulaski,  111., 
their  marriage  was  celebrated.  For  a  nriinber  of 
vears  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Iloyt  have  been  members  <if 
the  Methodist  Kpise<ip:il  (  hiirch.  He  has  served 
as  Recording  Steward  for  twenty-six  yeai"s,  was 
Librarian,  Trustee,  and  since  IS81  has  been  Super- 
intendent of  the  Sundav-scl I.     He  is  an  earnest 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAJ.  RECORD. 


worker  in  the  Master's  viueyard  and  does  all  in 
bis  power  to  advance  the  interests  of  tlie  church. 
In  politics,  he  is  a  Republican  and  for  the  long 
period  of  twent}'  years  served  as  Clerk  of  his 
township.  He  was  also  Supervisor  for  seven  years 
and  has  lield  the  otlice  of  Collector,  discharging 
his  duties  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  satis- 
faction of  his  constituents.  Mr.  Iloyt  is  charitable 
and  benevolent,  and  his  honorable  life  is  well 
worthy  of  emulation.  A  well-merited  success  has 
come  to  him  and  he  now  ranks  among  the  leading 
and  substantial  citizens  of  North   East  Township. 


ENRY  C.  CUPP.  It  is  a  generally  con- 
ceded fact  that  tlie  farmer  enjoys  a  greater 
amount  of  personal  fi-eedom  tlian  any  other 
man  who  is  engaged  in  tlie  busy  and  al- 
most endless  task  of  accumulating  mone^'.  There 
is  something  about  life  in  the  country,  where  one 
is  surrounded  by  nature  on  every  side,  that  seems 
to  bring  quietness  and  peace  found  nowhere  else. 
Our  subject,  who  is  at  present  a  prosperous 
farmer  and  stock-raiser  of  Fall  Creek  Township, 
adds  to  his  extensive  interests  fruit-growing.  He 
was  born  in  Steuben  CounU',  Ind.,  October  30, 
1848,  and  was  a  lad  of  eleven  years  when  he  ac- 
companied his  parents  on  their  removal  to  Shelby 
County,  Mo.,  where  they  resided  for  eleven  yeai-s. 
In  that  place  and  Marion  County,  young  Cupp  re- 
ceived his  education,  being  a  student  for  two  years 
at  the  Palmyra  College  in  Missouri.  After  com- 
pleting his  education,  he  was  appointed  Assistant 
Postmaster  in  that  place  during  Grant's  adminis- 
tration, and  hy  his  courteous  and  gentlemanly 
treatment  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact 
became  very  popular. 

Locating  in  this  county  in  1870,  oiu'  subject  im- 
mediately engaged  in  farming,  in  which  occupa- 
tion he  has  shown  great  industry  and  perseverance. 
His  first  purchase  consisted  of  eighty  acres  of  land, 
which  he  has  put  under  excellent  cultivation,  and 
reaps  in  payment  for  his  lal)ors  fine  harvests.    Tlie 


year  after  locating  here,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Frances  L.,  daughter  of  Robert  Rankin,  for  a  fur- 
ther history  of  wlifun  the  reader  is  referred  to  his 
sketch  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Mr.  Rankin  was 
one  of  the  wealthy  agriculturists  of  the  county, 
owning  nearly  a  section  of  land,  which  had  been 
accumulated  liy  his  own  efforts. 

In  1878,  our  subject  ,added  fruit-growing  to  his 
fanning  interests,  setting  out  four  thousand  peach 
and  five  hundred  apple  trees.  Three  \ears  later, 
he  enlarged  that  branch  of  industry  by  setting- 
aside  fifteen  acres  of  land,  and  is  now  the  leading 
fruit-grower  in  Adams  County,  from  wliich  branch 
of  industry  he  reaps  a  handsome  income.  He  also 
handles  graded  cattle  and  horses,  having  the  dis- 
tinction of  first  introducing  Polled-Angus  cattle 
into  this  township. 

Jacob  and  Dorcas  (Smith)  Cui)p,  the  parents  of 
our  subject,  were  natives,  respectively,  of  Penn- 
sj-Ivania  and  Maryland,  and  reared  a  family  of 
eight  children:  Catherine,  widow  of  William 
Cook,  of  Indiana,  where  he  died,  is  at  present 
residing  in  this  county:  Lewis  C,  .lohn  S.,  Theo- 
dore; (^eorge  W.,  who  is  deceased;  our  subject, 
Francis  M.,  and  one  who  <lied  in  infancy.  The 
three  eldest  sons  served  in  the  late  war,  the  first 
two  being  members  of  Company  I>.  Third  Mis- 
souri Cavalry,  for  three  years  and  six  months. 
Theodore  was  a  soldier  in  the  Third  Missouri  In- 
fantry, and  served  his  country  for  one  year. 
Young  Henry  of  this  sketch  made  several  attempts 
to  enter  the  cavalry,  but,  being  so  young,  w.as  in 
each  case  rejected.  Lentil  1861,  his  father  was  a 
strong  Democrat,  but  at  that  time  found  he  had 
sufticient  reasons  to  change  his  political  sentiments, 
and  thereafter  voted  with  the  Repul)lican  party 
until  his  decease.  He  was  a  well-to-do  business 
man,  and  iield  in  the  highest  esteem  throughout  his 
neighborhood.  The  latter-named  gentleman  was 
christened  in  Marion  County,  this  State,  as  Jacob 
Kop,  wiiich  was  the  original  spelling  of  the  name, 
the  family  Ijeing  of  Holland-Dutch  extraction. 

Lillie  J.  Cupp,  the  only  child  of  our  subject  and 
his  wife  who  is  living,  is  a  very  accomplished 
young  lady,  being  a  graduate  of  the  Chaddock  Col- 
lege of  t^uincy.  In  1878,our  subject  became  identi- 
fied with  the  County  Agricultural  Society  at  Camp 


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Point,  aiui  lia.*  Iieltl  all  tlu>  olliif^  in  llic  a!^«¥.'ia- 
tioii  with  tin-  oxi't'|iti<>ii  uf  that  of  Sei'ivtnrv.  lit' 
lia.v  M'lVfd  .i>  ('lininiiiin  of  tlir  'I\>wn>liip  t'oiiti-al 
Coininittof.  and  li:is  Ikh^ii  favoraMy  s|M>ken  of  as 
i-.Hniiiilat«.-  for  tin-  lA'irislaturo.  luit  on  aii'DUiit  of 
liis  varii'il  liti»inoss  intt'ivst^'.  ho  is  not  ini-lintnl  t<.> 
aifcpt  olliiv.  lie  ••ivrs  his  ht-arty  sii|i|Hirt  to  tlu- 
Ro|>iil>li<.-nn  jiarty,  anil  st^'ialiy,  is  a  Kiiiirhl  Tein- 
plar  in  the  Masonic  fraternity  at  i^nincy.  With 
his  wifi',  he  is  aotivo  ami  inthiciitial  in  religious 
niattt'rs.  and  is  a  ineinlK-r  of  the  Methodist  Kpisoo- 
pal  (.'hnreh.  They  Initli  pi>ssess  ••enial.  sunny  teni- 
IH'i-anu'nt.-.  know  well  how  tc>  enjoy  life,  and  are 
soi'ial  favorites,  their  pleiusHul  Imnie  l)cing  the  cen- 
ter of  genuine  hospitality  which  atti-actj*  a  large 
ein-lc  of  friends  and  ac«|uaintanee.s. 


MOS  (JRKKN.  Vice-president  and  (Jeneral 
■/I      Manager  of  the  t^uincy,  Omaha  A-  Kansas 
City  Radway  Company,  is  one  of  the  en- 
**■  terprising  liusiness  men  of  the  (lent  City, 

having  emigrated  heiv  in  1831],  and  is  now  listed 
among  the  surviving  pioneers  of  this  section,  lie 
is  u  native  of  I'ennsylvanin.  Iioni  in  \Vriglit>vilU', 
Y»>rk  County,  on  the  hanks  t>f  the  Sus<iiieliaiiiia 
River.  DifemlM^r  Id.  Iftl.j.  His  pnrent.s.  ( ieorge  and 
KlizalR'th  (Kllititt)  (ireen.  were  also  natives  of  the 
Keystone  state.  Irhii  in  Chester  Coimt\.  The 
father,  who  wsu-  of  Knglish  deM-ent,  wa^  the  son  of 
Rol>ert  tJiveii,  who  einiiinited  from  Knglan<1  to  the 
I  uited  States  during  the  War  of  the  Revolutiidi. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  took  up  their  abode 
in  this  State  in  1X37,  and  on  liK-aling  liere  made 
llieir  home  near  I'ayson.  in  .\daiiis  County.  I  lieie 
the  father  en<:aged  in  farminij,  and   l>\-  a  coinx'  of 


industry  and  prudent  management  accumulated  a 
coinfortalile  property.  After  the  death  of  his 
wife,  he  ivmoveil  from  the  farm  to  (^uiney.  where 
his  death  oc-curi-ed  alnuit  1872,  at  the  advaiK>od 
a^e  of  eighty -six  yeai>. 

.\iiios  (Ji-t-en  w.Hs  the  eldest  son  of  nine  children, 
two  of  whom  <lied  in  infancy.  His  boyhood  and 
early  seluiol  days  were  [wssed  in  York  County,  and 
hiyeducjition  w-a.s  obtained  in  private  schools,  where 
he  obtained  a  fair  Knglish  I'diication.  When  ready 
to  start  out  in  life  for  liimst'lf.  he  learned  the  trade 
of  a  carpenter,  and.  removing  to  Cincinnati  in 
1831).  there  followed  his  trade  for  one  suininer. 
.Vfterward  he  cjuiie  to  (^tuincy.and  foia  short  time 
was  engage*)  a-s  a  i-arpenter.  after  which  he  ein- 
Iwrked  in  the  sawmill  business.  In  1841.  he  pur- 
chased a  mill  on  the  present  site  of  the  Chicago, 
lUirlington  A-  (^uincy  freight  de|K)t.  The  timl)er 
sawed  therein  was  entirely  hard  wood,  which  had 
lieeu  rafted  down  fronj  the  Des  Moines  and  Missis- 
sippi Rivei-s. 

F<.ir  twenty  yeai-s,  .Mr. (ireen  was  one  of  the  most 
extensive  lun)l>er  meirhants  in  this  city  and  the 
western  |)art  of  the  State.  His  yards  were  located 
ou  the  corner  of  .Maine  and  Sixth  Streets,  whei-e 
the  o|H?ia  hou.se  is  ikiw  situated.  In  IS52-.')3.  in 
i-t>nn>any  with  the  late  William  Sliannahan  and 
.Samuel  Holmes,  lie  wa>  contractor  on  the  Iron 
Mountiiiii  Railrojid  out  of  St.  Louis.  In  1872-71, 
he  o|H'rated  a  sawmill  in  Michigan,  and  w.as  after- 
wanl  connected  with  liinilier  transactions  in  Chi- 
cago. Kor  the  past  twenty  yeaiT*  he  Iuls  given  much 
of  Ills  lime  anil  .•ittciilion  to  railroad  matters,  and 
is  now  oivupying  the  positions  of  ^' ice-president 
and  tJeneral  Manager  of  the  (iuincy,  Omaha  iV  Kan- 
s!is  Cit\  Railroad.  In  every  branch  of  busine.s'<  in 
which  he  has  Ix'en  engaged,  he  ha-s  brought  to  U^ar 
lirmness  of  character  and  cori-ect  judgment,  which 
trails  have  pl.aceil  him  in  the  front  rank  among 
business  men. 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


As  indicative  of  Mr.  Green's  popularity,  politi- 
cally, among  tiis  neiglihors,  it  may  l>e  said  that  lie 
has  served  during  five  terms  as  Alderman  of  the 
city  of  (Julncy. 

Tlie  marriage  of  Mr.  (ireen,  in  1841.  united  him 
Willi  Elizabetii,  daughter  of  John  McDade,  who 
removed  from  Kentucky  to  (Juincy  many  years 
ago.  Six  children  were  born  of  the  union,  three 
of  wiiom  are  deceased.  The  survivors  are:  George, 
of  the  firm  of  O'Brien-Green  Lumber  Co.,  Chicago; 
Mary  P.,  the  wife  of  D.  A.  Kelsey,  of  AAIemphis, 
Tenn.;  and  Emma  (i.,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Allen,  of  Chicago. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Green  died  in  April,  1809,  and  some 
time  afterward  Mr.  Green  married  Susan  F.,  daugh- 
ter of  Ebenezer  Kiddle,  of  Mendon  Townsliip, 
Adams  County.  Of  this  marriage  one  daughter 
was  born,  Ella  H..  now  the  wife  of  Herbert  Mills, 
of  Kansas  C'ity. 


^^APT.  .lOHN  M.  HYMAN  is  the  efticient 
(li  r  'Superintendent  of  tiie  Ouincy  Railroad 
^^'J  Bridge,  and  for  some  time  lias  been  Chap- 
lain of  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home  at  this 
place.  Me  is  a  native  of  the  land  of  ■'  thistles  and 
oatmeal,"  his  biilh  occurring  in  Paisley,  Scotland, 
in  .luiic,  1814,  ill  which  countiy  his  parents,  John 
and  Jane  ( l.ockie)  Ilyiiiaii,  were  also  liorii.  When 
he  was  one  year  old,  the  head  of  the  family  died, 
leaving  his  widow  and  four  children  in  rather 
poor  circumstances.  Mrs.  Ilyinan  then  decided  to 
come  to  Amei-ica,  and,  accompanied  by  her  son  and 
three  daughters,  she  took  passage  on  board  a  ves- 
sel for  the  United  States,  and  landed  at  New  Or- 
leans in  18 1(),  thence  coming  by  boat  up  the  Missis. 
.M|»|)i  Uivei-  t(j  (-^iiinc^v,     Uy|e   Uie  ^.miy   bo^Uoort 


and  school  days  of  John  M.  Hyman  were  spent. 
He  was  enabled  for  several  years  to  give  reason- 
ably close  attention  to  his  studies,  but  from  nine 
to  fifteen  years  of  age  he  worked  on  a  farm  in 
Hancock  County,  becoming  a  member  of  a  highly 
respectable  and  intelligent  family,  where  he  not 
only  acquired  a  thorough  knowledge  of  agri- 
culture, but  also  a  taste  for  reading  and  study,  and 
forhied  habits  of  industry  and  economy  which 
greatly  influenced  his  after  life. 

Upon  his  return  to  Quincy,  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
years,  he  apprenticed  himself  to  an  engineer  on  the 
river,  under  whose  instruction  he  remained  for 
about  two  years,  when  his  |)atriotic  ardor  could 
no  longer  be  restrained  and  he  left  his  service  to 
take  up  arms  in  defense  of  his  countr\-  and  the 
Stars  and  Stripes,  enlisting  m  the  naval  service  as 
Third  Assistant  Engineer.  He  took  part  In  the 
engagements  at  P'ts.  Henr^'  and  Donelson,  under 
Commodore  Foote  and  also  in  the  bombardment 
and  capture  of  Island  No.  10.  He  was  in  the  naval 
battle  with  the  rebel  fleet  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and 
was  with  Admiral  Porter  at  the  siege  of  Vicks- 
burg.  He  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  Second 
Assistant  Engineer,  in  which  capacity  lie  served 
until  November,  1865,  when  he  was  honorablj' 
discharged  and  returned  to  Quincy,  to  once  more 
take  upon  himself  the  duties  of  a  civilian.  F'or 
one  year  after  his  return  home,  he  was  employed 
as  an  engineer  on  the  river,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Quincy  Rail- 
road Bridge  Company,  which  was  organized  cs- 
jjecially  for  the  construction  of  the  Quincy  bridge 
spanning  the  Mississippi  River.  He  assisted 
largely  in  its  construction,  and  upon  its  comple- 
tion he  was  made  Superintendent  of  the  bridge, 
in  1868,  which  responsible  position  he  has  held 
continuously  up  to  the  present  time. 

Mr.  Hyman  has  proved  himself  very  eflicient,  and 
his  employers  have  every  reason  to  place  implicit 
confidence  in  him,  for  it  has  never  yet  been  misplac- 
ed. His  industry  is  of  the  most  active  character,  and 
no  one  works  with  a  more  determined  effort  than 
he;  and  while  good  fortune  has  accompanied  his 
effovts,  Ije  is  nDliviug-  iu  his   iletuj-ijunntioi)  to  dg 


PORTRAIT  AND  lUOCRAPIIIC'AL  RKC'ORD. 


'>1I 


wliiit  lip  midcitjiki'!*  to  (111.  Si'pU'inlu'r  .'i.  |H(i(!.  ho 
was  iiiiilcd  ill  iiiMiriniXf  to  Mi~s  I.i'Iioi-.m  .1.  Wood,  a 
(laujjlitfi-  of  R.  |{.  .111(1  Kli/.nlu'tli  Wood,  of  i^iiim-v, 
and  tlieir  iiiarri.'isrc  lui-"*  rpsultod  in  tlio  liirlli  of  tli(> 
following  cliildriMi:  I.illic,  Kditli.  Kllic,  (  oacic  and 
l{os.sie.  In  politics.  Ik-  is  .n  |iroiioiinced  siip|ioi'ter 
of  tlic  R(>pn))lii-an  pnity,  l>ut  is  .a  strong  lielievor 
in  tiie  lariie.-t  liliertv  to  the  individual  conipatililc 
with  s(K-ial  and  fivil  order.  lie  is  an  ('{(xiueiit 
orator  and  is  in  groat  doinnnd  as  a  spenkor  at  sol- 
diors'  reunions,  teiiiporanop  nipotiiigs  and  other  oc- 
casions. Ho  is  a  nicnihpr  of  .lolin  Wood  I'ost  No. 
96.  G.  .\.  R..  of  which  he  was  Chaplain  throe 
veal's,  and  is  now  the  successor  of  the  Rev. 
Atki.sson,  as  C'ha|>laiii  of  the  .'soldiers'  and  Sailoi-s' 
Home  at  (.^uincy.  Mr.  II v man  has  a  eomfortahle 
re-iidenco  at  No.  937  North  l-'ouitli  Stieet. 


A.MIKL  1'.  IIU  UCU.  No  tlieme  is  more 
agreeable  to  the  biogra|)her  of  pioneer 
times  than  the  record  of  early  settlers,  and 
the  life  sketch  of  one  who  has  passed 
through  that  trying  period  and  made  his  way 
through  privations  to  pios|)erity  is  of  great  inter- 
est to  every  reader.  In  the  annals  of  Adams 
County  no  name  is  more  worthy  of  honor  and  dis- 
tinction tiiaii  that  of  .Samuel  V.  Church,  which  is 
in.spparably  linked  with  its  growth  from  almost 
the  (irst  days  of  its  settlement  to  the  pre.sent  time. 
Although  many  years  ago  ho  jiassed  the  eightieth 
milestone  of  his  useful  e.\istence,  he  is  still  hale 
and  hearty  and  takesan  active  interest  in  business, 
social  and  piiMic  affairs. 

.The  long  and  successful  career  of  Mr.  Church  as 
a  business  man  shows  him  to  lie  alwve  the  average 
in  ability,  while  his  genial  social  char.acteristics 
have  drawn  around  him  a  large  number  of  devoted 
friends.  The  rcadei-s  of  this  volume,  all  of  whom 
probably  know  him  by  reputation  if  not  pei-son- 
ally,  will  welcome  his  biography  with  peculiar  inter- 
est. Hrietly  and  chronologically  stated,  the  events 
in  liiij  life  are  a-s  follows:     He    was   iKirn   ii:    Little 


Conipton.  1>.  I.,  .luly  I.  IHO.">,  ilic  <oii  of  Saniiicl 
and  Kli/.aliclli  ilii'own)  Church,  and  grew  to  iiian- 
liooil  ill  his  native  State.  In  March,  1H2",  he  went 
lo  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  x'rvod  for  sex-en  yciirs  as 
CIcik  ill  llic  diy-goods  store  of  .luliiis  Catliii. 
Having  became  thoroughly  conversant  witli  the 
details  of  the  business,  ho  startecl  out  for  himself 
and  opened  a  niercantile  ostablishiiient  in  .MleiTs 
IJlock,  on  Maine  Siieet,  Hartford,  opposite  the 
State  House. 

Ill  .March.  1  n:!o.  Mr.  Church  removed  his  st(x-k 
of  goods  to  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  where,  in  connection 
with  his  brother  Clark  15..  he  conducted  a  fancy 
dry-goods  stole  for  five  years.  He  then  traveled 
for  a  short  time  through  the  West  in  search  of  a 
suitable  location  and  while  on  that  (piost  came  to 
l^uincy  May  L't,  is:i.'i,  with  the  idea  of  investing 
and  dealing  in  real  estate  in  this  city.  His  lii>t 
jiurch.a.se  was  a  lot  fronting  the  public  sijuare, 
which  he  bought  .Iiine  1,  183;"),  ])!iying  therefor 
*10  jier  foot.  Subsequently,  he  bought  other  lots 
and  in  due  time  laid  out  his  addition  to  the  city, 
consisting  of  two  hundred  and  twelve  lots. 

In  .March.  18.37,  Mr.  Church  erected  the  fourth 
brick  dwelling  house  in  <iiiinc_v,  and  during  the 
fift}-  years  that  have  since  come  and  g(jne  he  has 
occupied  the  .same  room  in  that  old-fjisliioned 
house,  which  still  stands,  a  relic  of  early  times,  its 
location  being  No.  31.")  Jersey  Street.  In  Decem- 
ber, I83!>,  he  w.as  elected  Secretaiy  of  the  preliinin- 
ary  meeting  held  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  a 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  town.  In  March  of 
the  following  year,  the  organization  was  perfected 
and  Mr.  Church  w.os  elected  Treasurer,  which  jiosi- 
tion  he  held  thirty-eight  years.  In  1874,  the  en- 
terprise of  building  a  new  and  elegant  edifice  was 
proposed  by  the  ladies  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  who  at  once  chose  S,  P.  Church  their 
Tro.asurer,  to  hold  all  moneys  colloctod  for  the 
use  of  the  building  committee  and  payable  only 
to  their  firder.  Ho  was  holding  that  ollice  at  llie 
time  the  building  wius  destroyed  by  lire,  .Ian uary  2, 
1879,  two  days  before  its   use   was  conloniplated. 

.Not  only  in  the  religious  growth  of  (^iiincy,  but 
also  in  it.s  political  life  Mr.  Church  has  always  been 
deeply  interested  and  Inus  aided  in  material  ways. 
In  18 in.  he  was  Clerk  of  the  city  of  C^uincy,  diir- 


542 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


ing  the  first  two  years  of  its  chartered  rights.  In 
1842,  lie  wafi  ai)|iointed  by  tlie  United  States  Dis- 
trict Court  Assignee  of  P>ankruptcy  in  Adams 
County,  and  during  his  term  of  service  settled  the 
affairs  of  ninety-nine  bankrupts  while  the  (general 
Bankrupt  Law  of  1842  was  in  force.  In  other 
important  ways  he  promoted  the  welfare  of  his 
adopted  home,  and  his  public  spirit  is  notable 
among  his  ac([uaintances. 

The  month  of  March  seems  to  have  been  marked 
by  events  of  particular  interest  in  the  life  of  Mr. 
Church,  and  in  addition  to  other  pleasing  hapijen- 
ings  it  was  the  month  which  gave  him  his  wife, 
lie  was  married  at  Pittsburgh.  Pa.,  in  1837,  to 
Miss  Margaretla  E.  Reynolds,  a  lady  of  lovely 
character  and  refined  tastes,  whose  death  in  1869 
was  deeply  mourned.  The  youngest  daughter  of 
the  family  died  in  1850,  but  the  other  four  still 
suivive  and  are  all  married.  .Tohn  and  William 
reside  in  Denver,  Colo.,  while  the  two  daughters, 
Vileria,  wife  of  .Tamos  P.  Snow,  and  Caroline  M., 
wife  of  William  T.  (Jale,  live  in   New  York  City. 

In  early  life,  Mr.  Church  was  a  Whig  and  since 
the  organization  of  the  Repulilican  party  has  been 
a  supporter  of  its  principles. 


■YlAMKS  HAZLETT,  who  resides  in  Clayton 
Townshi)),  is  one  of  the  worthy  citizens  that 
I  Ireland  has  fuinished  to  Adams  County. 
He  was  born  in  County  Down,. July  4,  1832, 
and  is  a  .son  of  .Tohn  and  Charlotte  (Davis)  Ilaz- 
lett.  also  natives  of  the  Emerald  Isle,  the  father 
liorn  in  1813,  and  the  mother  in  181.5.  Their 
family  numbered  the  following  children:  Jacob, 
lioiii  in  Ireland  in  1835,  married  Elizabeth  McBis- 
ney;  Lavina,  Mrs.  Davis,  was  born  iu  Ireland, 
in  1838;  Rachel,  born  in  1841,  is  the  wife  of  .To- 
.seph  Pevehouse,  of  Clayton;  Robert,  born  in 
1844,  died  in  1888;  ,Tohn,  born  in  1847,  is  married 
and  resides  in  Clayton;  Nancy,  born  in  1850.  is 
the  wife  t)f   .lolin    Deinose,  of   Camp   Point;   Mar- 


garet, born  in  1853,  is  the  wife  of  Robert  Hazlett, 
of  Ireland;  Annie,  born  in  185fi,  is  the  wife  of  S. 
M.ackinson,  of  Clayton. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  Mr.  Hazlett, 
whose  name  heads  this  record,  emigrated  to  Am- 
erica, landing  in  New  York  May  10,  1849,  after  a 
tedious  voyage  of  seven  weeks  and  three  days.  He 
made  his  home  with  his  uncle,  Roliert  Davis,  of 
that  city,  and  learned  the  plasterer's  and  brick- 
layer's trade.  His  faithfulness  while  serving  his 
apprenticeship  was  noted  by  his  employer,  who  at 
the  expiration  of  two  years  paid  him  journey- 
men's wages.  lie  continued  to  work  at  his  trade 
for  Charles  Sanford  until  1855,  when,  wishing  to 
improve  his  financial  condition,  he  removed  to 
Clayton,  111.,  and  worked  as  a  contractor  and 
builder  until  1861.  During  the  late  war,  he  re- 
sponded to  the  country's  call  for  troops,  enlisting 
in  the  Third  Illinois  Cavalry  under  Capt.  .1.  B. 
Moore. 

The  regiment  w.as  stationed  three  weeks  at  Camp 
Butler,  was  then  sent  to  St.  Louis,  and  afterward 
to  the  front.  On  the  1st  of  .lanuary.  1862,  during 
a  charge,  Mr.  Ilazlett's  horse  fell  upon  him  and  he 
was  so  bruised  and  injured  that  he  was  unable  to 
perform  any  duty  for  eighteen  months.  After  his 
recover}',  he  again  entered  the  ranks,  and  at  length 
was  honorably  discharged.  He  was  a  valiant 
soldier,  who  ever  faithfully  performed  his  duties 
and  may  well  be  proud  of  his  arm}'  record.  After 
the  war,  he  embarked  in  the  livery  business,  carry- 
ing on  operations  in  that  line  in  Cla_yton  and  also 
engaged  in  shipping  stock.  He  began  breeding 
and  shipping  stock  iu  1865,  and  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  that  line  of  business.  He  has  won  a  wide 
reputation  in  this  line  and  has  raised  some  of  the 
finest  horses  in  Adams  County.  He  bred  the  noted 
'•Jessie  McCorkle,"  which  has  a  record  at  two 
years  old  of  2:25,  the  fastest  at  that  age  ever 
raised  in  the  State. 

In  1852.  in  New  York  City,  Mr.  Hazlett  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  .1.  C.  Rankin.  She  w.as  burn 
in  1831.  B}-  their  marriage  they  have  seven  chil- 
dren: Martha,  born  in  New  York  City  in  1853; 
Lizzie,  born  in  Cla\ton  in  1857;  Mary  L.,  who  was 
born  in  Clayton  in  1859,  is  the  wife  of  Frank  Bur- 
geser,  by  whom  she  has  one  child;  John,  who   was 


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PORTRAIT  AM)  niOr.RAI'HK  AL   RFXORD. 


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born  in  1861,  married  Kva  riilnniii,  and  dii-d  in 
I8«7:  Thdnias,  iMirn  in  IHtio.  is  engajjfd  in  tin' 
hreorlingof  .lersev  cattk'.  doing  an  extensive  husi- 
ne,«8  in  that  line;  Annie  I^,  Nn-n  in  1869.  is  the 
wife  of  .If)hn  Sweetrinp,  a  salomnn  in  a  \hwI  and 
slioe  store  in  (^uincy:  and  Charlie  (J.,  born  in  1872, 
is  at  home.  The  mother  of  this  family  was  called 
to  her  final  rest  in  1884. 

Mr.  Ilazlett  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity. His  fine  farm  isa  valuable  trad  of  land  under 
a  high  slat*  of  eultivation,  an<l  he  is  one  of  the 
most  noted  horse-bieeders  in  this  section  of  the 
count  V. 


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OSKI'H  (;.  M.CLINTOCK.  Worthy  <.f 
considerable  mention  in  this  volume  is  the 
wentlennm  aliove  named,  who  follows  .i<jri. 
cidtural  pursuit*  on  section  1"),  Camp 
Point  Township.  He  is  a  native  of  this  township, 
born  May  111.  18)!,j.  Although  quite  a  young 
man.  he  possesses  influence  in  the  community  in 
which  he  resides,  a  fact  which  is  easily  accounted 
for  by  his  strong  principles,  genial  disposition  and 
active  interest  in  the  welfare  of  all  around  him.  His 
father  and  grandfather  were  numbered  among  the 
pioneers  of  .Vdam>  County,  and  great  honor  is 
due  them  for  the  manner  m  which  they  bore  pri- 
vation and  hardships. 

The  pnteinal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  a 
native  of  Ireland,  whence  he  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica and  canu-  West  to  .\dams  Co\inly,  purchasing 
a  trai-t  of  land  in  Camp  Point  Township,  and 
there  making  a  permanent  home.  At  the  lime  of 
his  emigration  to  the  I'nited  States,  his  son  .Sam- 
uel was  a  mere  lad,  and  in  his  new  home,  amid 
pioneer  surrounding>,  llje  child  grew  to  man's 
estaU".  When  ready  to  choose  an  occupaticui  for 
himself,  he  n.'iturally  selected  agriculture  and  com- 
menced farming  on  a  part  of  the  old  home.>.tead. 
An  active  and  industrious  man.  he  was  successful 
in  his  UMilcrtakings,  and  prosperity  bltsscd  his 
hunic,  until  he  "a>  removed  llierefiom    at  the  age 


of  thirly-scvon  years.  The  mother  of  our  subject, 
who  bore  the  ni:iiden  name  of  Kliza  Lasley.  re- 
moved from  South  Carolina  to  this  county  with 
her  parents  at  an  early  day.  Her  death  occurred 
in  .hinc,  1867.  Hoth  parents  were  active  mem- 
bers of  the  Christian  Church,  and  highly  esteemed 
in  their  community. 

Of  five  children  born  to  Samuel  and  Kli/.a  Mc- 
Clint^)ck,  only  two  now  survive,  our  subject  and 
Samuel,  who,  after  the  death  of  their  father,  were 
reared  by  their  step-mother.  .loseph  (1.  received 
a  good  common-school  education  at  Camp  I'oint. 
and  upon  commencing  in  life  for  him.self,  in  1882. 
received  a  portion  of  the  liomestead,  upon  which 
he  conducted  farming  operation.".  He  is  now  the 
owner  of  one  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  well-im- 
proved land,  embellisheil  with  comfortable  and 
substantial  buildings,  including  a  commodious 
residence.  Politically,  he  is  a  l)eliever  in  the 
princi|)les  of  the  DenuK-ratic  party,  and  socially,  is 
identified  with  the  Knights  of  Pythi.is. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject  took  place  in  1887, 
and  united  him  with  Jli.-is  Klla  F.  Ly<ui,  who  was 
born  in  Camp  Point.  Mrs.  McCIintf>ck  is  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  Tlionia>  .\.  Lyon,  a  prominent 
dentist  of  Camp  Point,  whither  he  came  from  his 
native  Slate,  Pennsylvania.  Two  children  have 
been  born  to  Mr.  and  ^Irs.  McClintock,  Kthel  and 
Sarah.  The  religious  home  of  the  family  is  the 
Methodist  Kpiscopal  Church,  to  the  doctrines  of 
which  they  adhere  with  earneslnes";.  Mr.  Mc- 
Clintock has  Ihe  high  regard  of  his  neighlxirs.  and 
is  a  representative  of  the  successful  young  farmers 
of  the  county. 


W)  \..  M<  t'LlNt;.  Notary  Public.  .\  retired 
farmer  living  in  the  village  of  Mendon  is 
the  subject  of  this  notice.  His  paternal 
giandfalher  was  .M.-ithew  .McClung.  who  was  born 
in  17')7.  and  was  a  xiblier  of  the  Kevolution- 
aiv  War,  and  received  a  pension  until  his  death 
iu    1844,     His    widow,  who    was  .lane  Cuunnins, 


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PORTEAIT  AND  BIOGEArfflCAL   EECORD. 


born  in  1756,  received  the  pension  until  the  time 
of  her  cleniise  in  1847.  The  father  of  our  subject 
was  Mathew  McClung,  who  was  born  in  North- 
umberland Count}-,  Pa.,  in  1795.  He  was  a  soldier 
of  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  Captain  of  a  Light 
Horse  Company  in  the  Oliio  Slate  JMilitia.  The 
famil_v  moved  to  Ohio  in  1804,  and  were  among 
the  first  settlers,  and  wlien  Matiiew  became  of  age 
he  voted  llie  Whig  ticket,  and  never  missed  a 
Presidential  election  iietween  that  and  1840,  wlien 
his  grandson  took  his  place  and  has  done  his  dut,\' 
by  the  Democratic  party  since.  The  motlier  of 
our  subject  was  Elizabeth  (Cassidy)  McChnig,  a 
native  of  "N'irginia,  born  in  17!)6,  and  a  daughter 
of  James  Cassidy,  who  was  a  very  early  settler  in 
Warren  County,  Ohio.  The  i)arents  of  our  sub- 
ject weie  married  in  Warren  County,  Oliio,  in 
1821,  and  settle<l  in  Prel)le  County,  where  !Mr. 
McClung  owned  and  operated  a  mill.  He  died  in 
1834,  and  she  lived  a  widow  for  fifty  years.  They 
were  both  members  of  the  Presliyterian  Cliuich,  of 
which  lie  was  an  active  member. 

Our  subject  was  the  eldest  of  a  family  of  seven 
children,  and  was  born  in  Preble  County,  Ohio, 
June  24,  1822.  He  was  reared  on  a  farm  there, 
and  received  a  good  common-school  education. 
He  worked  at  home  and  for  others,  and  in  1845 
he  was  married  to  Miss  Rachel  lilazer,  a  daughter 
of  (ieorge  and  Chi'istina  (Heinbach)  Blazer,  botii 
(tf  whom  were  natives  of  Germany.  The}'  married 
there  but  came  from  their  native  country  about 
1820,  and  after  a  siiort  residence  in  New  York  came 
to  Ohio  and  settled  in  Fairtield  C(junty.  They  were 
very  poor  at  first,  but  in  belter  circumstances  at 
liie  time  of  their  deaths,  in  1824  and  1845,  respec- 
livel}-.  Mrs.  McClung  was  one  of  six  children, 
and  was  l)orn  Apiil  18,  1821,  in  Fairfield  Count}-, 
Ohio.  After  our  suliject  married,  he  still  worked 
out  for  thiee  yeais,  and  then  for  two  years  he 
rented  land.  In  1851  lie  came  to  Illinois  and 
settled  on  section  24,  Mendon  Township,  in  tliis 
county.  Tiie  farm  was  wild  land,  but  lie  deter- 
mined to  make  a  fine  farm  out  of  it  and  boklly 
plunged  into  tlie  liard  work.  We  nuiy  be  suie  his 
good  wife  did  her  share,  and  now,  after  a  lapse  of 
forty  years,  it  is  in  a  splendid  state  of  cultivation, 
with  the  most  comfortable  Lmildings.  and  so  desir- 


able has  the  place  become,  that  Mr.  McClung  had 

no  trouble  in  lately  selling  it,  and  for  enough  to 
enable  him  to  live  on  the  interest  of  the  money. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  McClung  were  the  parents  of  six 
children,  three  of  whom  are  now  living.  They 
are:  Samuel  H.,  a  widower,  with  four  boys,  who 
lives  on  section  24,  this  township;  Charity  II.  is 
the  wife  of  George  Smith,  and  lives  in  Keene 
Township,  and  they  have  nine  children;  Clara  is 
the  wife  of  Henry  Zern,  and  lives  in  Hancock 
County. 

Mrs.  JlcClung  is  well  known  in  her  neighborhood 
•IS  a  consistent  member  of  the  ^Methodist  EjiiseoiJal 
Church,  and  a  good  neighbor.  Mr.  IMcClung  has 
given  his  ciiihlren  a  good  education,  and  has  fitted 
tiiem  for  life  to  the  best  of  his  ability.  He  is  a 
believer  in  the  tenets  of  the  old  Democratic  party, 
and  east  his  first  vote  for  James  K.  Polk.  He  has 
been  called  upon  to  servo  his  township  in  the  of- 
fices of  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Notary  Public 
for  twenty  years.  Here  is  a  case  of  a  mau,  who, 
by  honest  unremitting  industry,  has  grown  to  be 
of  imi)ortance  in  his  town  and  has  gained  ease  for 
his  declining  years.  Such  eases  are  encourage- 
ments to  the  young. 


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'^AMES  HANDLY,  Secretary  of  the  Young 
Men's  Business  Association,  has  been  inti- 
mately associated  with  many  of  the  move- 
ments which  have  led  to  the  growth  and 
development  of  <^uiucy  in  recent  years,  and  has 
rendered  some  very  ctticient  services  in  a  period  of 
unusual  public  progress. 

Mr.  Handly  was  born  in  Newport,  H.  1.,  and  was 
thoroughl}  educated  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  After 
reaching  years  of  discretion,  he  began  teaching,  and 
was  engaged  for  two  terms  near  St.  Joseph.  Hav- 
ing won  a  good  reputation  as  an  educator,  he  was 
engaged  in  that  profession  in  ditTcrent  localities, 
and  taught  for  a  time  at  Deer  Lodge,  IMont.  His 
superior  ability  and   unusual   mental    endowments 


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soon  liccaini'  recognized,  and  for  sonu-  time  lie  was 
Clerk  ami  TreaMiror  of  \irLriiiia  City.  .Mont.  Wliiic 
a  re^i^ll•nl  there,  lie  l>egan  learning'  the  printer's 
trade  and  was  associate  editor  of  a  paper  for  some 
time.  Later,  lie  was  employed  liy  ."xn  enu'ineerinij 
corps  ou  the  Northern  raeitie  Railroad.  While  in 
Montana,  he  jiublished  a  |)ami)hlet  on  the  resources 
of  Ihe  then  Territory,  which  attracted  wide-spread 
attention  and  showed  excellent  results  in  enlianc- 
in<;the  value  of  the  Icrritori.-il  securities  in  the  East- 
ern markets,  and  also  in  strcni,'tlH'nin<r  the  value  of 
the  lionds  issued  Ny  the  Northern  I'acilic  Railroad 
Company. 

In  the  vcar  IH7."i,  .Mr.  ihindly  made  his  lirst  a|,- 
pearancc  in  <iuincy,  and  hecame  connected  with  the 
l>oatin<;  interests,  being  at  one  time  general  man- 
ajjer  of  the  marine  ways  at  that  port.  He  was  en- 
gaj^ed  in  the  lumlier  luisiness,  hoatinir  ash,  oak, 
and  yellow  jiinc  from  Taducah  to  t^uincv.  Meet- 
ing with  fair  success,  he  continued  in  this  busi- 
ness for  six  years,  and  then  became  associated 
with  the  t^uincy  Daily  Whiij,  and  correspon- 
dent for  the  Ghthp-Di'inorrul  of  St.  I.ouis,  and 
other  papers  at  different  places.  In  this  he  has 
achieved  great  success,  and  as  a  correspondent  his 
services  are  eagerly  sought.  lie  is  endowed  with 
a  laudable  ainbitinn.  a  i|uick.  active  mind,  and 
calm,  clear  jiidgiiicnl.  I  If  has  always  l.nkeii  a  great 
interest  in  the  improvi-nieiits  of  the  Mississippi 
River,  and  his  active  support  of  all  means cun  trih- 
uting  to  the  certainty  and  safety  of  navigation  on 
this  Western  waterway  was  recognized  by  making 
him  Chief  Secretary  of  the  Mississippi  River  Con- 
vention held  in  <iiiiiicv  in  October,  1Sk7.  and  also 
bv  his  unanimous  election  tf)  the  same  position  .at 
the  I  pper  Mississippi  River  Convention,  held  in 
I)ubui|ue.  la.,  in  .lanuar\.  Ihhh. 

Mr.  Ilandly  now  conlines  himsi-lf  toall  laudable 
enterprises  of  a  public  character  lluit  may  interest 
the  piM»pIe  generally,  .•mil  i>  foremost  in  all  good 
work.  He  is  a  gentleman  possessed  of  much  more 
than  the  ordinary  ability  .and  his  record  as :i  pulilic 
anil  a  private  cili/.en  is  .alike  iintjirnished.  In  all 
the  alTairs  of  life  he  ha^  borne  himself  in  an  up- 
right manner,  anil  is  recogiii/ed  as  a  man  of  true 
worth.  Ill-  is  a  iiiaii  of  the  highest  type,  combin- 
ing great  ability  and    iiiii|iieslioned  inlegiity   with 


splendid  social  ipialities,  and  is  in  an  unusual  de- 
gree truly  a  representative  of  the  Young  Men's 
business  .V.ssociation  of  <^uincv.  He  is  ipiiet  and 
somewhat  retiring  in  disposition,  so  that  people 
have  to  know  him  in  order  to  appreciate  his  worth. 


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.li.l.lA.M  (;R(»NI;W()I.|).  who  is  now  en- 
gaged in  farming  on  .section  ;}(l,  North 
Kast  'rowiiship,  is  a  native  of  (uMinany. 
He  was  born  in  1M40,  and  is  one  of  a  faniil\  of 
four  children  whose  ijarents  were  William  and 
Mary  Oronewold.  The  three  sons  and  daughter 
are  yet  living.  In  IHfiH.  the  parents  and  their 
children  bade  good-bye  to  the  I'alliii  laml.  .•ind 
crossed  the  broad  Atlantic  to  .\nierica.  locating  in 
.\dams  County,  III.  The  mother  died  in  lf(7"2, 
and  the  father,  who  survived  her  three  years, 
pas.sed  away  in  1H7."). 

Our  subject  spent  the  days  of  his  boyhiKul  and 
youth  in  the  land  of  his  nativity,  and  received  his 
education  in  the  common  schools.  He  was  a 
young  man  of  nineteen  years  when,  with  the  fam- 
ily, he  cauic  to  Ameiica.  He  spent  a  few  months 
in  the  Knipire  State,  and  then  continued  his  West- 
ward journey  until  he  arrived  in  .\dams  Ciiunly, 
where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  Having 
learned  Ihe  carpenter's  trade,  he  followed  that 
chosen  occupation  for  two  years,  and  then,  with 
the  capi'al  Jie  hail  .■iciiuired  through  his  industrv 
and  peiscveijince,  he  purchased  a  trad  of  land  of 
one  hundred  .'iiid  thirt\-tive  acres  in  North  I-Iast 
Township.  This  has  since  been  his  home,  and  it 
IS  now  one  of  the  tine  farms  of  the  eomniuiiitv. 
valued  at  i<tlo  per  .acre.  The  rich  alluvial  soil  hav- 
ing been  placed  under  :i  high  state  of  cuiti valion. 
it  \  ielils  to  him  a  golden  tribute. 

In  lH7o,  Mr.  <  Ironewold  was  married  to  .Miss 
T:ilka  (iarrett.  'I'lieir  union  has  been  blessed  with 
live  childieli.  and  the  f;iiiiily  circle  yel  remains 
unbroken,  .lordoii,  born  in  |K7I,  is  at  home: 
.M.ar\ .  born  in  1K7.'!,  is  now  the  wife  of  Meiino 
lliiskins.  a  carpenter  residing  in  I'eoria,  III.:  Annie, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


born  in  1880;  William,  bora    in    1883;    and  Ella, 
horn  in  1884,  are  still  undei-  the  (lareiital  roof. 

Mr.  (Tronewold  is  a  member  of  the  Goiinan 
Lutheian  Church,  and  in  pi)lilieal  altiliatioiis  is  a 
Reinililican.  The  principles  of  that  party  he 
warmly  advocates,  and  does  all  in  his  power  to 
advance  its  hcst  interests.  He  has  served  as  .School 
Director  for  six  years,  and  the  cause  of  education 
finds  in  him  a  warm  friend.  He  also  gives  his 
earnest  sujiport  to  every  enterprise  calculated  to 
prove  of  public  benefit,  and  is  one  of  the  valued 
citizens  of  the  community.  Mr.  (tronewold  came 
to  this  country  in  very  limited  circiunstances,  but 
has  worked  his  wa^-  upward,  and  is  now  numbered 
among  the  substantial  citizens  of  the  communitv. 
He  m.ay  truly  be  called  a  self-made  man. 


ipTENJAMIN  A,  CURRY,  .Sr..  one  of  the  ex- 
'^^-^  tensive  land-owners  of  Clayton  Tovvnshi[), 
was  born  in  .leiferson  County,  K}'.,  y\:\\  X, 
1825,  and  is  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Mai  in  da 
(Mur])hy)  Curry.  His  father  was  born  March  2, 
18f)2,  and  died  December  1,  l8;il.  The  Curry 
family  nuinljered  thirteen  children,  as  follows: 
Mai-y,  born  in  September,  182(;,  married  .1.  C. 
Smith,  a  farmer  of  Clayton,  III.,  by  whom  she  has 
ten  children.  Susan  is  now  the  widow  of  .lohn  K, 
Smith,  by  whom  she  had  two  children.  Richard 
married  Virginia  Booth,  who  died  in  1882,  Will- 
iam M,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years,  on  the 
day  when  he  was  to  ha\e  been  married.  Sarah  S 
is  the  wife  of  Henjamin  Hradley,  a  fanner  of  Clay- 
ton, liy  whom  she  has  five  children.  Christopher, 
who  married  Klizabeth  Bennett  and  has  ten  chil- 
dren, is  farming  south  of  Clayton,  Ellen  is  the 
wife  of  Richard  Seaton,  ex-Sheriff  of  tlie  countv 
and  a  leading  farmer,  by  whom  she  has  six  chil- 
dren, Henry  Harrison,  who  married  Kllen  Mc- 
Jlurray  and  has  six  children,  enlisted  in  I8(il  as  a 
member  of  the  Fiftieth  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which 
he  served  until  the  clo.se  of  the  wai',  since  which 
tiuje  he  has  [oUowtitl  fajuiiug.    James  T,  entevetl 


the  ranks  as  a  member  of  the  Seventy-eighth  Illi- 
nois Infantry  in  1862,  and  served  until  his  death, 
which  resulted  from  typhoid  fever,  Simjjson  ()., 
who  enlisted  in  the  same  regiment,  die<l  while  in 
the  service.  Pauline  O,  is  the  widow  of  A.  1',  R. 
Wliitford.  of  Colorado,  and  they  have  one  child. 
Daniel  ().,  born  in  18.J0,  died  in  18r)2. 

Oui    suliject  was   a  lad  of  thirteen   years  when 
with  his  [larents  he  came  to  this  count\-,     lie  was 

i  reared  on  the  farm  in  Clayton  Township  and  re- 
mained at  home  until  twenty-Hve  \ears  of  age. 
On  the  loth  of  October,  18")0.  he  married  JIary  A., 
daughter  of  tireenberry  and  P^llizabcth  Majors. 
Unto  them  were  born  the  following  children:   Am- 

j  anda  .lane,  born  in  18.')1,  died  in  185.'i,  Harriet 
Elizaljeth,  born  in  18.')2,  died  in  infancy,  Liiinie 
A,,  bom  ill  18.51,  was  married  in  1871  to  .1.  W. 
Simmons,  who  died  in  1881.  On  the  loth  of  Sep- 
tember. 188',),  she  became  the  wife  of  D.  B.  Wilson, 
an  employe  on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  Dora 
A.,  Ijorn  in  18.J8,  was  married  in  1886  to  C,  E. 
Cain,  a  farmer  of  Cla\ton,  by  whom  she  has   tw  > 

i  children.  Nellie  <4,,  bom  in  1863,  is  the  wife  i  f 
.1.  W.  Polter.  of  (,»uincy, 

Mr.  Curry  ^)f  this  sketch  w'as  a  second  time  mar- 
ried, March  28,  1865,  Miss  Lucy  Iloskins  becoming 
his  wife.  She  was  liorn  in  Ohio  in  1834,  and  was 
a  daughter  of  .loseph  Iloskins,  They  became  the 
parents  of  the  following  children:  Edgar  T.,  who 
Was  born  in  186(),  is  living  in  Clayton;  Charles  S.. 
who  was  born  in  187.'i,  and  Carrie  Eva,  born  in 
187(!.  The  lady  who  is  now  Mvs.  Curry  was  form- 
erly Mrs.  Lavinia  (Du|niy)  Benton,  She  was  born 
ill  Kentucky  in  1834. 

Mr,  Curr\'s  first  purchase  of  laud  was  one  liiiii- 
dred  and  sixty  acres  on  section  28,  Clayton  Fown- 
shii).  the  purchase  price  being  ^6(10,  and  on  half  of 
the  first  payment  he  borrowed  at  twelve  p'  r  cent, 
interest.  He  added  to  his  original  tract  uiiti.  he  now 
owns  eleven  hundred  acres  of  valuable  lai.,!,  under 
a  high  state  of  cultivation  and  w^ll  improved.  In 
addition  to  this,  he  t)wiis  two  large  brick  and  stone 
buildings  in  Clayton,  .and  other  desirable  property. 
His  residence  is  a  two-story  dwelling  of  twelve 
rooms,  built  in  a  beautiful  style  of  nuHlern  arch- 
itecture and  ill  the  inidst  of  a  well-shai'ed  lawn. 
Ill  politics,  Ml,  Curry  is  a  Republigmi  uiul    was 


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elected  and  served  two  terms  as  Suj>ervis<ii-  and 
lias  also  been  Assessor.  His  wife  and  some  of  the 
cliildren  are  inenilH-rs  of  the  Methodist  Cluireli. 
Mr.  Ciirrv  is  a  man  of  sterling  worth  and  his  life 
lia.»  l«'eii  one  of  signal  success.  For  more  than  half 
a  cenlurN ,  he  has  been  n  resident  of  this  coiintv. 
Mild  fluriiig  that  period  has  aci|iiiri'd  consideraMe 
wealth  as  the  reward  t>f  his  industrious  and  wcll- 
direete<i  efforts. 


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,i;\.  (  IIAUI.KS  K.  (t)NUAl>.  .M.  I).  To 
IkmkI  one's  energies  to  the  welfare,  physi- 
cal and  moral,  of  one's  fellow-incn.  and  to 
devote  one's  life  to  this  work,  is  an  aim 
worthy  of  all  emnlation.  Such  has  been  the  desire 
of  the  scholarl\'  gentleman  whose  liiograph\'  ap- 
pears in  the  following  lines,  and  whose  career  has 
lieen  in  many  respects  a  i«'iiiaikalile  one.  lie  re- 
sides at  No.  (12<i  South  Ninth  Street,  (^uincy.  and 
ha-  made  his  home  in  this  city  since  1H.')H. 

The  Kev.  Charles  K.  Ci'iirad.  .M.  1).,  now  a  min- 
ister in  the  tlerman  Kvangelical  Church,  and  also 
a  practicing  physician,  was  born  in  the  I'lovince 
of  Silesia,  in  ilartiiiannsdorf.  Kreis  Bunl/.lau,  (;er- 
many.  .May  If!,  1820.  Mis  father.  .loliii  Freder- 
ick, was  bt»rn  in  Saxony,  as  w.ns  his  grandfather, 
who  was  a  mechanic.  The  father  w.is  a  baker  and 
line  confectionery  maker,  and  died  in  his  native 
rounlrv.  aged  sixly-niie.  The  mother  of  our  siili- 
ject  was  Miivy  K..  daughter  of  (kiltlob  Knoll,  of 
Silesia,  (ieriiiany.  Her  ancestors  were  from  Mora- 
via, but,  being  I'rotestjiiits,  had  been  obliged  to 
llee  to  Silesia.  The  mother  of  our  .subject  came  to 
America  in  18.'j;>,  and  died  nine  months  later,  leav- 
ing three  children,  of  whom  Cliailes  K.  was  the  eld- 
est. 

The  subject  of  this  notice  received  his  >cliool- 
ing  in  (Jennany.  He  labored  very  hard  iiiidei 
the  inipiession  that  he  ought  to  strive  to  be  use- 
ful to  his  fellow-iiien.  rather  than  to  become 
wealthy  and  prominent.  This  impul.se  i)ronipte<l 
him  to  decide  to  devote  his  entire  life — bodily  as 
well  as  spiritually — to  the  poorest  in  this  world, 
whom,  he  was  convincefl,  could  be  found  among 
the  (Jentiles.  In  order  to  attain  his  ardi-nt  de- 
sire, he  took  up  new  studies  with  an  eiiergelii- 
zeal.  Hiiiit/.iaii.  a  capital  of  jurisdiction,  to  which 
his  birthplace  liad  U'longed.  offered  him,  with  its 
seminary  and  gymnasium,  most  convenient  privi- 
leges for  his  purposes,  and  in  Berlin,  the  capital 
of  (iernmny,  he  completed  his  studies,  both  ined- 
cal  and  Iheologieal. 

ICarly    iu    the   sjjrinjj  of    18 18,  our  subject  was 

2\ 


sent  a  graduated  plij'sician  and  ordained  minister 
to  Fjist  India  by  the  Society  for  the  I'ropagation 
of  the  (iospel  among  the  (Tcntiles,  of  which  the 
Rev.  F'ather  (iossner  was  the  founder,  head  and 
soul.  He  was  ;iccoiiipaii  led  as  f;ii  as  CalcuHa  b\ 
two  missionaries,  who  had  been  appniiited  liv  Fa- 
ther (iossner  and  the  Curatoriiim  of  the  Society 
for  ChoUi-N:igpiir.  In  Uanchee.  the  prominent 
place  of  Chota-Nagpur.  he  found  a  iiumU'r  of 
missionaries  toiling  under  great  hardships  and 
disadvantages.  .Several  of  the  iiumlier  who  went 
there  in  1 811  had  died,  the  last  one  a  few 
<lays  liefore  the  arrival  of  our  subject,  and  the 
surviToi>  were  much  disheartened. 

-Vt  that  period  the  people  stood  aloof  fidin  liicir 
benefactors,  mistnistiiig  them  entiiely.  However, 
as  soon  .-IS  they  found  they  could  obtain  re- 
lief from  their  bodily  sulTering,  a  sudilen  change 
took  place.  They  llironged  the  Doctor  by  hun- 
dreds, crying  (or  him  most  pitifully  and  follow- 
ing him  wherever  he  went.  His  messengers  went 
before  him  heralding  his  coming.  In  l.ohardagga, 
wiicre  he  laboied  in  IH,')n-.")l,tlie  Ijirgc compartments 
in  his  residence  had  the  appearance  of  an  encaiiip- 
iiienl  day  and  night,  and  from  three  hundred  to 
live  hundred  patients  had  to  pass  an  examination, 
the  majority  of  whom  were  lepers,  epileptics,  ete., 
out  of  all  classes  of  people,  fn^m  even  the  kings  and 
priest.s  down  to  the  pnrias.  There  are  now  in 
Lohardagga  two  asylums,  one  for  the  lepers  and 
one  for  epileptics,  and  in  K'anchee  they  have  a 
general  hospital.  These  institutions  are  liberallv 
supporte<l  by  beiievoleiit  people  in  .\mcrica. 

Ill  the  \ear  \)ii>\.  the  I)(X't<ir  leiiioved  from 
I.ohardagga  to  (iossnerpur,  a  new  station,  to  ile- 
vote  his  time  and  services  more  exclusively  to 
his  spiritual  work.  .\nother  skilled  man  had 
been  found  by  the  society  to  minister  to  the 
physical  needs  of  the  people  and  relieve  their 
iKidily  inlirmities.  Dr.  Conrad  was  as  successful 
in  his  work  as  a  minister  !is  he  had  Im-cii  jis  a  pliv- 
siciaii.  and  thousjiiids  crowded  around  him  t<j 
listen  to  the  glad  tidings  of  salvation.  The  ice 
was  melted,  tlie  wall  between  them  and  us  broken 
down,  and  with  the  greatest  coiitidencc  they  lia\e 
since  that  lime  entered  the  Kingdom  of  (iod. 

.\t  the  time  of  the  revoliitiim  and  the  Sepoy 
War  in  1M;"(7,  .Mr.  Conrad  was  in  charge  of  a  (Jer- 
man  congregralion  at  Calcutta,  but.  having  lieen 
offered  an  appoiiitiiieni  in  America,  he  thought  it 
hest  to  leave  India.  He  took  passage  at  Calcutta 
in  the  s!iiling-ve.s-el  ••.lohii  Haven."  and  .-ifter  land- 
ing ill  Boston,  proceedeil  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  preaching  for  eight  weeks.  In 
February,  I8j8.  he  came  to  (jiiincy,  where  he  *oon 
afterward     fouMde()    |i    church,    also    orgaiii/.ei| 


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churches  at  Fall  Creek.  Fowler  and  several  other 
places.  Frequently  in  the  fii?icliargc  of  his  duties  lie 
lias  preached  four  times  on  Sunday  in  three  differ- 
ent iilaces.  having  to  ride  thirty  or  more  miles  to 
tret  round.  At  present  he  has  charge  of  tlie 
churches  at  Fall  Creek  and  at  a  (ierman  settlement 
in  Mt.  Hope.  JIo.  In  connection  with  his  religious 
work,  he  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine, 
which  he  has  followed  in  order  to  obtain  a  liveli- 
hood. Much  of  his  ministerial  work  has  been  done 
gratuitously  and  without  thought  of  coinpeusa- 
tion,  as  he  is  a  man  of  great  generosity  of  char- 
acter and  unfailing  benevolence,  lie  has  a  beauti- 
ful residence  here  which  he  improved  in  1891,  and 
in  which  he  was  married  about  186(1. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject,  in  tiuincy,  united 
him  with  Miss  Mar^-  Bode,  who  accompanied 
her  mother  from  Germany  to  America  when 
>lic  was  Init  thirteen  years  of  age.  They  have 
three  children,  namely:  Charles  .1.  .1.,  a  physi- 
cian who  is  practicing  with  his  father;  Edward  E., 
who  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  the  medical  pro- 
fession iu  New  York  City;  and  Saiali,  who  is  at 
home.  Politieall}',  Dr.  Conrad  is  independent, 
preferring  to  cast  his  baliot  for  the  man  rather 
than  the  partj*.  He  is  strong  in  his  adherence  to 
temperance  principles,  and  progessive  in  all  public 
measures. 


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f/.  ENRY  N.  STONE.  Among  the  foremost 
necessities  in  any  large  community  is  a 
reliable    city     directoiy,   and    in    this    re- 

\!^j  spect  (^uincj'  ma\-  well  be  proud  of  having 
one  of  the  most  metropolitan  and  accurate  works 
of  the  kind  that  is  printed  in  any  of  the  large 
cities  of  this  or  foreign  countries.  The  [lub- 
lisher,  Henry  N.  Stone,  of  the  linn  of  H.  N. 
Stone  it  Co.,  came  to  Quincy  in  .lime,  1877,  his 
introduction  to  the  citizens  of  this  city  being  as  a 
lepresentative  of  the  American  District  Telegraph 
Company.  The  same  year  of  his  arrival,  he  es- 
tablished the  system  in  Quincy,  and  followed  it 
with  a  tire  alarm  system,  which  connected  all  of 
the  different  engine  houses.  It  was  so  arranged 
that  at  a  moment's  notice  an  alarm  could  be  sent 
to  every  engine  and  hose  house  in  the  city,  and 
this  system  w.-is  in  operation  until  187;i.  when  the 
telephone  system  came  into  u.se. 

Mr.  Stone  not  only  introduced  the  distri(-t 
system  in  Quincy,  but  in  all  the  largest  cities  of 
Illinois  and  lown.  He  later  became  very  enthnsi- 
aslic  over  the    telephone  .system  and  was  one  of 


the  foremost  workers  for  its  general  introduction, 
and  had  seveial  important  cities  in  his  charge. 
After  the  consolidation  of  the  Edison  and  Hell  sys- 
tems, Mr.  Stone  diverged  into  other  avenues  of 
earning  a  livelihood,  and  for  some  time  thereafter 
gave  much  of  his  attention  to  the  advertising 
business. 

In  June,  1881,  our  .subject  returned  to  (Quincy 
and  began  issuing  business  charts, .is  well  as  assist- 
ing in  the  promotion  of  a  weekly  paper,  with  which 
the  readers  of  this  volume  are  well  accpiainted, 
the  Modern  Aryo.  He  afterward  severed  his 
connection  with  that  paper  and  began  issuing 
directories,  etc.,  of  several  prominent  cities  of  Illi- 
nois, and  in  1887.  hearing  that  his  predecessor, 
3Ir.  (iould.  of  St.  Louis.  Mo.,  would  not  i.ssiie  a 
work  in  (Quincy,  he  took  unto  himself  the  task  of 
publi>liiiig  one,  which  proved  to  be  far  superior 
to  any  that  had  been  previously  gotten  up.  This 
volume  has  given  such  universal  satisfaction,  and 
has  so  gained  the  contidence  of  the  citizens  of 
Adams  County,  that  he  has  won  the  appella- 
tion of  -'The  Directory  Pulilisher.'"  He  is  well 
known  in  this  capacity  in  numerous  other  cities, 
where  his  fairness  and  manly  and  upright  conduct 
have  won  him  hosts  of  friends.  Among  these  cities 
may  be  noticed  Hannibal,  Mo.;  Davenport,  Iowa; 
Rock  Island,  111.;  Moline.  111.,  and  Marion  and 
Lewis  Counties.  Mo. 

In  addition  to  having  a  permanent  oHice  in 
(Juincy,  he  has  a  collection  of  directories  from  all 
the  leading  cities  in  the  United  States  and  Canada, 
and  the  same  are  for  the  convenience  of  his  pa- 
trons, whose  calls  are  numerous.  Mr.  Stone  is  a  na- 
tive of  the  city  of  ''baked  beans  and  brown  bread," 
bis  liirtli  occurring  in  Boston,  .luly  :^0,  1849, 
and  he  is,  therefore,  in  his  forty-third  year.  The 
plenlifuliiess  of  resource  of  the  native  New  Eiig- 
lander  is  proverliial,  for  set  him  down  where  you 
will,  and  if  he  does  not  begin  bettering  his  condi- 
tion without  any  unnecessary  delay,  he  will  be 
doing  violence  to  tlie  history  and  traditions  of  his 
people,  and  will  iu>  more  be  worthy  to  be  called  a 
.son  of  New  iMigland. 

Mr.  Stone  has  ever  been  true  to  his  birth  and 
bringing  up,  and  is  a  sagacious  business  man,  on 
the  alert  to  legitiinalely  promote  hi*  business  in- 
terests, and  by  a  wise   supervision  of  his  affairs  is 


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now  in  fair  circninstnnces.  llo  employs  several 
men  tlirouvhout  the  year  mikI  his  business  is  no 
sniJill  faft<ir  in  the  interests  of  the  (leni  City.  He 
has  a  faniiiy  of  grown  up  eiiildren  and  possesses 
a  l)eautiful  and  modern  home.  His  nanie  is  fa- 
miliar to  tiie  tin'>ines>  eominunity  ami  his  success 
as  a  publisher  is  lirnily  assiu-ed. 


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i;.  WILLIAM  >.  K.NAI'IIKIDK.  ilt-alth 
I  jl  is  the  most  precious  <rifl  of  nature,  and 
(1%^^^  how  to  retain  it  and  how  to  legain  it 
wlien  lost  are  matters  of  vital  moment. 
In  the  [lossession  of  lirst-class  physicians,  (^uincy 
stands  second  to  no  other  city  in  Illinois,  and 
amonjr  those  who,  though  young  in  years,  have 
been  unusually  su'jccssful,  and  have  made  rapid 
strides  in  their  profession,  is  Dr.  Knapheide.  In 
this  science  bearing  upcm  man's  happiness,  comfort 
and  welfare,  he  has  alieady  won  an  enviable  rep- 
utation, aiul  his  future  prospects  aie  very  bright 
indeed.  The  Doctor  was  born  in  (^uincy,  III.,  on 
the  llth  of  .\pril.  18().').  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  H. 
and  Katherinc  (Archepohl)  Knapheide,  IxHIi  of 
(German  descent,  and  esteemed  and  honored  citi- 
zens of  Qnincy,  wluM-e  they  reside  at  the  present 
time. 

The  original  of  this  nolicc  was  re:ii<il  in  liis  na- 
tive town,  and  was  a  close  attendant  of  the  schools 
of  that  city  until  fourteen  yeais  of  age,  when  he 
entered  the  fiem  City  Business  College,  from  which 
institution  he  graduated  in  the  year  1«SI.  Feel- 
ing the  need  of  a  more  complete  education,  voung 
Knapheide  entered  Chaddock's  College  in  (.^uincv, 
and  pursued  his  studies  there  for  three  years,  thus 
laying  the  foundation  for  his  subsei|nent  success- 
ful career.  He  graduated  from  the  nu'dical  course 
in  IXXM.  and  subsequently  entered  Long  Island 
College,  lirooklyn,  N.  Y.,  wheie  he  took  a  thor- 
ough coui-se  ancl  graduated  in  1X811. 

Our  s\ibject  began  re;idirig  medicine  willi  Dr.  11. 
Hat^'h,  of  i^uincy.and  was  a  thorough  »tudent  and 
n    very  apt  and  juecoeions  pupil,     In    18'.io,  I)r. 


Knapheide  went  to  the  country  where  generations 
of  his  forefathers  had  lived,  and  took  a  post-grad- 
uate course  in  the  I'liiversity  t>f  Berlin.  While 
taking  this  course,  in  the  year  IHUl.  he  occupied  a 
|H)sition  as  House  .Surgeon  in  the  Iriiversity.  In 
August.  IS'.M,  lie  returneil  to  (^uincy.  111.,  where 
he  began  practicing  his  profession.  Being  a  very 
vigorous  man  physically  and  mentally,  the  Doc- 
tor is  well  .'idapled  to  the  kind  of  labor  which  he 
is  called  upon  to  perform,  and  his  [)ractice  has  not 
only  built  up  rapidly,  but  extends  over  a  wide  area 
of  territory. 

-Vside  from  his  profes>i<nial  duties,  our  subject 
finds  time  to  interest  himself  in  every  enterprise 
for  the  ndv;incement  and  upbuilding  of  the  town, 
gives  liberally  of  his  means  to  all  worthy  move- 
ments, and  is  a  public-spirited  citizen.  He  is  a 
pleasant  and  generous  gentleman,  liberal  in  all  his 
ideas,  a  protector  of  the  rights  of,  a  strong  pro- 
moter of  the  welfare  of,  and  is  in  deep  sympathy 
with,  huuianity.  He  is  a  member  of  .\dams  Lodge 
No.  .3G.0,  I.  K).  t).  F.,  of  (Qnincy,  111.,  and  is  deeply 
interested  in  all  the  workings  of  this  order.  He 
now  resides  at  No.  ."»22  Maiden  Lane. 


|i„,  HUMAN  .stllAHnsiKK.  This  gentleman 
[J,  represents  an  old  family  of  (Qnincy.  III., 
and  is  a  member  of  a  large  contracting  and 
building  firm  of  this  city,  engaged  in  the 
conducting  of  a  large  planing-mill.  where  are  manu- 
factured sash,  dooi-s  and  blinds.  He  was  born  in 
Billfeld,  Westphalia,  tJerinany,  NovemlH-r  18, 
18IH.  His  father,  (iottlieb  D.,  wa.s  also  born  in 
Wesiphali:i.  February  -1.  IMlt;,  mid  his  grand- 
father, (Jolt fried,  was  a  weaver  by  trade,  lx)rn  in 
the  same  locjility.  The  father  was  reared  to  the 
trade  of  a  linen  weaver,  and  was  nuirried  in  West- 
phalia, but  in  18.")2  he  came  to  .\merica  with  his 
wife  and  two  children.  They  (•ro.<i.se<l  the  ocean 
on  the  sailing-vess<'l,  "  Kekmf),"  lunding  in  New 
Orleans,  after  a  trip  of  three  nmnths  on  the  water. 
They  arrived  in  t^nincy    December  ij,  18,V2,  where 


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PORTRAIT  AND  EIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


the  father  immediately  obtained  work  in  a  planing- 
mill.  His  wife  was  Margaret  Eikmeyer,  a  native 
of  Westplialia,  Germany,  who  died  in  the  year  1870, 
haviuiT  had  seven  children;  six  were  born  in  Ger- 
many, and  four  died  there;  one  was  born  here,  but 
died  at  the  age  of  two.  The  two  living  are  our 
subject  and  his  brother  William,  who  is  a  farmer 
in  West  EI3-,  Mo.  William  served  through  a  Geor- 
gia campaign  in  an  Illinois  regiment. 

The  gentleman  wliose  life  is  here  partially  de- 
tailed came  to  Quincy  in  1852,  and  here  grew  up. 
He  attended  the  Lutheran  Parochial  School.  When 
fourteen  jears  old,  he  began  work  in  a  brick  j'ard, 
wliere  he  continued  two  seasons,  and  then  went 
into  the  planing-mill  of  Gould  &  Allen,  and  re- 
mained with  them  one  3'ear;  he  was  then  appren- 
ticed under  Mr.  AVinkleman  as  a  carpenter  for 
three  3'ears,  working  for  him  as  a  journeyman  after 
that.  He  then  returned  to  the  mill  and  be- 
came foreman  for  D.  Bohmenraeyer,  where  he  re- 
mained seven  years,  or  until  he  began  for  himself. 
In  1878,  he  started  with  Mr.  Baecker,  Mr.  J.  Weiss 
and  Mr.  Hoener  in  a  Co-operative  Contracting 
.and  Building  Association,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Schachtsiek  &  Co.  In  1890,  they  started  the 
planiiig-mill  at  Fourteenth  and  Ohio  Streets,  where 
they  have  plenty  of  horse-power  and  every  improve- 
ment for  manufacturing  their  line  of  work.  Our 
subject  is  the  general  manager  and  makes  all  con- 
tracts. They  point  with  pride  to  some  of  the  fine 
buildings  erected  bj'  their  firm,  of  which  we  may 
mention  the  Cottrell  Block,  the  Philadelphia 
Block,  the  residence  of  W.  P.  Smith,  of  William 
Zimmerman,  and  some  of  the  largest  business 
blocks  in  the  city.  They  take  contracts  in  all  the 
surrounding  counties,  through  Adams  County  and 
even  into  Missouri.  They  are  continually  rushed 
witli  work  and  employ  from  twenty  to  thirty  hands. 

Our  subject  was  married  here  in  1870,  to  Caro- 
line Iltner,  born  in  Herford,  Westphalia,  (iermany. 
She  came  to  America  with  her  parents  in  1850. 
Her  father  was  August  Iltner,  of  Germany,  who 
came  of  an  old  I^utheran  family,  and  had  a  shoe 
store  in  (Quincy,  dying  here  in  1887.  His  wife, 
Hannali,  resides  in  Quincy. 

Our  subject  .and  his  wife  have  had  seven  chil- 
dren, wlio  are;   Minnie,  who  niarried  Kveret  Ta>- 


lor;  Dora,  Fred,  Bertha,  Caroline,  William  and 
Edward.  The  family  resides  in  a  handsome  resi- 
dence at  No.  629  Washington  Street,  which  was 
built  by  his  father  in  1851).  He  takes  a  great  in- 
terest in  St.  .T.acob's  Church,  as  he  iielped  to  build 
it,  and  of  it  lus  family  are  members.  He  is  a 
Republican,  and  is  well  thought  of  by  his  fellow 
citizens  and  is  much  admired  for  his  pluck  and 
energy.  Our  subject's  wife  passed  away  June  5, 
1881. 


ENRY  ZIMMERMAN.  One  of  the  sub- 
j(  stantial  men  of  Mendon  is  the  original  of 
^  this  notice.  His  father,  Joseph  Zimmerman, 
'''^  who  was  a  native  of  Lancaster  County, 
Pa.,  (see  sketch  of  Mrs.  Henry  Schafer)  and  his 
mother,  Mary  AVeikert,  a  native  of  Adams  County, 
Pa.,  were  married  in  the  Keystone  State,  and 
always  lived  there.  The  father  was  a  prominent 
farmer  there,  and  died  at  his  home  in  the  year 
1823.  He  was  reared  as  a  Mennonite,  but  never 
united  with  any  church.  In  politics,  he  was  an 
Anti-Mason,  and  he  came  from  a  family  of  Whigs. 
His  name  is  an  old  one  in  Holland,  where  a  for- 
tune of  many  millions  belonging  to  his  family  was 
confiscated  by  the  Government  on  account  of  their 
religious  belief.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  a 
member  of  the  Lutheran  Cliurch.  and  left  nine 
children,  four  of  whom  are  now  living.  They  are 
Mrs.  Marj'  Cotchell,  INIrs.  Ann  Krise,  and  ISIrs.  Fan- 
nie C.  Seabrook. 

Mr.  Zimmerman  was  born  October  26,  1822,  in 
Adams  County,  Pa.,  and  he  lost  his  father  the  fol- 
lowing spring.  The  widow  kejit  her  family  to- 
gether upon  the  farm  in  Penns3lvania  until  tliey 
grew  up,  and  Henry  grew  to  manhood  there  under 
the  care  of  a  wise  mother.  He  only  received  a 
limited  amount  of  schooling,  at  the  subscription 
and  public  schools,  and  then  he  learned  the  car- 
penter's trade.  He  was  a  very  manly,  self-reliant 
Itoy,  aiul  liefiirc  he  was  eighteen  vears  old  he  hiied 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOORAPIIICAL   RECORD. 


uiil  In  run  :i  tliiTfiliingr-m.ifliiiif.  He  wms  old  fur 
liis  vears,  and  swiiiitr  a  craille  in  llie  iiniiii  lifld 
when  lu'  was  onl.v  sixtei-ii.  At  t woiity-l wo,  lie 
went  to  Mnlioniniz  Cnunly,  Oliio,  and  en^a^fd  in 
carpenter  work. 

Our  sulijeel  was  married  to  .Mi»  .Martlia  K.  Sea- 
hrook,  a  native  of  Adams  County.  I'a..  liorn  in 
ixr.i.  and  a  ilauirliter  of  Miijali  and  .\nielia  (Cliani- 
lierlain )  Sealirooti,  luitii  natives  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  the  fatlierasoldier  in  the  War  of  1H12.  Mr.and 
Mrs.  /ininiernian  were  the  parents  of  four  cliildieii. 
Iiut  only  one  is  now  livin<r,  and  that  is  .Mrs.  Henry 
Shafer,  of  the  village  of  Mendon. 

In  IHlii,  Mr.  Zimnierman  made  a  visit  hack  to 
his  old  home,  and  Noveml)er  2(i  he  reached  .Men- 
don. He  remained  liere  working  at  the  carpenter's 
trade  until  IH").'>,  and  w.v  larirelv  instrumental  in 
having  the  present  Lutheran  Church  huilt,  be- 
ing one  of  the  charter  members.  In  the  spring  of 
|H.jr>,  he  removed  to  section  22.  Mendon  Town- 
ship, where  he  had  built  a  sawmill  the  fall  before. 
At  this  place  he  had  ninety  acres  of  land,  and  he 
operated  his  mill  until  1X04,  when  he  moved 
it  out  northwest  about  six  miles:  tliere  he  op- 
erated It  for  two  years,  and  then  moved  it 
back  near  where  .lames  .\ndre\vs  now  lives,  and 
carried  on  the  business  for  two  more  years.  He 
then  removed  to  Hancock  County,  and  sawe<l  lum- 
ber f(U'  the  Carthaire  Branch  R.'iilroad  for  (uie  year. 
After  this  he  moved  it  to  the  Louisiana  Hrancli  for 
one  year,  and  again  removed  it  to  it«  present  loca- 
tion, where  he  has  kept  it  ever  since.  lie  added  a 
corn-mill  and  a  cider  press,  and  has  all  running  by 
steam.     Ills  family  is  still  located  on  the  old  farm. 

The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Zimmerman  died  in  .\pril. 
IM.'i;},  and  in  August,  IK.VI,  he  married  Florence 
Seabrook,  a  sister  of  his  former  uifc.  .>lie  was* 
born  in  IK2'.l,  in  .\dams  County,  I'a.  They  are 
the  ))arent*  of  three  children:  Lillie  .lane,  the  wife 
of  the  Rev.  .\dam  Shafer,  lives  in  Ohio,  and  has 
three  children:  .Vnniet;.  is  the  wifeof  R.  I..  Scott, 
of  Mendon,  and  lia-  Iwn  children:  and  I'rban  L., 
who  is  single. 

The  family  have  been  members  of  the  Lutheran 
Church,  and  its  head  h.is  always  been  active  in  the 
same,  having  acted  as  Trustee,  Klder  and  Deacon, 
lie  w.os  elected  to  tlie  Cliiircli  Council,  and  ha>  al- 


ways been  a  liberal  contributor,  lie  has  given  his 
children  a  liberal  education,  and  some  have  at- 
tended college.  One  has  been  a  tea<'lier.  lie  has 
taken  an  interest  in  educational  matters,  and  has 
been  .School  Director.  In  politics.  Mr.  Zimmcr-' 
iiian  may  .always  be  found  in  the  Republican  lanks 
.ind  says  he  shouted  loud  and  long  for  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  \HM).  In  March.  1S!II,  he  met 
with  the  loss  of  his  farm-house  by  lire,  but  he  has 
built  a  house  on  his  mill  pioperty  in  the  village. 
This  is  one  of  the  good,  reliable  families  that  give 
.\dams  County  its  line  reputation  throughout  the 
State. 


KVNARI)  COOK  is  one  of  the  men  who 
maybe  taken  as  representatives  of  the  ag- 
ricultural class  in  Adams  County.  Coming 
^^§)  here  when  (piite  young,  he  began  to  take 
part  in  the  work  of  development  at  an  early  age, 
and  has  pursued  a  course  of  unswerving  integrity 
and  zealous  industry  that  has  resulted  in  placing 
him  among  the  respected  members  of  society  and 
gained  for  him  the  financial  reward  of  a  line  farm 
ainl  home.  His  estate  forms  a  part  of  section  (i, 
Burton  Township,  and  includes  two  hundred  and 
fifteen  acres  of  thoroughly  improved  land,  on  which 
may  be  seen  a  full  line  of  farm  buildings  and  a 
resilience  that  is  alwjve  the  average  in  its  substan- 
tial and  attractive  appearance.  Mr.  Cook  was  born 
in  Lfiiidon.  Kugland,  in  18."i8.aiid  was  a  lad  of  six 
years  when  he  emigrated  with  his  parents  from 
that  country.  On  landing  in  America,  he  came 
directly  to(^uincy  ami  located  with  them  in  Llling- 
ton  Township,  where  the  father  died.  Young  Ct)ok, 
when  thirteen  veal's  of  age,  left  home  and  going  to 
Shullsbiirg,  Wis.,  reside<l  with  an  uncle  for  three 
years,  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  lime  returned 
to  tlie  (Jem  City  and  engaged  to  wt)rk  fortlarilner 
iV  .Mitchell,  manufacturers  of  steam  engines,  learn- 
ing that  Iraile.  which  he  followed  for  live  years. 

On  the  outbreak    of   the   Civil    War.  Mr.    Cook 
enlisted  in  Company  A.    Tenth     Illinois  Infantry, 


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iind  was  niu.stered  in  at  Spiinuflelrl.  After  tliree 
months'  service,  lie  went  to  Wisconsin,  where  lie  was 
instrumental  in  raising  Company  I,  Fifteenth  Wis- 
consin Infantry,  <if  which  he  was  appointed  First 
Lieutenant  and  soon  after  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Captain.  After  the  capture  of  Island  No. 
10,  he  w.as  detailed  with  a  company  to  liold  it,  and 
during  that  time  contracted  a  sickness  which  re- 
sulted in  his  discharge  in  the  fall  of  1863.  Re- 
turning home  to  (Juincy,  lie  spent  one  year  in  re- 
gaining his  health,  after  which  he  went  to  work  at 
his  trade,  which  he  followed  for  a  twelvemonth, 
and  then  came  to  tliis  township,  which  he  has  since 
made  his  home.  His  valuable  estate  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifteen  acres  has  been  accumulated  b}-  his 
own  efforts,  and  by  careful  cultivation  it  is  made 
to  yield  excellent  crojis.  In  the  building  up  of 
his  home  here,  he  had  to  endure  hardships  for 
which  he  h.as  been  amply  compensated. 

In  1804,  Mr.  Cook  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret, 
daughter  of  .lohn  Towcll,  of  Ellington  Township, 
this  county,  and  unto  them  h.as  been  born  a  fam- 
ily of  fourteen  children,  ten  of  whom  are  living. 
Our  subject  was  the  second  in  the  parental  family 
of  eight  children,, all  of  whom,  with  one  exception, 
are  living  and  are  respectively  James  .!,,  of 
this  township;  John  11.,  a  merchant  of  New  York 
Cit3',  served  three  years  in  the  late  war  as  a 
member  of  Company  A,  One  Hundred  and  Nine- 
teenth Illinois  Infantry;  .Samuel  N.,  a  resident  of 
Ellington,  where  also  Harris  resides;  Annie  M., 
Mrs.  Leonard  Smith,  of  Wa  Keenej',  Kas.,  and  Re- 
becca, the  wife  of  James  Haines,  of  Marion  County, 
Mo. 

John  and  Ann  (Reynard)  Cook,  the  parents  of 
our  subject,  were  also  nativesof  London,  England, 
where  the  father  was  a  market  gardener  and  the 
only  member  of  the  famil3'  who  came  to  the  United 
States.  With  his  wife,  he  was  a  worthy  member  of 
the  Church  of  England  and  one  in  whom  the  need^' 
and  suffering  found  a  true  friend. 

Politically,  Mr.  Cook  and  all  his  brothers  are 
stanch  adherents  of  the  Repulilican  party.  He  is 
a  man  of  excellent  reputation,  stands  well  with  his 
neighbors  and  associates,  and  for  two  terms  served 
as  Supervisor  of  Burton  Township,  being  the  second 
Republican    to    hold    public    position    within    its 


boundaries.  He  is  one  of  the  substantial  and 
representative  men  of  the  county,  and  was  nomi- 
nated in  1888  for  the  office  of  Circuit  Clerk,  but 
owing  to  the  minority  of  his  party  in  this  section 
vv,as  defeated.  Socially,  he  is  a  member  of  the  hi- 
dependent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  [irominently 
connected  with  the  Grand  Army  Post  at    (juincy. 


1^  I  i  ^^^^n^^^ 


WlOSEPlI  KNITTEL.  The  remarkable  com- 
petition which  has  been  created  everywhere 
.^  between  rival  establishments  engaged  in 
l^^  the  same  line  of  trade  has  resulted  in  a 
marked  increase  in  the  methods  employed  to  ren- 
der stores  attractive  to  the  public  e^'e  and  to  make 
the  most  elegant  display  possible  of  the  goods 
handled.  A  demand  has  been  created  for  artistic 
furnishings  and  elegant  appoiiituients,  which  has 
given  great  impetus  to  several  important  branches 
of  industrial  enterprise.  In  no  line  has  this  been 
more  perceptible  than  in  that  devoted  to  the  man- 
ufacture of  show-cases  and  cabinets.  The  leading 
and  most  favorably-known  concern  in  this  city 
actively  engaged  in  this  feature  of  trade  is  the 
Excelsior  Show-case  and  Cabinet  AVorks,  of  which 
Joseph  Knittel  is  the  proprietor.  This  business 
was  started  in  1877,  and  from  small  beginnings 
has  reached  vast  proportions. 

The  original  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  .Vls.ace, 
France,  born  December  23,  1854,  and  was  educated 
in  his  native  country,  leaving  school  when  thirteen 
years  of  age.  He  began  to  learn  the  trade  of  a 
carver  in  wood  and  stone,  and  made  rapid  progress, 
showing  marked  ability.  Upon  completing  his 
trade,  he  traveled  as  a  journeyman,  visiting  many 
of  the  prominent  cities  of  I^ngland  and  France, 
In  1872,  he  sailed  for  America  and  lauded  in  New 
York  City,  working  at  his  trade  there  for  two 
years.  Afterward,  drifting  Westward,  he  found 
himself  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  and  there  remained 
until  the  spring  of  1876,  when  he  went  tt>  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.  A  short  time  afterward,  he  was  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  there  worked  at  carving  wood 


I'ORTRAIT  AND  HKMtRAPIIK  Al,  RKCoKl). 


^y, 


and  stone  until  Mmvli  17,  IH77.  when  Uv  canie  tt> 
•  ^uincy  and  ii|H'ned  a  show-rase  works  in  tlie  tliiid 
story  of  a  Imiidin!;  and  in  one  room.  Theie  lie 
ticgan  the  ninntifnctiire  of  show-cases,  ami  I'V  li:ird 
work  and  perseverance  lie  prosiiered. 

His  Imsiness  liaving  grown  out  of  all  (doiiorlion 
to  his  apartments,  he  linilt  his  present  larifc  linck 
factory  in  18«(;.  This  Imilding,  7(5xl(M(  feet,  is 
four  stories  in  hciglit  and  has  an  I,  adjoining. 
4(1x10(1  feet,  and  the  same  !is  the  main  liuilding  in 
height.  Ml'.  Knittel's  ollice  is  elegantly  ecpiipped 
and  furnished  in  the  latest  designs.  He  employs  a 
large  force  of  men  ami  turns  out  lirsl-cl.tss  work. 
His  show-cases  are  of  a  superior  ipiality,  and  for 
the.se  he  linds  ready  sales.sliipjjing  throughout  the 
I'nittd  .'^tates  ;ind  selling  direct  to  the  jolibing 
trade.  All  the  operations  of  the  works  nie  con- 
ducted under  the  (lersonal  supcrvison  of  the  pro- 
prietor, thus  insuring  only  the  best  products,  both 
in  regard  to  the  (pialily  of  the  material  used  and 
the  superiority  f)f  the  workmanship.  Mr.  Knittel 
has  a  branch  olflce  in  St.  Louis.  .Mo., superintended 
liy  (icorge  K.  Allison,  also  one  at  Chicago  No  8(! 
Lake  ."street  and  superintended  by  Messrs.  McAr- 
thur  and  t'olc.  Our  subject  also  sells  to  Kurope 
and  South  .America.  Mexico  and  C'jinada. 

On  the  27th  of  .\ugust,  1K7H.  .Mr.  Knittel  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Emma  Steingrebc,  of 
Syracuse.  N.  V.,  daughter  of  Carl  Steingrebe.  To 
them  h:ts  been  bf>i-n  one  son,  Carl  R..  who  is  now 
twelve  yeare  ohl.  .Mthough  .Mr.  Knittel  began  on 
very  limited  means,  he  is  now  proprietor  of  one  of 
the  largest  concerns  of  its  kind  in  the  I'liited 
States.  He  has  a  good  liome  at  No.  Mil  S|)ring 
Street. 


^^HOMAS  .1.   MANN1N(;.   Proprietor    of   tlie 

mM\  ^''^'''''  •''"''"^'  ^^'•" •*■■*•  "f  ^^'i"'T•  111.,  is  a 
^V^'  live  and  pidgre.ssi  ve  man  of  affaii-s,  whose 
business  career  Uns  Iieen  marked  by  honesty  and 
fair  dealing.       He  w.-is   lioi  ii  in   Lewiston,  Me.,  the 


1st  of  March  lt<54,  in  which  State  his  parents, 
William  and  Winnifred  (Mitchell)  Manning,  were 
also  born,  the  former  being  a  skillful  operator  in  a 
cotton  mill.  He  wa.*  highly  honored  throughout 
liis  sectifui  for  his  sterling  integrity,  his  singleness 
of  piM'|)ose  and  the  kindly  manner  in  which  he  be- 
stowed many  charities.  The  early  si-hool  days  and 
boyhood  of  Thomas  .1.  Manning  were  passed  in  the 
locality  in  which  he  was  born,  and  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  ye.ars  he  started  out  to  make  his  own 
way  in  the  wt)rld,  and  as  a  means  to  this  end  he  be- 
gan serving  an  apprenticeship)  at  the  silver-plating 
business,  to  the  thorough  mastery  of  which  he  de- 
voted his  attention  for  three  years. 

At  the  end  of  this  lime,  he  turned  his  face  West- 
ward, and  for  some  time  thereafter  followed  his 
trade  as  a  journeyman  in  Wi.sconsin  and  still  later 
in  .Minnesota.  In  1877,  he  became  a  resident  of 
tiuinc\-.  III.,  and  established  himself  here  in  busi- 
ness'as  a  silver  plater  of  carriage  tirnamenls.  whicli 
has  proven  so  remunerative  a  calling  tliat  he 
h.as  continued  to  follow  it  up  to  the  present  time. 
His  shop  is  located  at  No.  l.'M  .South  Sixth  Street 
and  he  has  it  e(piipped  with  all  the  general  appli- 
ances for  executing  work  in  the  very  best  manner 
and  in  the  highest  style  of  the  art.  All  oiders  are 
tilled  with  promptness  and  in  a  substantial  manner, 
while  replating  and  jobbing  are  likewise  attended 
to.  He  has  a  very  fine  patronage,  and  posses.sed 
as  he  is  of  an  intimate  acipiainl.ance  with  the  busi- 
ness in  all  its  bearings,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at 
that  he  hivs  been  successful  and  is  now  in  the 
enjoyment  of  a  comfortable  competency.  He  is  a 
gentleman  of  the  highest  reiiutation,  and  standing 
and  is  a  lit  represenlative  of  one  of  (^uincy's  lead- 
ing industries. 

In  the  year  of  1880,  Mr.  Manning  married  Mag- 
gie .McCarltoii.of  t^uincy.  Their  residence  is  at  No. 
(;2o  .lersey  Street,  and  under  his  hospitable  roof- 
tree  a  large  circle  of  friends  is  warmly  welcomed 
by  himself  and  liis  hospitable  wife.  Mrs.  Manning 
is  a  lady  of  much  inteiligeiu-e,  who  has  proved  her- 
self a  helpmate  indeed  to  her  husband,  both  soci- 
ally and  in  a  linaneial  way.  She  is  a  daip'hter  of 
.lames  .McCarlton,  a  n.seful  and  respecte<l  citizen  of 
this  community.  Mr.  Manning  is  a  nieml>er  of  St. 
reter's  Catholic  Chiircli  and  belongs  to  the    West- 


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ern  Catholic  Union,  of  wliicli  organization  lie  is  an 
honored  and  useful  member.  It  will  be  observed 
that  Mr.  ^Manning  lias  been  euergelic  and  success- 
ful in  his  efforts  in  business.  He  is  quick  and  posi- 
tive in  his  methods  and  convictions,  and  grasps 
whatever  he  undertakes  with  energy  and  determina- 
tion. He  is  an  affable  and  genial  gentleman,  has 
gained  friends  rapidly  and  has  attracted  many  pa- 
trons through  his  candor  and  fairness  in  dealing 
with  them,  as  well  as  by  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
his  business,  which  is  of  a  highlv  creditable  order. 


^-l-^i 


""^ 


eAPT.  ANDREW  S.  McDOWELL,  who  re- 
sides in  Clayton,  is  one  of  the  prominent 
citizens  of  the  county,  and  this  work  would 
be  incomplete  without  his  sketch.  He  was  born  in 
the  North  of  Ireland,  May  20,  1834.  His  grand- 
fathers were  Andrew  McDowell  and  .John  Shilli- 
day,  both  natives  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  His  parents 
were  David  and  Elizabeth  McDowell,  and  their 
family  numbered  eight  children,  as  follows:  Sam- 
uel, born  in  Ireland  in  1838,  enlisted  in  1861  in 
Company  E,  Fiftieth  Illinois  Infantry  and  served 
his  countiy  four  years,  being  mustered  out  in 
1865.  He  was  afterward  in  the  regular  army, 
serving  in  Southern  California,  and  his  death  oc- 
curred in  that  State  in  1888.  Eliza  Jane,  born  in 
Ireland  in  1836,  is  a  prominent  worker  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Cohoes,  N.  Y.;  .7ohn,  born 
in  1840,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-one;  Robert, 
born  in  Lansingburg,  N.  Y.,  in  1842,  became  one 
of  the  boys  in  blue  of  the  late  war  in  1861,  and 
served  until  1864;  he  now  resides  in  Montana. 
James,  born  in  Lansingburg  in  1851,  married  Miss 
Louisa  Grout,  of  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  and  died  in 
1889;  Nancy,  born  in  1846,  died  in  186.');  Mar- 
garet, born  in  Lansingburgh,  in  1849,  died  at  the 
age  of  two  years;  George  II.,  the  youngest  of  the 
family,  born  in  Lansingburgh,  N.  Y.,  in  1855,  and 
married  Miss  Libbie  Clute,  of  Cohoes,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  is  now  a  prominent  manufacturer. 

When  our  subject  was  quite  ^-oung,  his  parents 


emigrated  to  America  and  his  education  v-as  ac- 
quired in  Lansingburg.  N.  Y.  On  leaving  school 
in  1852,  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  l)ricklayer  and 
plasterer  and  followed  that  occupation  until  1858. 
He  then  engaged  in  merchandising  until  1862. 
when  he  responded  to  the  country 's  call  for  troops, 
enlisting  in  Coiii|)auy  I,  Eighty-fourth  Illinois  In- 
fantry, under  Col.  L.  11.  Waters,  lie  was  made 
tiuartermastei-Sergeaut  of  the  regiment,  and  then 
Second  Lieutenant  of  Company  I,  and  was  in 
the  battle  of  Stone  River,  those  of  the  At- 
lanta campaign  and  many  other  engagements. 
He  was  twice  wounded  during  his  service.  At 
the  close  of  the  war,  he  was  mustered  out 
in  the  year  of  1865.  His  meritorious  conduct 
and  bravery  displayed  at  the  battle  of  Stone 
River  won  him  promotion  and  he  was  commis- 
sioned Captain  on  the  6tli  of  ]March,  1863. 

When  the  war  was  over.  ^Ir.  IMcDowell  returned 
home  and  again  engaged  in  merchandising,  con- 
tinuing in  that  line  of  business  for  seventeen 
years.  He  married  Miss  Lovenia,  daughter  of  John 
Kendrick,  of  Brown  County.  She  was  born  in 
1839,  and  their  union  w,as  celebrated  in  1857. 
They  have  a  family  of  four  sons:  Samuel  K., 
who  was  born  in  Clayton,  December  3,  1858,  mar- 
ried Addie  M.  Caldwell,  by  whom  he  has  one  child, 
and  is  now  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business 
in  Helena,  Mont.;  Wm.  IL,  who  was  born  in  1860 
and  is  now  a  druggist  of  Salina,  Kan.,  wedded 
Mattie  Webster,  of  Shelbyville,  III.,  .and  they  have 
two  children:  Thomas  II.  W.,  born  in  1862,  is  a 
graduate  of  the  High  School  and  is  now  engaged 
in  the  hardware  business  in  Anthony, Kan.;  Edgar 
E.,  who  was  born  in  1864,  married  Miss  Clara  S. 
Davis,  and  is  now  assistant-Postmaster  of  Clayton. 
The  children  were  all  provided  with  good  educa- 
tional advantages  and  two  have  been  teachers. 

The  Captain  is  a  stalwart  Republican  and  has 
served  as  Tax  Collector,  a  member  of  the  Bo.ard  of 
Education  and  been  President  of  the  Town  Board. 
In  April,  1889,  he  was  appointed  Postmaster  of 
Clayton  and  still  fills  that  otRce.  In  1888.  he  was 
elected  Representative  by  an  overwhelming  major- 
ity. His  own  county  went  for  him  solid,  thus  show- 
ing his  popularity  among  those  by  whom  he  is  best 
known.     His  official  duties   have  ever  been  faith- 


Ct/i^'^  ^A  -^^'y^  h^ 


PORTRAIT  AND  niOT.RAPIlIf  AI>    HFCORD. 


'.(W 


fully  |n'l  fDiincd,  aiitl  lie  is  alike  line  Id  cvi'iy  |iiili- 
lif  mill  pnvale  trust.  Ilo  is  n  nu'iiilH'r  of  tlic 
I'l-fsliyleriaii  Cliuivli.  wliicli  he  serves  as  K-lder, 
and  for  twenty  years  ho  has  been  its  Treasurer, 
lie  Inkis  a  very  prominent  part  in  ohureli  work 
and  is  an  earnest  w<n-ker  in  the  Master's  vineyanl. 
lie  is  a  very  prominent  Mason,  having  taken  tlie 
Thirty-see(Mii1  Degree,  and  was  Secretary  f>f  the 
Masonic  Relief  Assix-ialion,  of  Clayton.  III.,  for 
seven  years.  lie  has  been  honored  with  the 
highest  oflices  in  tiie  gift  of  tlie  Odd  Fellows" 
and  M.asonic  fraternities  and  is  a  worthy  mem- 
ber of  tiie  Ancient  Order  of  I'nited  Workmen. 
The  Captain  is  one  of  the  leading  and  inlluential 
citizens  of  Adams  County.  By  iiis  enterprise  and 
jierseverance  in  business  affairs  he  ha.s  acquired  a 
iiaudsome  con\petence.  lie  has  led  an  iionorable, 
upright  life  and  won  the  higli  esteem  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  come  in  contact.  He  has  done  much 
for  the  upbuilding  of  the  community  and  the  pro- 
motion of  its  Itesl  interests,  and  during  the  late 
war  he  was  a  faithful  defender  of  his  country  in 
her  hour  of  peril.  A  valiant  soldier,  an  u|)right 
business  man,  an  honorable  citizen  and  a  trusted 
olHcial,  ('apt.  McDowell  is  certainly  deserving  of 
representation  in  this  volume. 


=:=S#i%^M^H^|jgS 


KKNAKD  STKINKAMl'.     This  name  needs 
little  introduction  to  the  people  of   Adams 


County,  as  he  who  bears  it  is  one  of  the 
prominent  citizens  of  l^uincy  and  has  con- 
tributed largely  to  its  progress.  His  home  has 
been  in  this  city  since  1860,  and  his  large  experi- 
ence in  finances  and  as  a  business  man  places  him 
among  the  foremost  men  of  enterprise  who  are 
doing  so  much  to  advance  the  interests  of  the  city 
and  county  in  every  direction.  lie  is  a  member 
•>f  the  firm  of  H.  A.  N'aiiden  IJoom  A- Co.,  pro- 
(irietoi-s  of  the  largest  furniture  and  chair  f.-xilory 
in  f^uincy. 

Horn   in  Coesfeld,  Westphalia.  Germany,  Febru- 
ary 9,   1842,  our  subject  is  one  of  eleven  children 


liorn  to  .loliii  Henry  and  Anna  (Hoeing)  Ntein- 
kamp.  The  father  was  born  in  Westphalia,  anil 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  In  181."5-l.j,  he 
served  in  the  French  army  under  Louis  Napoleon 
and  was  a  soldier  of  undaunted  courage.  Hernaril 
was  reared  on  the  home  farm. and,  until  he  was  four- 
teen. iiil<'nded  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
place.  He  was  then  apprenticed  to  learn  the  trade 
of  a  carpenter  in  Holtwick,  where  he  worked  for 
1 1  nee  years. 

Having  resolved  to  seek  a  home  in  tlie  New 
Woild,  our  subject  took  passage  at  IJrenien  in 
the  sailing-vessel  "  N.  O. "  in  the  fall  of  1861), 
and  reached  New  Orleans  after  a  voyage  of  seven 
weeks.  November  6th  of  the  same  year,  he  arrived 
in  (.iuincy.  where  lie  served  an  apprenticeship  .as  a 
chair-maker  for  Mi>enning  Bros.  For  a  numlH-r 
of  ypars  he  worked  at  his  trade,  and  in  1K67  or- 
ganized his  iiresent  business,  together  with  H.  .\. 
X'anden  Hotun  and  live  others.  At  the  inception 
of  the  enterprise,  the  manufactory  was  located  on 
Tenth  Street  and  Broadway,  but  the  business  soon 
outgrew  those  cpiarters  and  in  1871  the  present 
building  w.as  erected  on  the  corner  of  Tenth  and 
Vermont  Streets. 

The  factory  is  17.")x85  feet,  fourstories  in  height, 
supplied  with  steam  power,elevator,  and  all  modern 
machinery  for  manufacturing.  The  firm  is  now 
composed  of  H.  A.  \'anden  Boom  and  B.  Steinkamp. 
They  manufacture  every  variety  of  fine  furniture, 
and  employ  from  sixty-five  to  seventy-five  men, 
their's  being  the  largest  furniture  factory  of  the 
city.  As  the  business  h.as  demanded,  tlu;y  have 
from  time  to  time  increased  the  cajiacily  of  the 
works  and  advanced  their  sales  over  a  more  ex- 
tended territory. 

At  t^uincy  in  1866,  Mr.  Steinkamp  married  Kliza- 
belh  Hoever,  a  native  of  this  city.  They  have 
seven  children,  namely:  Anna,  Lulu.  Bernard.  .Ir.. 
Minnie,  Katie,  (Jeorge  and  Albert.  .Mr.  Stein- 
kamp is  a  member  of  St.  .lolin's  Catholic  Church, 
to  the  support  of  which  he  generously  contributes; 
he  is  identified  with  the  St.  Nichol.'is  Brotherhood, 
Western  Catholic  I'nion,  St.  Boniface  Sticiety  and 
Roman  Catholic  Central  Society.  He  is  als<»  a 
member  of  the  Bankers'  Life  .\sso<'iation.  Kver 
loyal  ill  his  adherence  to  the    Democratic   party,  it 


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affords  hi  in  satisfactiou  to  know  that  the  recent 
Presidential  election  lias  resulted  favorably  for  his 
chosen  party.  He  has  served  on  the  petit  jury 
and  has  performed  satisfactorilj*  every  social  and 
puljlic  function  demanded  at  his  hands. 


.ANTALEON  AVERNETH.  "Cleanliness  is 
next  to  godliness."  This  proverb  does  not 
only  apply  to  our  own  person,  or  the  keep- 
ing of  our  homes,  but  most  certainly  also  to 
the  manner  in  which  the  necessities  of  life,  be  they 
what  they  may,  are  offered  to  the  public.  Ap- 
preciating this  fact,  Mr.  Werneth,  a  native  of  the 
land  of  the  Rhine,  but  for  many  years  a  citizen  of 
the  United  States,  has  established  a  first-class  meat- 
market  in  (^uinc}",and  enjoys  a  pronounced  success. 
Erom  small  beginnings,  by  dint  of  hard  work,  en- 
ergy and  enterprise,  he  has  succeeded  in  building 
uj)  a  business  that  is  of  considerable  magnitude.  It 
is  safe  to  say  that  none  are  more  enterprising  and 
popular  than  Mr.  AVerneth,  as  he  carries  a  full  line 
of  fresh  and  salt  meat,  and  endeavors  in  every  way 
possible  to  meet  the  wants  of  his  customers. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany.  July 
27,  1839,andis  ason  of  Hugo  and  Rosina  (Eckert) 
Werneth,  both  natives  of  the  Fatherland,  where 
the  father  followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer. 
Two  cliildren  were  born  to  this  worthy  couple,  our 
subject  being  the  elder  in  order  of  birth.  Until  thir- 
teen years  of  age,  he  attended  the  common  schools 
in  Baden  and  was  thoroughly  drilled  in  the  com- 
mon bi-anches.  Being  possessed  of  a  naturally  en- 
ergetic and  progressive  temperament,  he  believed 
that  ho  could  better  his  condition  financially  by 
emigrating  to  the  United  States,  and  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1855  he  sailed  for  America,  landing  in  New 
York  City  twenty-seven  da_vs  1  .ter. 

Mr.  Werneth  went  directly  from  that  city  to 
Manitowoc,  Wis.,  and  there  learned  the  butcher's 
trade  with  (^eorge  Schuet,  with  whom  he  remained 
two  years.     In   1857,  he  decided  to  remove  to  the 


Prairie  State,  and  so  located  in  Quinc^',  where  he 
worked  at  his  trade  for  three  years.  By  industry 
and  close  attention  to  business,  he  succeeded  in 
accumulating  considerable  means  and  after  three 
years,  or  in  1861,  he  embarked  in  business  on  his 
own  responsibility.  His  history  since  is  an  exam- 
ple of  what  industry,  frugality  and  integrity  will 
accomplish  in  this  cit}-.  His  market  is  located  at 
No.  (506  Hampshire  Street,  where  he  has  a  choice 
supply  of  smoked  hams  and  an'assortraent  of  fresh 
meat, game  and  poultry  that  is  not  easily  surpassed 
by  other  concerns  of  this  kind. 

Mr.  Werneth  is  a  member  of  the  Butchers'  Soci- 
ety of  Quincy,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  AVest- 
ern  Catholic  Union.  In  politics,  he  affiliates  with 
the  Democratic  party,  but  is  in  favor  of  an5'thing 
that  will  improve  the  condition  of  the  country  and 
elevate  social  life.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Anna 
Oette,  a  native  of  West  Point,  Iowa,  born  Decem- 
ber 3,  1859,  and  the  daughter  of  Francis  Oette,  of 
Quincy.  Her  parents  were  natives  of  Prussia, 
but,  like  many  others  of  that  nationality,  they 
thought  to  better  their  condition  by  a  residence  in 
the  United  States,  and  as  a  consequence  emigrated 
to  this  country. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  AVerneth  were  granted  three 
children,  as  follows:  AVillie,  Freddie  and  Carl.  Mr. 
Werneth  and  wife  are  members  of  the  St.  Boniface 
Catholic  Church,  of  Quincy,  and  contribute  liber- 
ally of  their  means  to  its  support.  They  are  active 
in  all  good  work,  are  prominent  in  all  affairs  of 
moment,  and  are  classed  among  the  substantial  and 
worthy  citizens.  They  have  a  neat  and  pleasant 
home  at  No.  731  Jersey  Street. 


*^^S 


11^ 


^,  RS.  EUGENIA  C.  FOLLANSHEE,  well 
known  in  the  social  circles  of  Quincy,  III., 
has  been  a  resident  of  this  city  since  Octo- 
ber, 1862,  but  was  born  in  Delaware 
County,  Ohio.  Her  father,  Capt.  Jame-i  Clark,  was 
born  in  AVilkes  Barre,  Pa.,  in  July,  1799,  to  which 
place  his  father,   Elijah,    moved    from    his    native 


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■,c,:\ 


State  of  New  York.  Tin-  Ijitti-r  w.as  :i  wo:ivi'r  li.v 
trade.  Iml  also  tilled  the  soil,  f^iviiii;  Ills  attention 
cliiell.v  to  the  Islter  oceu|)ation  after  his  removal 
to  Delaware  ('ount\.  Ohio,  in  1H21.  where  lie  itied 
at  aliout  the  age  of  eiifhlv  years.  lie  was 
of  Knglish  de.-eent.  and  his  wife.  Mary  Stark,  was 
a  niece  t>f  (ieii.  stark,  of  Revolutionary  fame. 
She  was  horn  in  New  York,  and  w;is  a  daughter 
of  William  Stark,  of  (Josheii,  hut  who  wjis  after- 
ward in  the  Moody  Wyoming  Massacre  in  Penn- 
sylvania, he  and  his  family  lieing  among  the  few 
who  eseapeii.  .\fter  the  inas-aere  they  returned  to 
New  Yoik.  Mary  (Stark)  Clark  also  died  in  ( )hio. 
.lames  (lark  eanie  to  Ohio  with  his  uncle,  .lames 
Stark,  ahout  IHIl,  the  jourru-y  l)eing  made  over- 
land, and  settle<l  on  an  uncleared  farm  in  Delaware 
County,  which  was  twenty  miles  from  any  settle- 
ment. Allhiiugh  too  young  to  enlist  in  the  War 
of  IXI'2.  he  .'icted  in  the  capacity  of  guide  and 
messenger. 

After  the  war,  James  Clark  h-arned  surveying, 
which  he  followed  for  many  years,  and  at  the  age 
of  twentv-one  years  he  liegan  teaching  school,  to 
which  occupation  he  devoted  his  attention  during 
the  winter  imuiths  for  five  years,  the  summers  be- 
ing given  to  carpentering,  contracting  and  joli- 
hing.  lie  was  very  athletic  and  was  never  lieaten 
l>y  any  one  with  whom  lie  ■•  measured  swords"  at 
running  or  jumping,  lie  later  hoiight  an<l  paid 
for  a  farm  with  the  fruits  of  his  own  hard  laliiu-. 
and  from  the  forests  of  that  new  country  hei-iearcd 
a  masjniricent  farm  of  one  iiundred  and  tiftyacro. 
In  1M22,  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  l.aura  .M.  Heiie- 
diet,  widow  of  Stei)hen  Henedict.  of  Connecticut, 
who  had  one  daughter,  five  years  of  age.  who  after- 
ward married  l{ev.  15.  II.  Carlwright,  now  memlier 
of  the  Rock  River  C<mfcrence.  Mrs.  Clark  was  born 
in  Mt.  Washington.  Mass..  and  was  a  (laughter  of 
Isaac  and  Sarah  (I'ieri'c)  Winaiis.  Ijotli  natives  of  the 
Ray  .State  the  latter  being  of  the  same  family  as 
l-'ranklin  Pierce,  .lames  Clark  was  Captain  in  the 
Slate  militia  for  five  years,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  resigned,  and  on  the  Itlli  of  .May.  Ik;J5,  lie 
came  to  Illinois  by  team  to  sec  the  country,  and  en- 
tered one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  (Government 
land,  afterward  purchasing  considerable  more  at 
Ijifavette  (irove.      In  the  fall  of  that  \ear.  having 


returneil  to  Ohio,  he  brought  his  family  overland 
to  this  section,  and  began  to  clear,  cultivate  and 
fence  his  land,  whii-li  consisteil  of  three  hiiiidied 
acres,  on  which  had  been  erected  a  two-room 
log  lioii^e.  This  afterward  gave  plate  to  a  sub- 
staiili:il  frame  residence,  and  liy  industry  his  farm 
was  coin  eitcd  from  a  wilderness  into  well-tilled 
fields  of  grain,  lie  first  winked  with  oxen,  having 
four  yoke,  but  he  aflerwiird  became  possessed  of 
some  line  horses  and  in  many  other  ways  proved 
himself  enterprising  and  up  with  the  times.  .At 
an  early  day  he  became  .lustice  of  the  Peace  and 
was  County  Coroner  for  two  terms.  In  IHI", 
when  the  Hock  River  Seminary  was  located  .-it  Mt. 
.Morris,  he  located  there  .•iiid  erected  the  lirst  brick 
house  in  the  county,  which  is  still  standing,  lb- 
still  continued  to  keep  his  farm,  which  was  in  the 
hands  of  leiitci-s,  and  devoted  his  own  attention 
to  the  dry -goods  business  ill  .Mt.  Morris  until  all 
his  children  were  educated,  with  the  exception    of 

]    from   IH.VJ   to    D<r>7.    when    he    w.-is  a    resident  of 

I  Sandwich,  in  which  place  he  was  .lustice  of  the 
Peace  and  Pr<'sideiit  of  the  City  Hoard. 

.Mr.  Clark  was  the  first  mayor  of  .Mt.  Morris,  a 
position  he  held  .several  years,  and  in  many  wa\s 
he  assisted  in  building  up  the  town  and  making 
it  the  lively  place  of  business  it  has  since  bec<une. 
Ill'  came  to(^uiiicy  in  1H(!;{.  and  opened  a  general 
grticery  store  on  llampshiie  Street,  which  proved 
a  paying  biisine.ss.  During  the  Civil  War,  he  vol- 
unteered his  services  for  the  I'nion  cause,  but  ow- 
ing to  his  advanced  years  his  proffer  was  declined, 
lie  has  f(U- some  time  past  been    interested    in    the 

I  real-estate  business,  and  makes  his  home  with  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Kugeiiia  C.  Kollansbee.  He  is  a 
prominent  and  hoiKued  Mason,  in  which  order  he 
has  held  numerous  otiices,  and  since  he  was  tweii- 
ty-ff>ur  years  of  age  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
.Methodist  Kpiscopai  Church,      lie  li.is  always  been 

,  an  enthusiastic  supporter  of  Republican  princi- 
ples. His  wife  died  in  lH72,at  the  age  of  seventy- 
three  years  of  age.  She  bore  Mr.  Clark  the  follow- 

!  ing  children:  Lucy  .\.,  who  died  at  Mt.  Morris; 
Cordelia,  wife  of  C.  K.  Meisner.  of  the  .Stale  of 
W;u5liinglon;  Henry  I,.,  who  died  in  California  in 
IH5 1 ;  Charles,  who  died  when  yining;  Harriet  L., 
wife  of  .1.    F.   tirosb.    of    t^uincy;    Kugeiiia,    .Mi>. 


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Follansbee;  Edwin,  who  died  in  Sandwich.  III.,  and 
.1.  Herbert,  .1  resident  of  Quincv. 

In  1850,  .lames  Clark  cros.sed  the  plains  to  Cali- 
fornia, in  which  State  he  remained  for  three  years, 
enuf.aged  in  mining  and  contracting.  He  took  the 
overland  route  to  that  section,  but  came  back  by 
the  wa\-  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  after  some 
time  made  another  trip  to  the  West. 

Mrs.  Follansbee  was  educated  in  Ogle  County, 
111.,  in  the  common  schools,  and  was  afterward  a 
student  in  Mt.  Morris  Seminar^-,  where  many  of 
our  prominent  men  were  educated,  including  R. 
II.  Hitt,  Member  of  Congress,  and  Gov.  Cullora. 
She  graduated  in  1851,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years, 
in  the  classical  course,  after  which  she  began  teach- 
ing at  Newark,  Kendall  County,  and  afterward  at 
what  is  now  Polo;  later  she  attended  High  School 
i  a  Chicago.  The  following  year  she  became  a  teacher 
in  the  public  schools  of  the  Metropolis  of  the  West, 
but  in  1854  she  began  teaching  at  Sandwich.  On 
the  15th  of  IMay,  1856,  she  w.as  married  to  Gilbert 
Follansbee,  who  was  born  in  Enfield,  N.  H.,  a  Son 
of  .James  and  Eliza  (Carrier)  Follansbee,  of  New 
Hampshire,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  farmer  and 
died  in  tluat  State.  Gilbert  Follansbee  was  educa- 
ted in  New  Hampshire,  and  when  a  young  man 
located  at  Sandwich,  111.,  and  began  dealing  in 
grain,  which  netted  him  a  large  amount  of  money. 
He  became  the  owner  of  a  large  amount  of  real 
estate  in  Illinois.  During  the  Crimean  War  the 
grain  market  was  affected  and  Follansbee  lost 
heavil}-.  During  the  Pike's  Peak  excitement,  he 
turned  his  footsteps  thither  to  retrieve  his  for- 
tunes, in  company  with  Mr.  Clark,  and  for  eigh- 
teen months  he  was  engaged  in  mining  in  that 
region.  In  1862,  he  returned  to  Mt.  Morris  and 
in  October  of  the  same  year  came  to  Quincy,  where 
he  was  first  employed  in  the  express  office  and  af- 
terward became  a  dealer  in  horses.  In  1875,  he 
was  again  taken  with  the  mining  fever  and  went 
to  New  Jlexico,  where,  in  company  with  others, 
he  opened  a  mine,  which  he  continued  to  work 
until  taken  sick  with  cerehro-spinal  meningitis, 
and  so  low  did  his  life  ebb  that  his  wife  was  tele- 
graphed for  and  joined  him,  the  trip  to  the 
mountains  being  accompanied  by  many  hardships. 
Upon  recovering  sufficiently,  he  was  brought  home. 


and  one  year  later  embarked  in  the  livery  business 
with  Ed  K.  Sweet  on  Maine  Street,  where  they  con- 
tinued until  burned  out,  when  they  removed  their 
stock  to  Hampshire  Street.  Their  partnership 
continued  hannoniously  for  about  ten  years,  at  the 
end  of  which  time  Mr.  Follansbee's  health  again 
failed  him  and  they  dissolved  partnership.  Some 
time  later,  he  embarked  in  business  alone  at  the 
corner  of  Seventh  and  Hampshire  Streets  and  was 
successful. 

In  1890,  he  i)lanned  and  built  his  barn  on  Sixth 
Street,  which  is  the  finest  building  of  the  kind 
west  of  Chicago.  He  died  January  30,  1891,  aged 
about  fifty-nine  years.  Under  Mayor  Smith,  he 
was  Chief  of  Police  for  one  jear,  was  a  member  of 
Peerless  Lodge,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  was  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  politically-  was  a 
Republican.  After  his  death,  his  widow  and  her 
son  carried  on  the  business,  but  sold  out  in  .lune, 
1892.  She  became  the  mother  of  three  children: 
James  Gilbert,  of  Quinc}';  Ernest,  who  died  in 
1887,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  vears,  and  Leslie 
B.,  at  home.  Mrs.  Follansbee  is  a  charter  member 
of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  and  for  five  years 
was  .Secretary  of  the  same,  and  is  President  and  a 
charter  member  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temper- 
ance Union.  She  is  also  a  member  of  the  Humane 
Society  and  since  fourteen  years  of  age  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  P^piscopal  Church. 


-^-=^^>^^<m 


p  OHN  McNAY,  one  of  the  good  farmers  of 
this  part  of  the  county,  lives  on  section  27, 
wliere  he  owns  over  one  hundred  fine  acres, 
^^^  all  earned  by  his  own  honest  effort.  His 
father  was  of  Scotch  parentage,  .and  his  mother,  Jane 
McClellan,  came  from  an  old  family.  These  both  are 
names  well  known  in  Scotland,  and  from  that  coun- 
try the  young  couple  came  to  try  their  fortunes  in 
the  New  Country.  They  crossed  in  1816  and  settled 
in  Pendleton  County,  Ky.,and  went  into  the  wild- 
erness upon  a  wild  farm.  The  record  gives  few  par- 
ticulars but  that  he  (lied  herein   1825.  and  his  wife 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPIHCAL    R£CORD. 


.sr,; 


survived  him  until  1878.  Tlioy  were  the  (mrente  of 
six  childn-ii.  of  wlioin  the  liviii<j  are  Andrew  and 
our  siilijfi't.  Tlie  latter  was  Imni  Oetolier  15,  1818. 
in  IVndleton  t'ciunty.  Kv.,  and  wa.s  reared  on  n 
farm,  lie  received  hnl  a  limited  amount  of  book- 
learning:,  lint  the  productive  liook  of  nature  was 
wide  open  JK-fore  him.  from  whieli  he  eonld  learn 
of  liird  and  l)east.  of  tlower  and  f.hrul)  and  tree,  of 
stream  and  the  rich  products  of  the  soil.  At  the 
.age  of  lifteen.  he  left  home  and  went  to  work  on  a 
farm,  and  in  IH'.i'J  he  eame  to  Illinois,  lie  and  his 
brother  Andrew  farmecl  together  on  this  farm  on 
.>.eetion   I,  Mendon  Township,  for  seveial  \eai-s. 

In  lHi)().<iur  subject  was  married  to  Miss  Amanda 
James,  who  was  born  in  lioone  County,  Mo.,  .Jan- 
uary 18,  18;{1,  and  received  a  common-school  ed- 
ucation. She  was  the  daughter  of  Adam  and  Mary 
( Richarrls)  .lames,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of 
Harrison  County,  Ky.  The  mother  of  Mrs.  McNav 
was  born  in  ISdO,  and  was  married  in  Kentucky, 
and  died  in  IHisu,  a  consistent  member  of  the 
Methodist  Kpisco|ial  Clmrch.  Mr.  .lames  came  at 
an  early  day  to  Hoone  County,  Mu..  and  made  a 
s<'ttlement.  and  in  1818  he  moved  to  Illinois  and 
settled  on  section  2H,  .Mendon  Township.  This 
land  was  partly  improved,  and  he  soon  added  other 
improvements.  lie  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Methodist  Kpiscopal  Church,  and  a  good  man. 

Immediately  after  his  marriage.  Mr.  McNay 
moved  to  his  present  farm,  which  was  slightly  im- 
jiroved,  ami  here  he  h.is  lived  for  forty-two  years, 
which  h.as  been  the  whole  span  of  life  for  manv. 
This  land  is  all  now  improved,  and  the  nice  build- 
ings have  all  liecn  placed  here  by  him.  He 
has  given  his  boys  each  a  farm,  and  still  owns 
eighty  more  acres  outside  his  farm,  one  mile  iu)rtli. 
all  under  cultivation,  lie  has  three  children:  I). 
v.,  born  .lanuaiy  28,  IH.")1,  married  C'elia  Shepherd, 
and  lives  in  this  town>liip  ••iiid  has  no  living  chil- 
dren; Marcus  M.,  born  February  2."1,  1851.  mariied 
May  Williams,  and  lives  in  this  county,  and  has 
four  children:  and  Charles  l{..  iNirn  .lanuary  28_ 
18.j'.t,  married  (Ulie  .Millei.  who  died  in  I.hsii,  leav- 
ing one  child. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  McNay  are  menibersof  the  Free-will 
IJaptisl  Church,  and  they  have  been  teachers  in  the 
Sunday-school,  and  he  hiis  Ijeeii  Tre^urer,  Clerk 


I  and  .Sunday-school  Superintendent.  He  has  given 
his  iHjys  a  good  education,  as  they  all  have  been  stu- 
dents at  Kirksville  Normal  School  in  Missouri,  and 
the  two  oldest  have  taught  school,  lie  has  tilled  the 
ottices  of  .School  Director  and  Treasurer.  In  his 
political  views.  Mr.  McNay  i?  a  Democrat. and  has 
held  the  ollice  of  Constable. 

In  his  long  residence  here,  our  subject  has  seen 
many  and  great  changes,  almost  as  if  the  de.sert 
were  made  to  blossom  as  the  rose,  and  he  has 
done  his  \mrt  to  bring  this  change  about.  He  ttwk 
part  in  the  Mormon  War,  and  helped  drive .loseph 
Smith's  followers  from  Nauvoo. 


FV.  THOMAS  .1.  WHFAT.  D.  I).  To  pay 
the  tribute  of  honor  and  love  to  the  noble 
■  ks  \V  ministers  of  the  Cospel  whose  lives  are 
'^^  devoted  to  the  spiritual  uplifting  of  man- 
kind is  always  a  pleasant  duty.  They  plant  the 
seeds  in  the  hearts  of  their  fellow-men,  knowing 
not  if  it  will  Ije  theirs  to  reap;  they  work  not  for 
themselves,  but  for  (iod,  trusting  that  in  due  lime 
the  reward  of  their  efforts  will  be  realized. 

The  pastor  of  the  Trinity  Methodist  Kpiscopal 
Church  at  <^uincv  is  deserving  of  considei-able  men- 
tion among  those  who  have  aided  in  seeming  the 
l)rogressof  thecity.  His  labors  have  been  singularly 
productive  of  good.  In  every  social,  moral  and 
eyangelical  reform  movement  that  has  been  under- 
tiiken.  he  Inis  Ijeen  foremost,  and  the  history  of 
the  great  iindeitakings  which  have  done  so  much 
for  the  sj)iritual  and  moral  life  of  the  city  would 
be  sadly  incomplete  without  mentioning  in  proper 
terms  the  work  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  T.  .1.  Wheat.  He 
is  identilicd  with  them  all.  .and  to  his  courage, 
zeal  and  faithfulness  much  of  iln-ir  suircess  is 
due.  Whatsoe\er  his  hand  linds  to  do.  he  does 
with  his  might,  and  he  is  ever  the  dev«ited  past<ir. 
laboring  in  season  and  out  of  seas«in. 

It  may  not  be  ami.ss  to  narrate  briefly  some  facts 
relative  to  the  ancestry  of  our  subject.  The  first 
representatives  of  the  Wheat   family    in    Au'erica 


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i-ORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


were  three  brotliers  who  emigrated  to  this  coun- 
try from  England  prior  to  tlie  War  of  the 
Revolution,  and  one  of  the  three  was  a  soldier  in 
the  famous  contest  and  was  drowned  while  ford- 
ing a  river  in  Georgia.  The  father  of  our  subject 
was  Thomas  T.,  the  son  of  Thomas  Wheat,  Sr., 
who  was  an  early  settler  of  New  York  State.  He 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Margaret  Ann  Jones, 
who  was  born  in  Steuben  Count3-,  N.  Y.,  and  was 
the  daughter  of  L.  H.  Jones,  whose  ancestors  were 
of  Scotch- Welsh  extraction.  After  their  marriage, 
the  young  couple  removed  to  Indiana,  where  the 
fatlier  conducted  an  hotel  and  carried  on  his 
trade  as  a  millwright  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  Metamora,  in  that  State. 

In  Portland,  Jay  County*,  Ind.,  Thomas  J. 
AVheat  was  born  April  23,  1843.  Two  years 
after  tlie  death  of  his  fatiier,  his  mother  married 
.again,  and  the  family  moved  to  Minnesota  and 
settled  near  Preston.  In  18.t7,  the  family  moved 
to  the  southern  part  of  Iowa  and  located  in  Salem, 
where  the  lad  spent  much  of  his  time  in  the  com- 
mon school.  AVhen  the  great  Rebellioji  broke  out, 
young  Wheat  was  among  the  first  from  his  section 
to  enlist.  He  became  a  membeT  of  Company  B, 
Third  Iowa  Cavalry,  Col.  Bussey  commanding  the 
regiment. 

Following  orders,  Mr.  AVIieat  accompanied  his 
regiment  to  St.  Louis,  and  thence  to  Rolla;  later  he 
went  to  Pea  Ridge  and  participated  in  that  battle, 
and  still  later  he  took  part  in  engagements  at  Sy- 
camore, on  the  White  River;  Peach  Orchard  Bluff, 
Helena  and  C'oldwaler  (ISliss.,)  and  was  present  at 
tiie  first  attack  at  \'icksburg,  and,  after  being  re- 
pulsed there,  fell  back  to  Arkansas  Post.  On  account 
of  loss  of  eyesight,  he  was  compelled  to  retire  from 
.active  service,  and  was  discharged  upon  the  sur- 
geon's certificate  in  l.Sii.S,  returning  to  Lee  County, 
Iowa,  where  he  had  his  eyes  treated.  As  soon  as 
he  was  able,  he  recruited  a  comi)any.  which  was 
called  "Tlu^  Lincoln  (iu;irds,"'  and  did  border 
duty  as  Captain  in  Col.  \'ilas'  regiment. 

Retiring  from  the  army,  Mr.  Wheat  for  a  time 
engaged  in  farming  operations,  and  meanwhile 
also  preached  at  tiie  State  Reform  School.  Feeling 
the  need  of  a  more  liberal  education,  he  became 
a    student   in   BtUnl's  Academy;    later,  his  suc- 


cess in  preaching  and  love  for  the  calling  in- 
duced him  to  enter  the  ministry,  and  during  the 
years  that  have  since  come  and  gone  the  wisdom 
of  his  choice  h.as  been  abundantly  proved.  His 
first  charge  was  at  Williamstown,  Mo.,  where  he 
served  as  pastor  of  the  church  from  August  until 
the  following  March.  Later,  he  went  to  Canton, 
Mo.,  where  a  church  was  l)uilt  during  his  pastor- 
ate; thence  to  Edina,  ISIo.,  remaining  there  three 
years,  and  during  that  time  building  two  churches. 
Following  that,  he  was  at  Kahoka,  Mexico,  and 
Kirksville,  Mo.,  three  years  respectively.  For 
four  jears  ensuing,  he  was  Presiding  Elder  of  the 
Hannib.al  District,  where  his  abilities  had  a  still 
larger  field.  He  was  afterwaid  located  in  Cliilli- 
cothe.  Mo.,  for  a  short  time,  and  in  188!)  came 
to  (^)uincy  to  take  charge  of  the  Trinity  Church. 

In  addition  to  his  labors  as  pastor  of  the  church, 
our  subject  has  been  Vice-president  of  Chaddock 
College,  a  widely-known  institution  of  learning, 
to  the  success  of  which  he  has  largely  contributed. 
He  has  also  been  County  Commissioner  of  Public 
Schools,  one  of  the  examiners  in  Hardin  College, 
a  Trustee  and  one  of  the  Managers  of  Lewis  Col- 
lege. August  21,  1860,  Mr.  Wheat  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Sarah  Martin,  daughter  of 
Robert  Martin,  a  i>rominent  citizen  of  Lee  County, 
Iowa.  The  attractive  home  which  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Wheat  here  established  has  always  been  the  abode 
of  genuine  hospitality.  Their  many  friends  who 
frequent  their  home  go  there  with  pleasure  and 
leave  with  regret. 

Dr.  .and  Mrs.  Wheat  have  had  born  to  them  three 
sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  living, 
and  all  settled  in  business  but  one.  The  esteem  in 
which  Dr.  Wheat  is  held  is  seen  by  the  following, 
taken  from  the  Daily  7/e/xr7c?, of  tjuincy,  September 
18,  189-2, at  the  close  of  his  third  year's  pastoiatc 
in  Trinity  ]Methodist  Episcoi)al  Church:  "Dr.  Wheat 
preaches  his  farewell  sermon  to-day.  But  if  Quincy 
people  of  ever3'  class  have  anything  to  say,  he'll  be 
back  in  Ti-inity  next  year.  Judge  Bonney  yesterday 
undertook  to  personally  circulate  a  petition  among 
the  business  men,  irrespective  of  church  or  creed, 
asking  conference  to  return  him.  A  large  number, 
including  the  M.ayor,  signed  the  petition.  This  is 
somelhiug^iever  before  done  in  (^uinc^'s  history,  so 


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far  n>  i-an  \>c  recalled,  and  is  a  splendid  testimonial 
to  the  esteem  and  regard  in  wiiicli  llie  good  Doc- 
tor is  hold." 


'^1  olIN  A.  .s|i:iNr.A(II.  TIm'  beautiful  city 
«lif)sc  |>riiniiiicnt  men  it  is  our  desire  to 
record  in  this  volume  has  before  it  a  great 
future,  if  honest  industry  and  progressive 
spirit  hftvoanything  to  do  with  tlio  onward  march 
of  communities.  Among  the  important  tirnis  of 
(^uincy  is  that  of  the  Steinbach  Bros.,  the  partners 
being  .lohn  A.  and  IMiilip  Steinbach,  .Ir..  who  carry 
on  a  large  business  in  contracting  and  brickwork. 

The  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  Adam  .'>tein- 
bacli,  who  bore  a  grand  record  in  the  Father- 
land .as  a  brave  anil  valiant  soldier,  jls  he  had 
fought  in  the  French  ariii\  under  the  great  Napo- 
leon, and  w!is  one  of  the  three  out  of  his  com- 
pany of  three  hundred  who  returned  from 
the  ill-starred  expedition  to  Mo.scow.  He  engaged 
in  farming  in  his  native  land,  Cermany,  but  at  an 
early  day  brought  his  family  to  America.  He  fol- 
lowed agriculture  on  the  Tuscarawas  in  Stark  Coun- 
ty, Ohio,  for  a  time  and  then  removed  to  Shelbv 
County,  -Mo.,  where  he  followed  the  same  occupa- 
tion, but  finally  settled  down  to  end  a  long  and 
remarkable  life  in  Oregon.  He  tliere  pasx-d  awav 
at  the  age  of  ninety-four  years. 

The  father  of  our  subject  w:ts  .lohn  .\darn;  he 
was  a  Oerman  by  birth  and  learned  the  trade  of 
blacksmithing.  He  came  with  the  family  in  their 
removal  to  .\merica  and  was  marriecl  in  Stark 
County,  ( )liio,  whence  he  went  to  .Sju-lby  Countv. 
Mo.  In  IHIS,  he  locaU-d  in  (^uincy,  III.,  and  en- 
gaged in  line  blacksmith  wtirk,  and  here  he  re- 
mained until  he  died,  in  IS.'il.  He  w.as  a  Demo- 
crat in  his  political  preference.  His  chuich  was 
the  one  so  fondly  Ik-IovciI  by  all  good  Oermuns, 
the  Lutheran. 

The  revered  niollier  of  our  subject  wa>  .Marv  I{. 
Silled,  wlio  wnii  bojii  ill  Kco||omy,near  J'jtlsburgh, 


P.i.  .She  was  a  very  intelligent  woman,  and  after 
the  death  of  her  husband  did  the  be.st  she  could 
for  her  sons.  A  few  years  later,  she  married  the 
brother  of  her  first  husband.  I'hilip  Steiiib:ich,  who 
was  ji  brick  contractor  here,  and  who  for  years 
was  one  of  the  tirm  of  Hioonier  A'  Steinbach. 
When  Mr.  Hloomei-  retireil,  Mr.  Stein  bach  took  his 
two  step-sons.  .lohn  .nnd  I'hilip.  into  partnership 
with  him.  He  now  lives  retired  in  <^uincv.  but 
his  interest  is  still  great  in  the  welfare  of  -the 
hoys."  The  mother  of  these  gentlemen  died  in 
(^uincy.  age<l  seventy-nine  years. 

.lohn  A.  Steinbach,  the  subject  of  our  •-kelch. 
was  born  in  Hethel,  Shelbv  County.  Mo.,  .laniiai-y 
28,  1H17.  His  first  recollections  are  of  the  cit\'  of 
•  ^uincy,  where  he  w.as  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  When  thirteen  years  of  age,  he  was  appren- 
ticed tf>  learn  the  trade  of  a  bricklayer  under  the 
tirm  ot  Bloomer  A-  Steinbach  for  three  years.  In 
1861,  the  old  martial  spirit  of  his  grandfather  was 
stirred  in  his  veins,  and  he  trie<l  to  enlist  for  the 
Civil  \\':ir.  but  he  was  only  fourteen,  and  as  the 
country  dirl  not  want  her  boys  to  go  to  the  front, 
he  was  refused,  and  sadly  returnee!  to  his  trade. 

In  18(i.'»,  he  volunteered,  and  this  time  his  will- 
ing .eerviec  w.i.s  accepted, and  he  entered  Company 
I),  One  Hundred  and  Foity-eighth  Illinois  Infan- 
try. They  were  sent  Soutli  and  put  to  guarding 
the  Nashville  iV  Cliattaiiooga  Railroad,  and  while 
there  a  vacancy  occurred  in  the  company,  and  he 
was  made  First  Lieutenant.  He  remained  in  the 
army  until  September.  18(;.").  when  he  was  nins- 
tercd  out  at  Nashville  :uid  honorably  discharged 
at  Springlield.  III. 

Our  subject  returned  hf>me  .•nid  coiitiniicMl  to 
work  for  Bloomer  A-  Steinbach  until  IHTl.when 
Mr.  Bloomer  ictired  from  the  firm,  and  .lohn  was 
made  partner  in  his  step-father's  linn.  In  the  year 
of  IHT.'i,  Mr.  Steinbach  was  ap|ioiiited  Chief  of 
the  Fire  Department  of  the  city,  and  was  re- 
appointed every  year  until  l««.'i.  wlicii  lie  letired 
from  it.  He  made  a  most  excellent  Chief,  and 
held  the  otiice  longer  by  appointmenl  than  any 
other  man.  He  was  then  made  .\ssistant  Chief 
under  Chief  Kasterly. 

In  ISM.j.our  subject  resumed  his  busines.i  of  ciui- 
tiacling  wjUi    h\i  brother,  and  iiow  t||o  lirni  name 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


is  Stein  bach  Bros.  Tliey  do  113-  far  the  largest  brick- 
C'outracling  in  the  city,  and  liave  made  their  busi- 
ness more  than  ordinarily  suceessful.  Tliey  are  both 
practical  brickla3'ers,  and  understand  the  business 
in  all  its  branches.  They  have  orders  for  woik 
from  cities  in  the  Xorth  and  West,  and  have 
erected  some  of  tiie  fincist  buildings  in  (^uincj'. 

Mr.  Steinliach's  judgment  is  supreme  on  all 
building  matters,  and  he  is  often  consulted.  He 
is  a  stockholder  in  the  People's  Building  and 
Loan  Association,  in  the  (^uincy  Building  and 
Loan  Association, and  a  Director  and  stockholder 
in  tlie  .Vdams  Count}'  Building  and  Loan  Associa- 
tion. 

Te  marriage  of  our  subject  to  i\Iiss  Barbara 
Weisenbergcr  occurred  here  in  1868.  Siie  was 
born  in  Germanv,  but  died  in  (^iiincy, . January  2."), 
1891.  Of  the  eleven  childi'en  born  to  tliis  couple, 
eight  are  living.  They  are:  Leonora,  who  is  now 
Mrs.  (irinimer,  of  i^uincv;  Delia,  RLarie,  John  A. 
.1.,  Thomas,  Editli,  Kuth  and  Margaret.  Mr.  Stein- 
bach  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  of 
tiie  Pride  of  the  West  Lodge  No.  94,  A.  O.  l'.  W. 
In  politics,  Mr.  Steinbach  is  a  Democrat  of  no  un- 
certain tone,  and  has  .nlways  been  a  stanch  advocate 
of  his  i)arty.  He  is  a  vovy  prominent  man  in 
Qnincy,  and  is  looked  up  to  on  account  of  his 
e.\cellent  judgment.  He  is  considered  to  be  a 
level-headed  man,  and  his  genial  nature  m.akes 
him  liked  in  every  circle,  while  his  lil)eralit3'  is 
praised  on  every  side. 


"H^ 


|f(^_  ENKY  L  KELKEH.  One  of  the  salient  fea- 
tures of  the  business  men  in  this  city  of 
Illinois  is  their  I'liergy  and  push,  or,  as  the 
)}  Americans  put  it;  go-:i-headativeness. 
Quincy  is  no  exception  in  this  res|)ect,  but  affords 
a  striking  cxaiiiplu  of  the  truth  of  the  assertion, 
and  Mr.  Kelkcr  furnishes  us  with  a  striking  case 
in  point.  lie  is  now  engaged  in  the  lia\',  grain  and 
produce  business  and  liis  is  one  of  the  must  suc- 
cessful among  the  j)rominenl   representative  busi- 


ness houses  in  the  city  in  its  particular  line  of  trade. 
Mr.  Kelker  is  a  gentleman  of  enterprising  business 
haliits,  and  thoroughly  understands  every  liranch 
of  the  industry  in  which  he  is  engaged,  and  which 
he  has  developed  to  its  present  proportions.  He 
is  located  at  No.  120  South  .Seventh  Street  and 
in  a  good  locality  for  his  l)usiness. 

Born  in  Chester,  111,,  on  the  lOtli  of  December, 
1854,  Mr.  Kelker  is  a  sou  of  John  and  Kath- 
erina  (Kuntz)  Kelker,  both  of  (Jerman  descent. 
The  father  followed  the  occupation  of  a  moulder 
and  was  a  man  jjossessed  of  more  than  the  average 
business  acumen.  Of  the  five  children  bom  to 
their  union,  our  suliject  was  the  second  son.  He 
was  reared  in  Quincy,  and  was  thoroughl}-  drilled 
in  the  schools  of  that  cit}-  until  thirteen  years  of 
.age.  He  was  but  a  mere  lad  when  his  faliier  died, 
and  w.as  thus  deprived  of  his  main  su|)port  and 
counsel,  and  on  his  shoulders  were  thrown  many 
burdens  and  res|)onsil)ilities.  His  mother  was  a 
woman  of  a  superior  order  of  intellect,  her  stand- 
.ard  always  higli.  her  iulluence  always  elevating, 
and  she  reared  her  ehildien  to  be  useful  and  hon- 
ored citizens. 

When  fourteen  years  of  age,  our  subject  entered 
the  emplo_v  of  W.  A.  Bader,  cigar  manufacturer 
in  Quincv,  and  continued  with  him  for  three  years. 
In  18(i9,  Mr.  Kelker  became  a  clerk  in  a  grocery 
store  owned  liy  .loseph  .\lexander,  and  remained 
in  that  gentleman's  employ-  for  two  xears.  He 
subsequently  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in  a  gro- 
cery owned  by  William  Osborn  and  then  went  to 
St.  Louis,  where  lie  clerked  for  E.  W.  jNIilier  a 
short  time,  and  for  three  years  guarded  the  interest 
of  his  employer  with  nuicli  zealousness.  .\fter  this 
he  was  employed  as  egg  jiacker  for  William  L. 
Distin  and  for  seven  years  w.as  thus  employed. 
In  1881,  ]Mr.  Kelker  began  thinking  of  branching 
out  in  business  for  himself  and,  having  accumu- 
lated consideralile  means  bj'  industry  and  close 
attention  to  liusiiiess,  he  boiiglit  out  I{ol)erl  Long 
and  (Miibarked  in  the  piodu<!e  business  on  his  own 
responsibility.  He  is  now  engaged  in  carrying  on 
an  extensive  produce  Ijusiness  on  his  own  account, 
and  is  buying  and    selling    produce    of    all  kinds. 

Mr.  Kelker  is  a  gentleman  of  wide  and  mature 
exiieriiiee  and  his  alTairs  have  always  been    con- 


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I'OHTRAIT  AM)  BKXIRAPHICAL    HKCORD. 


diicte<l  "itli  lilioialitv  ami  iiitflliiroiit  oiiterpiisi-. 
For  (ivpf  ti'ii  venrsiHiw.  tlii.-  wmtliv  <;eiitlemnn  lias 
hail  an  lionoraMe  ami  succfssful  career.  aii<l  witli 
all  will)  liavo  had  iloaliiijjs  with  liiiii  ho  is  hi<;lily 
esteeini'd  for  his  ujiriglit.  strai<;htfo«aril  coiHluc't. 
Mr.  Ki'lkcr  is  a  iiu'iiiIkm-  of  tlic  Imli>iii'iiih'iit  Ordt-r 
of  MiiUial  Aid  of  t^uiiH-v.  and  in  pulitirs  adhi'res 
stron,L.'l>  lo  thf  iihitforni  of  Iho  Dcniofratu-  party. 
lie  was  happy  in  hi--  scleclion  of  a  life  coiiipanion, 
rhoosiiijLT  Miss  Mary  SmalhotT.  clau^'htcr  of  .lacoli 
.'^mallioff.  of  (^uinfy.  III.,  and  tlii-ir  union  took 
place  in  the  year  \Xl~.  Their  doinestii-  happiness 
has  heen  increased  very  iinifli  hy  the  hirtli  of  six 
intorestini;  children,  foiii-  rlaiigliters  ami  two  sons, 
all  at  home,  and  their  pleasant  residence  is  situa- 
ted at  No.  I12(»  North  Kij,'lilh  .Slieet. 


'^  K.  WKMII(»KNKI{.  No  name  is  justly  en- 
titled lo  a  more  enviable  place  in  the  his- 
tory of  .\dams  County  than  the  one  which 
heads  this  sketch,  for  it  i-  lioriie  liy  a  man 
who  has  heen  usefully  and  honoralily  identified 
with  the  prosperity  of  the  county  in  every  worthy 
particular.  We  are  pleased  to  give  his  life  sketch 
in  thi>  volume,  fm-  he  has  done  much  to  a.ssist  in 
developing  the  various  resources  of  the  county, 
.•iiid  po.-«e.->se.s  those  sterling  trait-^  of  character 
which  particularly  lit  him  for  almost  any  occupa- 
tion. In  every  respect  he  is  a  worthy  representa- 
tive of  the  industrious,  thorough-going  and  perse- 
vering (lennaiis.  who  are  a  credit  to  any  eoiiinui- 
nity  in  whii-li  they  m.'i\   lake  up  their  aliode. 

.1.  !•".  Weiiihoeiier.  who  is  the  ctipalilc  and  trii-l- 
worthy  Secreliirv  and  Treasurer  of  the  (Jem  City 
Brewing  Comii.'iny  of  (^uiiicy.  was  horn  in  \Vf«t- 
phalia,  (Terniany.  Keliriiary  H.  IH.'ill.  Hi.'-  parent^, 
.lohii  I'".  W.  and  .\manda  (Niekamp)  Weinhoeiier, 
were  natives  of  the  ( )ld  Country.  The  father  w.-is 
.■i  man  of  modest  iiie.-in^.  and.  to  lielter  his  i-oiidi- 
lion  liiiaiicially.  Iiroiight  his  family  to  the  I'liiled 
States  in  IH.'d.  They  (irst  touched  American  soil 
at  New  Orlcnua  and  shortly  aftcrw;ird  went  up  the 

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.Mississippi  River  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  they 
resided  for  eighteen  inoiiths.  Later,  they  settled 
in  (^uincy.  The  father  has  reached  the  age  of 
seventy-four  years  (IH'.Ci)  and  the  mother,  who 
also  survives,  is  hale  and  hearty  nolwithstimding 
her  sixty-seven  yeai>.  They  have  jiassed  their 
live.>  iiuietly  in  the  honoralile  discharge  of  the 
duties  devolving  upon  them,  and  are  highly  re- 
,-pected  liy  all  who  know  them.  Their  family  con- 
sists of  five  living  chihlren.  of  whom  our  siihjecl 
is  the  eldest. 

When  a  child  of  four  years.  .1.  1-'.  Weiiihoener 
accompanied  his  parents  lo  .\merica.and  thus  early 
liecame  familiar  with  the  institutions  and  customs 
of  our  (rounlry.  In  his  youth,  he  had  the  benefit 
of  a  good  (Jerinan  and  Knglish  education,  and  is  a 
man  of  lueadth  of  informalioii  and  de|)th  of  in- 
tellect. When  a  hoy.  he  commenced  to  work  in  a 
tohacco  factory,  which  trade  he  followed  until 
1886,  meanwhile  liecoming  a  thorough  master  of 
the  Imsiiiess.  In  IKt!".  he  was  Secretary  of  the 
Tobacco  Rollers'  rnioii.  Later,  he  served  as  Sec- 
retary of  the  Neptune  \dluntcer  Fire  Company, 
No.  I.  ami  held  that  po>ition  until  the  company 
was  disbanded. 

On  the  '.Hh  of  November.  IH7().  Mr.  Wcmhoener 
was  m.'irried  to  Miss  F.lizabeth.  daughter  of  ( Jeorge 
and  Kva  ( I'lirmauii)  Weisenbiirger.  natives  of 
Bavaria,  (ierinaiiy.  who  eiiiigrat<?d  to  America 
when  she  w.as  a  child  of  about  three  years.  She 
attended  school  in  <;uincv  and  acipiircd  a  good 
(iermaii  and  Knglish  education.  Jlr.  and  .Mrs. 
Wemhoener  have  had  live  children,  two  of  whom 
died  when  infants.  Tho>e  living  are  (Jeorge  F. 
W..  .lulia  Margarethe  and  .lacoli  Walter. 

I'oliticallN .  .Mr.  Wemhoener  is  a  stanch  Demo- 
cral.  loyal  to  [larty  interests  and  principles.  In 
IHMI.  he  W.1S  elected  .VIdermaii  of  the  Tliinl  Ward 
and  served  in  that  capacity  for  four  years,  ."so 
well  did  he  fill  these  po.»ition>  and  so  jibly  did  he 
dis<-harge  the  dutie,-<  incumbent  upon  the  otiice, 
that  in  IXSti  he  was  appoint«'d  City  Clerk,  and 
served  ;u'ceptalily  for  a  term  of  four  years.  .Vt 
the  expiration  of  the  term,  he  declined  re-nomina- 
tion. For  twelve  years  he  has  been  .-i  meniber  of 
the  .\dams  County  Central  Cominittec.  In  all  his 
olllcial  positions  he  li:ui  displayed  eNcrlleiit  judg. 


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ment,  sound  sense  and  rare  discrimination.  In 
1 888,  he  vvas  called  to  the  position  of  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Gem  City  Brewinjr  Company, 
and  May  1,  1891,  was  appointed  manager  of  the 
brewery,  a  position  which  he  has  since  occupied. 
He  is  a  man  of  energy  and  enterprise,  and  altliough 
deeply  engrossed  in  his  many  business  enterprises, 
lie  is  public-spirited  and  maintains  a  deep  interest 
in  the  progress  and  development  of  the  city.  In 
his  social  connections,  he  is  a  member  of  Mar- 
(juette  Lodge  No.  36,  I.  0.  O.  F.,  in  which  he  has 
been  elected  Noble  Orand.  and  was  also  chosen  to 
represent  his  lodge  in  the  (irand  Lodge  of  the 
State  in   1880-81. 


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R.  ALBERT  S.  CORE.  The  medical  frater- 
nity of  Quincy  has  obtained  a  prominence 
commensurate  with  its  importance,  and 
among  the  professions  none  requires  more 
sagacity  than  that  of  the  specialist.  Dr.  Albert  S. 
Core,  oculist  and  aurist,  connected  with  St.  Mary's 
Hospital,  was  born  in  Brownsville,  Fayette  Coun- 
ty, Pa.,  December,  15,  1849.  a  son  of  Elias  Core, 
a  native  of  the  same  place,  and  the  grandson  of 
.lohn  Core,  who  was  also  a  native  of  the  Keystone 
Slate.  The  great-grandfather  of  our  sul)ject, 
Henry  Core,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  AVar  as 
a  Colonel  and  was  also  in  the  War  of  1812.  He 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  The  Core  family 
is  descended  from  Scotch  ancestors  and  is  of  old 
Presbyterian  stock.  The  tirst  emigrants  to  this 
country  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  where  they  be- 
came prominent  in  their  different  calling.  Our 
subject's  grandfather  lived  to  be  eiglity-four  years 
of  age. 

Elias  Core,  father  of  our  subject,  folhjwcd  the 
occupation  of  a  farmer,  l)ut  in  connection  was  also 
engaged  in  merchandising,  and  later  the  lumber 
business  occupied  liis attention.  In  18(19,  he  came 
to  Illinois  and  located  in  La  Salle  County,  at 
()lt;iw:i,  where  lie   tilleil  llie  soil  nn  a  r:inii  ailjdin- 


ing  the  city.  He  resides  there  at  the  present  time, 
and  is  now  sixty-seven  years  of  age.  Like  his  an- 
cestors, he  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
an  .active  worker  in  the  .same,  and  a  prominent 
elder.  He  selected  his  wife  in  the  person  of  Mi.«s 
Mary  Coffman,  a  native  of  Troy  County.  Pa.,  and 
the  daughter  of  David  Coffman,  who  was  a  native 
of  that  State  and  of  German  descent.  The  latter 
became  a  successful  farmer  and  was  a  worthy 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Seven  chil- 
dren, SIX  sons  .and  one  daughter,  were  the  fniit>  of 
this  union,  and  all  are  now  living. 

Dr.  .\lbert  S.  Core,  the  eldest  of  these  childien, 
passed  his  youthful  daj'S  in  assisting  his  father  on 
the  farm  and  in  attending  the  common  schools 
.and  later  an  academ3'.  When  fourteen  3-ears 
of  .age,  he  was  filled  with  a  patriotic  desire  to 
aid  his  countiy's  cause,  but  owing  to  his  age  was 
not  allowed  to  enlist.  He  returned  to  his  books, 
but  a  little  later  enlisted  and  served  in  all  about  a 
j'ear.  During  1872, 1873  and  1874,  he  was  in  Kan- 
sas, Colorado  and  Indian  Territory,  and  was  there 
during  the  Indian  War  of  1874.  Thei;f  were  fif- 
teen in  his  party, and  nine  out  of  this  number  were 
shot.     They  were  attacked  nearly  every  day. 

In  187.T,  Dr.  Core  began  studying  medicine  in 
Rush  Medical  College.  Chicago,  and  graduated 
from  that  institution  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in 
1878.  After  this  he  took  a  post-graduate  course  in 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of  New- 
York,  remained  there  until  1880,  .and  then  was  in 
another  institute  for  six  months.  Later,  he  took  up 
the  study  of  the  eye  and  ear  in  the  infirmary  under 
Dr.  Holmes,  and  received  a  diploma  from  Dr.  Knapp. 
In  June,  1880,  Dr.  Core  located  in  Quincy,  111., 
has  practiced  here  ever  since,  .and  makes  a  specialty 
of  the  eye,  ear,  and  throat.  For  five  j'ears,  he  has 
been  connected  with  St.  Mary's  Hospital  as  special- 
ist and  surgeon.  He  is  a  very  successful  practi- 
tioner, is  eminently  suited  to  his  difficult  profes- 
sions, and  his  .ability  as  a  specialist  has  gained  for 
him  the  recognition  of  all  cla.sses.  He  has  a 
half-interest  in  the  paper,  the  Famm-'s  Call,  a 
weeklj-  which  is  very  popular  with  all.  Socially, 
Mr.  Core  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternitv 
and  is  a  Knight  Templar  in  degree. 

I))-.  Core  was  married  in  LnSnlle  CuMiit\-,  III.,  in 


I'OIMKAir   AND    I'.KXJHAniR'AL   HKfOKI). 


.;:! 


1882,  til  Miijs  Jtilin  Tnuic.  ;i  iinliM-uf  iliut  opuiiiv, 
and  the  <i«ii<;litc'r  of  lleiir.v  aiid  Charlotte  I'liulf. 
tlic  former  of  whom  i!«  i?ece«»ed.  Mrs.  Core  is 
ft  ijraduate  of  Whealoii  Collcire  and  .n  very  intelli- 
f;<-nl.  Iiritrlit  wiMnan.  'I'wo  eliildren  have  heen 
horn  In  this  union.  \i/..:  Charlotie  and  Henry. 
The  Doctor  is  ji  nionilier  of  the  Adams  County 
Mediriil  SiH'iety,  and  in  polities  adheres  strongly 
to  the  Repulilie.MU  |iarly. 


--^^-t-W-- 


■>.  DWAHI)  K.  SWKKT  is  a  nienil.er  of  the 
lirni  of  ^weet  A-  Wiskirehen,  livervnicn  of 
^1'-  >  Quiiicy.  III.,  anil  |irolialily  no  iii:ni  in  that 
citv  has  traveled  over  so  muih  territory  oren<;a<jed 
in  a  wider  range  of  oeeupations  than  he.  lie  has 
been  a  sjiilor.  a  gold  miner,  ranelier.  Super- 
intendent of  Mormon  Immigration,  eattle  <lealer, 
farmer,  freighter,  Indian  lighlei-.  Street  Com- 
uiissiuner,  grocer,  liveryman,  .-md  City  .Mder- 
raan  of  <^uincv.  He  wa>  liorn  in  Krnnklin 
County.  Me.,  ()etol>er  2.  \Mn.  a  son  of  Loring 
.Sweet,  a  farmer  and  .■-t(K-k-ti:ider  of  that  .State, 
and  while  on  the  t)ld  h<»meslejid  he  aeipiired 
ipiite  a  knowledge  of  the  st<H-k  liusiness.  which 
stood  him  in  good  stea<l  in  aftei-  life,  lie  left 
home  at  the  age  of  foiuieen  \('ais  and  st.arlcd  out 
to  seek  his  fortune  and  after  a  time  found  liim-iclf 
in  New  York  City,  at  which  place  he  went  be- 
fore the  m.ist.  as,  like  mo>l  youths,  that  life 
had  great  charms  for  him.  He  shipped  in  a  three- 
master  as  an  ordinary  tar  at  the  age  ol'  twenty 
years,  and  on  that  cruise  the  vessel,  the  "Norlhern 
Light."  toucheil  at  Cidia.  Ilayli.  .lam.-iica  and 
Central  .Vmerica.  lie  left  the  vessel  at  Aspinwnll. 
and  at  the  end  of  twenty-eight  days  .'^hipped  on 
the  >teamer  ••  Illiiioiv  "  for  San  I-'ranci.-eo.  Krom 
this  cit\ .  he  again  shipped  for  Aspinwall.  cr<fssed 
the  Isthmus  ami  look  ship  for  San  Kraneisco.  this 
lieing  in  IHlld.  He  liegan  prospecting  for  gold  in 
the  vicinity  of  .lainestown.  fortunately  struck  n 
goo<I  location,  hut  for  alioul  \\\{i  months  )iiok  out 
only  alMiut   ^'^..jU  per  day, 


(  lur  subject  was  ne\l  un  a  slieeii  ranch,  but 
the  work  was  very  hard,  aixl  at  the  end  of  two 
months  he  returned  to  New  York,  going  thence 
to  M.'iinc.  where,  for  a  time,  he  turned  in  and 
helped  his  father  on  the  luime  farm.  Soon  his  old 
roviug  instincts  returned,  and  with  some  money 
given  him  by  his  father,  he  started  out  with  a  man 
named  Killgore.  purchased  three  car-loads  of 
horses  and  t<^)ok  Ihein  to  Boston,  where  he  sold 
them.  He  then  got  the  Pike's  I'eak  bee  in  his 
head,  and  at  St.  .loseph.  Mo.,  bought  p.assage  on  the 
old  Hen  llolliday  express  for  Denver,  paying  ♦110 
in  gold  for  his  pa.s«age  and  having,  when  he  reached 
that  place,  just  ¥."i  in  his  iKicket.  He  walked  to 
X'irginia  City, and  hired  out  in  ageneral  outfitting 
store  at  a  salary  of  ♦(idO  per  year  with  board  and 
clothes.  Two  months  fif  this  monotonous  life  were 
sullicient  for  him  sind  he  proceeded  to  Spring 
(iulch.  where  he  lionght  a  surface  gold  mine  claim 
for  ¥11  I.  He  there  struck  pretty  good  pav  dirt 
and  in  ten  weeks  he  had  taken  out  !?2.(>(lfl  in  dust. 
He  bought  a  pair  of  horses,  drove  back  to  St. 
.loseph,  and  sent  his  dust  to  the  I'hiladelphia  mint, 
and,  when  the  com  returned,  purchased  a  lot  of 
cattle.  He  next  followed  freighting  from  .St. 
.loseph  to  Denver,  and  his  business  increased  so 
rai)idly  that  he  soon  h.'id  twenty-live  wagons  on 
the  road,  bringing  him  in  a  handsome  profit, 
which  he  invested  in  stock.  I  n  a  terrible  snow- 
storm fin  the  I5ig  Mine  in  Nebraska,  he  lost  all  the 
cattle.  The  Indians  were  (piite  hostile  about  this 
time  and  Mr.  Sweet  had  many  a  brush  with  them 
and  siiiiic  nairow  escapes  from  lo.sing  his  .scalp. 

.Vfter  losing  his  st<K-k.  Mr.  Sweet  went  to  Cfiun- 
eil  HlutTs  .•ind  was  there  engaged  by  a  big  Mormon 
train  to  take  tlicm  tluough  to  Salt  Lake  Citv,  a 
dist.ance  of  twelve  hundred  miles,  his  pay  being 
liflccn  cents  a  pound  for  g<iods  and  *1(HI  a  month 
in  gold.  The  journey  was  made  in  safety,  and 
there  he  took  his  caltle  that  had  come  with  the 
Mormon  train  and  also  a  lot  lii'longmg  to  the  Tele- 
gr.apli  Company,  seven  hundred  head  ui  all.  anil 
wintered  them  in  Skull  \'allev,  one  hundred  .ainl 
t  wi-nty-live  miles  from  Salt  Lake  City.  The  fol- 
biwing  .March,  he  l<iok  his  nioncy  and  purchased 
lloiir  .at  Salt  Lake  City,  which  he  look  t<i  \'irginia 
City  :iiid  sold  a!  :i  haiidsouie  prolit,  Ije  next  went 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


to  Ft.  Benton,  where  he  found  the  steamer  "Hattie 
May,"  of  St.  Louis,  uTider  Capt.  Iludwell,  was 
stuck  eighty  miles  down  the  river.  He  took  his 
teams  and  iiauled  tiie  goods  to  Ft.  Benton  for 
eijrht  cents  a  pound  in  gold.  The  Indians  were 
very  numerous  and  very  hostile  there,  and  while 
on  the  trip  he  had  many  exciting  skirmishes  with 
them.  They  were  in  very  close  quarters  at  one 
time  and  would  undoubtedly  have  all  been  killed 
had  they  not  been  reinforced  by  a  big  party  be- 
longing to  the  Hudson  Bay  Company,  with  whom 
the  Indians  were  on  friendly  terms.  Only  one 
man  was  killed  during  this  brush.  At  Ft.  Benton, 
a  raid  of  six  hundred  was  organized  for  an  Indian 
hunt,  of  which  he  had  the  honor  to  be  the  com- 
manding officer.  He  says  himself  that  had  be  not 
had  as  many  lives  as  a  cat,  he.  would  not  be  alive 
to-day,  for  he  was  in  numerous  fierce  and  danger- 
ous encounters  with  the  redskins.  His  two  trips 
to  Ft.  Benton  netted  him  16,000.  He  next  went  to 
the  mouth  of  the  Colorado  River,  where  he  pur- 
chased five  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  cattle  and 
thirty-two  horses;  these  he  wintered  at  Riverside, 
Cal.,  and  then  took  to  Helena,  disposing  of  them 
to  a  partner  of  George  Davis,  a  well-known  resi- 
dent of  (Juincy.  These  netted  him  a  fine  profit, 
and  with  his  dust  he  went  to  Philadelphia,  where 
he  had  it  minted.  He  then  returned  to  his  old 
home  in  Maine,  where  lie  married,  bought  a  farm 
and  determined  to  settle  down  and  enjoy  a  quiet 
life,  but  one  year  of  that  kind  of  a  life  was  suffici- 
ent, and  he  left  the  farm  in  cliarge  of  his  wife  and 
went  to  Quebec,  where  he  bought  some  stock,  on 
which  he  paid  ^'20  duty  in  gold,  and  took  them  to 
Hoston,  where  he  sold  them.  He  then  rented  his 
farm  and  moved  to  town,  where  he  served  in  the 
capacity  of  Street  Commissioner. 

In  1874,  our  subject  came   to   (.^uiiuy.   111.,  and 
opened  a  livery  stable,  which   has  since  increased 
to  two  fine  establishments.     He  thoroughly  under- 
stands this  business,  and  is  well  able  to  spend  his 
declining    years    in    the    enjoyment   of  a  fortune, 
which  has  been  gained  as  the  result  of  much   hard    \ 
personal  experience,     lie  is  President  of  the  .State 
Liverymen's  Associaliiiii.     In  the  spring  of    1«92,   i 
he  was  elected   Alderman  of   t^uiney,  the  duties  of    I 
which  olliee  he  is  slill  (lischarging.     lie  has  a  nice 


home  at  No.  2401  Maine  Street.  He  is  a  man  of  fine 
physique,  and,  notwithstanding  the  hardships  he 
has  undergone,  he  is  in  the  enjoyment  of  vigorous 
health.  To  see  .Vlderman  Sweet  you  would 
scarcely  believe  thai  he  had  ever  been  other  than 
a  quiet,  prosperous  and  comfort-loving  citizen. 
He  seems  to  have  been  born  for  the  pleasant  places 
into  which  his  lines  have  fallen,  and,  notwith- 
standing his  early  most  interesting  and  sensational 
career,  he  has  nolhing  of  egotism  about  him,  and 
is  very  slow  to  talk  of  his  i)ast,  although  it  has  been 
a  more  interesting  one  than  usnally  falls  to  the  lot 
of  man. 


LONZO  M.  fSWARTWOUT,  one  of  the 
(@7LI|,  oldest  settlers  of  Quincy,  and  an  old  river 
captain  of  the  Mississippi,  and  all  the 
^J  branches  of  that  mighty  river    that    have 

boats  on  them,  was  born  in  Dutchess  County,  N. 
Y.,  September  .3,  1817.  His  father,  Cornelius  .T. 
Swartwout,  was  born  in  the  same  place,  and  his 
grandfather,  .lames  Swartwout,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  AVar,  who  became  a  farmer  and 
blacksmith,  and  died  in  Saratoga  County,  N.  Y. 
The  early  ancestors  of  this  family  came  to 
America  from  Holland  with  Ilendrick  Hudson, 
and  settled  in  New  York,  then  New  Amsterdam. 

Cornelius  Swartwout  was  a  steamboat  captain  on 
the  Hudson,  plying  between  New  York  and  Al- 
bany for  years,  and  made  his  home  in  New  York 
City  during  that  time.  In  1837,  he  came  West 
and  located  in  Quincy,  where  he  was  agent  for  the 
Patent  Lands  until  his  death,  in  1870.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  Aldermen  of  Quincy,  and  was  first 
a  Whig  and  then  a  Rei)ublican  in  jtolitics.  His 
wife  was  IMia'be  Lapliani,  born  in  Dutchess  County, 
N.  Y.,  a  daughter  of  Reuben  Laphani,  a  farmer  of 
that  region.  Mrs.  Swartwout  died  when  East  on  a 
visit,  and  left  seven  children. 

()U)- subject     was   the   eldest    of  I  he  family,  and 


POUTKAIT  AM)  T.K  )( iltAI'llH  AL   HICCORD. 


wa."*  ivniod  in  Now  ^'urk  City  until  lie  "n>  twenty 
years  of  age.  He  ntteudi'd  the  Alilnjilon  Acail-  | 
eiiiy.  anil  studied  law  there  f(U-  two  years  under 
Fred  Talniaire.  Ho  then  beoame  agent  for  Lineli 
it  Clark,  dealei-s  in  congress  water  at  SaralogM  i 
Springs.  In  lK:i7.  lie  eaine  iicre  with  iiis  fatiier. 
via  Philadelphia,  over  the  mountains  to  PilLsluirgh, 
thenre  l)v  Iniat  down  llie  Ohio  and  up  the  Missis- 
sippi Rivers  to  this  place.  He  engaged  in  milling 
for  two  years,  and  then  went  as  clerk  on  a  sleam- 
lioal  lK?tween  St.  Louis  and  St.  Paul.  He  has  run 
on  the  Mississippi,  Ohio,  Illinois,  Hed,  Mis,souri, 
White,  Arkansas  and  Iowa  Rivers.  In  1 «.')!,  he  \ 
became  captain  of  the  lioat  ■'  .Viclier,"'  then  on  the 
'*  Conavago."  then  on  the  •'  New  Kngland"'  and 
then  on  the  "  Regulator."  He  continued  as  cap- 
tain until  the  war,  but  he  was  too  strong  a  North- 
ern man  to  sail  on  Southern  waters,  so  he  became 
clerk  for  15radfoi-d,  McCoy  A-  Co.,  and  continued 
there  for  ten  years,  when  he  retired.  In  1 «;')(!,  he 
built  his  |)resent  place,  when  the  land  was  nothing 
but  a  cornlield.  He  set  out  the  trees  and  owns 
three-fourths  of  a  block.  Ho  has  four  residences 
here  and  a  fine  site  for  a  lumber  yard. 

Our  .■•ubject  was  married  in  Melrose  Townshii), 
in  1847,  to  Miss  Mary  K.  Alexander,  born  in  the 
old  .Mexander  House,  now  the  site  of  the  (^iiincy 
PostotHco.  She  was  a  daughter  of  an  early  M-ttler, 
and  died  in  1852,  leaving  one  child,  Alexander  ('.,  1 
who  W.1S  l>orn  and  roared  in  (^uinuy,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  W.  L.  Diston  Produce  Company. 
He  also  belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  1 
Fellows  and  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias. 

The  Captain  was  once  Assistant  lOnginioi  in  the 
grading  of  the  streets,  and  was  also  Assistant  ; 
Clerk.  He  has  seen  very  many  changes  hei-e  in 
his  long  residence,  and  shows  with  a  great  deal  of 
pride  two  deer  which  he  killed  hinisolf  and  has 
had  preserved.  He  was  a  skillful  hunter  in  liis  I 
earlier  days,  and  took  great  plea>uro  in  the  spiul. 
He  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  ha.s  hosts  of  friends 
all  over  the  city,  where  he  is  very  well  known,  .as 
also  in  all  the  localities  where  he  ran  hisltoats.  He 
IS  a  clever,  .sociable  old  gentleman,  with  a  wonder- 
ful memory  for  incidents  and  faces,  and  can  re- 
late very  interesting  stories  aliout  scenes  through 
whii'h  ho  lias  i>assed.  , 


^^EORGK  W.  FOGG.  The  profession  «.f  law 
(|[  J-—  affords  a  field  for  the  exercise  of  mental 
^^:^i  aliility  and  talenl-sthat  are  used  ti)  the  same 
advantage  in  no  other  line  of  life.  To  be  a  good 
lawvor  ret|uiies  not  only  a  high  mental  capacity 
in  the  way  of  keen  perceptions  and  excellent 
memory,  but  a  good  command  of  language  .■iiid 
self-possession  of  manner.  The  gentleman  wlio-io 
life  history  it  is  our  purpose  to  sketch  is  one  of  the 
prominent  lawyers  at  (Juincy,  and  is  doing  an  ex- 
cellent business,  jiracticing  in  all  the  courts. 

.Simon  Fogg,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  at  Limerick,  York  County,  Me., 
and  was  educated  as  a  topographical  engineer.  Ho 
was  a  son  of  Maj.  .Simon  Fogg,  formerly  of  the 
I'nited  States  army,  a  gentleman  of  AVelsh  descent. 
The  mothoi  of  the  .-iubject  of  this  sketch  wa.s  Han- 
nah W.  Kcnneston.  of  Somerset  County,  Me.  She 
was  of  Fjiglish  descent  and  related  to  the  Coggs- 
wclls  and  Witherells,  of  .Maine,  and  to  the  Hiowns, 
of  M.a.ssacliusctts,  one  of  whom  w.as  an  early  gov- 
ernor of  that  State. 

George  W.  Fogg,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was 
born  in  Portland,  Me.,  June  20,  184M.  and  was  the 
eldest  son  of  a  family  of  two  dauglitere  and  six 
sons.  His  early  school  d.ays  were  passed  in  his  na- 
tive place,  and  later  he  w.as  prepared  for  collcgo 
at  the  clas.sical  acjidemies  of  Liminington,  Fast 
Corinth,  and  Hampden,  in  his  native  State.  Kn- 
toring  Howdoin  College,  yming  Fogg  there  i)nr- 
sued  his  studies  until  the  end  of  his  junior  year, 
when  ho  left  college  to  enter  the  service  of  his 
country.  In  October,  18t)2,  he  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany H,  Seventh  Maine  Infantry,  the  regiment  lie- 
ing  commanded  by  Col.  K.  C.  Mason,  of  the  regu- 
lar army.  His  regiment  was  assigned  to  the  Sec- 
ond Divison  of  the  Sixth  Army  Corps — Sedgwick's 
Corps.  He  was  shortly  after  commissioned  as  a 
First  Lieutenant  of  that  regiment, and, on  his  regi- 
iiioiit  bocoming  a  part  of  the  First  Maine  \'eteran 
Infantry,  he  was  commissioned  Major  of  that  Ha- 
talioii.  which  position  he  held  until  theconclnsion 
of  the  loboUion,  when  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. 

Returning-  home  at  the  close  of  the  war,  Mr. 
Fogg  entered  the  law  doparlmcnt  of  Harvard 
liiiversity.  fiiiin  which  ho  was  graduated    in    1HG8 


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with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  During  his  residence 
there,  he  took  a  special  course  in  language  and  na- 
tural science  in  that  institution,  tlie  better  to  fit 
himself  for  tlie  legal  arena.  Immediately  after 
his  graduation,  he  came  to  (^uincy,  111.,  and  be- 
came a  student  in  the  law  office  of  Messrs.  Brown- 
ing A-  Huslmell,  then  and  for  many  years  one  of 
the  leading  law  firms  of  the  .State.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Bar  of  that  .State  in  186a,and  re- 
mained with  the  above-named  firm  three  yeai-s, 
after  which  he  opened  an  office  in  that  city,  and 
lias  since  been  there  conducting  a  general  law 
practice  in  the  local,  State  and  federal  courts. 

.Subsequently,  in  1870,  he  married  Catlierine  V. 
Dills,  daughter  of  ex-Postmaster  Harrison  Dills  of 
that  city.  To  them  have  been  born  two  daugh- 
ters, Lillian  K.  and  Helen  B.  In  1886,  Mr.  Fogg 
liad  the  great  misfortune  to  become  a  widower. 
He  has  since  remained  unmarried.  In  religion, 
he  is  an  Episcopalian.  He  has  for  a  great  many 
years  been  a  communicant  of  the  church  of  the 
Good  Shepherd,  Quiuey,  of  which  parish  he  has 
long  been  a  Vestryman.  He  is  a  valued  citizen,  of 
high  pereonal  honor  and  integritj'.  In  politics,  he 
is  a  life-long  Democrat,  the  worthy  descendant  of 
an  old  Democratic  familv  of  the  Pine  Tree  State. 


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SERHARD  .1.  SCHMITS  is  a  well-known 
builder  and  contractor  residing  in  Quincy, 
^,_5^  and  his  skill  in  his  profession  finds  many 
examples  in  various  buildings  throughout  the  city. 
Mr.  .Schmits  was  born  in  Hanover,  Germany. 
August  15,  184.5.  He  is  a  son  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Brouniug)  Schmits,  the  former  a  carpenter  and 
contractor  who  lived  to  the  ripe  old  age  of  seven- 
ty-eight years.  He  died  in  the  Catholic  faith,  in 
which  he  had  been  reared.  Our  subject's  mother 
still  lives,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  and 
makes  her  liome  in  her  native  land. 

The  Schmits  family  numbered  five  children,  of 
whom  four  are  now  living,  and  of  these  Gerhard  J. 


is  the  third  eldest.  He  was  reared  and  educated 
in  his  native  land,  and,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  be- 
came an  apprentice  under  his  father  to  learn  the 
carpenter's  trade.  He  remained  at  home  until 
eighteen  vears  of  .sge,  when  he  apprenticed  him- 
self to  learn  the  millwright's  trade,  at  which  he 
worked  until  re.iching  his  majority.  In  1867,  he 
fulfilled  a  long-felt  ambition,  and  crossed  the  ocean 
to  land  in  the  I'nited  States.  He  left  Rotterdam 
and  took  a  steamer  at  I>iverpool,  landing  in  New 
York. 

Almost  immediately  after  landing,  our  subject 
proceeded  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  carpenter.  In  1870,  he  came  to 
Quincy,  and  was  in  the  employ  of  Remker  it  Bill- 
son,  who  carried  on  the  carpenter's  trade.  Latei-, 
he  went  to  Hannibal,  Mo.,  where  he  w,as  employed 
for  eighteen  months.  In  1875,  he  returned  to 
Quincy,  and,  forming  a  partneiship  with  Martin 
Ewing,  took  up  contracting  and  building.  For 
two  years  this  partnership  lasted,  and  nt  the  expira- 
tion of  that  time  our  subject  continued  the  busi- 
ness alone.  A  great  many  residences,  both  brick 
and  frame,  liave  been  erected  under  his  direc- 
tion, and  the  St,  .loliu's  Catholic  Church  is  the 
work  of  his  brain  and  sujierintendence.  He  has  a 
fine  residence,  which  is  located  on  the  corner  of 
Eleventh  and  Cedar  Streets,  and  his  shop  is  in  the 
rear  of  the  same  lot. 

Aside  from  the  property  mentioned  above,  Mr. 
Schmits  owns  a  little  house  on  Eleventh  and 
Spruce  Streets,  When  our  subject  first  came  to 
Quincy,  the  site  of  his  present  home  was  then  the 
Cox  farm.  He  keeps  constantly-  in  his  employ  at 
least  fifteen  men,  and,  with  a  sharp  supervision  of 
their  work,  nothing  but  the  most  satisfactorv  re- 
sults are  turned  out  of  his  shops. 

In  1887,  Mr,  Schmits  started  a  brick  kiln,  taking 
as  a  partner  Mr.  Hummert,  the  firm  being  known 
.as  Hummert,  Schmits  &:  Co,  Their  brick  yard  is 
located  at  the  corner  of  Tenth  and  Spruce  .Streets, 
and  the  product  that  is  turned  out  is  of  the  best 
qualily.  Our  subject  was  married  in  this  citv 
April  4,  1872,  to  Miss  Mary  Brinker,  also  a  native 
of  Hanover,  Germany.  She  came  to  America  in 
1872,  and  their  marri.age  was  shortly  after  solem- 
nized.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schmits  are   the   parents   of 


POKTIJAir  AND  BIOGUAPHIC  AI,  KKCORI). 


live  cliildri'ii,  as  folUiwts:  ilnirv.  Kittle,  Caroline, 
Aggie  and  .losepli.  Ki-ateriialiy.  the  original  of 
our  sketch  lielongs  lo  tin-  Western  Catholic  I'nioii 
.•mil  M.  Antonins"  Itrotlieriiotxl  and  he  has  olliciated 
lioth  as  \'iee-|>resident  and  Treasurer.  He  and  his 
wife  arc  nieniliei-s  of  St.  .lohn's  Catholic  Chiucli 
and  are  devot»'d  to  the  advancement  of  its  inter- 
est.s.  In  politics,  he  is  a  Denioerat.  While  in 
( >iru>,  he  ai'i|uired  a  irood  knowledge  <>f  the  Kng- 
lish  lanmingc  hy  attending  a  private  evening 
sehool. 


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■^  .IKRKMIAII  SIIKA.  Anu.ng  the  many 
I  (Sf\  ''"*■■"■  "^  hnsincss  which  the  wants  of  a 
^^^'  great  city  make  of  immen.se  imporUuice. 
there  Is  nfme  which  is  of  such  special  value  a.stliat 
In  which  our  subject  holds  a  place.  The  proper 
paving  .-ind  sanitary  i-onstruction  of  the  sewers  of 
a  section  .nre  of  such  vital  importance  th:it  the 
most  stringent  laws  arc  made  to  prevent  Ignorant 
and  dishonest  men  frnni  taking  contract.*  for  the 
same. 

Oursuliject  is  the  most  extensive  paving  anil 
.sewer  contractor  in  <^tuiiicy.  in  which  place  he  was 
iMjrn  Septeniiicr  •>■>,  IM.').').  His  father.  .Icremiali 
Shea,  was  iKirn  in  Iieland.  where  he  was  a  stock 
dealer,  lie  niarricd  there  and  came  ti>  America  in 
1817.  settling  in  t^uincy,  where  he  engaged  in 
grading  railrnads,  streets,  etc.,  during  his  entiic 
residence  here.  He  served  as  .Street  Conimlssloner 
several  times.  I  lis  wife,  the  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  Kllen  Uichardsun.  of  County  Kerrv. 
Ireland,  i>f  Knglish  descent,  her  parents  lieing 
from  Kngland.  She  died  here  in  ISM',),  after  she  had 
liorne  her  husliand  twelve  childnii.  i>nl\  three  nf 
whom  survive. 

( )ur  sulijecl  helped  his  father  in  hi.- cnntr.'icting 
on  the  railroad  and  >treet  grading,  and  then  en- 
gageil  in  the  work  for  himself,  and  is  now  the  elli- 
clent  city  M>wer  maker.  lie  so  enjoy>  the  cimlidence 
of  the  citizens  that  in  IXH.'l  he  w.as appointed  Super- 
intendent of  I'ulilic  Works,  which  position  he  held 


for  two  years;  as  lie  was  then  elected  Alder- 
man from  the  Fifth  Ward,  he  resigned  his  posi- 
tion as  Superintendent  and  serveii  four  yeai-s  in 
the  City  Council.  He  was  elected  the  third  time, 
but  resigned  to  engage  In  contracting,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  that  business  ever  since,  lie  is 
now  the  largest  .sewer  contractor  in  the  city,  and 
has  contracts  all  over  the  county  and  as  far  West  a-s 
Houston.  Tex.  He  also  h.os  orders  for  work  In 
Chicago  and  for  paving  in  Hannibal,  Mo,,  and  em- 
l)loys  a  large  force  of  men. 

Mr.  Shea  was  married  In  •^uincy  in  February. 
1884,  to  Miss  .\nna  Laudweho.  who  w.as  born  In 
Ohio  and  is  a  daughter  of  Liidwig  Laudweho. 
They  have  three  children:  Thomas  Jerome.  Mar- 
tin P.  and  Kolx'rt  K.  The  family  lielongs  to  St. 
Peter's  Catholic  Church.  He  is  a  Democrat,  and 
prominent  in  local  politics.  He  has  frequently 
l.>een  a  delegate  to  the  county  and  State  conven- 
tions and  has  been  Chairman  of  the  City  Commit- 
tee from  1882  to  18!»0.  He  is  a  plca.sant.  agree- 
able man,  and  Is  greatly  liked  by  his  host  of 
friends. 


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A.MKS  V(»r.\(;  I.KWIS.  .M.  I).,  of  the  firm 
of  .1.  V.  Lewis  »v  Co.,  dealers  in  drugs, 
paints  and  oil.s,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania, 
near  Philadelphia.  November  -28,  I85(}. 
His  father,  Heuben  K.  Lewis,  w!i>  born  in  the  same 
place,  being  of  Welsh  descent,  his  fiu-efathers  com- 
ing from  Wales  earl>-  In  the  history  of  the  coun- 
try. They  were  (Quakers  and  settled  in  Philailel- 
phia.  Our  subject's  father  was  a  merchant  and 
farmer,  spending  his  last  days  engaged  In  the  latter 
pursuit,  and  ilying  at  the  age  of  seventy,  in  188;{. 
For  a  time  during  his  life  he  w.as  engaged  In  the 
lumber  and  grain  business  in  Clarence.  Shelb\- 
(  ounty,  .Mo,  His  mother  was  Kllzabeth  Vouni^, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  a  daughter  of  .lames  Young, 
who  was  Iku'ii  In  Philadelphia,  and  was  In  tlie(;<iv- 
ernment  .service,  and  died  in  \i\>  native  citv.  His 
daughter  resides  with  her    children,  and  is  a  Pies- 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


b^'terian.  The  father  of  our  subject  married 
twice,  and  b^^  the  first  marriage  was  the  father  of 
two  children,  and  by  tlie  second,  eiglit,  five  of 
whom  are  still  living. 

James  is  the  eldest  of  the  second  marriage,  and 
attended  the  public  schools  in  his  native  place  until 
1869,  when  the  family  removed  to  Clarence,  Mo., 
where  he  attended  the  High  School,  then  took 
a  business  course  in  the  college  at  Quincy,in  1875. 
When  he  was  twenty  years  old  he  began  teaching 
school,  and  continued  that  business  for  about  five 
years;  during  this  time  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine  under  his  brother.  Dr.  E.  Lewis,  of  High- 
land County,  Kan.  Our  subject  taught  during 
those  five  years  in  Missouri,  Illinois  and  Kansas. 
In  1879-80-81,  he  engaged  in  the  drug  business 
in  White  Cloud,  Kan.  In  1881,  he  entered  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  St.  Louis, 
and  the  next  year  he  went  to  the  Rush  Medical 
College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1883, 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  had  taken  a  special 
course  in  chemistry  at  St.  Louis  before  he  went  to 
the  Rush  Jledical  College.  He  entered  into  part- 
nership with  his  brother  at  Highland,  Kan.,  after 
he  had  graduated,  but  in  188.5  he  located  in 
Ohio  and  began  his  practice  as  a  physician  and 
surgeon.  In  1891,  he  purchased  the  locality  and 
business  of  Fischer  ife  Schmidt,  an  old  reliable  firm 
of  (.^uincy,  and  took  a  partner,  Ceylon  Smith,  his 
father  in-law.  Dr.  Lewis  has  retired  from  active 
practice  and  devotes  himself  entirely  to  the  drug 
business,  the  prescription  department  of  which  he 
makes  a  specialty.  This  retirement  of  the  Doc- 
tor is  a  serious  loss  to  the  community,  as  he  is  a 
fine  physician. 

Dr.  Lewis  was  married  in  June,  1885,  to  Ella 
M.  Smith,  daughter  of  Ceylon  Smith,  President  of 
the  Smith  Hill  Foundry  and  Machine  Company,  a 
prominent  manufactory  of  this  place.  Mrs.  Lewis 
was  born  in  this  citj',  and  is  one  of  the  most 
charming  ladies  in  the  (lem  City.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Lewis  have  three  children;  Ceylon  S.,  J.  Lee  and 
Elwood. 

Dr.  Lewis  is  a  member  of  the  Modern  Wood- 
men society,  and  is  Examining  Physician,  having 
held  that  office  for  some  time.  He  is  a  Republi- 
can   in    politics,  and  is  a  member   of    the    Adams 


County  Medical  Society .  .and  of  the  State  Pliar- 
macv  Society.  The  family  resides  in  a  beautiful 
residence  at  Xo.  224  North  Eighth  Street,  second 
door  north  of  the  Custom  House.  This  is  a  short 
record  of  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  intluen- 
tial  men  of  (^)uincy. 


^•{••{••{••S'  ^ES 
"♦•{••{••^'^S 


"jfjAMES  N.  WRIGHT.  The  city  of  Quincy 
is  conspicuous  for  its  many  manufacturing 
^^  enterprises,  which  bring  large  capital  inlu 
^5^f'  its  limits.  Among  these  enterprises  is  the 
one  to  which  our  subject  belongs,  he  being  Secre- 
tary of  the  Wright  it  Adams  Comjjany,  manu- 
facturers of  steam  engines  and  mining  machinery. 
The  plant  was  established  in  1879,  with  our  sub- 
ject and  Mr.  Jesse  J.  Adams  as  partners,  under  the 
firm  name  above  mentioned.  In  1885,  it  was 
merged  into  a  stock  company,  which  was  officered 
with  our  subject  as  President  and  Secretary.  He 
was  later  replaced  in  this  position  by  Mr.  Allen. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  in 
1843.  He  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Wright,  a  native  of 
New  England,  and  a  descendant  of  Puritan  fore- 
fathers. Our  subject's  father  was  by  trade  a  wagon 
and  carriage  maker,  but  lie  later  devoted  himself 
to  farming.  His  wife,  Miss  Sarah  Pulver,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Pulver,  was  horn  in  the  ]Moliawk  Val- 
ley in  New  York. 

Our  subject  was  reared  principally  in  St.  Law- 
rence County,  N.  Y.  The  rudiments  of  his  educa- 
tion were  acquired  in  the  public  schools,  and  later 
he  entered  the  academy.  On  leaving  school,  he 
learned  the  machinist's  trade  in  Geneseo,  N.  Y.. 
and  on  perfecting  himself  in  this  line  he  became  a 
traveling  journeyman  throughout  the  Middle 
and  Western  States.  He  then  returned  to  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.,  and  was  employed  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  steam  engines,  remaining  there  for  several 
years. 

Following  the  employment  above  described,  our 
subject  went  to  Canada.  He  remained  there  but  a 
short  time,  and  then  located    in  Burlington,  Iowa, 


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where  he  l>cfanu>  inaiiagei'  <>f  the  Munny  Irtdi 
Works.  I-"ii>ni  that  |)f>sition  he  came  to  t^iiiiicy 
and  estahhshed  his  present  l)\isines<.  'I'he  eom- 
pan.v  employ  al)oiit  eijjlitv  men.  and  do  a  thriving 
husines!*.  The  plant  is  h>eated  on  Front  Street, 
near  the  tracks  <t{  the  C'iiicairo.  I!urlini:ton  A- 
<iiiiney  Railroad,  and  tluis  are  afforded  the  best 
possihle  sliipping  facilities.  Their  foundry  and 
machine  shops  are  located  close  tojiether,  with 
only  a  roadway  between  tlicni.  'I"he  machinery 
which  they  tnrn  ont  is  of  a  very  superior  (luality. 
and  onr  subject  is  widely  known  as  a  practical 
workman  of  unusual  skill  and  judgment. 

riic  li:iilc  whiili  the  liriii  of  Wright  A  Adams 
enjoys  extends  throughout  the  \Vesleru  States  and 
Territories  to  California,  and  South  through  Texas 
and  .Mcxi<-o.  They  also  ship  some  machinery 
to  l-'.uropc.  .Mr.  .Vdams.  as  well  as  our  sulijcct.  is 
a  practical  machinist. 

Mr.  Wright  was  married  to  Miss  Martha  Hoyd, 
<»f  Watertown,  N.  Y.  She  is  a  daughter  of  .Joseph 
IJoyd,  and  is  a  most  estimable  lady.  Tlie  family 
includes  two  children.  The  family  residence  is 
located  on  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  Kighth 
Street.  In  his  political  faith, our  suliject  is  a  Re- 
publican, as  in  his  business  he  could  scarcely  be 
otherwise. 


\  ( AMKS  ().  LIlTLi;.  The  gentleman  whose 
biograph}-  it  now  is  our  pleasure  to  write  is 
general  foreman  in  the  Thomas  White 
SUjve  Works.  He  was  born  in  (Jalena,  111., 
November  2(!,  IH.jC.  I  lis  father.  .Joseph  Little, 
Wius  born  in  Ireland,  where  he  was  a  farmer  and 
where  he  was  married.  After  this  event,  he  came 
to  .'Vmeriea  and  located  in  St.  Paul,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  a  general  merchandising  business,  and 
then  moved  to  (iaiena,  where  he  liecaine  proprie- 
tor of  the  Commercial  House.  In  18.')X,  he  located 
in  St.  Louis  and  began  the  study  of  medicine 
under  Dr.  Pope,  and  later  attended   the   St.    Louis 


Medic.ll  College,  from  which  he  w.as  graduated.  I  Ic 
then  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  St. 
Loui>,  but  later  he  located  in  St.  Clair  County,  at 
Freiicli  \illage,  where  he  died  in  IM(!'.l. 

The  Littles  were  Orangemen  in  Ireland,  and 
were  Protestant  Tri-li.  The  wife  of  .lohii  Ml  lie 
was  formerly  Anna  .\I.  (Juilfoy;  she  wa-  a  na- 
tive of  Ireland,  but  at  the  time  of  her  death, 
in  1 ««."),  she  lived  in  (.^uincy  with  her  son.  our 
subject.  She  was  an  Kpiscopalian  and  left  four 
children  at  her  death. 

.lames  was  the  third  child  and  her  only  son. 
He  was  only  two  years  of  age  when  the  family 
moved  to  St.  Louis,  and  eight  years  when  they 
went  to  French  \'illage.  He  attended  the  common 
schools  until  lH(!!t,  when  the  father  returned  to  SI. 
Louis  and  .lames  engaged  in  work  in  the  foundry 
of  liiles  iV  Filly,  which  is  the  largest  in  the  West. 
He  was  apprenticed  to  them  as  a  moulder  until  he 
was  twenty-one  years  old,  and  he  continued  with 
them  until  187'.t.  He  then  went  to  New  York 
City  and  was  then  eng.agcd  at  his  trade  in  the 
hollowwaie  works  at  .Jersey  C'ity  for  six  months. 
He  became  dissalisHed  there,  and  returned  to  St. 
Louis  to  work  at  his  trade,  and  from  there  he  came 
to  lielleville.  Here  he  started  the  manufacturing 
linn  of  Little  A-  Gross.  He  rented  a  shop  :ind 
began  the  manufacture  of  stoves,  but  this  not 
proving  successful,  he  gave  it  up  and  returned  to 
St.  Louis,  where  he  remained  until  .July  !l,  188;{. 
He  then  came  to  (^uincy  and  Ijcgan  work  for  DutTy 
A-  Trowbridge  on  Front  .Street,  until  1«K(!.  He 
then  became  foreman  of  the  moulder's  department 
and  general  foreman  of  the  works  in  the  Thomas 
White  Stove  AVorks,  where  he  h.as  remained  ever 
since.  He  is  a  practical  workman,  having  had 
twenty-three  years'  experience  in  the  foundry. 
He  has  a  handsome  residence  at  No.  Mil  lOiirhlh 
Street. 

,Mr.  Little  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  .luiie  .'id. 
18K;L  to  Miss  Nellie  Fergu.son.  who  w.as  born  in 
Cincinnati,  but  reared  in  St.  Louis.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  IJodley  Lodge  No.  1.  A.  F.  A-  A.  M.,  Iiide- 
I)en<Ient  Order  of  .Mutual  Aid  and  the  Modern 
Woodmen.  He  takes  an  active  part  in  .Sunday- 
school  work,  being  a  Superintendent,  and  is  a 
Vftstryinan     in    St.    .lohn's    ICpisi-opal    Cathedral 


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He  is  aPioliibitiouist  in  politics, aud  is  a  very  nice, 
conip:uii<)nal>k'  gentleman.  He  is  an  iionorable 
nioinber  of  the  Iron  >Iouldeis"  I'nion  of  America 
and  has  been  President  of  the  local  union  here. 


■£o;,         ■m-.i.p, 


RANK  D.  SCIIERMKRHORX.  The  liberal, 
good  -  hearted,  genial  gentleman  whose 
/lis  ^  sketch  occupies  our  attention  is  one  of 
tlie  most  i)Oi)ular  men  in  the  city  of  t^uincy.  His 
home  has  been  here  for  thirty  years.  He  is  the 
valued  agent  of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York,  and  has  been  a  resident  of 
(^uinoy  since  18.")3.  He  was  born  in  Ontario 
County,  N.  Y.,  February  26,  1836.  His  father, 
Joiin  Wan  K.,  and  his  grandfather,  Cornelius,  were 
liotii  born  in  Albany,  and  were  of  Dutch  de- 
scent; the  latter  died  in  (Geneva,  N.  Y.  John 
\'an  R.  was  a  forwarding  agent  on  the  New  York 
S;  .Seneca  Kails  Canal,  and  later  on  the  Erie  Canal, 
with  his  otlice  at  No.  21  Broad  Street,  X.  Y.,  but 
with  his  residence  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.  He  ran  a 
line  of  boats  from  Buffalo  to  New  York  City,  and 
died  in  the  latter  place  in  18.")2,  having  been  a 
strong  Whig. 

Our  suliject's  mother  was  named  Amy,  and  was 
a  daughter  of  Isaac  Nantz,  a  prominent  man  of 
Fredericktown,  Md.,  of  Oerraan  descent.  She 
came  with  an  uncle,  when  only  sixteen  years  of 
age,  across  the  Alleghany  Mountains  on  horse- 
back to  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  to  make  a  visit.  There  she 
met  her  future  husband  and  married  him.  She 
dieil  in  Buffalo  from  the  effects  of  a  fall,  aged 
eighty-three.  She  was  a  devoted  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  had  been  the  f(md  mo- 
ther of  eleven  children,  our  subject  being  the 
second  of  the  family. 

Frank  was  reared  in  Geneva  and  attended  the 
public  schools,  remaining  at  home  until  seventeen 
years  old.  He  was  very  sniall  for  his  age  and  was 
nicknamed  "Little  K.  K."  In  the  year  ]8o3,  he 
joined  the  Railroad  Surveying  Company,  of  wliich 
his    brother    was    engineer,   and    came    here    and 


l)egau  to  learn  the  business  of  surveying,  which 
he  continued  for  two  years.  Later,  he  was  in  the 
employ  of  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joe  Railroad  and 
helped  to  make  the  Fourth  Division  west,  but  he 
wished  to  make  a  change  and  so  left  and  returned  to 
Quincy.  He  then  became  clerk  in  a  railroad  office, 
and  later  was  Ticket  Agent  at  Quincy  and  opened 
the  first  ticket  office  under  the  hill,  then  under 
the  old  Quincy  House.  In  1857,  he  went  into 
the  Quincy  Saving  &  Insurance  Company,  now 
the  First  Northern,  as  book-keeper,  and  there  re- 
mained until  1863. 

Our  subject  was  married  hei'e,  in  1859,  to  Miss 
Mary  E.,  daughter  of  A.  C.  Marsh,  President  of 
the  First  National  Bank.  He  had  three  cthildren 
by  this  marriage:  Augustus  B.,  now  Division  En- 
gineer of  the  Northern  Pacific,  located  at  Omaha; 
Emil}-,  who  died  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  and  Mary 
Lj^dia,  who  is  at  home.  His  first  wife  died  in 
1865,  and  he  was  married  a  second  time,  in  1868, 
to  Miss  Annie  Burns,  born  in  Payson,  this  county, 
daughter  of  Capt.  John  Burns,  an  old  sea-captain, 
who  had  lived  here  a  great  many  years.  He  has  had 
six  children:  Annie,  who  is  at  home;  Frank  D.,  Jr., 
who  is  in  the  engineer's  department  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  at  Omaha,  Neb.;  Amy,  Isaac  M., 
Helen  and  William,  at  home. 

In  the  year  1863  our  subject  started  in  the  grain 
and  commission  business,  and  opened  an  office 
with  his  brother  John  on  Front  Street,  and  car- 
ried it  on  until  1877,  also  engaging  in  the 
storage  and  forwarding  business.  He  was  the 
agent  for  the  Boat  Line  for  the  (.^uinc^y,  St.  Louis 
it  Cairo  Railroad,  and  attended  to  the  transport- 
ing business.  In  1866,  he  went  to  Indianapolis 
as  General  Agent  of  the  Merchants'  Dispatch  it 
Transportation  Company,  with  headquarters  at 
Indianapolis,  and  remained  there  until  August, 
1868,  when  he  came  back  as  General  Agent  of  the 
Toledo,  Wabash  lii  Western  Railroad.  He  was  also 
during  this  time  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Quincy  line,  which  was  started  in  his  office,  lie 
concluded  that  the  city  ought  to  have  more  fa- 
cilities for  transportation.  His  brother  was  mad(; 
Engineer  and  Superintendent  of  the  Imilding  of 
the  Quinc}-,  Missouri  it  Pacific,  now  the  Quincy, 
Omaha  it  Kansas  Cit\-  Railroad.    Tlie  road  was  or- 


PORTKAir  AM)  i;i()t;i;AI'llI(  A  I.   I;i.(  itUD. 


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•^nnizeil  in  IXli.  During  the  Ituildiiig  of  il.  oiir 
siil)jec-t  hecanio  Cciiorjil  Freiiilit  AirPiit.  Imt  cini- 
tiniicd  in  the  ginin  liu»ine«s.  AIkiuI  1s7).  In- 
and  his  hrother  retired  from  the  roiul. 

In  1877,  our  suliject  was  hiirned  out,  :in<l  hi- 
then  accepted  the  |M>sili(^ii  of  Siiperinlendput  of 
the  l^uincv.  Missouii  a  I'acitic  Raih'oad,  and  con- 
tinued to  su|ierintend  all  the  roa(ls  in  the  hantls 
of  the  Wahash.  lie  conlinued  with  tliein  for  two 
years,  when  he  withdrew  and  carried  on  a  feed 
mill  for  two  yeai-s.  'i'he  Wahash  road  hail  troulile 
and  was  ohlij;ed  to  come  h.ack  to  the  <>ri<;inal 
trustee!*,  and  when  it  was  re-orsjanized  our  sul)- 
ject  hccanie  Su|ierintendent  of  tlie  <^uincy.  Omaha 
.V-  Kan>a.s  t'ity,  and  (ieneral  Kreiyhl  and  Ticket 
Agent  until  188!t.  lie  then  resigned  and  has  since 
lived  a  retired  life,  except  for  one  year,  when  he 
was  manaiier  of  a  paint  company.  Before  the  wai, 
he  was  in  the  old  (^iiincy  tiuards,  and  during  tlie 
war  was  a  memher  of  the  Qnincy  Cavalry,  and 
was  one  of  the  .\ides  of  Kx-dov.  .John  Wood 
when  they  went  to  the  relief  of  the  Sixteenth  Illi- 
nois Infantry  at  Clarence,  Mo. 

Our  suliject 's  ollice  is  at  No.  3ii|  North  Sixth 
.Street  and  his  residence  at  No.  1321  North  Eighth 
Street.  President  Grant  ap|)iiinted  him  I'nited 
States  Surveyor  of  the  Port  of  <^uinc\  in  187'.t. 
and  he  w.a-s  Harbor  Master  for  two  terms.  He  is 
a  memher  of  Lodge  No.  2!tti,  X.  V.  A  A.  M..  and 
is  a  Kepulilican  in  politics,  lieing  a  meinl>er  of  the 
County  Committee,  and  also  the  City  Republican 
Committee.  He  is  a  Presbyterian  in  religion  and 
is  a  very  prominent  man.  highly  respected  through- 
out the  conntv. 


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JW.  .MAKSIIAI.I,.  .\mong  the  representa- 
tive and  ^cspon^il)le  mercantile  establish- 
ments of  (Qnincy.  III.,  is  the  house  of  which 
.^^^^  Mr.  Mai-shall  is  proprietor,  situated  on  Del- 
aware Street.  He  was  born  in  Ca.ss  County  in 
1«I2.  a  son  of  .lohn  and  Mary  I.  (Nisbet)  Marshall, 
and  was  the  eldest  of    four   children.     The   father 


was  an  agriculturist  of  considerable  means,  and  un- 
der his  wat«'hful  care  on  the  home  farm  .1.  \V. 
Marshall  learned  lessons  of  industry  and  frugality 
that  became  his  stepping  stones  to  success  in  lalei- 
years.  The  healthful  life,  wholesome  food  and 
regular  houi>  on  the  farm  develoi>ed  his  mental  as 
well  as  physical  powers,  and  upon  leaving  his  rural 
home  to  take  upon  himself  other  duties,  he  w.as  a 
model  of  manly  vigor.  I'pto  the  .age  of  fifteen 
years  he  attended  the  district  school  in  the 
vicinity  of  his  home,  and  lieing  a  bright  youth  he 
maile  fair  progress  in  his  studies. 

In  1867,  I>a  Cygne,  Lynn  County,  Kan.,  became 
the  scene  of  his  labors,  and  at  that  jioint  he  w.<us 
for  three  yearsextensively  engaged  in  buying  and 
shipping  slock.  .\t  the  end  of  that  period,  he  re- 
turned to  Cass  County.  III.,  and  after  remaining 
llicre  until  1K72.  he  again  turned  his  footsteps  in 
the  direction  fif  the  Sunflower  State,  of  which  he 
was  a  resident  until  December,  188(i.  He  then 
came  to  tiuincy  and  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Chicago  Lumber  Compan\',  but  after  some  time 
decided  that  other  fields  would  l>e  more  prolitalile 
frfin)  a  monetary  point  of  view,  and  he  became 
Superintendent  of  the  lime  manufactory  at  Mar- 
ble Head.  III.,  which  position  he  tilled  intelligently 
and  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  employers  until  the 
month  of  .Vugust,  1887.  In  the  latter  jiart  of  the 
s.Mine  year,  he  embarked  in  the  7iianvif.<icturc  of  lime 
on  his  own  account  at  Marbie  Head.  Iiut  tliscunlin- 
ued  that  business  in  February,  18!)  1,  although  he 
had  met  with  reasonable  success  in  pursuing  it. 

In  March.  18;i2,  he  opened  a  produce  house  in 
(^uincy.and  by  his  push,  energy,  sagacity  and  good 
judgment  he  has  placed  his  house  in  the  foremost 
rank,  a  |)osition  it  gives  every  jiromise  of  abl\- 
maintaining.  He  occupies  four  flooi-s  of  a  build- 
ing (idxHii  feet.  IcK'nted  on  Delaware  Street, and  his 
house  is  well  e(|uippeil  and  fitted  up  with  every 
requisite  for  the  proper  storage.  efHcient  handling 
and  healthful  preservation  of  his  stock.  He  handles 
cve'Vthing  in  the  line  of  produce,  such  as  hay, 
grain,  poultry,  butler,  eggs,  plaster,  cement,  el*-., 
h.'is  gained  a  well-deserved  name  i»s  a  trustworthy 
and  upiight  biisine.v  man,  and  to  the  trade  he  of- 
fers the  most  lilx'ral  iiulucements  as  to  price  ami 
terms,  and  fills  the  orders  given  him  promptl\  and 


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satisfactorily.  He  sends  large  consignments  to 
retailers  in  Illinois  and  Missoiiii.  and  also  has  a 
lirisk  trade  througliout  the  city  and  suburbs.  The 
handling  of  food  [uoducts  of  all  kinds  forms  a  very 
important  factor  in  the  general  commerce  of  a 
thrifty  and  growing  city, and  the  jM-oduce  merchant 
stands  as  a  medium  between  the  producer  and 
consumer,  and  enables  each  to  secure  his  wants 
speedily  and  economically. 

I'olitically,  Mr.  Marshall  is  a  Democrat, and  so- 
cially is  a  member  of  the  commandery  in  the 
Accepted  Free  and  Ancient  IMasons.  In  1877,  he 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Loma  Colpetzer,  a 
daughter  of  William  Colpetzer,  a  native  of  the 
Buckeye  State,  and  l\v  her  is  the  father  of  one 
child,  a  daughter  named  Franc.  He  has  a  pleasant 
residence  at  Old  Jersey  Street. 


B-i-^=±_ 


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|K)HN  W.  UICIIARD.S.  Our  subject  has 
united  two  avocations  that  to  the  casual 
reader  seem  strangely  mated;  for  although 
a  farmer,  owning  a  fine  property  and  appar- 
ently given  to  this  peaceful  occupation,  he  has  for 
the  last  thirty  years  been  also  engaged  as  a  detec- 
tive of  acknowledged  skill  and  ability.  Possibly 
lie  might  not  equal  Dickens'  Mr.  Xaggett  in  show 
of  secrecy,  but  he  certainly  has  his  ability  in  fer- 
reting out  an  obscure  clue. 

Mr.  Richards  was  born  in  Madison  County,  Ky., 
October  1(1,  182.5,  and  is  a  son  of  Reason  Richards, 
who  was  born  in  Maryland  in  1789.  The  latter 
moved  from  Maryland  to  Virginia,  and  later  went 
to  Kentucky,  where  h(^  was  married  to  Elizabeth 
Patterson,  a  native  of  Madison  County,  that  State. 
He  devoted  himself  to  farming,  and  in  1826  moved 
to  I'.iione  County,  Mo.,  where  lie  remained  until  his 
deatli,  which  took  place  .January  11,  1871.  He 
was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  Boone  County,  where 
he  cleared  and  improved  three  farms.  There  were 
l)lenty  of  deer  and  other  wild  game  when  he  first 
located  in  the  State,     lie  .-lud    his  wife  were  de- 


voted members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  ins  house  in  early  days  was  frequently  turned 
into  a  meeting-house  for  Sunday  services  or 
prayer-meeting,  and  many  an  old  pioneer  preacher 
was  entertained  at  his  board  as  long  as  he  chose 
to  stay.  He  was  well  known  throughout  that  part 
of  the  country.     His  wife  died  .July  .3,  1882. 

The  original  of  tins  sketch  was  the  second  in 
order  of  birth  of  a  family  of  eight  children,  four 
of  whom  are  now  living.  Our  subject  was  but  a 
3  ear  old  when  his  father  moved  to  Boone  County. 
He  had  but  little  opportunity  for  learning  much 
of  book  lore,  the  short  time  that  he  spent  over  his 
studies  being  in  a  little  log  schoolhouse  with  slab 
seats,  and  windows  in  which  greased  paper  served 
as  glass.  He  lived  with  his  father  until  of  age. 
His  advent  into  Adams  County-  took  place  No- 
vember 18,  1846. 

Upon  coining  to  this  count}-,  Mr.  Richards 
found  himself  without  a  pennj'.  He  worked  on  a 
farm  adjoining  his  present  place  for  $7  a  month, 
which  was  later  increased  to  the  magnificent  sum 
of  $8,  which  he  received  for  three  months.  In  the 
spring  of  1848,  he  rented  a  piece  of  land  and  be- 
gan farming  for  himself.  lie  purchased  his  first 
land  in  Ursa  Township  in  the  fall  of  1852,  and 
added  to  the  tract  in  1855  and  again  in  1857. 
He  has  lived  on  his  present  farm,  with  the  exce|)- 
tion  of  about  eight  months,  ever  since  coming 
here,  and  has  cleared  u\)  a  good  deal  of  land  him- 
self. 

Our  subject  was  married  .July  1.  1847,  to  iNIiss 
Martha  A.  Adair,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  whose 
parents  moved  to  Boone  County,  Mo.,  and  later  to 
Adams  County,  HI.,  settling  in  Ursa  Township. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richards  have  been  the  parents  of  six 
children,  whose  names  are  respectively  Mary,  Will- 
iam F.,  Cecelia  A.,  Martha  E.,  .lames  R.  and  John 
T.,  the  last  of  whom  is  deceased.  Our  subject  is  a 
Democrat  and  has  always  been  an  active  worker 
for  his  party.  He  has  acted  as  Constable  ever  since 
1857,  has  been  Township  Assessor  for  seven  years, 
and  has  served  as  Deputy  Sheriff  for  nearly  twenty 
years. 

Ever  since  1860,  ]Mr.  Richards  has  been  more 
or  less  constantly  employed  in  detective  work, 
and  tliere  has  scarcely  been  a    murder  or  crime  of 


PORTRAIT    \N1)   ]!l(i(.i;  M'lIK    \l.   IMiORD. 


-,m:1 


otluT  iiatiiiv  cdiiiinitteil  in  wlik-li  he  lia>  nut  hocii 
called  ii|niii  t<i  exert  lii;-  deleetive  aliility.  and  his 
skill  is  s(i  <;ii'at  that  he  iias  fre(|iientlv  lieen  i-alleil 
lo  irreat  distances  from  home  to  work  ii|i  eases. 
He  has  arrested  many  criminals  and  has  had  some 
\-er\  narrow  escapes.  It  would  seem  iis  if  he  bore 
a  charmed  life,  for  on  one  occasion  a  linllet  was 
shot  into  his  sad<11e.  and  his  clotliinj;  has  frei|ueiitly 
lieen  liddled.  hnt  lie  himself  has  never  been 
wounded.  On  one  occasion,  he  followed  a  thief, 
who  had  stolen  .a  horse  from  the  stable  of  one  of 
his  neii,fhl>ors.  to  within  a  few  miles  of  Waco., 
Tex.,  a  flistance  of  about  seven  hundred  mile-.  It 
was  he  who  discovered  and  arrested  the  notorious 
feni;de  horse  thief,  Lizzie  Harton,  and.  altlioufih 
she  had  sold  the  horse,  which  she  had  stolen  in 
Clinton,  111.,  to  a  Missouri  man  and  had  sunk  the 
biigwy  in  the  Mississippi  River.  Mr.  Richards  suc- 
ceeded in  recovering'  the  horse  and  found  the 
buggy.  He  on  one  occasion  followed  a  murderer 
for  thirteen  days  and  thirteen  nights  without 
sleeping. 

The  farm  which  our  subject  owns  and  o|ierale.'! 
ctnnprises  one  hundred  .icres  of  land  on  section  .'52. 
It  is  a  valuable  tr.act,  which  has  l)een  lhoro\ighly 
cultivated,  and  is  a  pleasing  feature  of  the  town- 
8lii[).  Mr.  Richards  has  employed  his  talent  in 
bettering  the  morals  of  the  community  and  in 
protecting  the  lives  and  property'  of  his  fellow- 
men. 


=-l^HiH^P=- 


HK'AIIA.M  II.  I).  lU  IT/.  We  shall  here 
t@y  I  attempt  .a  short  memoiial  sketch  of  the 
I'  gentleman  whose  name  appears  above. 
His  decease  was  deplored  by  friends  and 
fellow-citizens,  for  in  him  w.ss  lost  a  valuable 
addition  to  the  town.-hi|)"s  strong  name.  Mr. 
Hult/.  was  Imiiii  in  Northampton  ('oiint\,  I*a., 
.\ugust  1«,  IXiiIl.  lie  was  the  sixth  in  order  of 
birth  in  a  family  of  nine  children  who  were  \H>vt\ 
to  the  lion.  .Michael  I!,  and  Mary  (Dililine)  Hiittz, 
who  were  natives  of  S^|^se.\  C'ountv,  N.  .1.,  .-mil   of 


I'ennsyl vanin,   res|)ei'ti vely.      Mrs.    ISiittz'   parent.s 
j    were  <>{  Kiiglish  descent,   while   those    of   her    hus- 
band were  (Jerman. 

Our  subject's  father  represeiileil  Noi  thainpton 
County  in  the  Slate  Legislature,  as  a  Democratic 
representative,  for  live  consecutive  terms.  llis 
father,  .hicob  Hiiltz,  served  during  the  War  of  the 
RevolutK.ni  and  totik  part  in  several  of  the  closely 
fought  contests  of  that  desperate  period.  He  was 
in  Washington's  army  when  they  deCealed  and 
captured  the  Hessians  on  that  historic  Chiistmas 
night. 

Mr.  Huttz  was  libeinll\  educated  in  the  Mor.-i- 
vian  College,  of  Nazareth.  I*a.,  and  after  linishing 
his  studies  he  became  a  clerk  in  Ins  father's  store, 
remaining  with  him  until  thirty-three  years  of  age. 
He  then  left  Pennsylvania,  and  in  IM;M  we  lind 
him  settled  in  Liberty  Towiishi|),  Adams  County, 
where,  in  the  fall  of  lh:it  same  year,  lie  erected  ii 
sawmill.  Kslablished  in  business,  he  chose  for  a 
wife  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  I).  P.  Meacham.  who 
was  a  pioneer  of  Adams  County.  In  lM;i(l,  he 
engaged  in  merchandising,  at  which  he  was  re- 
markalily  successful  and  in  which  he  accumulated 
a  considerable  fortune.  Of  the  family  which 
blessed  the  union  of  our  subject  and  his  wife,  the 
eldest  son,  Mitchell  R.,  is  now  a  practicing  lawyer 
in  Kansas.  His  three  other  sons  live  in  Liberty 
Township.  ( Mie  of  these  is  engaged  in  farming 
and  the  other  in  breeding  standard-lired  horses. 

Mr.  IJuttz  was  for  many  years  Postin,ister  at 
Liberty,  and  took  great  interest  in  the  historical 
.society,  the  organization  being  known  as  "The 
Old  .Settlers'  Sm'iety  of  .\dams  and  Brown  Coun- 
ties." He  was  President  of  this  for  a  number  of 
years  prior  to  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
industry  and  energy,  and  by  his  affable  manners 
made  man.\'  warm  friends.  He  was  liberal  to  all 
good  causes  and  was  most  hospitable.  His  wife 
has  iK-en  for  many  \ears  identilied  with  the  Chris- 
tian Church. 

( )iie  of  the  soils.  .1.  Sliaw  liull/.  wlm  i>  ;i  s|,ick- 
breeder  of  Liberty,  was  born  in  the  village  in 
IK,')  I,  and  there  grew  to  mature  years.  He  iv- 
eeiveil  a  commoii-.sehool  eilucation  and  was  reared 
on  his  father's  farm.  He  followed  farming  until 
ItfMK,  when  he  laiiiiclieil   into  his  present    occiipa- 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


lion.  He  went  to  T^xington,  Ky.,  and  there  pur- 
chased the  stallion  "Pythias,"  which  was  sired  liy 
••King  Harold"  liis  dam  Itoing  '•Rena."  lie  also 
purchased  some  standard-bred  marcs,  and  with  this 
stock  he  started  his  present  stable.  "Pythias""  lias 
a  record  of  2:28^.  There  are  also  upon  Mr.  Hnltz' 
place  some  as  promising  colts  as  can  he  found  in 
the  county. 

.1.  Shaw  Buttz  is  the  youngest  son  in  a  family  of 
eleven  children,  only  six  of  whom  are  still  living. 
He  was  married  in  1874,  to  Sarah  E..  daughter  of 
Silas  Enlow,  of  Liberty  Township.  Socially,  he  is 
an  Odd  Fellow,  and  politically,  a  stanch  Demo- 
crat. 


\Xr^  OHERT  MrlNTYUE.  The  suliject  of  this 
:l^{  sketch  was  born  in  County  Donegal.  Ire- 
^\  land,  in  April.  1814,  and  on  emigrating  to 
\i©  .\merica  in  IS^l  located  in  Philadephia, 
Pa.,  where  he  remained  for  two  years;  thence  re- 
moving to  Lehigh  County,  he  engaged  in  supplying 
the  Crane  Iron  Company  with  iron  ore,  whicli  busi- 
ness he  followed  for  many  \ears. 

The  lady  to  whom  our  subject  was  married  in 
1814  was  born  in  Mauch  Chunk,  Carbon  Count}-, 
and  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Maria  Enbody. 
'["hey  had  seven  children.  From  1841  until  1858, 
our  subject  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Catasainpia 
Fuiuace  Company,  and  in  the  latter  year  was 
awarded  the  contract  for  building  the  Cabin  .lolin 
Hridge  at  'W'ashington,  I).  C,  wliich  it  rerpiired 
eight  years  to  complete.  In  18fi4.  removing  to 
(^iiiucy.  lie  here  made  his  home  until  his  decease, 
which  occiiired  in  March,  18711. 

Prior  to  coming  to  the  Prairie  State.  Mr.  Mc- 
Intyre  had  made  huge  investments  in  real  estate, 
at  one  time  owning  over  twelve  hundred  acres  of 
land,  which  became  very  valuable.  He  was  a  man 
possessing  great  business  tact  and  abilit\-,  of  a 
cheerful  disposition,  courteous  and  affable.  lie 
took  advant.age  of  vvevy  opporliinit\'  to  lionestiv 
advance   his  personal  interests  and  those  of  his 


family,  and  for  the  success  with  which  he  met,  all 
who  knew  him  rejoiced.  By  pluck  and  persever- 
ance, he  arrived  at  a  successful  condition  in  life, 
and  gave  his  personal  attention  to  superintending 
his  farming  interests,  in  which  branch  of  business 
he  was  very  successful. 

.Mr.  Mclntyre  was  a  Mason  of  long  standing 
and  at  his  request  was  buried  by  that  order.  .Jo- 
vial, genial  and  whole-souled,  his  citizenship  rc- 
tlected  credit  upon  the  land  of  his  adoiition  with- 
out detracting  from  that  of  the  land  of  his  birth. 
The  cause  of  education  ever  found  in  him  a  warm 
friend  and  he  did  much  for  the  betterment  of  the 
schools  in  his  community.  True  to  everj'  duty, 
his  life  wa,->  such  as  to  win  him  the  confidence  and 
regard  of  all  with  whom  business  or  social  rela- 
tions brought  him  in  contact.  Politically,  our  sub- 
ject cast  a  Democratic  vote,  but  aside  fron  that  al- 
ways declined  to  engage  more  actively  in  i)ublic 
affairs.  With  bis  family,  he  was  a  devoted  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  was  a  man  o( 
unblemished  character.  .\t  his  death,  he  left  a 
valuable  estate,  which  is  superintended  by  his  son 
Robert  and  on  which  his  widow  still  resides. 


/^EORGE  E.  BENNETT  is  a  faimer  of  Pay- 
III  j_ — ,  son  Township,  and  he  doubtless  appre- 
V^  elates  the  advantages  of  prairie  farming,  as 
his  first  years  were  spent  in  the  hilly  and  stony 
region  of  Crawford  County,  Pa.  lie  was  born  in 
1841,  and  was  reared  and  educated  in  his  home 
locality.  Crawford  County  is  not  a  propitious 
place  for  fanning,  and  success  is  only  accpiired  by 
the  greatest  jjiudeiice  and  thrift.  This,  iiowever, 
is  good  discipline  in  itself. 

Our  suliject  came  to  Adams  County  in  18(;4, 
having  previously  located  with  his  ]iarents,  in 
18.'>8,  ill  Shelby  County,  JIo.  His  father  and 
mother  li\e(l  in  that  locality  until  their  decease. 
Before  coming  to  Illinois.  Mr.  Bennett  served  in 
the  Missoiiii  Sliite  Militia,  in  18()2,  staving  with 
his  regiment   until  the  close  of  the  >var,   and  ilur- 


IVjKTKArr  AND  liKXULVrillCAL   RFXORD. 


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inif  tliat  tiiiu-  In-  participalfd  in  !«everal  sharp 
Nkirmislifi^. 

Ml.  lii'iiiifll,  (III  coiiiinf;  to  .\<<hiii>  ('iniiitv .  dc- 
li'i'iniiicd  I")  >ociire  Ik'IIpi'  (•(liicaliuiial  a(lv!uita!,'cs. 
:iiiil  iilU-iHlfd  tlio  I'a.VJMMi  High  Vhixil  for  two 
years.  He  then  went  txj  Pike  C'oiinly,  and  was 
for  a  year  eiiiiajied  in  teaeliiiij;.  In  IKfSS  our  Miliject 
WHS  married  lo  Delilah  \'.,  daughter  of  (leorge 
linker.  Ivs(|.  Thev  inunediatoly  established  a  home, 
in  which  have  lieeii  welt'omed  three  children.  Ol- 
ive is  now  the  wife  of  Hull  Spencer,  of  I'ike 
Couiilv;  Kdgar  K.,  who  is  now  a  resident  of  (ireen- 
ciustle.  Mo.;  and  lle«ter  A.,  still  an  inmate  of  her 
father's  home. 

The  original  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  Ksliy  and 
Ksther  (l.ogaii)  liennett,  Ixilli  of  whom  were  horn 
and  reared  in  Crawford  County,  I'a.  Our  sub- 
ject's grandfather,  Henry  Bennett,  wa.s  a  soldier  in 
the  War  of  US  12. 

( )ur  subject  began  farming  on  his  own  responsi- 
bility in  I8G'.I.  He  then  purchased  a  fium  in  the 
Itottoms,  comprising  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres. 
This  he  has  developed  until  it  is  now  in  splendid 
shape,  and  his  house,  barns,  and  other  outbuild- 
ings are  kept  in  perfect  repair.  In  IHhl,  he  pur- 
ch.iscd  the  home  wheie  lie  now  resides.  It  is  a  coin- 
f<irtal)le  and  commodious  residence,  well  adapted 
to  the  recpiirements  of  its  occupants.  Mi-s.  Delilah 
liennett  died  in  December,  187.J.  and  two  yeai-s 
lat^r  Mr.  Bennett  contracted  a  second  marriage, 
his  bride  being  .Miss  Mary  K.  Williams.  Mr.  and 
Mi's.  Bennett  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Kpis- 
co|)al  Church,  and  are  inthiential  people  in  the 
community.  l'olilic:illy,  our  subject  is  a  I)enu>- 
crat.  He  li:i>  served  for  two  terms  xs  Township 
Trustee. 


^^^K<»K(;K    C.ASTI.K.      riu-  gentleiii.Tn    whose 
f:   ;^    biography  it   becomes  the  plea.saiit  l,i.<k  of 

V A     the  writer  to  place  tiefore  the  public,  is  one 

of  the  nio!*l  prominent  men  of  the  (iein  Cit\'.      He 
i»  a  Director  and  stoi-kliolder  in  the  well-known 


Barlow  Cornplant^-r  Company.  'I'lie  f:imily  from 
which  our  subject  is  descended  was  an  old  Ku<i- 
lish  one.  the  grandfather,  fJeorge,  having  lived 
out  his  life  there,  and  Derbyshire,  Knglan<l,  being 
the  birthplace  of  the  well-known  Dr.  Kdward<;. 
Castle,  who  was  the  fatlier  of  the  original  of  our 
sketch. 

Dr.  C.ostle  came  to  America  and  seltleil  in  St. 
Louis,  after  gmduating  from  King's  College  a-s  a 
chemist.  He  took  his  iiiedii-;il  degree  in  .St.  Louis, 
but  only  remained  tliere  until  the  fall  of  [Klil. 
when  he  came  here  and  w.as  a  piiictitioner  at  this 
place  until  IHIm.  He  was  the  physician  in  charge 
of  the  lirst  hospital  in  (^iiincy,  on  Fifth  and  Ohio 
Streets.  In  1867,  he  was  appointed  by  Hon.  ( ).  II. 
Browning  .ts  Consular  .Vgent  to  Kiiglan<l  and 
made  two  trips.  He  was  a  Republican  in  his 
political  opinions,  and  belonged  to  the  Society 
of  Friends.  He  held  a  prominent  place  in  the 
Medical  Society  of  the  State  and  w.as  its  President. 
This  talented  man  died  September  2i>.  1880,  leav- 
ing a  place  impossible  to  till. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  .lane  Carrick.  a 
native  of  Carlisle,  Kngland,  and  the  daughter  of  a 
line  old  Knglish  banker,  who  in  his  business  dis- 
played those  virtues  which  his  (Quaker  religion 
;  m.ade  necessary.  .Mrs.  Castle  died  .luly  2.  1889, 
leaving  two  children.  One  is  Mrs.  (Jeorge  Wells, 
of  l^umcy ;  and  the  other  is  the  gentleman  of  whom 
we  will  now  give  a  brief  .sketch. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Carlisle,  Kngland,  .\ii- 
gust  22,  1848.  and  was  reared  here,  but  in  I8ti2  he 
was  sent  to  his  birthplace  with  a  cousin  and  at- 
tended school  for  three  years  at  Lindergrove.  He 
then  returned  home  by  steamer  to  Boston,  and 
thence  to  Illinois.  He  aft^-rward  lx>caine  clerk  for 
Montgomery  A-  Co..  wholesale  drugirists.  with  whom 
he  remained  four  years,  or  until  l«71.  He  then 
went  into  the  gr(K-erv  business  with  Fr:ink  Wells, 
under  the  linn  name  of  WelK  A-  Caslle,  liK'ated  at 
No.  l'.H  .Maine  Street,  but  sold  out  four  years  later. 
In  187t),  he  went  on  the  road  for  the  \'aiidevere 
Cornplanter  Company,  of  Northern  Illinois.  .\ 
yenr  later,  he  was  oblig,?d  to  resign,  as  ill-health 
prevented  att^-ntion  to  business.  He  made  a  de- 
lightful trip  through  Kngland  :ind  Scutlund  in 
187'J,  goinj; across  the  <.K-eaii  in  Ijie  lloiitjiig  palace, 


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PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


the  "City  of  Troj^"  and  returning  on  the  "City 
of  Chester."  He  rested  until  the  f.iU  of  1«80  in 
Colorado,  and  then,  invigorated,  he  returned  to 
the  Cornplaiiter  Corapany.and  ha.<  been  a  Director 
ever  .since.  In  1881.  lie  liecame  a  stociilioider  in 
tlie  Vandevere  Cornpianter  Company,  and  in  1891 
tlie  Harlow  Company  was  incorporated,  and  he 
liecanie  a  Director. 

Tiie  marriage  of  Mr.  Ca.stle  toolv  place  in  (^uiucy, 
November  .3,  1881.  His  bride  was  Margaret  Boyd, 
the  accomplished  daughter  of  Fred  Boyd,  a  nianu- 
factuier  Iiorn  in  Boston,  Mass. 

The  family  history  of  Mrs.  Castle  tells  of  her 
grandfather,  Thomas,  who  came  from  Ireland  to 
America,  settled  in  Boston  and  became  a  manufac- 
turer of  leather  goods  there.  He  spent  his  last 
days  in  the  citj^  of  his  adoption.  The  father  of 
Mrs.  Castle  was  a  coal  merchant  in  Carrollton,  III. 
He  married  there,  and  in  18-5()  he  came  to  Quiiicy 
and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  plows,  under 
the  firm  of  Bailett  A-  Hoyd,  on  the  site  now  occu- 
pied by  the  Collins  Ph)w  Company.  He  latersold  his 
interest  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  paper 
and  started  the  Newcomb  Mill  with  Joseph  Wood- 
ruff. AVhen  the  latter  retired,  he  became  Assistant 
Cashier  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  this  city, 
and  now  resides  with  our  subject.  The  mother 
of  Mrs.  Castle  bore  the  liiaiden  name  of  Eliza- 
beth Dalzell;  she  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  .lolin  Dalzell,  who  came  from 
his  native  country,  Ireland,  to  Pittsburgh,  became 
an  iron  merchant  there,  and  then  moved  to  Phila- 
deli)liia,  where  he  carried  on  the  same  business.  In 
1810,  he  went  to  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  started  a 
general  commissidii  and  produce  business  with 
warehouses,  and  died  in  that  city.  His  wife  re- 
sides here  and  is  the  mother  of  three  children,  the 
youngest  attending  the  Quincy  Female  Seminary. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Castle  of  this  sketch  have  two 
bright  children:  Frederick  Boyd  and  Edward 
Carrick.  Mrs.  Castle  is  a  devout  member  of  the 
Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  Castle  is  a  public-spirited 
man,  and  believes  in  the  principles  of  the  Repub- 
lican part  v. 

The  family  resides  in  a  delightful  home  in  this 
eily,  erecUnl  in  1887,  and  located  at  Xo.  IfJaT  York 
Slreet.     Here  they  enjoy  life  and  welcome  the  best 


people  of  tliis  aristocratic  city.  Mr.  Castle's  edu- 
cation and  travel  have  made  him  a  pleasant  and 
entcrtaininsj  comiianion.  and  his  charming  wife 
alilv  assists  him  in  hospitality. 


^p^  ASPAR  H.  YORNDAM.  The  oHieeis  in 
(l\  ^,  our  municipal  police  force  have  important 
^^^'  and  responsible  po.sitions,  upon  which  the 
moral  tone  of  their  respective  cities  depend  to  a 
greater  or  less  degree.  Mr.  Yorndam  is  Second 
.Sergeant  of  the  Quincy  police  force.  He  was  born 
in  Prussia,  Germany,  September  1.5,  1844,  and  is  a 
son  of  .John  H.  and  Catherine  (AYoeman)  Yorndam. 
His  father  was  a  stone  mason  by  occupation. 

The  original  of  this  sketch  was  tlie  eldest  son  in 
a  family  of  six  cliildren,  in  which  were  three  boys 
and  three  girls.  When  he  was  six  years  of  age,  he 
came  to  America  with  his  parents,  the  change  be- 
ing made  in  18.')2.  After  a  long  voyage,  they 
landed  at  New  Orleans  and  steaming  up  the  Mis- 
sissippi River  proceeded  at  once  to  (Quincy.  There 
our  subject  attended  the  common  schools,  becom- 
ing meantime  thoroughly  Americanized,  until  he 
was  fifteen  years  of  age. 

On  leaving  school,  our  subject  learned  the 
cabinet-maker's  trade  and  was  so  employed  until 
18fi4.  He  then  enlisted  in  the  Forty-third  Illinois 
Infantry,  under  Col.  Douglas.  After  the  close  of 
the  war,  Mr.  Yorndam  was  engaged  in  carpenter 
work  and  was  thus  employed  until  1877,  when  he 
was  ajipointed  on  the  .police  force  from  the  Third 
Ward  and  served  for  one  year.  In  1879,  he  em- 
barked in  the  grocery  business  and  continued  in 
that    until    189*2,    when,   on  May    1.  he  received 

I  an  appointment  to  the  position  which  he  now 
holds.  In  politics,  our  subject  is  a  pronounced 
Democrat.  Socially,  he  is  connected  with  various 
associations.  He  has  been  Treasurer  of  the  South 
Side  Boat  Club  and  is  a  member  of  Marquette 
Lodge  No.  ;U!.  1.  ().  ().  F.  He  was  also  Treasurer  of 
the  Ilarugari,  belonging  to  Lodge  No.  558.     He  is 

I   also  a  member  of  the  Firemei)"s  IJein.'yolent  Asso- 


roRTRAiT  AND  BKiCR  \rrnr  Ai,  KFroRn. 


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cintion.  Prior  to  liis  present  eiiira^rcinoiil,  lie  .-orvcii 
as  Cmiiitv  Supervisor  for  three  yenrs. 

Dcceinlwr  23,  1807,  Mr.  X'nrnilam  was  iiiiirried 
to  Miss  Anna  Wulfnie.ver.  a  daii<;litor  of  llerriian 
Wiilfniever,  of  (^iiiiu'v.  Our  sulijeet  and  liis  wife 
•ire  tiio  parents  of  six  ciiiidren,  whose  names  are: 
I  da.  f!ef>rfie,  Mamie,  Ferdinand.  Sadie  and  Clara. 
.Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Normlani  are  niend)crs  of  tiie  !^t.  I'ftul 
F-uthcran  Church.  Tlie  family  rcxidencc  is  located 
at  the  corner  of  Sixth  and  Madison  .Streets. 


JiEKOMK    FKHHK.       Our  subject    is  one  of 
the  older  inhabitants  of  IJeverly  'rnwnship, 
I    having  l)een   born  in   IHli).     lie   is  a  son  of 
'    David    A.    11.    and     Klizabeth    Ferre,    the 

former  of  whuni  was  a  participant  in  the  War  of 
1812.  They  were  the  par  nt^  of  eleven  children, 
there  bein^  seven  sons  and  four  daughters,  only 
two  of  whom  are  now  living,  our  subject  and 
.Job  T.,  who  was  born  in  the  same  place  as  was  his 
brother.  lie  was  married  in  California,  where  he 
now  lives,  a  retired  farmer. 

In  the  year  IHKI,  our  subject  married  .Mi.ss  .\.  .\. 
Doak.  who  wa.s  bc>rn  in  1821.  They  have  l)een 
the  parents  of  three  children,  two  <(f  wliom  are  liv- 
ing. The  eldest  was  born  in  I'ike  CountN'  in  1H12, 
and  was  named  .\lma  .S.  .She  married  Willis  Hub- 
bards  and  now  lives  in  Mississippi,  where  her  hus- 
band is  a  [iracticing  physician.  Their  family  in- 
cludes one  child.  Our  subject's  oilier  daLighter, 
Kllen.  was  liorn  in  Beverly,  tlii>  coMnl\,  in  184ri. 
She  was  reared  at  Kingston  ami  rccci\cd  a  gooil 
education. 

Mr.  Ferre  was  liereft  of  a  father's  c.-ire  at  the 
age  of  ten  years.  .Vfter  leaving  school  he  enira:;ed 
in  teaming  for  .-i  while  in  I'eny  Town>lii|i.  j.alcr 
taking  a  contract  to  break  prairies  in  I'jkc  County 
and  working  with  seven  yokt-  of  c;ittle.  After  sav- 
ing some  money,  he  moved  to  Beverly  Township 
and  invested  his  nest  egg  in  the  purcha.se  of  a 
forty-acre  trad  of  lantl,  for  which  he  paid  *.'i(l(). 
Later  be  purchased  another  forty  acres,  paying  for 

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it  floo.  I'rom  time  to  time  he  added  to  his  estate, 
which  was  all  the  lime  increjising  in  value,  until 
he  aggregated  live  hundred  acres  c)f  excellent  land. 
This  is  well  im|)roved  and  thoroughly  cultivated. 
He  has  a  pleasant  home  which  contains  ten  rooms, 
and  which  he  erected  at  a  cost  of  *2,()00.  His 
farm  is  a  beautiful  place,  well  shade<l  by  line  trees, 
with  orchards  and  every  acces.sory  to  make  a  coni- 
fortflble  and  delightful  rural  residence.  IJesides 
this  valuable  farm  property,  he  owns  a  line  block 
in  the  city,  upon  which  is  a  livery  stable  which  is 
conducted  under  his  name. 

Mr.  Ferre  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church, 
his  connection  with  that  body  covering  a  period 
of  fort}' -seven  yeai>.  lie  has  ever  been  a  liberal 
contrilmtor  to  the  support  of  the  church  and  of 
all  i>hilanthroi)ic  orders.  In  politics,  he  is  a  He- 
publican  and  is  greatly  interested,  as  all  loyal 
American  citizens  must  lie,  in  the  faith  of  his  party, 
although  he  has  never  as[)ircd  to  hold  pulilic  office. 


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YLNKSTKH  P.  BAHTLKIT,  Fish  Commis- 
sioner of  Illinois  and  agent  for  the  I'nited 
St.ates  Fish  Commission  at  (^uincy,  was 
born  .July  2.  1^12.  His  father,  . Sylvester 
was  for  many  years  foreman  of  the  Quincy 
11'///;/.  .•md  his  death,  which  occurred  in  I8.i2,  was 
deeply  mourned  not  only  by  his  family  but  also  by 
the  citizens,  aniimg  wlnun  he  was  held  in  high  es- 
teem. The  mother  of  our  subject,  known  in 
maidenhood  as  .lulia  O'Dell.  was  tiie  daughter  of 
.lolin  O'Dell.one  of  the  piiuieers  of  .\dams  Couiilv 
who  c.ame  here  sOon  after  ex-tifiv.  .lohn  W(«id  <lid. 
Of  llic  -even  children  born  to  Syhcstcr  M.  and 
.lulia  Bartlelt  oiil\  two  .-ire  now  living, our  subject 
.Tiid  l.oring  S.,  a  farmer  of  Adams  County.  The 
former  passed  his  boyhood  in  i^uincy  anil  learned 
the  trade  of  a  printer  in  his  father's  ollice.  When 
he  started  out  in  business  for  himself,  he  opened  a 
grocery  store  and  conducted  the  enterpri.se  success- 
fully until  IHTC,  nt  wiiich  time  he  sold  out.  He 
next  cinbjiikcd   in   the  produce  business   and  was 


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engaged  in  this  way  until  1879,\vhen  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Board  <>(  Fish  Conimissioners.  A 
few  years  later,  li<  l)ecame  agent  for  the  United 
Stales  in  charge  of  the  distribution  of  indigenous 
lish,  which  position  lie  has  since  held.  His  office 
is  at  the  corner  of  Front  and  Spring  Streets, 
(^uincy.  In  this  position  lie  has  proved  himself  a 
competent  officer  and  lias  become  widely  and  favor- 
ably ]<nown. 

Tlie  i)oIitical  belief  of  Mr.  Bartlett  brings  him 
into  line  with  the  Republican  party,  of  which  he 
is  a  stanch  adherent,  casting  his  ballot  and  wield- 
ing his  iiitluence  for  the  promulgation  of  its  prin- 
ciples. fSociall}-,  he  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  and 
one  of  tlie  prominent  members  of  the  order.  He 
has  a  i)lcasant  residence  at  No.  433  North  Fiftli 
Street,  Cfuincy,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  few  of  the 
citizens  arc  better  known,  and  none  more  higliiy 
respected  than  he. 


S  ?OIIN  ALEXANDER,  a  prosperous  and  rep- 
resentative agriculturist  and  honored  and 
^^  upright  citizen  of  Nortli  East  Township, 
'^^  Adams  County,  111.,  has  held  various  posi- 
tions of  trust  and  long  been  numbered  among  the 
energetic  and  enterprising  citizens  of  tiiis  portion 
of  tlie  State.  He  was  born  in  Mrginia  in  1828, 
and  was  the  son  of  M.  and  Nancy  B.  Alexander, 
both  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion,  where  the  fa- 
ther was  born  in  180.5.  The  paternal  and  mater- 
nal grandfathers  both  bore  the  given  name  of 
.loliii,  and  thus  Mr.  Alexander  was  named  in 
honfir  of  each  of  these  worthy  ancestors.  Our 
subject  was  one  of  live  children  b3'  his  father's 
first  marriage,  and  the  only  son  of  his  mother,  wiio 
died  in  183!).  In  1841,  his  father  married  Miss 
•lane  .\rl)iickle,  who  became  the  niotlier  of  five 
children. 

i^lizaljelh,  the  eldest  sister  of  our  subject,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  twenty-two.  was  born  in  the 
year  1830.  The  second  daughter,  who  afterward 
lircame  Mrs.  A.  i-ogan,  was  born  in  1832.  and  re- 


sides upon  a  farm  in  Missouri.  The  third  daughter 
was  born  in  1834,  and  liecame  the  wife  of  B.  Dor- 
sett.  Nancy,  the  youngest  of  the  sisters,  married 
Walter  Hiison,  a  farmer.  The  parents  of  John 
Alexander  were  among  the  earl^'  settlers  of  Adams 
Count3-,  111.,  and  located  with  their  family  upon 
a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  1834. 
The  father  was  prospered  in  his  new  home  and  in- 
creased his  holdings  to  two  hundred  and  eighty 
acres  of  excellent  land,  all  under  fine  cultivation. 
He  also  worthily  won  the  esteem  and  confidence 
of  his  neighbors  and  was  elected  to  the  official 
position  of  .Justice  of  the  Peace,  discharging 
the  duties  of  the  office  with  ability. 

Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  little  log  school- 
house  of  those  primitive  times  and.  having  as- 
sisted his  father  in  the  work  of  the  iiomestead, 
began  at  twenty  years  of  age  to  cultivate  a  farm 
of  his  own,  buying  land  at  ¥6  per  acre;  and,  pros- 
pering, has  inci'eased  his  acreage,  now  owning  a 
large  landed  property  well  worth  $,50  per  acre. 
Mr.  Alexander  was  united  in  marri.age  in  1849, 
to  M:ss  Peycott,  who  died  in  1870,  after  becom- 
ing the  mother  of  seven  children.  .James  AY.,  born 
in  1850,  is  married  and  resides  in  Kansas;  Evelyn 
is  married  to  .J.  Smith  and  lives  in  Illinois;  .Jack- 
son is  at  home;  Serena,  Philip  and  Louis  are  all 
married,  and  are  with  their  families  variously  lo- 
cated. 

Tlie  second  wife  of  our  subject  was  Miss  Jour- 
dan,  who  liecaine  the  mother  of  two  children.  She 
survived  her  marriage  about  fifteen  years  and  at 
her  death  was  mourned  by  a  large  circle  of  friends. 
The  third  wife  of  Mr.  Alexander  was  Miss  Louisa 
Paxton,  a  lad3'  widelj-  known  and  highly  es- 
teemed. The  entire  family  of  our  subject  are  liv- 
ing lives  of  usefulness,  and  the  sons  and  daughters 
in  their  different  homes  command  the  confidence 
and  regard  of  the  communities  in  which  they 
dwell. 

For  thirty-  years  Mr.  Alexander  has  been  an 
honored  Elder,  and  for  forty-five  years  a  constant 
member  and  attendant,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
whose  good  work  he  has  been  foremost  in  promot- 
ing. As  a  prominent  Democrat  and  a  man  of 
ability  and  upright  character,  our  subject  has  oc- 
cupied several  iniportaiil  official   ))Ositions,  and    is 


PuRrrRAlT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RFXORD. 


5b» 


at  present  :i  Supervisor  of  North  Kast  Township; 
he  is  uiso  Poor  Mnster,  and  in  the  perforiiiancc 
of  the  duties  intrusted  to  his  care  has  with  ef- 
lieient  lidehly  and  earnest  purpose  acconiplisiied 
much  of  puhlic  {food,  lie  has  ever  been  an  advo- 
cate of  educational  advancement  and  is  justly 
numl)ered  among  the  progressive  and  pid)lic-spir- 
it^'d  citizens  of  Adams  (\)niitv. 


S7  IKIT.  KDWAHIJ  COHV  i>  n  prominent  and 
I  (fej)  highly  esteemed  man  of  I,ima.  lie  is  a 
jj|— ^  general  merchant,  wiiosc  high  purpose  and 
principles,  together  with  constant  attention  to  his 
duties,  have  reaped  for  him  a  liriiliant  success.  Mr. 
Cory  wa.-*  l)oni  in  Cornwall.  England,  .\ugnst  12 
183."),  and  is  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Henry  and  Mary 
(KtK?)  Cory,  both  natives  of  the  place  above  men- 
tioned. The  father  wa.<  a  minister  in  the  Protest- 
ant Methodist  Church,  adopting  that  calling  early 
in  life,  and  following  it  for  many  years  in  Kng- 
land. 

The  Cory  family  sailed  for  America  in  1849,  the 
father  having  preceded  them  here  by  a  year.  They 
located  in  Hdniont.  Ohio,  which  was  their  home 
for  a  few  years.  In  IH.'jf!.  they  removed  to  Illi- 
nois and  lived  in  Henry  County  for  a  year.  In 
18;')7,  the  Rev.  Henry  Cory  resumed  his  ministerial 
work,  taking  a  pastorate  in  Clark  County.  .Mo.,  to 
which  hx-ality  he  removed  his  faiiiil\.  He  pur- 
chased a  farm  there,  and  made  that  lii>  lioiiic  fur 
six  ye»r^. 

^'  lHtJ2,  the  Cory  family  moved  to  Lima,  thi.- 
county,  and  three  years  later  emigrated  to  Tama 
County,  Iowa,  and  there  purcha.sed  a  small  farm. 
It  was  while  living  there  that  our  subject's  father 
died  at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years.  On  coming  to 
America,  he  had  joiiie<l  the  .Methodist  Kpiscopal 
Church,  and  devoted  all  the  energies  of  his  nature 
to  his  chosen  calling.  He  was  a  self-made  man. 
hut  as  tine  of  the  pioneer  preachers  Mccoiii|ilished  a 
great  amount  of  gtMxI.    Our  subject's  inollicr  liveil 


until  1-892,  when  she  passed   away   in    her  eighty- 
third  year. 

Lieut.  Cory  is  the  third  of  eight  children  that 
were  iKtrn  t<)  his  parents.  He  was  denied  educa- 
tional advantages,  having  to  liegin  work  while 
very  young  in  his  native  land.  When  a  lad  of 
twelve  yeai-s.  and  while  still  living  in  Kngland,  he 
used  to  walk  three  miles  to  his  work,  work  hard 
all  day  with  the  walk  back  in  the  evening,  and  all 
this  for  twenty-live  cents  ;\  day,  and  on  Hist  com- 
ing to  America  he  worked  for  !i!l  a  month. 

While  a  resident  of  Clark  County,  Mo.,  our 
subject  was  made  Captain  of  a  company  of  Home 
(iiiards,  and  for  several  months  after  the  breaking 
out  of  the  war  did  hard  service  in  that  capacity. 
In  18G2,  he  enlisted  at  Lima.  Adams  County,  and 
was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant  of  Company 
(!.  One  Hundred  and  Nineteenth  Illinois  Infantry, 
and  was  at  once  sent  to  Tennessee.  His  company 
was  detailed  Ui  guard  duty,  having  an  oversight  of 
railroad  property.  Mr.  Cory  was  captured  in  Decem- 
ber, 18t)2,  by  (ien.  Forrest,  and  was  incarcerated  in 
.leffei-sou  Rarracks,  St.  Louis.  He  was  sick  there, 
anil  came  near  dying  with  lung  feVs\  his  sick- 
ness lasting  throughout  the  following  v^.  ier.  On 
leaving  the  army,  he  returned  to  Lima  and  en- 
gaged in  farming  for  a  year.  He  later  became  in- 
terested in  mercantile  pursuits  and  kept  a  general 
store  for  several  years.  He  also  purchased  a  llonr- 
ing-mill,  which  he  ran  for  four  years,  but  which 
was  finally  destroyed  by  fire — a  sad  blow  to  our  sub- 
ject, for  in  it  lie  lost  about  f.i,()(MI.  He  then  returned 
to  merehaiidisiiig,  in  which  he  coniinued  until 
February  II,  I8y2,  when  he  sold  out  this  interest 
He  had  in  the  iiieantimc  lived  upon  and  directed 
:i  farm,  having  taken  possession  of  it  in  187!>. 

In  the  fall  of  18()2,  our  subject  was  married  to 
.Mi>s  Caroline  Coiiover.  who  was  Itorn  in  this 
county,  and  who  is  a  daughter  of  Robert  and  llan- 
iiali  Coiiover.  This  famil\  came  from  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  ;iiid  settled  in  .\dams  County  at  an  early 
day.  Mi>.  Caroline  Cory  flied  in  I8ti.'>,  leaving 
lier  liu>liand  two  chiblien,  Henry  K.  and  Kdward. 
the  latter  of  whom  is  decea.scd.  In  1868,  our  subject 
was  inarrie<l  again,  the  lady  of  his  choice  being 
.Martha  Nance,  a  daughter  of  .losliua  and  Annie 
Nance,  who  came   hither  from  liidiana   nl  an   carlv 


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date.  They  have  been  the  parents  of  fonr  chil- 
dren: Albert  K.,  Gertrude,  Flora  (who  is  deceased) 
and  Edith.  ( )ur  subject's  eldest  son  was  for  some 
time  a  teacher,  and  is  now  devoting  himself  to 
farming.  Mr.  Cory  is  an  ardent  Republican  and 
has  been  a  delegate  to  State  and  county  conven- 
tions. He  has  been  ver>'  active  in  local  political 
work,  and  his  influence  is  widely  felt.  lie  lias  been 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  eight  years  and  Road 
Commissioner  for  nine  years.  Fraternally,  he  is  a 
Mason,  his  connection  with  that  society'  extending 
since  1866.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
the  Methodist  Episco[)al  Cluirch,  of  which  he  is 
Trustee. 

Mr.  Corj'  began  hfe  in  this  locality  with  very 
limited  means.  On  first  coming  to  the  township, 
he  worked  on  a  farm  by  the  month.  He  rode 
hither  on  a  small  Canadian  horse,  which  was  all 
he  had  in  the  shape  of  property.  He  now  owns 
ninety'  acres  on  section  12,  and  eight}'  acres  of 
bottom  land  on  section  3.  He  has  recently  erected 
a  fine  new  frame  house  that  is  attractive  in  style 
of  architecture  and  comfortable  and  commodious. 


^^ 


j^lCHARD  DALLAM.  Our  subject  holds  the 
ir  responsible  position  of  Deimty  United  States 
ll^  Collector,  located  at  Quinc}'.  He  was  born 
in  Henderson  County,  this  State,  January 
17,  1862,  and  is  a  son  of  Francis  H.  Dallam,  who 
was  a  stanch  advocate  of  the  Whig  policy.  For  a 
number  of  years,  he  published  the  (^iiincv  Whig, 
and  then  went  to  War.saw,  III.,  where  he  ran  the 
Warsaw  BvUetiii,  publishing  this  latter  sheet  until 
the  time  of  his  decease,  which  occurred  March  17, 
1868.  He  was  a  son  of  Josiali  Dallam.  Our  sub- 
ject's father  was  in  later  life  as  equally  strong  a 
Republican  .as  he  had  been  a  Whig.  His  wife,  our 
subject's  mother,  was  prior  to  her  marriage  a  Miss 
Anna  M.  iMcKee.  She  still  lives  in  Memiihis, 
Tenn. 

Richard    Dallam    passed    his    boyhood    days    at 
W'MisfVW   ivud  there  received  g:ood  school  advan- 


tages. In  his  young  manhood,  he  learned  the 
printing  business  with  his  brother  Philip.  In  1882, 
he  received  an  appointment  as  Postal  Clerk  on  the 
railroad  mail  service  and  filled  that  for  two 
years,  and  the  two  following  years  he  spent  in  the 
service  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  ct  Quincy  Rail- 
road. Next  we  find  Mr.  Dallam  at  Nickerson, 
Kan.,  where  he  established  a  paper  known  as  the 
Nickerson  Register.  This  he  edited  for  three  years 
and  then  returned  to  Warsaw,  111.,  and  was  soon 
after  appointed  to  the  position  which  he  now 
holds,  his  work  being  confined  to  the  Eighth 
District.     His  head(iuarters  are  at  (Quincy. 

In  188/),  our  subject  was  married  to  Miss  Lettie 
Hill,  of  Warsaw.  She  is  a  daughter  of  James  B. 
Hill.  Fraternally,  he  is  connected  with  the  Ma- 
sons, belonging  to  the  Ancient,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons.  He  is,  moreover,  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  belongs  to  the  Modern  Woodmen. 
For  some  time  he  has  been  a  prominent  figure  in 
the  Legion  of  Honor.  In  politics,  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican. He  is  one  of  the  veterans  whom  the  coun- 
try delights  to  honor,  as  during  the  late  war  he  was 
Captain  of  the  Tenth  Illinois  Cavalry  under  the 
command  of  James  D.  Slorgan  and  took  part  in 
several  severe  engagements,  in  each  of  which  he 
was  conspicuous  for  bravery.  Mr.  Dallam  has  a 
pleasant  home  in  (iuincj-,  which  is  located  at  No. 
623  North  Sixth  Street. 


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I  I^ILLIAM  II.  SIMPSON.  Itisawell- 
\.r\ll  established  fact  that  a  man  of  natural  abil- 
V/\v  't.Vi  'f  possessed  of  integrity  and  energy, 
can  accomplish  almost  any  given  imrpose  in  life. 
Every  day  furnishes  examples  of  men  who  have 
commenced  a  business  career  empty-handed,  and 
in  a  brief  period  of  time  accumulated  consid- 
erable fortune.  Mr.  Simpson  has  won  an  enviable 
reputation  as  a  stock-raiser,  and  is  accorded  high 
esteem  and  confidence  by  his  fellow-townsmen. 
He  is  also  quite  extensively  interested  in  real 
estate,  and  his  life  furnishes  an  example  which  it 
would  be  well  for  busv  bread-winners  to  imitate. 


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liiilli   III   lii.iiil   (  iiiiiilN,  \\\..    ill     IM.'il.    iilll'    Mlli- 

ject  was  Mil  infant  of  two  ye«i-s  when  he  was 
brought  liy  Ills  |>areiit.H,  William  II.  anil  Millie 
(kcnneekei)  Simpson,  to  this  county,  and.  with  the 
exceiitioii  of  six  years  spent  in  Missouri,  he  has  al- 
ways made  this  plnee  his  home.  He  was  educated 
in  tliis(Huinty.  his  scliofil  attendance  Iieiiiff  mainly 
diii'iiii;  the  winter  mouths,  the  siiinniprs  lieinij  de- 
voted to  the  work  on  the  farm 

The  parental  family  included  eli'veu  children, 
all  of  whom  iricw  to  mature  yeai-s,  and  were  given 
fair  educations.  In  11^75,  Mr.  Simpson  was  mar- 
ried to  Susan  K.  Harris,  who  was  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  the  daughter  of  .lacoh  I.euse.  Tliree 
3-oars  later,  he  eng.aged  in  breeding  fine  horses, 
which  occupation  he  still  follows  to  some  extent, 
hut  devotes  the  greater  portion  of  his  time  to  ship- 
ping stock  of  all  kinds  to  the  city  market*.  In 
social  matters,  he  is  a  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  belongs  to  the  .Masonic 
frat^'rnity  of  Flainville,  and  the  Chapter  at  liarry. 
He  is  a  man  of  much  pr.ictical  business  talent  and 
linuncial  ability,  and  b\  the  judicious  investment 
of  his  money  has  acquired  a  valuable  property. 
He  is  identified  in  politics  with  the  Oemocratic 
party,  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  those  who  know 
liim  as  one  of  the  most  useful  members  of  thecom- 
muuit\'. 


^^NDKKW  .).  CU'lTKR.  born  .luly  .^i,  1824, 
^l\     '"  ^''*'  ''^'**'"  "^  Woodbridge,   N.  .).,   is  en- 
I   4    gngcd  in  general  farming  on  section  22, 
<^'  Heveily    Township.       His    jiarents     were 

Samuel  and  Nancy  (Inslee)  Cutter,  both  descend- 
ants of  the  lii-st  .settlers  of  the  aljove-named  ])art 
of  New  .Jersey.  Their  family  numbered  f<uir  sons 
and  four  daughtei-s.  In  IM.J.j,  they  came  West 
and  settled  on  the  farm  still  owned  by  the  family. 
Mr.  Cutlor  was  a  jiioueer  in  the  business  of  graft- 
ing trees.     He   had    one   of    the  most  highly  culti- 


vHicij  r;mii«  III  tlii>^  scdioii  (it  the  county,  and  was 
a  prominent  and  inllueiitial  citizen.  He  aided 
greatly  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  community,  and 
did  much  for  its  progress  an<l  advancement.  He 
was  held  in  uiiivcrsiil  esteem  and  had  the  confi- 
dence and  regard  of  the  entire  community. 

Of  the  Cutter  family,  our  subject  was  the  elde>t. 
William,  the  .second  son,  was  born  in  New  .lersey, 
ill  1S2(!,  wedded  .Mary  .lane  Harvey  and  resides  in 
Kansas.  Kxperienee,  born  in  IH2K,  became  the 
wife  of  (ieorge  (irammer,  a  successful  farmer  of 
this  and  Pike  County.  Charlotte  R.,  twin  in  1833, 
is  the  wife  of  James  M.  Harvey,  a  resident  farmer 
of  Kansjus,  who  was  the  first  man  who  ever  served 
two  terms  as  Governor  of  theSt«t«;  he  also  served 
one  term  in  the  I'nited  .State  .Senate.  .Samuel,  born 
ill  Adams  County,  in  ]H:ii\.  married  .Vnnie  Ames, 
and  lives  in  Kansas.  The  next  child,  Tabitlia,  wsus 
born  in  1K39,  is  the  wife  of  William  Perry  Rnbarl, 
and  also  lives  in  Kansas.  Klizabeth.  the  young- 
est, is  the  wife  of  William  Lawson,  who  served 
in  the  war  as  a  member  of  Company  K,  Seventv- 
eighth  Illinois  I  nfantry, and  w.-u*  seriously  wounded 
in  the  head  at  lientonville,  N.  C.  He  rasides  upon 
the  farm  with  our  subject. 

We  now  take  up  the  personal  history  of  Andrew 
Cutter,  whose  education  wa.s  limited  to  what  little 
he  could  get  during  the  winter  tci-ms  of  the  common 
schools,  greatly  aided  by  his  reading  an<l  oliserva- 
tion.  He  carl3-  became  the  main  help  of  his  father 
in  the  farm  work,  laboring  hard  and  living  plainly, 
as  was  the  custom  of  the  country.  He  has  seen 
many  doer  on  the  prairie  and  nil  kinds  of  small 
game  were  very  plentiful.  He  aided  in  devel<»p- 
ing  the  farm  and  made  his  home  with  his  parents, 
with  the  exception  of  two  years  in  California.  On 
and  after  the  death  of  his  parents,  he  became  bv 
inlieritiince,  and  later  by  purchase,  the  owner  of 
four  hundred  .•iiid  fmly  acres  of  arable  timber 
and  pasture  land,  all  fairly   fenced  and   improved. 

.Mr.  Cutter  is  ranked  among  the  m:in\  modest 
farmers  of  lleverly.  He  lia.s  had  his  full  share  of 
trouble  with  lightning-rod  men.  spectacle  and 
i|uack-inediciiie  peddlers  an<l  insurance  and  Itook 
agents.  In  polities,  he  is  a  Republican.  He  feels 
proud  that  he  ha.s  earned  the  bread  that  he  lias 
eaten,  and  is  not  unmindful  that  he  is  of 


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PORTEAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


"  Those  who,  coming  first,  build  up  for  those  who 

follow, 
Sliapiiig  the  future  though  they  know  not  of  it; 
As  on  the  slow-wrought  ledges  coralline 
The  continents  of  future  times  are  seen.'' 


■iY'OHN  M.  CABBELL.  A  varied  and  inter- 
esting experience  is  that  which  is  insepara- 
I  bl}'  connected  and  woven  into  the  life  of 
'  our  subject,  who  is  a  mechanical  engineer, 
at  present  in  the  Government  employ  on  the  boat 
"Alert,"  and  who  is  one  of  the  oldest  engineers 
on  the  Mississippi  River.  Mr.  C^abbell  was  born  in 
Carrollton, Greene  County,  111.,  August  28,  1828. 
lie  is  a  son  of  John  and  a  grandson  of  William 
Cabbell,  tlie  latter  born  in  Halifax  County,  Vt., 
wliere  lie  was  a  farmer.  The  family  is  of  English 
origin. 

Our  subject's  father  was  a  farmer  in  early  days 
in  Adair  County,  Ky.  In  1824,  he  came  to 
Greene  County,  and  there  engaged  in  farming  \in- 
til  iiis  decease.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  will,  emo- 
tions and  principles.  In  politics,  he  was  a  Jack- 
sonian  Democrat.  Our  subject's  mother,  wlio  in 
her  girlhood  was  a  Miss  Mary  Willis,  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  was  a  daughter  of  William  Willis, 
who  went  to  Kentucky  from  ^'irginia,  and  there 
engaged  in  farming.  Mrs.  Cabbell  lived  until  the 
ripe  old  age  of  eighty-five  years,  her  decease  occur- 
ring in  187fi.  Both  she  and  her  husband  were 
members  of  the  Christian  Church.  She  was  the 
mother  of  nine  children,  of  whom  four  are  living, 
and  our  subject  was  the  second  youngest  of  this 
number. 

.Idhii  M.  Cabbell  was  reared  in  Greene  County 
until  sixteen  years  of  age.  He  had  but  limited 
school  advantages,  attending  only  two  or  three 
winters,  and  his  studies  being  carried  on  in  the 
old-time  log  schoolhouse,  where  the  methods  were 
of  the  crudest  nature.  On  the  death  of  his  father, 
he  started  out  for  himself,  and  came  to  Quincy  in 
1 8-1 5.  lie  helped  put  in  the  machinery  in  the 
Miller  distillery,  and  then  went  on  a  boat  as  assist- 


ant engineer,  working  under  his  brother  on  the 
"Senator,"  whose  captain  w.as  Capt.  Iverns.  After 
one  tri|)  on  that,  he  was  appointed  on  the  boat 
•'Time,"  then  was  engaged  for  five  months  on  the 
"St.  .loBepli,"  and  on  other  boats  ran  up  the  river 
for  many  years.  He  soon  demonstrated  his  ability 
in  his  chosen  line,  and  was  advanced  to  be  first 
engineer,  and  has  ever  since  been  so  engaged.  For 
twenty-five  years  he  was  subject  to  the  ordeis  of 
but  one  man,  and  ran  from  Keokuk  to  St.  Louis. 
As  he  was  on  different  boats  of  the  line  during 
that  time,  he  became  familiar  with  everything  in 
the  lleet. 

During  the  war, our  subject  was  pressed  into  ser- 
vice, and  took  part  in  different  river  fights.  He 
was  at  Pittsburgh  Landing,  N'icksburg  and  Mem- 
phis. Since  then  he  has  been  running  on  various 
lines.  In  1881,  he  took  a  short  vacation,  and  in 
1885  entered  upon  an  engagement  with  the  (iov- 
ernment  on  the  "Coal  Bluff."  Ilisnext  boat  was 
the  "Success,"  later  the  ".I.  (J.  Parke,"  and  he  is 
now  on  the  "Alert,"  which  is  used  in  towing  stone 
barges,  and  is  also  employed  in  the  building  and 
repairing  of  dams.  So  familiar  is  Mr.  Cabbell  with 
his  profession,  that  he  knows  every  crook  and  turn 
of  the  Mississippi  River,  and  can  tell  just  wliere  he 
is  by  tiie  slightest  indications.  He  has  escaped 
many  river  disasters.  He  was  on  the  "Golden 
Eagle"  when  it  was  burned,  and  on  the  "Anthony 
Wayne"  when  it  sank,  and  also  upon  other  ves- 
sels in  time  of  danger. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  t^uincy.  February  20, 
1855,  his  bride  being  Miss  Harriet  Mum,  who  was 
born  in  Clarksville,  Mo.  Mr.  Cabbell  was  the  first 
engineer  in  the  Fnited  States  Custom  House  in 
Quincy,  and  it  was  he  who  opened  and  set  the 
oHlce  in  working  order.  Of  course  he  has  much 
information  at  command  regarding  the  river  ser- 
vice that  is  very  interesting.  He  states  that  the 
first  steamboat  that  came  up  the  Mississippi  River 
was  the  "Missouri  IMaid,"  and  its  first  trip  was 
made  in  1814.  It  scared  the  blacks  along  the 
shores  so  badly  that  they  Hew  in  terror  to  their 
neiglibors,  thinking  that  the  Resurrection  Day  had 
surely  come.  The  first  boat  that  ever  came  up  the 
river  had  what  they  call  a  "Texas"  (a  small  cabin  on 
topof  the  main  roof).    This  was  the  "St.  Anthony-," 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


593 


and  it  came  up  the  river  in  1846.  In  his  time  he 
has  made  some  improvements  in  his  line,  which 
he  lias  found  valuable  adjuncts  to  his  engines.  He 
used  t<>  kn<iw  all  the  old  river  captains,  but  finds 
thai  there  have  lieen  many  changes  in  later  years. 
Mr.  C'abbell  is  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  one  of 
the  oldest  settlers  in  <^uincy.  and.  aside  f  ix>m  his  em- 
ployment under  the  Government,  he  is  working  at 
the  Tellico  Mills  as  engineer.  He  hassupterintended 
the  setting  of  the  machinery  in  many  of  the  mills 
In  the  citv. 


^^^f 


REDERIC  K  BOYD.  Our  subject  is  a  re- 
)^(g)  tired  manufactui-er.  residing  in  the  city  of 
X  O'liuf.'*'-     11^  ""^  born    in    Boston.    Mass.. 

in  April,  1824,  and  is  a  son  of  James  and  Mar- 
g.iret  (Curry)  Bovd.  His  paternal  grandfather 
was  Hugh  Boyd,  and  his  maternal  grandsire  Fran- 
cis Curry.  Our  subject's  father  was  born  in  New- 
townard.  Ireland.  November  11.  1793.  and  came  to 
America  in  1817.  settling  in  Boston.  He  was  of 
Scotch-Irish  extraction,  and  was  educated  for  the 
Presbyterian  ministry,  but  afterward  Ijecame  a 
Tnilarian.  He  was  a  harness-maker  by  trade,  and 
conducted  an  extensive  establishment  of  that  sort 
in  lV>?ton.  He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  and 
served  two  terms.  The  Boy ds are  descended  from 
the  Stewarts  of  Scotland,  coming  from  Kilmar- 
nock. 

Frederick  Boyd  spent  his  boyhocnl  and  youth 
up  to  twenty  years  of  age  in  his  native  city.  He 
received  the  best  instruction  to  l>e  had  in  the  pul»- 
lic  sc-hools.  and  w.is  graduated  from  the  Engers 
High  School  in  1839.  Aftor  leaving  school  he 
was  eni|iloyed  in  the  mercantile  house  of  Water- 
sou  A-  Pi-ay  for  two  years.  He  then  learned  civil 
engineering,  and  joined  his  father  in  Cannelton. 
Ind.,  in  1884,  and  became  interested  with  him  in 
the  coal  business,  in  which  he  continued  fi>r  twelve 
years. 

In  the  fall  of  18.56.  our  subject  removed  to 
C^uincy,  and  embarked  in  the  manufacture  of  agri- 


cultural  implements,  in  paniiiiMJiji  with 'William 
Battell  and  Henry  D.  Wo<.>druff,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Battell,  Woodrufif  i  Boyd.  .  This  partner- 
ship lasted  until  1866.  when  it  was  dissolved,  and 
our  subject  went  into  business  with  Jaxne?  W»iod- 
ruflf,  being  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  pai)er 
in  Ouincy.  He  continued  in  this  for  a  time,  wlien. 
disixjsing  of  his  interests,  he  lieoamc  Assistant  Cash- 
ier of  the  First  National  Bank  of  0"iicy,  which 
position  he  occ-upied  until  the  fall  of  1889.  when, 
on  ac-c-ount  of  failing  health,"  he  w>is  c-ompelled  to 
retire. 

Mr.  Boyd  is  proud  to  record  the  fact  that  he  is, 
and  has  I>een  for  a  number  of  years,  a  stanch  Re- 
publican. He  cast  his  first  vote  for  Zachary  Tav- 
lor.  and  was  a  delegate  from  the  F'irst  District  of 
Indiana  at  his  nomination  in  1»48.  Our  sub- 
ject's marriage  took  place  in  1850,  when  he  united 
his  fate  for  better  or  woi-se  with  that  of  Elizal)eth. 
daughter  of  John  Dalzell.  of  Davcnjorl,  Iowa. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boyd  are  the  parents  t.f  two  sons 
and  one  daughter.  John  D.  lives  in  this  city; 
Margaret  C.  is  the  wife  of  George  Castle,  of 
Ouincy;  and  Frederick  Boyd.  Jr..  now  lives  in  To- 
ledo. Ohio.  The  family  rc-?idenee  is  an  attractive 
place.  Io.at.-d  at  No.  1457  York  Street. 


AMPLE  HlfOWN.  asuct^essful    agricultur- 

i?t  and  representative   citizen    of  Concord 

71   Township.   Adams    County,   w.os  bom    in 

Washington  County.  Piu.  in  1819.  I^ft  at 
the  tender  age  of  ten  years  a  desolate  orphan,  he 
early  began  the  Iwttle  of  life.  an<I  has  by  his  ^.wn 
unaided  efforts  won  a  position  of  honor  and  use- 
fulness, and  in  the  evening  of  his  a^e  eujovs  a 
comi>et«nce.  the  well-earnetl  rewanl  of  self-reliant 
and  courageous  effort.  His  parents.  Benjamin  and 
Jane  Brown,  were  the  father  and  mother  of  seven 
children,  of  whom  our  subject  is  the  sole  survivor, 
the  two  sisters  and  four  brothers  having  long  since 
passed  to  their  rest. 


594 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


For  two  years  after  tlie  death  of  his  parents, 
our  subject  resided  with  different  parties,  and  at 
twelve  years  of  age  was  bound  out,  and  after  var- 
ious experiences  finally  went  to  work  for  Mr.  Wal- 
ter Davis,  and  remained  with  him,  engaged  in 
farming  duties,  for  four  years.  Our  subject  had 
now  arrived  at  an  age  where  he  desired  to  make 
for  himself  a  home  and  fortune,  and  for  the  next 
few  j^ears  bravely  fought  his  waj-  upward.  After 
engaging  in  various  ventures  and  farming  in  dif- 
ferent localities,  he  finally  settled  in  Illinois, 
and  leasing  land  from  Charles  Chase,  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits  upon  a  farm,  situated 
about  four  miles  from  the  citj-  of  Quinc.y. 

At  the  expiration  of  four  years,  he  made  a 
change  in  location,  but  still  remained  in  Illinois. 
Seeking  to  better  himself,  Mr.  Brown  made  other 
changes,  and  finally  liuught  land  in  Adams 
County,  purchasing  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
from  a  party  in  Quincy,  paying  *4  per  acre  for  the 
homestead,  which  he  successfully  cultivated  the 
succeeding  thirty-four  3-ears.  After  this  continued 
residence  our  subject  decided  to  sell  the  old  home 
to  his  son,  who  purchased  tiie  farm  for  *i.S,300. 
Mr.  Brown  then  bought  his  present  farm  of  two  hun- 
dred acres,  finely  improved,  paying  for  the  same 
$17.55  per  acre.  The  cares  of  life  have  been  shared 
by  the  faithful  wife  of  our  subject,  Jane  Nolan,  who 
was  born  in  1820,  and  married  in  1839.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Brown  are  the  parents  of  eleven  children, 
and  of  this  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters, 
six  are  yet  living,  and  are  well  situated  in  life,  en- 
joying the  esteem  and  respect  of  all  who  know 
them.  Our  subject  and  his  wife  are  leading  mem- 
bers of  the  Presliyterian  Church  at  Clayton,  Mr. 
Brown  having  been  connected  with  that  religious 
organization  fifteen  years,  and  his  wife  a  member 
for  twentj'  J'ears,  and  they  are  both  active  in  its 
religious  and  benevolent  enterprises. 

Our  subject  is  a  stalwart  Republican,  and  takes 
a  deep  interest  in  the  affairs  of  his  party.  He  has 
never  aspired  to  political  promotion,  but  held  the 
position  of  School  Director  for  twelve  j-ears,  and 
is  an  ardent  advocate  of  educational  advancement, 
which  was  an  important  factor  in  the  upbuilding 
and  extension  of  the  needed  facilities  for  instruction 
demanded  by  the  higher  grade  of  scholarship  now 


attainable.  A  constant  resident  of  Adams  County 
for  more  than  two-score  years,  Mr.  Brown  has  dur- 
ing this  entire  length  of  time  identified  himself 
with  all  the  growing  interests  anil  rapid  develop- 
ment of  liis  locality,  and  is  known  to  the  commu- 
nity by  whom  he  is  surrounded  as  a  man  of  higli 
integrity  and  honor,  who,  with  energy  and  honest 
industry,  has  attained  an  enviable  place  and  high 
record  among  his  fellow-cilizens. 


i^'  ^  *(  'I' 


iIlOMAS  A.  DAVISON  is  a  resident  of  Mc- 
I T^N  ^^^®  Township  and  is  well  known  as  one  of 
V^/'  the  representative  men  of  this  localitj".  He 
was  born  in  1841  and  is  a  son  of  .Tames  Davison, 
whose  birth  took  place  in  Ohio  in  1814.  His  wife 
was  also  a  native  of  Ohio  and  was  born  in  1818. 
During  the  very  early  history  of  Cincinnati,  Grand- 
father Davison  was  a  resident  there.  He  was  also 
through  all  the  War  of  1812. 

Our  subject's  father  was  a  large  land-owner  in 
those  early  da^s,  and  being  a  devout  Methodist  in 
a  time  before  Methodism  affected  the  fine  houses 
of  worship  which  they  now  have,  his  home  was 
not  only  an  abiding-place  for  itinerant  preacheis 
but  also  frequently  served  asa  meeting-house.  He 
was  a  natural  organizer  and  was  also  in  the  lead 
in  all  progressive  work.  His  decease,  which  oc- 
curred in  1890,  was  the  occasion  for  many  memo- 
rials from  old  friends  and  early  settlers  in  Ohio, 
lauding  his  many  excellent  qualities.  In  1839,  he 
was  elected  to  a  public  ofliee  in  tlie  State.  He  was 
the  father  of  the  following  children:  Harmon  H., 
Ph(»be,  Eva,  James,  Jacob,  Laura  I.,  Ella  and 
Emma,  besides  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  The  first- 
named  is  a  minister  of  the  Gospel  in  the  jMethodist 
Episcopal  Church.  The  eldest  daughter,  who  was 
born  August  20,  1836,  married  Mr.  Stokes. 
Jacob,  who  died  in  1877,  was  a  prominent  physi- 
cian. Laura  married  Capt.  Emanuel  Cross.  Ella, 
who  married  Frank  Harper,  is  a  lady  of  marked 
ability  in  a  literary  way.  The  youngest  daughter 
married  Conrad  Hughes. 


T(»i;ii;Air  and  BiuuiiAi'iiicAi.  liixouD. 


r.9r. 


tlur  suliji'i  t  was  nmiriccl  lu  MIn-  iluldnli  I.ee, 
who  was  Imiii  ami  ImimI  in  llliiidis.  Slic  w.v  a 
(laiiglitor  iif  William  l.t'o,  who  was  finin  lln'  same 
fainil\  as  (Jen.  Holicrt  K.  I-cp.  Mi. and  Mrs.  Davi- 
son havi'  lioi'n  Ihe  parunt*  of  thrcf  chiltlri-n.  whosi- 
names  arc  George  L.,  Tlionias  and  Paul.  The  lirst- 
nanied  was  horn  in  IHTi',  the  scconcl  in  1M7'.*  and 
the  Ihirtl  in  IHHti, 


w<C> 


i>-^<i 


w^^ 


iK4   "•'"*'^   •'^-  •^■-^'^•'•'•I"  of  (^lin^•,\.   was  horn 
»/     A     in  this  city  Mav  27,  1KI7,  and  helon.us  to  a 
*       A  family  which  traces  its    ancestry    to  Knji;- 
'''  land  and  France.      His    grandfatlicr,  .lohn 

Cahell,  was  horn  in  A'irginia.  and  helontred  to  one 
of  the  V.  V.  Vs.  During  the  War  of  1K12  he 
served  in  tlie  defense  of  the  .Slates,  and  afterward 
ensrnired  extensively  in  farming  operations,  heing 
an  inlhiential  and  sni'ccssful  planter. 

The  father  of  fmr  suhject,  Samuel  (i.  Cahell, 
was  horn  in  the  Old  Dominion,  whence  he  re- 
moved to  Cincinnati  and  hecanie  an  engineer  on 
an  Ohio  steamhoal.  Ahoul  1H42,  he  locnlcd  in 
t^uincy.  and  for  a  time  was  engineer  on  the  old 
McCune  l.ine,  hut  later  honght  two  hoats,  the 
"  William  Camjihell  "'  and  the  "  .'^t.  Mary."  These 
lie  ran  lietween  St.  Louis  anil  .S(.  I'aul:  later,  he- 
tween  St.  Louis  and  Omaha.  In  the  fall  of  IHGO, 
he  went  down  the  Mississippi  and  u|)  the  Red 
River,  and  while  in  the  Soutli  was  pressed  into 
the  Confederate  army.  Three  years  afleiward  he 
went  to  W^ashington,  D.  ('..  where  he  occupies  a 
residence  on  Kast  Capitol  Ilill.  Of  an  inventive 
turn  of  niiiiil,  he  has  taken  out  ninety-six  letters 
patent,  some  of  which  have  proved  very  lucra- 
tive. 

Cecelia  Harris,  lus  tlie  mother  of  our  suhject  was 
known  in  maidenhood,  was  l)orn  in  Kentucky,  and 
died  in  Ohio  in  187K.  Our  suhject.  the  third 
among  six  children,  received  the  advantages  of  a 
common-school  cducjilion  until  lie  was  thirteen 
years  of  age.  He  then  went  on  the  river,  first  on 
the    "  Ui  Vernon  "    and   later    on   the  "Hannibal 


City."  Ffir  some  yeais  he  was  assistant  engineer, 
and  later  was  head  engineer  on  more  than  twenty- 
live  diflPerent  Ijoats.  While  Ihusengaged,  he  trav- 
eled as  far  North  as  St.  Paul,  and  as  far  South  as 
New  Orleans;  aUo  went  to  Omaha,  anil  fortunately 
never  had  an  accident. 

When  ahoul  twenty-six  years  of  age.  .\li-.  Cahell 
resigned  his  position  as  head  engineer  on  the 
river,  to  .accept  the  position  as  engineer  in  the 
Castle  .Mills,  where  he  remained  ahout  twelve 
years.  Next  he  held  a  similar  [losition  in  the  (iem 
City  Mills,  where  he  remained  for  four  yeai-s. 
Since  IUHH.  he  has  heen  chief  engineer  in  the  Tell- 
ico  Mills.  Like  his  father,  he  (lossesses  an  inven- 
tive minil.  and  some  of  his  inventions  are  already 
in  common  use.  In  IMKX,  he  invented  and  pat- 
ented an  electro  hoiler  cleaner:  in  1HH2,  he  took 
out  a  patent  on  a  sight  feed  lubricator  for  luhrical- 
ing  cylinders  for  steam  engines,  and  engaged  in 
manufacturing  them  in  this  city  until  lMH!t.  when 
he  sold  the  patent  to  W^asliington  parlies. 

In  1H80,  Mr.  Cahell  went  to  Washington,  D.  ('., 
where  he  founded  a  stix-k  company,  the  Klectioand 
M.agnctic  Boiler  Cleaner  Company,  for  the  manu- 
facture of  his  patent  electro  hoiler  cleaners.  The 
company  is  still  in  existence  and  is  doing  a  prosper- 
ous busines.s.  Mr.  Cabell  h.as  recently  invented  and 
patented  a  gas  eciuKimi/.er  foi'  feducing  and  eipial- 
i/.ing  the  pressure,  and  in  March,  1M92,  formed  a 
stock  company  known  as  the  t^uincy  (Jas  Kcono- 
mi/.er  Comiiany,  with  our  suhji-ct  as  general  man- 
ager. One  of  the  best-known  of  our  subject's  in- 
ventions is  the  electro-galvanic  boiler  cleaner, 
which  he  manufactures  in  t^uincy.  in  parlnei-ship 
with  A.  1$.  Kaunce,  the  lirm  name  being  .M.  S.  Ca- 
bell it  Co.  They  also  manufacture  the  •'  King 
lice  "  steam  Hue  cleaner,  which  w:is  patented  by 
.Mr.  Cabell  DecemUM-  30,  188L  He  has  taken  out 
sixteen  letters  patent,  one  of  his  latest  inventions 
heing  a  grease  cup  for  oiling  steam  engines. 

On  the  corner  of  York  and  fourth  Streets,  Mr. 
Cabell  has  a  comfortable  residence,  and  in  addi- 
tion he  owns  foin- other  houses  in  this  city.  His 
marriage,  at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  in  lH(;."i,  united  him 
with  Miss  Nellie  Martin,  who  was  born  in  War- 
saw, III.  They  .-ire  the  parents  of  one  ehild,  Sam- 
uel M.,  who    is    assistant    engineer    at    the  Tellico 


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PORTRAIT  AXD  BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD. 


Mills.  Politically,  Mr.  Cabell  is  a  Democrat  He 
is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  and  is  identified  with  the 
Ivnights  of  Pythias.  He  belongs  to  the  Fii-st  Bap- 
tist Chureli  of  Quincy,  and  is  numbered  among 
those  upright  and  public-spirited  citizens  of 
whom  their  townsmen  are  justly  proud. 


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,^^  AMUEL  II.  BRADLEY,  the  subject  of  the 
^^^  present  sketch,  is  well  and  favorably  known 
](\£_^'  in  Adams  County,  especially  in  and 
around  the  town  of  Men  don,  where  he  has 
held  the  principal  public  ofHces  in  the  gift  of  the 
people.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject  wa?  Sam- 
uel Bradlej-.  a  native  of  Connecticut,  who  came  of 
a  familv  that  settled  there  about  16.54.  He  came 
West  in  1831.  and  located  in  what  is  now  Mendon 
Township,  two  miles  west  of  the  village,  on  a  wild 
and  unimproved  farm,  where  he  continued  to  re- 
side up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  In 
1846.  Djiniel  Bradley,  the  father  of  .Simuel  H., 
was  also  a  native  of  Connecticut,  and  came  "West 
with  his  father's  family  and  settled  on  an  adjoin- 
ing farm,  where  he  remained  until  1852,  when  he 
removed  to  the  viiiage.  The  neighbors  in  those 
early  days  were  as  far  aparl  .is  are  the  towns  and 
villages  now,  and  few  who  to-day  enjoy  the 
goodly  heritage  left  by  those  self-sacrificing  men 
who  first  settled  this  country  and  left  upon  it 
their  impress  for  good,  can  realize  its  cost  to 
their  ancestors  in  the  way  of  separation  from 
friends  and  the  hardships  and  privations  of  pio- 
neer life  and  the  discour.igements  even  to-day  so 
common  in  the  settlement  of  a  new  country.  The 
ISradlejs  brought  with  them  from  their  New  Eng- 
land home  the  steady  habits  attributable  to  that 
country.  They  were  active  and  prominent  in  the 
organization  of  the  Congregational  Church  in 
-Mendon,  the  first  of  that  denomination  in  the 
State  of  Illinois,  and  were  consistent  members  and 
among  its  most  liberal  snpportere  as  long  as  they 
lived. 

Daniel    Bradlev   to  the  time  of    his   death,    in 


1867,  was  prominent  as  a  business  man  in  public 
matters,  and  m  politics  w.-js  a  Republican  from  the 
earliest  formation  of  the  part\-.  having  previously 
been  a  Whig  and  Free-soiler.  The  mother  of  our 
subject  was  Josephine  Brown,  a  native  of  Rens- 
selaer County,  >'.  Y..  who  was  born  in  180.5.  She 
came  West  in  1831,  and  was  married  to  Mr. 
Bradley  in  1834.  She  still  survives  in  well-pre- 
served old  age,  residing  in  Mendon.  which,  with  the 
county  around,  she  has  seen  develop  from  a 
wilderness,  inhabited  only  by  redmen  and  wild 
beasts,  to  a  country  of  the  highest  grade  of  civili- 
zation, teeming  with  the  comforts  and  luxuries  of 
life.  She  is  one  of  the  oldest  living  members  of 
the  Congregational  Church. 

Mr.  Bradley,  of  this  notice,  is  one  of  seven  chil- 
dren, five  of  whom  are  now  living.  They  are  be- 
sides himself:  Ellen,  .Josephine  B..  Kimball  and 
Daniel  A.  Our  subject  was  born  October  11,  1838, 
on  the  Bradley  farm  in  Mendon  Township.  He 
received  a  common-school  and  business  education, 
after  which  for  a  few  years  he  engaged  in  merchan- 
dising, followed  by  the  milling  business;  of  late  he 
has  been  doing  a  general  shipping  business,  prin- 
ciijally  in  grain. 

3Ir.  Bradley,  like  his  father  and  grandfather,  is  a 
member  and  supporter  of  the  Congregational 
Church.  He  is  a  man  socialh'  inclined,  belongs  to 
the  Masons  and  is  now  and  has  for  many  years 
been  Master  of  Mendon  Lodge  No.  449.  F.  <t'  A. 
M.;  he  also  was  for  many  years  High  Priest  of 
Mendon  Chapter  No.  1.57,  R.  A.  M.;  is  a  member  of 
El  Aksa  Commandery  No.  55,  K.  T.,  Quincy,  111., 
and  of  Mendon  Chapter,  O.  E.  .S.;  and  has  been  Dis- 
trict Deputy  Grand  Marshal  for  the  district  in 
which  he  resides.  Politically,  Mr.  Bradley  is  a 
Republican,  and  takes  a  leading  and  active  part  in 
politics,  is  Chairman  of  the  Township  Committee 
and  a  member  of  the  C'ount\-  Central  Committee. 
He  is  now  serving  his  fourth  terra  as  President  of 
the  village,  and  was  for  a  long  time  a  member  of 
the  Council;  he  is  also  serving  his  fifth  year  .as 
Supervisor  of  Mendon  Township. 

Ml.  Bradley  is  well  thought  of  and  highly  re- 
spected in  the  community  where  he  resides,  .is  well 
as  wherever  known,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of 
Mendon's   most   public-spirited    and   enterprising 


prtRTRAII     \N1»  T'.T«^;UA1'H1CAL  RECORD. 


citizen.-.  Maii.v  of  it.*  iiii|iriiVL-iiK'iiU.  Iniili  iiui'hc 
anil  priv.nU',  .ire  tlio  rftiull  <>f  liis  imtirin<r  t'ner<ry 
anil  f)er?istent  advocacy  of  Ihe  same.  He  i;-  always 
really  to  ilo  his  full  >liare  in  |iromotins»  the  public 
welfare  and  the  2eneial  |ir<>*|>erity  tif  the  whole 
communitv. 


\fjj;-.  H.  K.MMlNci.V,  who  is  en<raired  in  the 
milling  business  in  Golden,  having  carried 
on  oj)ei-ations  in  thi>  line  since    187i«.  is  a 

g^  native  <>f  Auricb.  (iermany.  He  wa?  l>orn 
in  1850.  and  is  a  sc>n  of  Henry  K.  and  Mai-garet 
Kmininsra.  who  were  also  born  in  the  Fatherland, 
the  former  in  1829,  and  the  latter  in  1824.  Their 
family  numbered  four  sons  and  four  daughters,  of 
whom  our  subject  is  the  only  i>ne  living  of  the 
family. 

With  his  parents,  our  subject  emigrated  to 
.\merica.  in  18,51,  and  under  the  parental  roof 
the  days  of  his  l>oyhood  and  youth  were  passed. 
As  a  companion  and  helpmate  on  life's  journey  lie 
chose  Miss  K.  Mary  Genibler,  who  was  bom  near 
.San  .\ntonio.  Tex.,  in  1H.54,  their  marriage  Iteing 
celebrated  in  1H72.  Br  this  union  have  been 
born  two  children,  a  daughtei  and  a  s()n:  Mar- 
garet, who  was  liorn  in  .Vdams  County,  April  5, 
1873,  was  educated  in  St.  Mary's  Convent  of 
l^uincy:  and  .Tfihn  .Jacob,  who  was  tK>rn  May  .30, 
187.'>.  was  graduated  from  the  Gem  City  Hu«inpss 
College  of  (juincy. 

With  the  exception  of  seven  years,  from  18ti.S 
to  1870,  which  Mr.  Kmminga  lived  with  his  par- 
ents in  Germany,  he  has  lieen  a  resident  of  this 
county  since  they  c-anie  to  this  country.  In  187.3. 
our  subject  and  his  father  estalilished  themselves 
in  the  milling  business  at  Golden,  under  the  firm 
name  of  II.  R.  Kmminga  A-  Son,  and  erected  the 
I'niirie  Mills.  In  1879.  he  l>ought  out  his 
father,  and  has  since  conducted  the  business  under 
his  own  name.  "The  New  Kra  Mills"  were 
also   erected    by    him.  in    1889,    with    a   capacity 


of  two  hundred  ^«rrels.  of  the  full  roller  sys- 
tem. Mr.  Kmminga  is  now  enjoying  an  excellent 
trade  in  this  line,  having  by  fair  and  honest  deal- 
ing and  c'lurteous  treatment  of  his  patrons  se- 
cured a  liberal  patronage,  not  only  in  this  county, 
hut  al.so  in  Europe.  Large  quantities  of  flour  are 
directly  sfild  and  expf>rted  to  Great  Britain, 
France,  Holland,  etc.,  and  also  the  West  lii<ii<-s. 
In  connei-tion  with  this,  he  deals  in  all  kinds  of 
grain  and  seeds,  and  also  does  a  small  hanking 
business  for  the  accommodation  of  the  [leople  in 
his  vicinity. 

In  his  i»olitical  .itliliations.  Mr.  Kmminga  is  a 
Hepiibiican.  w:ifmiy  advocating  the  principles  of 
that  party,  but  h-as  never  sought  or  desired  the  hon- 
ors or  emoluments  of  public  office.  He  holds  mem- 
l>ership  with  the  Lutheran  I'rotestant  Church,  and 
takes  an  active  interest  in  its  growth  and  u|»- 
building.  He  is  one  of  the  wide-awake  and  en- 
terprising young  business  men  of  fiolden,  and  al- 
though of  German  birth,  the  village  has  no  better 
citizen  than  our  subjwi.  who  is  a  public-spirited 
and  progressive  man. 


=  •»♦-- ^> 


iEORGE  W.  Ft)f;(;.  The  i«>fe*ion  of  law 
affords  a  field  for  the  exercise  of  mental 
ability  and  talents  that  are  used  to  the 
same  advantage  in  no  other  line  of  life.  To  l>e  a 
giKxl  lawyer  requires  not  only  high  nienLal  cajiac- 
ity  ill  the  w.iy  of  keen  perceptions  and  excellent 
memory,  but  a  ready  command  of  language,  cool- 
ness, self-|K>ssession.  .nnd  a  self-sustained  lieariii^ 
under  all  circumstances.  The  gentleman  wh<->r^' 
life  history  it  is  our  purpose  to  sketch,  is  one  of 
the  prominent  lawyers  at  Quincy.  in  full  prndiiv 
in  all  the  courtt^  of  his  State. 

Simon  Fogg,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  Inirn  at  Limerick,  York  County.  Me. 
He  was  eihu-ated  as  a  to|Higra|iliicnl  and  mechani- 
cal engineer,  and  was  a  son  of  Maj.  Simon  Fogg, 
formerlN  of  the  I'liited  States  army,  a  gentleman 
of  remote  Welsh  and  Kngiish  descent.     The  maiden 


598 


PORTRAIT  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD. 


uame  of  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  tliis  sketch 
was  Hannah  W.  Kcnneston;  she  was  a  native  of 
Somerset  County,  lie.  and  was  of  English  descent, 
related  to  the  Coggswells  and  Witlierells,  of  Maine, 
and  to  the  Browns,  of  Massachusetts,  one  of  whom 
was  an  earlj'  Governor  of  that  State. 

George  W.  Fogg,  the  subject  uf  this  sketch,  was 
horn  in  Portland,  Me.,  .Tunc  '20,  1843,  and  was  the 
eldest  son  of  a  family  of  two  daughters  and  six 
sons,  of  whom  the  daughters  died  in  infancy,  and 
only  three  of  the  sons  are  now  living.  His  early 
school  days  were  passed  at  his  birthplace:  later 
he  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  classical  acad- 
emies of  Limington,  and  Corinth,  and  Hampden, 
in  his  native  State.  Entering  Howdoin  College, 
young  Fogg  there  pursued  his  studies  until  the 
end  of  his  junior  year,  when  he  left  college  to  en- 
ter the  service  of  his  country.  In  October,  1862, 
lie  enlisted  in  Company  B,  Seventh  Maine  In- 
fantry, the  regiment  being  then  commanded  by 
Col.  E.  C.  Mason,  of  the  regular  army.  His  regi- 
jnent  was  assigned  to  the  Second  Division  of  the 
Sixth  Army  Corps — .Sedgwick's  Corps.  He  was 
shortly  after  commissioned  as  a  First  Lieutenant 
of  that  regiment,  and  was  thereafter  a  participant 
in  all  the  actions  in  which  that  celebrated  corps 
was  engaged,  and,  on  his  regiment  being  consoli- 
dated with  two  others  as  the  Maine  "\'eteran  In- 
fantry, he  was  commissioned  as  Major  of  that  bat- 
tallion,  which  position  he  held  until  the  conclusion 
of  the  war,  when  he  was  honorablv  discharged. 


Returning  to  his  home  at  the  close  of  the  war, 
young  Fogg  entered  the  law  department  of  the 
Harvard  Fniversity,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1868  with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  During  his 
residence  there,  he  took  a  special  course  and  re- 
ceived special  instruction  in  the  modern  languages 
and  natural  science  in  that  institution,  the  better 
to  fit  himself  for  the  legal  arena.  Immediately 
after  his  graduation  he  came  to  Quincv,  111., 
and  became  a  student  in  the  law  office  of  Messrs. 
Browning  A'  Hushnell,  then,  and  for  many  years, 
one  of  the  leading  law  firms  of  that  State.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  of  that  State  in  1869,  and  re- 
mained with  the  above-named  firm  three  years, 
after  which  he  opened  an  office  in  that  city,  and 
has  since  continued  there,  engaged  in  a  general 
law  practice  in  the  local,  State  and  federal  courts. 

Our  subject  married  Miss  Katharine  V.  Dills, 
daughter  of  ex-Postniaster  Harrison  Dills,  of  that 
city,  in  1870.  To  them  have  been  born  two  daugh- 
ters, Lillian  K.  and  Helen  B.  Mr.  Fogg  had 
the  great  misfortune  in  1886  to  lose  his  most  es- 
timable wife.  Since  then  he  has  remained  unmar- 
ried. He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
and  for  man^'  years  has  been  a  communicant  and 
a  vestryman  of  the  parish  of  the  Church  of  the 
Good  Shepherd,  (^uincy.  He  is  a  good  citizen, 
and  a  gentleman  of  high  personal  honor  and  in- 
tegrity. In  politics,  he  has  been  a  life-long  Dem- 
ocrat, the  worthy  descendant  of  a  sterling  old 
Democratic  famil_y  of  the  Pine  Tree  State. 


11^  ^.K 


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BI0GRfI©5l(9fIIj. 


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Allen.  J.  A 3t« 

AU-sliin'.J.  H.,M.D 1.1« 

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AloxaiKl.T.  K.  J i»i 

AltenhelD,  K.  C 1S2 

.\neal8,  F.  .\ 178 

Arniokl,  Frank 185 

Arthur,  Chester  A »» 

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Aumann,  H.  E.  C 31i 


B 


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Bartlelt,S.  P S87 

Bartlvll .  S.  Jl Mil 

Bates.  W.l 12S 

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Baunipirtner,  A.  L IXt 

Beaily.K.  W 125 

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H4-renieyer,Kcv.  KrnliDunil.2n 

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iSatl.J.U 47» 


Binison,  Mrs.  Kli/Jibclh .512 

Bleohsohmidl,  Ciustav 128 

Bliven  ,8.(1 205 

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B.Kjlh,\V.  A 1«8 

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Bradley.  .S.  H .")*: 

Brophy,  George 391 

Brown,  J.  W 125 

Brown,  (.'apt.  W.  J VHi 

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Buchanan,  James 75 

Bull.  lx>reli/.o 4.i2 

Bnrkc.  V.  II 4W 

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BU.S.S.  Wwrt ItH 

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Cabbell,  J.  M 592 

Cabell.  M.  S 595 

Campbi'll.  D.  O 290 

Campbell,  H.  A »i4 

Campbell,  James 283 

Carbaugh,  Alexander 313 

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Carr,  L.  0 4.1!i 

Carter.  Hon.  J.N 23:1 

CasUe,  Oeor(;e 5K5 

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CanKhhn.  C.  W 451 

Channon,  W.  V 425 

ChajH',  JamcH 25:1 

Chavis,  Rev.  Jnnlan :ni 

Chidenden.  Abraham 288 

Chittenden,  Hon.  S.  K .'.27 

Chumbley ,  C.  W 380 

Church.  S.  P 6«l 

Cleavelanil.  G.  W :»> 

( 'lex eland.  Edwin 137 

ClevelauU,  &  Uruver IftI 


Oilburn,  C.V 5«9 

Collins,  O.H 481 

Collins,  Thoniax 440 

Colvin,D.  P 229 

Conover.  Norris 'M9 

Conrad,  Kev.  C.  E .Wl 

Cook,  Reynanl 5.55 

Corbin.  Washiui^lon IG& 

Corbyn.  Kev.  W.  B 148 

Core,  A.  S.,  M.  D 57* 

Currigan,  J.  B 202 

Cort ,  Peter 361 

Cory,  Lieut.  E<lwart! 589 

Cowan.  A.  B 488 

Craij^.  Henry 159 

Crip|H-n,S.L 147 

Crocker,  J.  K.,M.  D 317 

Cupp,  U.  C .53r. 

Curry,  B.  A.,Sr ."Ug 

Cutter.  A.  J .591 

Cyru.H,  G.  W :t07 


D 


Dallam,  Richard .590 

DauKherty ,  J.  F 217 

Davis,  Hon.  U.  S 491 

Davis,  Levi 496 

Davison,  T.  A 594 

Dazcy.C.  T SS6 

Dean.G.  W 517 

DeGrool.  W.  H :»! 

Devore,  Andrew 478 

Dick,  Ernest 39« 

Dick,  John :B5 

Downing,  Hon.  J.  E 4:19 

Driimmon,  J.  J 262 

Dudley,  J.  H 4« 

Durholt,  Henry 4CS 


E 


Edwards,  Paul 154 

Ely.J.E .'..'."'..m 

Emery,  J.  \V jj^ 

Emery.  S  H.,  Jr |63 

Einiuinga,  H.  H .-,97 

Esterley ,  Joseph 354 


Earel,  J.  >l 

Ktx'rt .  Ixiuis 

Kdmouds,  R.  >'. 


S«7 

3a 


Farrell,  Michael •>■;^ 

Faucet t,  1.  L 341 

FealherinKlll,  G.  T ooq 

Fcrre.  Jerome 597 

Fillmore,  Millard «7 

Fl.-tcher,  Joseph,  M.  D 287 

Fogg.O.  W 597 

Follansbee,  Mrs.  E.  C Jftj 

Folliii,  J.  «.,  M.  D 27:1 

Foster,  A.  JI .jjn 

Freiburg,  Caspar 307 

Freiburg,  Joseph 3J2 


G 


Oallaher,  James ^-^jn 

Oartleld,  James  .\ 9.5 

Garn'tt.  .Mrs.  Elizabeth 209 

Gay.  A.  P :i7.', 

Oay.C.  V .iw; 

Gerke.  H.  W -aij 

Gerry,  Oliver 245 

Gllliland,  \V.  E.,  M.  D 280 

Gilmer.  C.  M 3U6 

GIvler,  W.  F 4M 

Glaiw,  J.  B 489 

arahBni,.loliii,  M.  D 186 

Urainmer,  CM SOB 

Grant,  1'lyH.ses  S 87 

Green.  .\mos 599 

Griesor,  J.  1 610 

Griinm,  Henry 977 

Oronewold.  Wllllaiu 547 

Uruves,  Ste)>hou iJi 


INDEX. 


Guenther,  Fred. . . 
fiuseman,  "W.  A. . . 
(iiithrMs-'o.  F.J... 


u 


.318 
.144 
.190 


Han,E.C f^ 

Hallerberg,  Rev.  William. .  ..191 

Haiully,  James 54B 

Harily,  Heorge 28-t 

Hardy,  J.  P 2Jh 

Harness,  Bicliard '''J 

Harness,  William 208 

Harrison,  Benjamin 117 

Harrison,  William  Henry. . . .  .■>! 

Haselwood,  Willis 225 

Haselwooa,W.K 511 

Hatch,  Henry,  M.  D «" 

Havenor,J.T 236 

Hayes,  Rutherford  B 91 

Hazlett,  James 542 

Hearn.U.S 1»8 

Heeltle.  Benjamin 338 

Hedfc'es,  Jonah 390 

Heiderich,  Martin ^02 

Henry,  Samuel,  M.  D 52-2 

Herakl  Company <!" 

Herndon,P.M.,M.D 388 

Hibbard.R.B «* 

Howes,  Oliver 299 

Hoyt,  W.R 535 

Hmnniert,  J.  A 3B7 

Hvman.rapt.  J.  M 5(0 


Inman,  S.  S. 


Kemp,C.  W •■i29 

Kendall,  W.E 428 

Kimnions,  Luke 323 

Knapheide,  W.  S.,  M.  D 553 

Knittel,  Joseph 556 

Knox.  James "US 


Jackson,  Andrew 43 

Jacobs,  J.  W S72 

JaoiCS.J.H 255 

Jellei-son,  Thon  as 27 

Johnson,  Andrew 83 

Judy,  J.  M 336 

Judy,  P.  T :!53 


K 


Keath,U.H 361 

Kelker.H.  L 6«8 

Kellermeyer,  C.  H 523 

Kelly.J.  R.,M.U 337 


Lansdon,  A.  L 500 

Lawrence,  G.  W 3tl 

Lawrence,  Woodford 220 

Lee,S,.\ 231 

Lefers,H.L 38* 

Lc  Sage,  Col.  J.  B 24B 

Leseni ,  Hon .  Isaac 157 

Lewis,J.Y.,M.D 577 

Liebermani),  J.  0 378 

Liglitner,  J.  P 503 

Lincoln ,  Abraham 79 

Lindsey.J.  W 225 

Little,  J.  0 579 

Locher,  Rev.  Joseph 449 

Lockwood,  Col.  W.  R 426 

Luthin,  Fred 409 


M 


Madison,  James 31 

Manning,  T.  J 557 

Marks,  P.  A.,  M.  D 408 

Mar.sh,  Hon.  William 131 

Marshall,  G.  W.,  M.  D 4.« 

Marshall,  J.  W 581 

McAdams,  Hon.  John 212 

McClintock,  J.  G 545 

McClung,  W.  L .545 

McCoy, J. D 449 

McCoy,  John 504 

McDowell,  Capt.  A.  S 558 

McFarland,  W.  M 438 

McGirr,  Rev.  Peter 195 

Mclntyre,  Robert 584 

McLoskey ,  W.  G.,  M.  D ;»0 

McNay ,  John ,564 

Meacham,  S.  F.,  M.  D .524 

Menke,  E.  H 2.9 

Menke,  Frederick :''87 

Menke,  F.W 189 

Meriaiii,  IJ.  V 4M4 

Metzger,  J.  J 255 

Meyer,  F.W 4R4 

Meyer.  P.  H 415 

Mikesell,  Hon.  J.  P 173 

Mileham,  Hon.  Samuel 462 

Miller,  Mrs.C.  C,  M.  D 311 

Mirbach.  Rev.  Gerhard 207 

Mitts,  S.  D 362 

Monroe,  Jamos 3& 

Moore,  J.  L 230 

Moore.  W.  P 474 

1     Morgan,  Gen,  J.  P 271 


Morris,  Capt.  D.  M 402 

Morton,  Zalmunna 434 

Mueller,  Rev.  Ansclmus 301 

Munroe,W.  T 432 


N 


Newcoinb,  R.  F H' 

Nichols,  J.  P :«2 

Nichols,  L.W 509 

Nicholson,  J.  W 191 

Nottz,  C.  F 373 


o 


Ocnning,  H.  A 326 

Orr.J.G 279 

Ortoii,  Clark ■'^^' 

Osborn,  H.  S 314 


PearccG.  W 506 

PenHeld ,  U .  S 183 

Perkins,  W.H ■•75 

Pierce,  Franklin 71 

Pipino,  J.  C ^fi" 

Polk.JamesK 59 

Pond.Maj.G.O 443 

Powell,  Miss  D.  F 377 

Prince,  Col.  Edward 151 


<,» 


Ijuig,  Conrad. 


R 


Ralph, W.C 521 

Rankin, Robert 389 

Ratcliff.  A.  B 376 

Ratcliff,J.  H 203 

Rees,  Frederick 421 

Reynolds,  (i.  R 306 

Richards.  J.  W 582 

Riddle.G.D 179 

Rifenberick,  J.  M 184 

Robbiiis,  Joseph,  M.  I) 329 

Bobbins,  Nathan 136 

Bodoir,  Hon.  H.  K 133 

Rooney,  Michael,  M.  D 413 

Ross,S.  F 481 

Roth,  A.  F. ..  177 

Roy.J.S 259 

Ruddell,  Hon.  J.  M 161 

Buff,  Casper 177 


Sahland.  Edward 344 

Sander,  Gerhard 235 

Sawyer,  J.  T 320 

Scarborough,  J.  K .5.13 

Schachtsiek,  Herman .553 

Schanz,  Gottlieb 196 

Scheipering,  A.  W 308 

Schmidt,  A.  H.,M.  D 4H2 

Schinits,G.  J 576 

Schnur,  Job 410 

Schwab.  John 3:!5 

Schwartz,  J.  G 146 

Schwarzburg,  H.  W 289 

Schwindeler,  C.  F Itil 

Scorield,T.  J 2.53 

Scott,  Capt.  William 516 

Seger.  Mrs.  S.  E 261 

Sellner,  Charles 138 

Shanahan ,  J.  J 360 

Shea, T.J 577 

Sheer,  David 407 

Sherrick,  J.  D ^544 

Slierrick,  J.  W 325 

Shinn.C.  W 473 

Shinn,  Capt.  W.  H 445 

Sibley,  Hon.  Joseph 201 

Simmons,  F.  M 142 

Simmons,  William 497 

Simpson,  W.  H -590 

Slade,  J.  W.,  M.  D 247 

Smith,  G.G 372 

Sohm ,  Edward 160 

Soule,  C.  E 531 

Spencer,  C.  H 145 

Spicer,  A.  IS 281 

Stahl.G.  H 319 

Staker,  J.  L 219 

Steinbach,  J.  A 567 

Steinbach,  Philip,  Jr <00 

Steinkamp,  Bernard ,561 

Stein«edell,  William till 

Stenbeck,  W.  B 192 

Sterne,  W.C.  W 431 

Still,  Rev.  Joseph 371 

Stone,  H.  N 5.52 

Stnmp,F.  M 180 

Sturtevant,  M.  B 195 

Suinmers,  I.  R 186 

Swart  wont ,  A.  M 574 

Sweet,  E.  K 573 

Swope,  A.  F 2S8 

Bwope,  H.  M 


..204 


Tappe,  W.J 231 

Taylor,  Zachary •* 

Teachenor,  I.  L 3fi8 

Tenk,  Henry •'19 

Thompson.  Hon.  E.J 295 

Tliompson,  J,  C 232 


c 


INDRX. 


Thornton.  I..  L 

«3 

Tnt>bp«inK.  F.  R.... 

470 

•rumiT.  K  f 

.244 

T.vliT,  Ji.liri 

.     U 

Van  Biin-n.  .Mnrthi  47 

Viiiu-il,  J.  W   .MM 

\'aHi'n.  (ieoru'O 2S5 

ViiiMiii.  K.  .1- 'MO 

Volk.C.  ti 479 

Volk.  H.  H 4&« 


Vollhrili'ht.  (u'orgr :i4S 

Von  Kamio.  Kov.  Loiliii 224 

Vorniliini,  ('.  II .Wl 


w 


WBk-nt-r.  J.  .\..M.  II 210 

Walker.  ChrLstopbcr 22fi 

\Valk<-r,<i.  H IM 

Wallacr.  A.K SIO 

Wallu.-i-.  f.  1 448 

WalUu-i-,  R.  A 401 

WiiIUk-c,T.  S iU 


Walton,  II.  I' 2»I 

WaHliinKlnn.  Ocor)^ IV 

Watwin,  li.  K 41tt 

Wohtx-r.  r.  B •. 400 

Wnbcr,  C'lirlBlo|ihor 4,'W 

Wobbler.  Jos.-;ili 50(1 

Weis.  Rov.  MichafI IKl 

Wolbi.  hMwanl 121 

Wpniliocnor.  J.  K 571 

Wonzcl.  J.  I' 1315 

Wernelli,  I'aulalcon ."HB 

Whom,  Rrv.T.  J Sto 

Wh.-<-ler.  H.  X 2!>:i 

Whoclcr,  John 174 

Whipple,  .\.  A,  M.  D »!! 

Whileoinh.  Jaj^pcr 'Mfi 

White,  Thomas 21:1 


Whilforrl,  H.  8 .tun 

Whray.T.  K.,  M.  D Mi 

Wlllnnl.  Hadixon 2*1 

Willar.1,  William 187 

Wiliianm,  J.  fi..  M.  I> jsn 

WilliKmHon.c  II tiio 

Wolfe,  John .111 

WootlrulT,  JuineN 152 

Wriirhl ,  J  ■  N 578 

Wrlfc-ht,  Robert 4.W 


ZimniorinHM.  tb-nr\'. 


't-laius,  John 22 

.\<lanis,  John  Q 38 

.\(intiiy .  J*Mcph 21(> 

Arthur,  nie>^ter  A W 

AHhitr.  Juines ,, astt 

Arthur.  Mary  J 3M 

BH.-her.  Kranz.  M.  1) 514 

BaUlwiii.  H.  B :ii>S 

BttklM  in.  S.  Y .104 

BatM-hy  .  John ^ -Vti 

Beiin''Min,  R.  .S. ...  * 154 

Bcnni-'ion,  W.  H S«> 

Uemanl,  J.  t> 2U2 

Bwt.J.  H 472 

Bllven.S.ti 261 

Bonnet,  J.J 3411 

^:i^:.->Mitll.'Janieii 74 

Oiuimon.  yf-.V 421 

C'hiltenilcn.  lion.  S.  R .'i2ii 

ClevelaDd.  S.  Orover 102 

ColriiKb.  I' 228 

Uon-id,  Ri-v.C.E 5M 


Crwker.J.  F.SI.D...    3IG 

Utvbi.  Hope  S 4i)0 

Dick.  John :«4 

Kdiuomls,  K.  K :|B4 

Fillmore,  MillaiHl liO 

Oarflelil,  J.  A »l 

Cilaxa.  J.  B 4«l 

(ircen,  Amos .IStJ 

(jrimiu.  Henry 27'i 

(irant.l'.S «> 

Harrison,  Benjamin IOC 

Harrison,  W.  H !tO 

Hateh.  Henry,  M.  D 4tl« 

Howes,  tlliver 2!18 

Hayes,  R.B !* 

Jackson,  Andrew 42 

Jaekson,  Samuel 2.'iO 

Ja.'kson.  Eliza  H 251 

JetTcrson,  Thomas 2»i 

Johnson,  Andrew 62 

Judy,  Paris :B2 

Lawrence,  G.  W Mil 


Lincoln .  Abralmin 7i^ 

Lightner,  J.  P Mt> 

Locher,  Rev.  Joocph 148 

Madison,  Juines 30 

Marsh.  Hon.  William 1:10 

McGirr.  Rev.  Peter I!M 

Menke.  Hon.  F.  W I8S 

Menke,  J.  H :18C 

Mikfcsell.  Hon.  J.  P 172 

Miller,  Mrs.  C.  (_'.,  M.  D 310 

MirlMU-h,  Rev.ti 20« 

Monnx'.  James :U 

Morgan .  (ien  .J.  D 270 

Newcoinb,  R.  F 140 

Nichols,  L.  W 508 

Penlleld,  L".  S 182 

Pierce,  Franklin 70 

Polk,  J.  K 58 

Pond.d.O 442 

Prince,  Col.  EdwanI I.V) 

t^uig,  Conrad 438 

Ralph,  W.c ,Vill 


Robbins.  Joseph,  M.  D :t2S 

Ruddcll,  Hon.  J.  M 1611 

Searbor<mgh.  J.  K -%32 

Sheer,  David ilK> 

Sheer,  Henrietta 404 

Sibley,  Hon.  .losepli 2fl0 

Sinnnons.  William I!lt; 

Steinkamp.  Ri-rnanl .ViO 

Steinwwli-ll,  William 418 

Sterne,  W.  c.  W 4.111 

Still,  Hev.  Joseph :I70 

I'aylor,  Zacliary 62 

Tyler.  John 54 

Volk.  I.',  ti  478 

Walton.  H.I' 238 

Walton.  Sarah  E 2S9 

Van  Buren,  Mailin 46 

Washinpt<in.ficorge 18 

Weis,  Rev.  Michael Itw 

W..|ls.  tMnanl \M 

Wcmhoener,  J.  F 57" 

Whipiile.  A.  A.,M.  D :«« 

Wi llani,  Madison 222 


igWs. 


"""ett.J, 


-k,J.  O. 


.Mi 
..513 


Schimr,  John.. 
Sheer,  havitl. . 


.411 
.411 


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